<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fowkswe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fowkswe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:41:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fowkswe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2090245922685063634" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2090245922685063634</a><p>Haven't tried, because I have just been using 4.6 since 5 was released.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:21:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389503</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Lead Mines of Galena, Kansas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I grew up in Joplin, MO which is part of this mining area.  The remnants of that industry have left this region highly polluted.  Much of the soil in these towns is contaminated and some places like Picher, OK have been declared superfund sites.  Picher is a ghost town now, completely abandoned.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma</a><p>The tailings from the mining operations are referred to as “chat” and were deposited into massive piles of small rock.  We would play in these “chat piles” as a kid.  Probably exposing ourselves to heavy amounts of lead and zinc dust.<p>The mines themselves were sometimes filled with water which became swimming holes.<p>Joplin has a decent sized population (50k) so much remediation has happend over the decades.   Our lawn and many others in town were stripped down several inches and replaced.   The chat piles mysteriously disappeared one year and the swimming holes have been filled.<p>Myself and my father have always complained of having memory issues.  It could be genetic but I’m convinced it’s lead poisoning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:30:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845531</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Cache Monet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The track is Jib Kidder Windowdipper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003467</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We have entirely focused our cities (especially Denver and RTD (Regional Transportation District)) around people commuting in for work.<p>This isn’t Denver-specific at all. It’s how every US city was built.<p>For ~100 years we planned cities around one assumption: work happens in a centralized office, five days a week. Transit, zoning, downtown land use, parking, even tax bases were optimized for the daily commute. Downtowns became office monocultures; neighborhoods became places you slept.<p>Remote work broke that model. The result is cities that are now unfortunately organized around a behavior that no longer dominates daily life - and we’re still trying to operate them as if it does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:58:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724405</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46724405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All those guys.  Also, the daily visits to lnkedup.com k10k.net, designiskinky.com, newstoday.com were so influential and informative to me (wow, just did an archive.org lookup of some of those and got a nostalgic chill - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050303092717if_/http://www.linkdup.com:80/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20050303092717if_/http://www.lin...</a>).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 14:41:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126577</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Pivotal Tracker will shut down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1 for linear.app.  It's somewhat similar in feel to PT.  It's very responsive and has vim style key bindings.  We switched a year ago and haven't looked back.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:28:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41592278</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41592278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41592278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Ask HN: Is a masters in ML worth it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a great point and I think the crux of it is - is ML going to be like the last crypto 'boom'?<p>I don't think it is. Investment is being made at an institutional level in a way that was not happening for crypto.<p>We are deep in the midst of the hype cycle right now, but if the hype pans out, ML will have a transformative effect on the tech market (or world for that matter) akin to the internet itself.   In that scenario, ML expertise at any level will be a golden ticket.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:53:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907179</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Web design inspiration catalog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Linkedup, Design is Kinky, News Today.  I miss those days of the web.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:14:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302845</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "California Forever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not quite:  <a href="https://www.calculateme.com/area/acres/to-square-miles/50000" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.calculateme.com/area/acres/to-square-miles/50000</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 03:41:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346562</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are going for some serious coin on ebay!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37135295</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37135295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37135295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They used to deliver your groceries in these (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan#/media/File:Webvan_tubs.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan#/media/File:Webvan_tubs...</a>) tubs, leaving the tub with you.  You were free to keep them if you wanted.  I had several for years which served as the best moving boxes I've ever had.<p>kozmo.com (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com</a>) was another one that was ahead of its time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:48:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37129945</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37129945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37129945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Most in U.S. (57%) prefer big houses, even if amenities farther away"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this need a citation?  The car is the thing that brings the pollution.  You live in the burbs, you drive the car, you pollute.  You live in the city, you walk/bike/transit, you pollute less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 14:10:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986190</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36986190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a lot in this piece taken from Boom, but this article paints GoGo in a much worse light.  It more or less says he's unscrupulous when it comes to the source of money (Russian Oligarch's) being used to buy art.  It also makes him out to be a shadowy market maker, representing both sides of a transaction where neither buyer nor seller know who each other are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877602</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Geography of Kansas (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for this - what a great find this evening!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 03:50:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847755</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've owned and sold several homes that I've renovated and they always fetch a premium.<p>Recently I sold an apartment in a complex with 1200 units - so comps are widely available.  The sale happened in a matter of hours with 6 way-over-ask offers, half of which were all cash.  The closing price continues to be a high water mark for this unit / line in the complex.<p>There were other units on the market at the same time as us where the sale took weeks if not months and sold for drastically less.  Some of them were recently renovated, but had builder grade finishes.<p>High end kitchen / bathroom renovations (aka appliances) are most certainly a major factor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35098079</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35098079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35098079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here in the US, luxury appliances are what sell houses.  Usually the investment pays handsomly when you go to sell.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:02:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35097233</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35097233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35097233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll admit it has been 3 years since we considered moving there (we tried living for a month to get the feel of it), but I wonder how well suburban style development is going to scale for utilitarian cycling to occur.  The population is what, maybe 100k now?  What about when its 10x that? (think DFW)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:58:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264686</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bentonville's core is vastly different from the surrounding suburb/exurb/metro area which is mostly 0.5+ acre lots built in confined subdivisions connected via 4-8 lane arterial stroads - typical American car style suburban planning.  The damage is done, retrofitting this development pattern to suit cycling over F150 throughput is just not something that will be achievable in the Bentonville, or the greater US.<p>I live in Kansas City and there is a valiant effort happening here to put in meaningful cycling infrastructure.  There are bollard protected lanes from downtown out to the inner ring suburbs, additionally we have a residential grid that would allow safe cycling around town, but the new lanes are going completely unused.  Visit the KC reddit and look at the vitriol being spewed - 'why are my tax dollars being wasted on this', 'i cant park', 'it ruins business'...  These are the people coming from our outer ring suburbs where cycling is just not an option - they can't even fathom a place without cars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:12:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261938</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The market was rigged by oil and auto before cars were climate controlled.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 15:53:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261508</link><dc:creator>fowkswe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fowkswe in "Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> * To overtake a slower vehicle, the Megane and i4 are better : simply push the left blinker, then the car switch lanes and accelerates BEFORE having entirely switched lane, like a human driver would do.<p>Teslas do this in FSD mode.</p>
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