Hacker News: qwerpy

New comment by qwerpy in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

qwerpy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:03:17 +0000

Did you forget what you wrote?

> win against Trump voters like you

New comment by qwerpy in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

qwerpy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:35:05 +0000

Strange that when Democrats mess things up “they didn’t do that” or “that’s a you problem” but when the other side does something you’re very quick to assign specific blame. One-sided thinking like this is why no one can find common ground anymore and politics has veered off into extremes.

New comment by qwerpy in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

qwerpy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:58:13 +0000

Assuming that people vote a certain way out of spite is narrow-minded. Talk to people outside of your bubble and try to understand them instead of reducing them down to caricatures. I don’t judge people on the left the way that I get judged by them. I genuinely think that my choice of political party is better for my family’s quality of life.

New comment by qwerpy in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

qwerpy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:05 +0000

Unironically yes. I lived in the Seattle area and witnessed firsthand the effects of state/county/city Democrat rule. Gifted programs cancelled, streets full of homeless and drug addicts. Hateful people yelling at and flipping me off as I take my kids to daycare for the heinous crime of driving a Tesla. I’m a well educated highly paid minority, the kind of voter that Democrats take for granted. I voted Republican down the ballot last election.

New comment by qwerpy in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

qwerpy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:56:58 +0000

I was able to retire in my early 40s because Oracle paid early OCI engineers very well, in order to poach them from FAANGs. I wouldn’t recommend it now but “apply to Oracle for a job” did work out for some of us :)

New comment by qwerpy in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

qwerpy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:46:33 +0000

Counterpoint, work for companies that pay a lot regardless of good/evil. I worked for an evil company and got paid an insane amount. Got laid off. Am now happily retired in my early 40s.

New comment by qwerpy in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

qwerpy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:15:46 +0000

They’re some of the safest cars ever made, unless you drive them into a tree at 110mph.

New comment by qwerpy in "Google sells partial stake in fiber, becomes minority owner of new venture"

qwerpy — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:31:39 +0000

"The new company will be majority owned by investment firm Stonepeak"

That can't be good. I finally escaped Comcast and moved somewhere that had GFiber. Now it's only a matter of time before service gets worse and prices go up.

New comment by qwerpy in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

qwerpy — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:38:38 +0000

We can debate philosophy while our adversaries use any means at their disposal. Or we can invest in different ideas, see what works, and choose the best option.

New comment by qwerpy in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

qwerpy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:39:45 +0000

I lived in the Seattle area and would be affected by some of these taxes. I moved to California recently. WA lost its tax advantage, so If I’m now going to be paying the same taxes, I might as well enjoy better weather and schools for my kids.

New comment by qwerpy in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

qwerpy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:22:19 +0000

How do you handle the capital gains taxes? I’d love to be able to rebalance the massive S&P 500 portion of my portfolio into other things but it would trigger huge federal and state taxes. Was hoping to hold on to these until retirement at which point I’d slowly be selling it for living expenses and the income taxes would be much smaller.

New comment by qwerpy in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

qwerpy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:44:39 +0000

I hope this prods Tesla to up their game. I love my Teslas but if Waymo’s approach is shown to be truly better then I’d happily switch to a car that used their tech. For now I have no choice but to stick with the self-driving that’s available for personal cars. Hopefully Waymo works on licensing their tech for other manufacturers and expanding their geographical coverage.

New comment by qwerpy in "It's not finance, it's your pensions"

qwerpy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:49:11 +0000

The part you seem to have missed was being financially independent at 45, retiring, and still being able to have all that stuff in perpetuity. Or if I’m truly that dumb, you’re going to have to spell it out for me.

New comment by qwerpy in "It's not finance, it's your pensions"

qwerpy — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:09:37 +0000

Agree, many of my peers are on track to reach financial independence around 45. No compromises needed: Nice large home, good schools, safe neighborhood, plenty left over for luxuries and travel. I don’t know of anywhere else in the world where fairly normal but hard-working people can reliably do this (provided you got lucky enough to get hired at and survive a FAANG for ~10 years).

From here we can then move to a lower CoL place or stay put, whatever makes sense for our families.

New comment by qwerpy in "Slop Terrifies Me"

qwerpy — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:52:47 +0000

> brittle plywood furniture

If only it was plywood, at least it'd be solid and sturdy. These days it's particleboard, which is much worse than plywood. Similar concept, but now made out of sawdust and glue instead of woodchips and glue that are alternately laid down in different orientations layer by layer for increased strength.

Particleboard chips much easier, breaks down much faster with moisture, and can't hold screws in. But it's very cheap, can be made very smooth, and is light.

Agree with the general sentiment though.

New comment by qwerpy in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

qwerpy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:38:04 +0000

This is why I openly call myself a NIMBY and don’t feel bad about it. I paid good money for the house, my family lives there, and I expect the neighborhood to stay clean and safe. Damn right, not in my backyard.

New comment by qwerpy in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

qwerpy — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:20:48 +0000

Apple stocks app has a similar obnoxious pattern. It’s a genius UX. Why is this stock up/down today? Conveniently a bunch of articles are displayed that explain it. But there’s no way to block news sources that are paywalled. But there was a workaround in which you could individually block each news source. But then Apple gave themselves a way out. If “Apple editors” choose to highlight an article then you’ll be forced to see it regardless of your preferences. Coincidentally they do love to highlight paywalled articles.

I attempted to find a stocks app replacement but nothing else has such a slick interface and wasn’t also crammed full of ads.

New comment by qwerpy in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

qwerpy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:13:18 +0000

Agree, I consider Reddit worse than Tiktok because of the downvote. Even a mild lean in one direction immediately results in extreme viewpoints bubbling up to the top and all other opinions silenced. Few people I know spend much time there, but the one that does sticks out like a sore thumb, always finding every opportunity to get upset about whatever the outrage of the day is.

It's a shame that HN's "don't talk about HN is turning into Reddit" guideline is there. It's preemptively used to shut people down when there are real issues with threads randomly devolving into uninteresting politically charged therapy sessions.

New comment by qwerpy in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

qwerpy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:38:21 +0000

At this point I’m content just playing single player games and older games. What is there left to disturb me? (After I build a PC)

New comment by qwerpy in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

qwerpy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:07:19 +0000

I would love it if AI fizzled out and nvidia had to go back to making gaming cards. Just trying to have a simple life here and play video games, and ridiculous hype after hype keeps making it expensive.