Hacker News: fromwilliam

New comment by fromwilliam in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

fromwilliam — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:14:30 +0000

Yeah, my Toyota BZ is great.

New comment by fromwilliam in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

fromwilliam — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:25:55 +0000

yeah, it set off my llm radar too

Education After ChatGPT

fromwilliam — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:54:44 +0000

Article URL: https://loukidelis.com/2026/01/04/education-and-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492082

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Front End State Beyond UseState

fromwilliam — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:50:44 +0000

Article URL: https://loukidelis.com/2025/12/19/frontend-state-management.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326466

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fromwilliam in "Gemini 3"

fromwilliam — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:01:39 +0000

This is honestly incredible

New comment by fromwilliam in "Show HN: CulinaryWiki, a Wiki for Culinary Knowledge"

fromwilliam — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:12:33 +0000

Could you send me that table? I will add it to the wiki.

Show HN: CulinaryWiki, a Wiki for Culinary Knowledge

fromwilliam — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:21:56 +0000

I created a wiki which is intended to be a culinary encyclopedia. The idea came to me when I wanted to know about the culinary properties of rosemary–how it should be used, what culinary heritage it originates from, etc. The Wikipedia page for rosemary is too generic and not tailored towards culinary info. I was surprised that something like CulinaryWiki didn’t already exist.

There is basically nothing here yet (except the Rosemary page). I wanted to show HN to see if other cooking enthusiasts wanted to contribute some pages.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431954

Points: 24

# Comments: 2

Building My First iOS App

fromwilliam — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:07:59 +0000

Article URL: https://loukidelis.com/2025/07/22/on-building-hoot.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660785

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fromwilliam in "Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly"

fromwilliam — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:35:24 +0000

Do you mean investments in solar panel manufacturing, or something else? From what I understand solar panels are somewhat commoditized, and China has massive subsidies for their manufacturers. I wouldn't want to get in that game. If you mean battery R&D + manufacture, I think that could be promising

We Will Not Accidentally Create AGI

fromwilliam — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:29:41 +0000

Article URL: https://loukidelis.com/2025/07/06/against-easy-agi.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629017

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by fromwilliam in "A useful front-end confetti animation library"

fromwilliam — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:58:53 +0000

Aside from being a cool and useful library, this is a good example of what John Ousterhout calls "deep modules" in Philosophy of Software Design.

It's very easy to use the most basic version of this library (summon confetti) but you can get a lot out of it by exploring the options presented (snow, specific colours, different confetti effects, etc.).

New comment by fromwilliam in "Montreal is what North America could be"

fromwilliam — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 21:48:54 +0000

The scale on the maps I showed is the same, which is the point. Toronto, as you point out, has a built up core, but Montreal spreads its density wider.