Hacker News: chris_wot

New comment by chris_wot in "Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code"

chris_wot — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:03:17 +0000

Is this really the case?

New comment by chris_wot in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"

chris_wot — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:56:22 +0000

Why would I contribute? is the data open source?

New comment by chris_wot in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"

chris_wot — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:55:20 +0000

You will find it hard to get articles into Wikipedia. It will likely be deleted as non-notable unless you can find lots of external sources.

You are better off taking photos of those areas and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. I did this with the Australian City of Liverpool. I would show you with wiki-shootme but it seems to be down...

New comment by chris_wot in "Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman"

chris_wot — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:11:35 +0000

A king? My man, you can just get a President who does the same thing.

New comment by chris_wot in "The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)"

chris_wot — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:24:48 +0000

Does anyone remember their disk deframenter?

I had Gemini implement a simulation:

https://chrissherlock.github.io/operating-system/week10-file...

New comment by chris_wot in "Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read"

chris_wot — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:12:27 +0000

Brilliant, thank you so much!

New comment by chris_wot in "Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read"

chris_wot — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:11:30 +0000

The one on Word was very, very interesting. Seems like there were a lot of jerks running the Opus project! I checked them out, and at least on of them died in a plane crash, and now has a foundation.

New comment by chris_wot in "“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here"

chris_wot — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:46:23 +0000

Already purchased, looking forward to getting it!!!

New comment by chris_wot in "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"

chris_wot — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:45:02 +0000

Isn’t this one of the reasons Wayland is often recommended? Forgive me if I’m getting confused on this point.

New comment by chris_wot in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

chris_wot — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:33:47 +0000

If Mullenweg attempts to fire the board that just suspended him, he would be weaponizing proxy votes against the very investors who originally granted them. While founder proxies are often structured to be irrevocable, using them to purge the board would almost certainly trigger a massive legal battle, attempts by investors to breach or revoke the proxy agreements, and severe financial instability for the company.

While he technically holds the votes required to disband the board, executing that move would ignite a corporate civil war rather than a clean transition of power.

New comment by chris_wot in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

chris_wot — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:31:05 +0000

Any reason needed?!? We can all see what he’s done!

New comment by chris_wot in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

chris_wot — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:29:49 +0000

This is likely how they pull out of the disasterous legal actions Mullenweg has taken.

New comment by chris_wot in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

chris_wot — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:04:09 +0000

RAII definitely removes whole classes of errors.

New comment by chris_wot in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

chris_wot — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:39:34 +0000

Only because of his stupidity:

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trumps-north-korean-armada-...

“ As President Trump publicly declared last week that he was "sending an armada" to the Sea of Japan in an attempt to send a message to North Korea, the carrier group was actually sailing thousands of miles in the other direction to war game with the Australian Navy, per the NYT, which reported that the mixup was due to "a glitch-ridden sequence of events."”

What’s funny is he started an UNE essay war with Iran, strengthened the Iranian regime and gave them a guaranteed income source from a toll Trump can’t get rid of. And this is your argument? You’re funny.

New comment by chris_wot in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

chris_wot — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:32:51 +0000

More tired “don’t use C or C++” advise.

New comment by chris_wot in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

chris_wot — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:01:21 +0000

I’m not an American. Those not American are frankly gobsmacked that U.S. citizens voted the current President in a second time. You all literally saw what he did in his first term!

New comment by chris_wot in "Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data"

chris_wot — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:25:29 +0000

So basically, you say it's all ineffective and can't be policed.

New comment by chris_wot in "Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data"

chris_wot — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:10:23 +0000

LOL - I remember saying this would not be something that could be policed, and a bunch of my fellow countrymen tut-tutting at me saying things like “it’s the thought that counts”, etc.

Now it’s gone underground and it’s worse than ever. Meantime, there are kids in high schools across the nation who can’t watch World War II documentaries on Youtube because that’s considered “restricted content”.

You can’t make this shit up.

New comment by chris_wot in "Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]"

chris_wot — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:59:44 +0000

You are a wonderful, wonderful person. Your book is one of my favourite books I've read, ever. Thank you so much for writing it!

New comment by chris_wot in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

chris_wot — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:52:33 +0000

Funny, new hires are similarly worried the Anthropic CEO only cares about money, so they have something in common!