Hacker News: awill

New comment by awill in "Flighty Airports"

awill — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:42:45 +0000

Not sure how they're getting their data, but https://tsa.fromthetraytable.com/

New comment by awill in "[dead]"

awill — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:36:15 +0000

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New comment by awill in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

awill — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:22:49 +0000

Let me just for one second give them the benefit of the doubt.

Could the $45 be a way to pay for some extra manual screening? Maybe? Or do they not deserve any benefit of the doubt.

New comment by awill in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

awill — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:46:50 +0000

this is pretty surprising. Didn't they spent a fortune on the camera tech for Amazon Go?

New comment by awill in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

awill — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:23:51 +0000

There are just fewer highly polished Android apps vs iOS apps, and that's why I switched to iOS.

I bought JuiceSSH years ago on Android and it worked great, but I agree it's degraded, and I couldn't find an equivalent I liked.

iOS has multiple apps that beat JuiceSSH. I use Termix and it's really, really good.

New comment by awill in "Orion 1.0"

awill — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:19:12 +0000

Is this Webkit 2?

New comment by awill in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

awill — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:19:00 +0000

I have a super high opinion of Valve. Sure, they have loot crates. But sensible people don't buy them. I guess you could blame them for having it in the first place. That's fair I guess. But I've never for a second considered buying any of that junk.

I just buy single player offline games with no IAP, and Steam is amazing. It's a million miles ahead of the competitors, and it's really surprising that EA/Ubi etc.. try to compete but don't get the reason they're losing. They screw customers and then act surprised that customers hate them.

New comment by awill in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

awill — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:50:23 +0000

yes. It's terrible. I can't believe it's taken this long to still be awful. The mix of Java. The awful UI. If you're on Mac/Windows, you should buy Office. And if you're on Linux, you should use OnlyOffice, or Google Docs

New comment by awill in "Warp Terminal changes pricing model"

awill — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:11:30 +0000

Oh no. Did I miss something? Did Zed get a bunch of unnecessary funding that will force them to do some subscription we'll all hate?

New comment by awill in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

awill — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:34:44 +0000

From the specs it's very annoying this uses a mini-HDMI. There's room for a full HDMI port, and it's such a waste. We all have dozens of HDMI cables at home, but zero mini-HDMI.

New comment by awill in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

awill — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:26:52 +0000

I'm sure it was a simple mistake. The fact that Immich competes with Google Photos has nothing to do with it.

New comment by awill in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

awill — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:53:08 +0000

I interviewed in 2015. The recruiter told me to read the Amazon Leadership Principles, but I thought it was ridiculous to prep for something so specific to a single company, especially as I was interviewing at other companies too.

I got the job, and I think being natural helped. I've interviewed thousands of people at Amazon since, and too many people just say the buzz words with no meat, and it gets them nowhere i.e. I showed customer obsession when I.....(and then gives a bad example)

New comment by awill in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

awill — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:47:52 +0000

I've worked there since 2015, and this simply isn't true.

There's a lot wrong with AWS (and it's got a lot worse in the last 3 years), but there's also a lot right, and there are some really, really smart people there, several of which have boomeranged (people who left and came back).

New comment by awill in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

awill — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:00:31 +0000

3rd party games will still want to launch on the Nintendo Switch 2, so it's still the same problem.

New comment by awill in "Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks"

awill — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:57:36 +0000

title is 'Self hosting 10TB IN S3.'

Yes, it's obvious, but it's a terrible title. I don't really get the point. It's trivial to have storage however you want an shove the S3 API on top.

New comment by awill in "Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks"

awill — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:07:52 +0000

>>About 5 months ago I made the decision to start self hosting my own S3.

It is eleven nines of durability? No. You didn't build S3. You built a cheapo NAS.

New comment by awill in "About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5"

awill — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:16:27 +0000

I remember when Google broke 911 calling, and decided it was ok to wait for the next maintenance patch to fix it. People could have died, but Google just couldn't hurry up and release an emergency patch.

New comment by awill in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

awill — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:46:33 +0000

Working at a company that did the same thing earlier, it's incredibly frustrating.

This would have made sense when the company was all at one site, but over the last 5 years my company (and microsoft) have massively expanded.

So now I drive to the office and video call my colleagues in other sites. Brilliant.

New comment by awill in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

awill — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:41:16 +0000

Agree. It would be really messy if they were paying AI engineers multiple time more than regular engineers.

New comment by awill in "Monodraw"

awill — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:04:39 +0000

I think you're missing his point. If you tightened DRM, would those customers that ran multiple copies pay for multiple licenses?

Fighting piracy is generally not worth it. Those people would never pay, so you're fighting to stop a pirate from using it, not to get them to pay. There's a big difference.