Hacker News: evanwolf

New comment by evanwolf in "Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?"

evanwolf — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:16:33 +0000

Some of the better surviving meetups focus less on a common tool than on a shared problem (like regulatory capture) or a colaborative activity (let's update our neighborhood's Wikipedia related pages).

New comment by evanwolf in "Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers"

evanwolf — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:19:41 +0000

As the cost of AI answers/work continues to soar 10x then another 10x, and you pay another 10x for corrected better answers, price pressure should slow slop's spew.

New comment by evanwolf in "Don't Sign in with Google"

evanwolf — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:14:20 +0000

Heh. Posted on X.

New comment by evanwolf in "Academic Research Skills for Claude Code"

evanwolf — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:37:19 +0000

Academic skills are a vector for cite injection.

New comment by evanwolf in "xAI will be dissolved as a separate company"

evanwolf — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:39:09 +0000

Isn't this about the IPO?

New comment by evanwolf in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

evanwolf — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:21:30 +0000

Is X political ideology extending to cursor?

New comment by evanwolf in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

evanwolf — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:06:31 +0000

so… Hold on to Your Medical Devices. (And everything else with a chip in it.)

New comment by evanwolf in "OpenRocket"

evanwolf — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:14:45 +0000

Is there a similar drone design simulator?

New comment by evanwolf in "Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, joins OpenAI"

evanwolf — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:39:34 +0000

Bidding war?

New comment by evanwolf in "OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI"

evanwolf — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:16:43 +0000

Nearly all the commits are by PS. Who gets paid to work on openclaw and the ecosystem without him?

New comment by evanwolf in "Deaths are projected to exceed births in 2031"

evanwolf — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:30:51 +0000

Beyond demography, Much of this depends on public policy and execution. Will more of us live in conditions that prevent a oidable death or injury? Or another way?

New comment by evanwolf in "Steve Jobs and NeXT Part 2: The Long Road to Mac OS X [video]"

evanwolf — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:35:56 +0000

Wasn't there something about Jobs taking back employee stock just before he sold next to apple?

New comment by evanwolf in "Sorbet: A neuromorphic hardware-compatible transformer-based spiking model"

evanwolf — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:07:35 +0000

sometimes it seems folks are just making up words.

Anyone working on a Tufte-like WordPress block theme?

evanwolf — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 02:51:00 +0000

Article URL: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/whats-the-most-tufte-like-block-theme/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41262699

Points: 3

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New comment by evanwolf in "I am starting an AI+Education company"

evanwolf — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:58:33 +0000

Yes, it looks like this project is starting with helping highly motivated adult learners go deep into a hard to teach/learn material. Contrast this with the Khan Academy approach at https://www.khanmigo.ai/ targeting young students and their teachers and parents with broad assistance across subjects. Maybe they converge?

New comment by evanwolf in "Would you like to automate PR reviews using an AI assistant?"

evanwolf — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:33:21 +0000

Yes. The act of parsing code for yourself, for gisting it, and thinking about it - that's what makes you think better and build skill. Discussing why and different ways of doing it with others - that builds team wisdom. AI might help with organizing a review and timeboxing, clerical support, but the actual work of the review should be left to people.

New comment by evanwolf in "Ask HN: Recommendations for preparing for interviews for senior software roles?"

evanwolf — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:24:11 +0000

How much do domain expertise, teamwork, management/leadership, and soft skills matter in senior sw interviews?

New comment by evanwolf in "Ask HN: Broke up with cofounder. Can I use remaining money to pay our devs?"

evanwolf — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:40:35 +0000

there's legal accountability and there's moral choice. would you screw over contractors and investors to protect yourself from your decisions?

the contractors aren't the only stakeholders at risk in this choice. how do your investors feel about this situation? what's their moral compass?

New comment by evanwolf in "Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates"

evanwolf — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:31:23 +0000

Thanks for this, Nathan. Orphaned devices pose a suite of security problems. They outlast the companies that sell them, the companies that make them, the upstream suppliers of hardware and software, the companies that service and repair them. Smart building devices and power systems can run for decades. Implanted medical devices, home health devices, and hospital systems persist longer than five years and can outlast the corporations behind them.

Please address orphaned products so that security continues with a duty by the maker to sustain safety and security beyond the life of a product or its manufacturer. This is like the requiring a sale-time deposit into an independent fund to reclaim/recycle a product's waste.

Beyond the current proposal, you might require a device's IP to be put in escrow in the event of product or corporate end-of-life, allowing customers or third-parties to take up maintenance and security. (#RightToRepair #EoL)

New comment by evanwolf in "Tell HN: My bank just sent me brownies (and it's pretty f'd up)"

evanwolf — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 05:32:07 +0000

Nearly all business bank accounts are connected to standard industry codes and other descriptions.