Hacker News: p0wn

New comment by p0wn in "Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events"

p0wn — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:17:17 +0000

Very cool

New comment by p0wn in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

p0wn — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:18:11 +0000

Begs the question - why has apple never come out with a TV.

New comment by p0wn in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

p0wn — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:12:21 +0000

Love it.

New comment by p0wn in "The Saltgator: A Desktop SoftGel Injection Molding Machine"

p0wn — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:16:03 +0000

Looks like they are re-inventing the creepy crawler oven I had as a kid.

New comment by p0wn in "Show HN: Pledge – A Lightweight Reactive Framework for Swift (No Rx Overhead)"

p0wn — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:17:02 +0000

This is a good exercise but how is this better than Combine?

Also - I've seen ultra over complicated codebases made with FRP in Swift. I have some PTSD from the kickstarter MVVM approach. What a nightmare in practice. You have to be all in - everything FRP or the tightly bound system crumbles.

I think SwiftUI's @Published property wrapper elegantly hid the FRP, but even Apple is moving away from FRP with the macro based Observable framework.

New comment by p0wn in "NASA cancels $450M mission to drill for ice on the Moon"

p0wn — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 23:56:58 +0000

weight

New comment by p0wn in "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better"

p0wn — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:51:16 +0000

I wish the world was much butter. It would be more tasty.

New comment by p0wn in "Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out"

p0wn — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:27:05 +0000

Tbe slavemasters want control. Will the American public follow orders?

New comment by p0wn in "Ex-Apple VP Mike Abbott Joins General Motors as Exec Vice President, Software"

p0wn — Tue, 09 May 2023 16:38:59 +0000

Your problem isn't CarPlay, it's Mazda's integration.

New comment by p0wn in "Where do stolen bikes go?"

p0wn — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:07:24 +0000

I had my bikes stolen this year from Portland, OR. They were in Mexico on a craigslist like site within a week. Crazy crime rings happening now.

Police don't do anything and FBI isn't going to get involved.

New comment by p0wn in "Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?"

p0wn — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 16:08:45 +0000

One thing I'd start doing is start reading.

First I'd look into Stoicism. That will put you on a good path if you start practicing it. I personally like 'the little book of stoicism'. It's little but gives a good history of what Stoicism is and how it came to be, and also a lot of actionable advice.

From there I have a ton of other recommendations you can just dm me when you want them.

New comment by p0wn in "I’m taking some time away from Comma"

p0wn — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:31:46 +0000

One of my favorite tech articles of all time involved this guy. He was showing off the self driving capabilities of his framework and took a reporter out on a drive. Everything went well and while they were wrapping up the interview the reporter said "Well I bet you're just driving around all the time hands free, it must be amazing" and Hotz says "Oh well I just got it working this morning".

Classic. I love it. My kind of engineer.

New comment by p0wn in "Big Myths Employers Are Using to Force “Return to Office”"

p0wn — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:00:02 +0000

Why is it much harder? I disagree. In office I usually only ever talk to people I directly work with. And, as an engineer, not very often. Every time I'd go in an office I'd just be sitting in front of a computer. If they had lunches then we'd all chat but it was all just bullshitting. I don't see how remote makes it harder to collaborate or 'culture share'. Culture sharing seems something woke people like to do a bit too much these days anyways. Rather stay home and keep my opinions to myself.

New comment by p0wn in "Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost"

p0wn — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:24:00 +0000

To me it sounds like you've successfully dedicated your life to making money, but money is not a pursuit that brings any happiness. It seems like you need to find a purpose in life that isn't making money, having a wife, raising kids, etc. Some true self identity. Try new things until you find something new you want to master and pursue it. Make some time for it.

New comment by p0wn in "Why we’ve canceled flights, and what we are doing to get back on track"

p0wn — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 22:31:10 +0000

Flying sucks. Flights are always packed and the seats are too close together for comfort. I wonder if a plane was packed with all first class seats how expensive the tickets would be.

New comment by p0wn in "Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard"

p0wn — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:52:48 +0000

We gotta break up the monopolies again. These companies are getting tooooo big.

New comment by p0wn in "The Dreamcast Legacy"

p0wn — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:54:33 +0000

I remember you could copy the games because they had no drm on them. My buddy had a complete collection. What a masterpiece.

New comment by p0wn in "JPMorgan Admits to Widespread Recordkeeping Failures, Agrees to Pay $125M"

p0wn — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:13:27 +0000

We're not living in a democracy. We're living in an oligarchy. Of course those at the top won't get punished. That class never gets punished. Who else is gonna fund all those old decrepit bickerers in Washington?

New comment by p0wn in "US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse"

p0wn — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:10:40 +0000

The US labor situation is changing on a cultural level big time and rapidly. The working force is taking back the control. Companies are going to have a tougher time exploiting people for cheap labor with no/shitty benefits.

I love it. Unions are going to be a major driving force again and it's gonna be good for the work force. As a country we have to make it tougher for companies to exploit labor unfairly. The government has failed. The people know it and are finally taking action.

A true democracy would have strict regulations on companies which guarantee good living conditions for the people that live in it. The game of capitalism must be regulated, because it's a sociopathic construct. It's only goal is to make more money... as soon as possible. Left unregulated it exploits people.

New comment by p0wn in "Impossible Foods brings total funding to $2B with new $500M raise"

p0wn — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:17:32 +0000

Look up monoculture and what it's doing to the land. Destroying it.

Why are we subsidizing soy crops anyways? Soy is terrible for your health. It contains loads of phytoestrogen and allergens. We are reliant on exporting the crop because it's not a part of the typical american diet. It's just bad news altogether.