Hacker News: kgwxd

New comment by kgwxd in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

kgwxd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:22:03 +0000

Very, very, very little of real-world software dev is anything close to "engineering".

New comment by kgwxd in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

kgwxd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:39:39 +0000

Name an industry anyone likes, aside from the money they might be making off it. They're all now hated for the same reasons, caused by the same, scarily small, group of people.

New comment by kgwxd in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"

kgwxd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:18:52 +0000

I just got one of those M5 meshtastic things with a keyboard and screen. My kid is in love with it. We're just messaging each other for now, but there's a lot of nodes in our area, so we're going to get a few more devices for family/friends in the area.

New comment by kgwxd in "Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year"

kgwxd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:05:37 +0000

Dear MS, Not interested but, thank you so much for that push out the door a while back :) Tux is my Copilot now.

New comment by kgwxd in "QR-Swastika-Avoider"

kgwxd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:48:41 +0000

Pretty sure the author doesn't intend to enforce the entire world to run QR generation through this code. I'm not stoked Roblox doesn't let me type my real name and phone number into chat. But I can still go to the playground, and say whatever I want. Those 900+ mill people might appreciate a QR-Swastika-Maximizer. Maybe you should author and host one for them. Be the good you want in the world.

New comment by kgwxd in "House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country"

kgwxd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:22:34 +0000

They still have to walk to the bus stop.

New comment by kgwxd in "House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country"

kgwxd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:17:28 +0000

We're not agreed. In a few years, we're gonna be. For a while.

New comment by kgwxd in "Is ChatGPT Down?"

kgwxd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:04:31 +0000

This post looked hilarious in the "new" feed :) Then I realized which came first, and laughed even harder.

New comment by kgwxd in "House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent"

kgwxd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:54:47 +0000

Problem this time is, this administration won't reverse the choice when everyone hates it. Not even when the children start dying on the way to school, instead of in it.

New comment by kgwxd in "Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive"

kgwxd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:26:52 +0000

That PS thing is so dumb. People really have trouble letting go of the illusion they've been living under for a long time now. Those disks might as well be random hunks of garbage. It be hilarious if PS starting shipping old AOL CDs from a dump instead. They'd probably be more useful and help reduce landfills.

New comment by kgwxd in "How I built my site with no frameworks and Claude Code (PHP, vanilla JavaScript)"

kgwxd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:31:34 +0000

The fading draws attention to the things my brain already knew how to ignore. Less animation is almost always better, no matter what that apple guy said about "design". The only exception is where it corrects for horrible workflow design (99% of things done the "Apple" way).

New comment by kgwxd in "Texas leads nation in proposed power plants for data centers"

kgwxd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:23:00 +0000

"Leads" like a lemming.

New comment by kgwxd in "Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator"

kgwxd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:48:25 +0000

In the real world, a lower score beats a high one, except that one time.

New comment by kgwxd in "UI Degrades over Time"

kgwxd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:28:56 +0000

It was never science. But it was pretty obvious when there wasn't anything left to do. Then people kept changing stuff anyway. You'll never even see the trend go back to windows 95 era UI, because if the masses get that feeling back, they'll murder before they let another style enter their lives.

New comment by kgwxd in "Mastodon, the Only Good Choice"

kgwxd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:23:31 +0000

There's no money in online brands anymore anyway. Who cares if Bluesky, or any other platform, goes south? Just move on to the next thing. Have 2 things at once. Don't use any thing. These platforms don't own you.

New comment by kgwxd in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

kgwxd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:15:33 +0000

Sounds like a good job for AI. Why should humans have to waste their time on it? Accounts that post any should just get banned and deleted.

New comment by kgwxd in "What if social media optimized for less time online?"

kgwxd — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:14:00 +0000

Social Media isn't the problem, it's algorithmic feeds. Take them away, problem solved.

New comment by kgwxd in "Reddit is going to force you to log in to use old Reddit"

kgwxd — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:09:11 +0000

I should be able to control myself but, I'm kind of glad for the excuse to never go back there.

New comment by kgwxd in "Kids online safety package clears House"

kgwxd — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:11:10 +0000

Nice work! Sadly, had to send a disappointed email.

New comment by kgwxd in "It's Time to Reserve Your WhatsApp Username"

kgwxd — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:25:41 +0000

Why is anyone still touching anything made by these creeps?