Hacker News: shawn_w

New comment by shawn_w in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

shawn_w — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:11:32 +0000

Lots of people, based on the number of them I see on the road.

New comment by shawn_w in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

shawn_w — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:03:26 +0000

You need a 250 or 350 class truck for a lot of those uses - plows or heavy loads for example.

New comment by shawn_w in "AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture"

shawn_w — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:55:40 +0000

DDG has become so unusable because of AI word vomit sites that I'm finally seriously considering the paid search engine that HN loves... Kagi, I think?

New comment by shawn_w in "With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines"

shawn_w — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:10:12 +0000

Serial Expirementd Lain is basically the Ulysses of anime. Super dense and cryptic by design.

New comment by shawn_w in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

shawn_w — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:03:56 +0000

A gold tag badge lets you do some things like closing a question with a single vote.

New comment by shawn_w in "Porting video games to VHS"

shawn_w — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:29:59 +0000

Dragon's Lair, maybe? That was an interactive laser disc game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Lair_(1983_video_game...

New comment by shawn_w in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

shawn_w — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:46:51 +0000

The people with the gun fetish are largely on the side of the fascists.

New comment by shawn_w in "Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)"

shawn_w — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:55:49 +0000

Do you have a hankering for antique furniture?

New comment by shawn_w in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

shawn_w — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:25:03 +0000

The LEDs themselves also produce heat.

New comment by shawn_w in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

shawn_w — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:40:56 +0000

I miss phones with real keyboards so much.

New comment by shawn_w in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"

shawn_w — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:16:14 +0000

My EMT cert is old enough to buy booze.

Lost a programming job in the dot com bust, couldn't land another one, eventually ended up in an EMT class and worked a series of traditional ambulance jobs and other health care positions since. Not really using it for anything but some volunteer stuff these days though.

From everything I hear about what programming jobs have become I don't really mind the career change, but man oh man do I miss the pay that comes with tech jobs.

New comment by shawn_w in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

shawn_w — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:54:00 +0000

Tigana is my favorite GGK book.

New comment by shawn_w in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

shawn_w — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:44:55 +0000

Should have screamed instead of laughing.

New comment by shawn_w in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

shawn_w — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:13:57 +0000

That's a different, older collection.

New comment by shawn_w in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

shawn_w — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:09:18 +0000

Like half the people here I'm in the middle of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Finished Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia yesterday, and also have been reading Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries - currently on The Haunted Monastery.

New comment by shawn_w in "Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)"

shawn_w — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:09:53 +0000

>whatever one it is with the cloud-seeding gun in West Texas

Termination Shock

New comment by shawn_w in "Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)"

shawn_w — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:08:22 +0000

I think Zodiac would be the easiest book of his to make a movie version of.

New comment by shawn_w in "Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)"

shawn_w — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:42:28 +0000

Anathem is written in English. There's just some made up words that are generally easy to figure out the meaning of.

New comment by shawn_w in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"

shawn_w — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:43:14 +0000

Copilot.NET

New comment by shawn_w in "AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?"

shawn_w — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:26:13 +0000

So it sets too many 0's