Hacker News: billwear

New comment by billwear in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

billwear — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:13:20 +0000

I guess there’s no way to constrain these jamming signals to some reasonable perimeter? 400 miles of overspill seems like sloppy engineering.

New comment by billwear in "MAAS Fabrics: The Cartoon Version"

billwear — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:08:53 +0000

Live from my old college dorm room, with a dozen funny T-shirt slogans and an avatar with better hair.

MAAS Fabrics: The Cartoon Version

billwear — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:08:53 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.maas.io/t/show-and-tell-maas-fabrics/14913

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223688

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by billwear in "Is there a no-AI audience?"

billwear — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:10:42 +0000

"Yes, Emacs! Strange visitor from another subculture with powers and abilities far beyond those of plain-text code editors!"

New comment by billwear in "Is there a no-AI audience?"

billwear — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:07:59 +0000

there's still emacs.

The Pope, the Algorithm, and the Mirror

billwear — Sat, 10 May 2025 13:03:42 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@williamwear/note/c-116023784

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945298

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to Think Like an LLM

billwear — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:24:31 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@williamwear/note/c-115649060

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43932684

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Rambling Radio Guy

billwear — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:05:54 +0000

Article URL: https://solderandsignal.com/engineers-journal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758731

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by billwear in "Googler... ex-Googler"

billwear — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:57:57 +0000

"Don't be evil" comes to mind. I wonder if any company -- or for that matter, any software development organization, whether paid or volunteer -- can really avoid bad decisions when they get big?

Impatience for the Win

billwear — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:32:45 +0000

Article URL: https://the-way-of-emacs.com/posts/stacking-wins.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43549463

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Change. One. Thing. At. A. Time

billwear — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:47:19 +0000

Article URL: https://the-way-of-emacs.com/posts/debugging-your-life.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43526978

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Reclaiming Our Attention

billwear — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://the-way-of-emacs.com/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495225

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by billwear in "Stop Juggling Chainsaws"

billwear — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:28:26 +0000

early teaser!

Stop Juggling Chainsaws

billwear — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:16:57 +0000

Article URL: https://the-way-of-emacs.com/posts/stacking-wins.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43446318

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Everybody's above average in some way

billwear — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://the-way-of-emacs.com/posts/nobody-is-average.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43399445

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Digital Sufficiency

billwear — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:09:23 +0000

Article URL: https://the-way-of-emacs.com/posts/digital-sufficiency.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43335365

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by billwear in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

billwear — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 02:29:48 +0000

(kebab-use-elisp)

New comment by billwear in "Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model"

billwear — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:28:31 +0000

hmm. company mode has been doing part of this job for a long time now.

New comment by billwear in "Don't Be Frupid"

billwear — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:54:14 +0000

suboptimization; learned about this in engineering school 40 years ago: don't optimize the most visible parameter by itself, or you'll likely end up crashing. why do we have to freaking rename everything?

New comment by billwear in "Liberux: The Linux Phone You Have Been Waiting For"

billwear — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:59:22 +0000

looks like a trojan horse attack to me.