Hacker News: pwenzel

New comment by pwenzel in "How to defer US taxes"

pwenzel — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:29:29 +0000

Up to now, I would have agreed with you. However, many residents of cities victimized by ICE see paying federal taxes as money that goes directly toward an enemy that is destroying their communities. I will happily pay my city and state taxes, but I no longer feel that my my federal tax dollars are helping much.

I live in Minneapolis, MN. The Federal government has cut public health grants, Medicaid, laid off a large portion of he Department of Health, cut Department of Human services, cut school funding, cut University of Minnesota funding, cut heating assistance, cut flood mitigation, cut USDA programs, and cut SNAP. This is just the things I can remember! Our city hosts Hennepin County Medical Center, which provides emergency care to the entire state, and it is risking closing due to federal cuts.

Minnesota has historically paid more in federal taxes than other states, and contributes more than it gets back. I think it's time for a change.

New comment by pwenzel in "YesNotice"

pwenzel — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:12:27 +0000

His contributions to the Monome Norns ecosystem are impressive as well! Barcode (https://infinitedigits.co/docs/software/norns-scripts/barcod...) is a classic and I still rock it.

New comment by pwenzel in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

pwenzel — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:49:11 +0000

Doesn't help when Trump simply responded to Minnesota assassinations with:

"you know, I could be nice and call him [Governor Walz], but why waste time?"

https://www.startribune.com/trump-says-he-will-not-call-walz...

It was an attempt to quell the No Kings protests scheduled to happen the same day.

New comment by pwenzel in "AOL to discontinue dial-up internet"

pwenzel — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:09:08 +0000

I also want to hear from the people who still maintain AOL in 2025!

New comment by pwenzel in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"

pwenzel — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:00:41 +0000

I use and recommend Evermusic for offline listening on iOS. It can fetch music from your cloud storage accounts too.

New comment by pwenzel in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"

pwenzel — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:59:16 +0000

Swinsian is 100% worth the $24.95. It's really nice to have a good system for offline music purchases.

New comment by pwenzel in "RSS Server Side Reader"

pwenzel — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:37:56 +0000

Heck yeah! I use an RSS reader to consume news every day on both my phone and laptop. It's blissfully free of extras and distraction.

New comment by pwenzel in "The Offline Club"

pwenzel — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:35:18 +0000

Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist)

> Go to a meditation center instead!

New comment by pwenzel in "Busy Bar"

pwenzel — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:21:28 +0000

I bought a six-pack of sand timers. They are silent, require no apps, have no screens, and are beautiful. They will probably outlive solutions such as these.

New comment by pwenzel in "A love letter to the CSV format"

pwenzel — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:27:05 +0000

I hate CSV too. If I have to use it, I'll live with TSV or some other special-charter delimited format.

New comment by pwenzel in "What Game Is Jeff Bezos Playing?"

pwenzel — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:18:26 +0000

On top of that, when people are are attacked politically by Trump, they are also threatened physically by his followers.

New comment by pwenzel in "I still like Sublime Text"

pwenzel — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:23:24 +0000

100%. I prefer having a separate client for various tasks.

New comment by pwenzel in "Dookie Demastered"

pwenzel — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:33:55 +0000

As someone who listened to music from this album on a shitty clock radio growing up, this feels perfect.

New comment by pwenzel in "The Static Site Paradox"

pwenzel — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 01:05:31 +0000

Plain old AM/FM radios are cheap and super efficient. Everyone should have one! I have a portable radio that I use regularly and its AA batteries often last a few years!

New comment by pwenzel in "Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?"

pwenzel — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:00:02 +0000

TTOP via password manager

New comment by pwenzel in "Furnace – the biggest multi-system chiptune tracker ever made"

pwenzel — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:48:37 +0000

Forget everything, we're doing 5 chips

New comment by pwenzel in "Pivotal Tracker will shut down"

pwenzel — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:19:21 +0000

We have to use Jira at my current workplace and it's so complicated. Pivotal Tracker, which I used at previous workplace, was so simple and focused. Sad to hear it's shutting down!

New comment by pwenzel in "All text in Brooklyn"

pwenzel — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:02:57 +0000

I'm amazed how many NYC addresses have "666" in them!

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

pwenzel — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:50:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/07/utah-outlaws-books-by-judy-blume-and-sarah-j-maas-in-first-statewide-ban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184707

Points: 23

# Comments: 31

New comment by pwenzel in "Windows NT for Power Macintosh"

pwenzel — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:00:26 +0000

Man, I loved Windows NT back in the day. It was light enough that I could run it on fairly low end late-90s hardware, and it was substantially more stable than Windows 95.