Hacker News: forthwall

SF Housing Simulator

forthwall — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:17:55 +0000

Article URL: https://sfhousing.mindlace.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079705

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

forthwall — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:23:55 +0000

https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141

Points: 646

# Comments: 532

New comment by forthwall in "Does Fast Mode Do Anything?"

forthwall — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:00:04 +0000

I don't get this website, it is 46% faster? Isn't that faster, sure its not advertised speed, but it _is_ faster?

Adventures in CSS and SVG filters and browser performance

forthwall — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:42:53 +0000

Article URL: https://shub.club/writings/2026/october/adventures-in-filters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983806

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by forthwall in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

forthwall — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:33:21 +0000

Outside of central Mumbai, in the suburbs this was still a thing until the 2010s

AMD to Buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs AI Startup for $8.2B

forthwall — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-28/amd-to-buy-fei-fei-li-s-world-labs-ai-startup-for-8-2-billion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883752

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

The US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School

forthwall — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:29:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761106

Points: 45

# Comments: 8

New comment by forthwall in "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"

forthwall — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:32:26 +0000

Can't most agents just self-add their own MCP servers now, would be nice to just have a universal prompt for more complex agents, not everyone just uses claude/codex/pi!

New comment by forthwall in "The death of San Francisco's Market Street"

forthwall — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:13:41 +0000

>A lot of that is the Doom Loop — there are simply fewer stores for cyclists to visit on Market Street, so there’s less reason for them to go there. But much of downtown hasn’t collapsed the way Market Street has, and presumably cyclists could use the street as a way to get to places like the Embarcadero, Chinatown, etc. They’re not doing it. Cyclists are a relatively rare sight on Market these days.

I originally thought this post was from 2022, but this guy is just lying. There are plenty of cyclists on market street, so much so that you can probably see a cyclist at any time of the day on that street, even late night (if you count delivery drivers on those "ebikes)). Is it paris level? No, but a rare sight to see is just misleading; especially rush hour, where it's just an army of bikes.

I would have to agree though, Market Street's closure was done half-hearted, no protections were made to make the street nicer, though the real real reason market street is "dead" is there's very few things on that street compared to pre-pandemic, why would pedestrians walk somewhere where most stores are vacant?

New comment by forthwall in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

forthwall — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:31:35 +0000

Suica is incredible, I remember when I first visited Japan in the 2010’s I was amazed at the speed and ubiquity, now in America that tap to pay on transit terminals are becoming more ubiquitous I feel somewhat disappointed at the “lag” I feel compared to the suica transactions

New comment by forthwall in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

forthwall — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:30:06 +0000

Kinda funny game, though if you want a bit more fidelity, but less control, Microsoft Flight Simulator has a pretty good version of SF.

Though as for games that use SF (but not 1:1) Watch Dogs 2 is a pretty good proxy, though my favorite video game interpretation of San Francisco is from GTA San Andreas (San Fierro)