Hacker News: lenwood

New comment by lenwood in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

lenwood — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:52:46 +0000

Just yesterday it occurred to me that it had been a while since I last saw an SQLite post at the top of HN.

I really like the simplicity and speed of SQLite, I've used in both personal and professional projects. For day-to-day work I still end up in Excel, not because I like it more (I don't), but because its ubiquity makes it the lowest friction way to share & explore datasets with less technical stakeholders and execs.

New comment by lenwood in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"

lenwood — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:20:41 +0000

I noticed that, too. Technically I think this is a version of JS conversion. Interesting that he doesn't specifically mention XOR in the article. He does suggest combining methods though. I suspect this is effective.

New comment by lenwood in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

lenwood — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:51:22 +0000

> So allowing housing prices to surge is literally taxing the poor for the benefit of the rich.

How do we limit home prices increasing? I see your point but solving this isn't trivial.

New comment by lenwood in "Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner"

lenwood — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:15:52 +0000

Agree that most leave something to be desired. TC Electronic polytune is great and I also use the pedal to mute my signal. I'm surprised to say this, but my favorite tuner is the one in the L6 Helix.

New comment by lenwood in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

lenwood — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:13:35 +0000

I agree with the majority of your comment. I haven't yet found a use case to justify running this myself. I did find one use case that impressed me though. There's an OpenClaw agent that's actively answering questions on the #help channel of their Discord server[1]. So I asked it a question as I was getting started. It answered in < 2 mins with a detailed explanation of my issue, how to fix it, and asked relevant questions to guide me. The answer was better than I received from Claude or Gemini. I'm still not sure if I personally need OpenClaw, but the Krill bot offers pretty great support. I would be curious to know what it costs them to provide this.

[1] https://discord.com/invite/clawd

New comment by lenwood in "IronClaw: a Rust-based clawd that runs tools in isolated WASM sandboxes"

lenwood — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:21:46 +0000

Awesome to see a project deal with prompt injection. Using a WASM is clever. How does this ensure that tools adhere to capability-based permissions without breaking the sandbox?

New comment by lenwood in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

lenwood — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:31:08 +0000

I know very little about cybersecurity, but my understand of TOR is that a node host wouldn't be able to offer much about the traffic coming across their server(s). The packages are encrypted and there is no entry or destination info, so he may be able to say how much traffic was coming across, but what else could he possibly know? Info on other nodes?

A McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese hasn't decomposed in 29 years

lenwood — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:54:49 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1m9uhhe/my_mate_and_i_have_been_keeping_the_same/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44710380

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by lenwood in "NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages"

lenwood — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:24:25 +0000

I like the NotebookLM podcasting feature, have used it a few times to come up to speed. There's one quirk of the dialogue that I find annoying though, the two speakers finish one another's sentences. At first I thought that was a nice touch, but it happens often enough that it became distracting. I should experiment with the prompt to limit how often it happens.

New comment by lenwood in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)"

lenwood — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:10:45 +0000

I think this comment belongs in the sister thread, Who wants to be hired? [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017578

New comment by lenwood in "Shelley Duvall has died"

lenwood — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:39:49 +0000

Thanks, I'm one of the lucky 10k today. This is great and I'd never seen it before.

History of Tetris Competitive Scoring

lenwood — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:55:37 +0000

Article URL: https://stephenbeese.github.io/The-History-of-Tetris/scores.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442484

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lenwood in "Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020)"

lenwood — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:59:21 +0000

I'm sorry for your loss.

New comment by lenwood in "Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020)"

lenwood — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:56:36 +0000

I'm usually skeptical of this type of content, but this seems useful.

I accidentally did something similar, which has been very instructive. I play guitar as a hobby, and aspire to able to play improvisationally. I've struggled with this and at one point had all but given up. I realized the silliness of giving up because I can't do it now, and wondered is it possible for me to do this in 10 years? And if so, what can I practice today to be a better player next month?

This has worked. I'm less than a year into this and I'm already a better player. I'm more disciplined in my practice, I'm enjoying it more-and therefore more motivated to stick with it. When I sit in with a band I feel more prepared and am slowly getting comfortable experimenting.

I still have a lot of work to do, and I'm more eager than ever to do it. I've been wondering what other areas of my life would benefit from this attention.

Redshift and Hubble's Law (2002)

lenwood — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:12:36 +0000

Article URL: https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/redshift.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844830

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lenwood in "Petrucci Music Library"

lenwood — Thu, 18 May 2023 14:18:43 +0000

I wondered the same, but apparently not. Excerpt from their About page[1].

> IMSLP, also known as the International Music Score Library Project or Petrucci Music Library, was started in 2006. The logo on the main page is a capital letter A. It was taken from the beginning of the very first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake.

[1] https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:About

The Navy's Expensive Mistake

lenwood — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/podcasts/the-daily/navy-littoral-combat-ships.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34792196

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lenwood in "Koenigsegg TFG Engine"

lenwood — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:09:49 +0000

I just learned about this engine. It's different because instead of a camshaft its valves are operated by pneumatic actuators. This detail makes it possible to switch between 2 and 4 stroke cycles depending on engine RPMs and load. The engine's controller can adjust valve timing to maximize performance, minimize fuel consumption or regulate emissions. The model that Koenigsegg is working on will be a 2L inline-3 capable of producing 300 HP (220kW) naturally aspirated. Pretty impressive.

Koenigsegg TFG Engine

lenwood — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 11:55:37 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsegg_TFG

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420003

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lenwood in "DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist"

lenwood — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:32:13 +0000

Why do they require a phone number to begin with?