Hacker News: forthwall

Commits

forthwall — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:15:18 +0000

Article URL: https://shub.club/writings/2026/june/commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505230

Points: 1

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New comment by forthwall in "World Capitals Voronoi"

forthwall — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:22:52 +0000

Interesting, if a country has multiple capitals, it gets split even more!

Google Engineer Charged with Insider Trading on Polymarket

forthwall — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:47:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/google-engineer-charged-with-insider-trading-on-polymarket

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301808

Points: 39

# Comments: 8

What I gained with a new number / What I lost with a new number

forthwall — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:57:46 +0000

Article URL: https://shub.club/writings/2026/may/new-number/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029883

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by forthwall in "I built GeoGuesser for guns, and its making money (no technical experince)"

forthwall — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:48:48 +0000

Very cool, I have no idea where any of these guns come from, but I was able to get some points from just looking at the designer name and inferring location from there :)

Agent Personality Score

forthwall — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:46:01 +0000

Article URL: https://agentpersonalityscore.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978473

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why do people keep stealing the small sauce bottle?

forthwall — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:39:10 +0000

Article URL: https://shub.club/writings/2026/april/why-do-people-steal-the-small-sauce-bottle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837847

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by forthwall in "Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review"

forthwall — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:42:41 +0000

Interesting app, I have a weird bug I'm seeing with the homepage, when I tab between the chapters, it lags a bit then doesn't actually proceed to the next chapter until I press again

A type of bike theft in San Francisco

forthwall — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://shub.club/writings/2026/april/a-type-of-bike-theft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800840

Points: 4

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New comment by forthwall in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

forthwall — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:51:18 +0000

Amazing! I can finally redownload the youtube app instead of using a userscript in my mobile browser

The Letta Code App

forthwall — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:54:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.letta.com/blog/introducing-the-letta-code-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718214

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by forthwall in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

forthwall — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:44:30 +0000

I don't think social factors are not necessarily a nonfactor, more that this article claims that income equality within kinship groups is a forcing function for lack of economic growth. My claim is that the inequality that these countries face not just between each other within the nation but in our globalized economies, access to resources, capital and labor and thus the downstream effects of smaller markets, less need for labor will lead to less growth. I think you can have economic growth with kinship society if more people within the kinship have greater access to wealth growing, the issue here is that there's limited resources and the kinship society exists as an effect of less resources than the other-way around

> the wealthiest family of a kin group from 3 generations ago will be much more likely (relative to other cultures) to be the wealthiest family 3 generations from now.

I am not sure if this claim is true as well, wealth generally does stay within family lineages across cultures, generally people losing their wealth or even gaining it is an outlier. See any landed gentry in Europe, Asia

Actually; you can see this in America, as income continues to be more concentrated, and more unequal, economic productivity for an individual does go down as there's less opportunity to accrue wealth as before.

New comment by forthwall in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

forthwall — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:34:23 +0000

This article seems to establish that kinship leads to the failure of wage growth and ultimately wealth, people will hide their wages because people will ask for money. This seems like the issue rather is is that wealth accumulation in sub-saharan africa is limited to a small subset of population, I don't think this wealth tax by family members exists when you have a larger group of individuals making more money.

You can observe this in the US, and presumably in the rest of the world, when wealth is concentrated to individuals, your family will probably ask you for money. The difference is here, there is less income inequality and more people have the ability to make more money.

I do like the look into funeral culture, but I don't think this assumption that kinship and family-peity is the cause of the lack of economic mobilty.

New comment by forthwall in "Isseven"

forthwall — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:02:03 +0000

Needs an Agent skill! Gotta be more modern :)

Are we building IDEs for engineers anymore?

forthwall — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:33:21 +0000

Article URL: https://shub.club/writings/2026/april/who-are-these-ides-for/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644222

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Context Constitution

forthwall — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:43:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/letta-ai/context-constitution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619911

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Meta-Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Model Harnesses

forthwall — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:26:07 +0000

Article URL: https://yoonholee.com/meta-harness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593668

Points: 2

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New comment by forthwall in "Personal Encyclopedias"

forthwall — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:30:21 +0000

I'm concerned about your copy that says "Private by default" and "Your wiki and archive live on your machine. Nothing is stored remotely.", yet you recommend to use Claude, which means your data is being stored remotely in most cases. I do like the idea though! Will try with local models

New comment by forthwall in "Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser"

forthwall — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:49:09 +0000

Please I’d rather have a bad mobile view than a blocker! I know it seems bad but you can always just tell the user to zoom out, a mobile view is coming!

Letta's Next Phase

forthwall — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:49:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.letta.com/blog/our-next-phase

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406067

Points: 2

# Comments: 0