Hacker News: mywacaday

New comment by mywacaday in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

mywacaday — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:08:48 +0000

I'm curious why you think China will decline or be eliminated, I always thought that China was a reliable as a production/trading partner and that they planned for decades ahead with programs like Belt and Road Initiative unlike western politics that only looks as far as the next election. Very open to correction on this though, thinking about it not sure what formed my opinion on this.

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle

mywacaday — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:16:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/07/court-tosses-microsofts-appeal-in-pre-owned-software-licenses-battle/5267742

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819904

Points: 31

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Ukrainian troops earn points for filmed kills in military tech 'Amazon'

mywacaday — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:01:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-e-points-system-steers-units-toward-more-strategic-targets-2026-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597606

Points: 4

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SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death

mywacaday — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:21:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-punts-starship-v3-launch-to-may-21-as-investigation-opens-into-starbase-worker-death/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213550

Points: 38

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New comment by mywacaday in "Remove–AI–Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

mywacaday — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:56:46 +0000

Maybe we do care about truth, freedom and privacy but the majority of rest of society will happily accept any T&Cs just to get access to whatever the next digital sliced pan is and as for truth and accountability, if they were two sides of the same coin on the ground people wouldn't bend down to pick it up as possesing it looks too much like responsibility and inconvenience.

New comment by mywacaday in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

mywacaday — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:38:26 +0000

My great hope for AI is that it kills social media by making 99% of content and comments untrustworthy and not worth consuming.

New comment by mywacaday in "NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address"

mywacaday — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:51:35 +0000

I used to work for a large financial services company who bought 4 storey office block and fitted it out with very small but with own door individual offices that had internet and a connected desk phone so that companies could rent them and say they had more than a box office address in that European capital, I never found out what the rent was.

New comment by mywacaday in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

mywacaday — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:23:16 +0000

Also this shortfilm SlaughterBots from 2019 https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?is=F7RNLXcVuLA5A_lA

New comment by mywacaday in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

mywacaday — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:17:03 +0000

I started that very personal project on Monday, waiting with baited breath, make sure to add a sponsor me a coffee link.

Semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY 'class 100 cleanroom' in his garden shed

mywacaday — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:33:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ambitious-semiconductor-enthusiast-builds-diy-class-100-cleanroom-in-his-garden-shed-contains-a-plasma-etcher-vacuum-furnace-and-even-custom-software-driven-lithography-machine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441214

Points: 20

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New comment by mywacaday in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

mywacaday — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:29:16 +0000

The only option for cookies is to accept these terms and conditions, I thought implied consent was explicitly not allowed due to GDPR?

"To help personalize content, tailor and measure ads and provide a safer experience, we use cookies. By clicking or navigating the site, you agree to allow our collection of information on and off Facebook through cookies. Learn more, including about available controls:

https://engineering.fb.com/privacy"

New comment by mywacaday in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

mywacaday — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:22:23 +0000

No. 2 is interesting, our national lottery in Ireland has an app that you can scan the barcode on your ticket to check if you have won or not, at some stage they updated the app and the scan picks up the barcode even before you center it on the screen and tells you if you have lost/won instantly, I though it was my IT background that made me uncomfortable with it happening so fast, wonder what other examples like this exist where the result/action being too fast causes doubt with the user?

NASA boss says Boeing Starliner failure one of worst in its history

mywacaday — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:47:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2x3nlxg9jo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085382

Points: 2

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WebMCP is available for early preview

mywacaday — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:38:56 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006096

Points: 3

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New comment by mywacaday in "45 quotations for my birthday"

mywacaday — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:10:53 +0000

Thanks for posting that, there are a lot of quotes that resonated with me. I've had a personally and professionally tough year and will be losing my job in the new year, 50/50 my own fault for disengaging after a reorg at that start if the year. I'm not overly worried and will be taking the payoff to throw my hat in the small startup ring but this quote still struck a chord and made me feel more positive:

“If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note you play that determines if it’s good or bad.” (Miles Davis)

Enjoy the holidays everyone and remember to look out for each other, we lost a close family member to suicide and new born nephew that only lived a few precious hours this year. Family and friends first, and no more letting others decide my future are my goals for 2026. If anyone is struggling, even if you can't see it people want to help, take that hard first step and ask for help, friend/family/doctor/helpline/anyone, it gets easier after that, it's a step I took myself a few years ago when in a bad place mentally and it turned my life around, my only regrets are I didn't ask for help sooner and I kept my struggle and recovery largely private, I will regret to my dying day that I wasn't more open to my extended family and maybe if that person saw someone else recover they might have taken another road. Apologies for the ramble, the quotes and typing this comment caused a small unplanned reflection on 2025, I was going to delete all this but thought it might help someone. Thanks HN for keeping things interesting and once again pointing me at something that made a difference!

iRobot bankruptcy revealed a new kind of competitor: 'the Chinese fast follower'

mywacaday — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:34:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/irobot-ceo-bankruptcy-china-fast-followers-competition-2025-12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352971

Points: 3

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A grad student's wild idea triggers a major aging breakthrough

mywacaday — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251213032625.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46271749

Points: 4

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New comment by mywacaday in "Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi"

mywacaday — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:00:50 +0000

How much does one of them go for?

New comment by mywacaday in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

mywacaday — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:15:55 +0000

I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com At some point the head of a national hospital thought he had that address and wasn't using his official email for everything, I got several emails that should not have been for me and some were quiet sensitive, I always emailed back the sender to let them know and eventually I emailed his secretary as it kept happening. I've also received purchase order confirmations from Australia, building contracts from Canada, HR emails from a university to which I had to confirm I had deleted the mail as letting them know led to GDPR investigation

Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers

mywacaday — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:29:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205g21n1zzo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626046

Points: 3

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