Hacker News: wahnfrieden

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana"

wahnfrieden — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:48:13 +0000

You shouldn’t because this is wrong a huge percent of the time, like 20-50%. It’s an interesting trick but please don’t use it as a learner. Even the demo has mistakes.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Muse Spark Open"

wahnfrieden — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:57:45 +0000

They are just repeating old tropes about unprofitability without reassessing

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

wahnfrieden — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:03:18 +0000

It's not hard to spend $200. But OP suggested that it was the standard going rate and that it's unaffordable to them.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

wahnfrieden — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:58:47 +0000

They're accusing me of cheating Amazon and having experienced a ban myself. Neither is the case and my post didn't indicate either being so.

IDK why I'm catching an accusation and downvotes by telling people about Amazon customer support protocols that are internal policy but not documented publicly: that they will ban you for returns past some threshold of frequency and price, and they offer refunds for items that arrive damaged even if they first push you to spend your time returning them instead.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

wahnfrieden — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:54:16 +0000

You're suggesting I've been banned for abusing the service?

I've never been banned and I don't abuse it. What I said is also true, that I don't drive etc.

I don't need to have been banned myself to know how they've operated with others. And seeking refunds for goods that were damaged upon arrival is not abuse. There's no need to give in to their first preference to return an item when it is in fact their policy to process refunds for them too, they just hide it behind customer service protocols instead of exposing it in UI. You don't need to settle for the first suggested remediation from a business's customer service to be ethical, or shaming people for escalating. That's just being a chump.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

wahnfrieden — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:29:49 +0000

Prices have risen faster than wages but $200 is a choice. They simply have high standards and treat it like poverty.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

wahnfrieden — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:02:08 +0000

Just bear in mind that if they don't like how often you return or the circumstances, they will issue you a sudden lifetime ban

But also if you go to support chat (not via the order details, which often rejects attempts at getting support) via the site footer, and escalate to an agent, you can tell them you don't have a post office that's easy to get to for you and don't drive etc. and they will just issue you a refund (if it's a quality problem). Done this many times when the product was damaged.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

wahnfrieden — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:31:51 +0000

Flock cameras are deployed in locations that cannot monitor traffic, too.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Our $445M Series D"

wahnfrieden — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:47:22 +0000

If most companies take that much time before giving you a rejection or not, then job hunting would require quitting your current job to make sufficient time for it. With ten companies you’d need to organize something like 3-4 weeks of vacation.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Teenage Engineering Is Going to Stop Making Synths"

wahnfrieden — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:21:38 +0000

Love my TX-6 and OB-1

Teenage Engineering Is Going to Stop Making Synths

wahnfrieden — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:22:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/teenage-engineering-interview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998966

Points: 14

# Comments: 5

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Apple Pass Designer"

wahnfrieden — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:58:03 +0000

Claim was that they don’t focus on bugs and quality for major point releases. Well they did. And then you claim they didn’t fix everything - well yes they didn’t. Snow Leopard also left major issues.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Apple Pass Designer"

wahnfrieden — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:54:30 +0000

27 was literally another Snow Leopard

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Apple Pass Designer"

wahnfrieden — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:53:47 +0000

Their last major release focused heavily on bug fixes and performance and adding new features required leadership override to permit as priority

Tales O' Tech: Suffering Fools

wahnfrieden — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:34:58 +0000

Article URL: https://zeldman.com/2026/09/01/tales-o-tech-suffering-fools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927342

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wahnfrieden in "America.gov"

wahnfrieden — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:10:06 +0000

It’s wrong

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Sonnet 5.5"

wahnfrieden — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:10:09 +0000

I’m seeing hundreds of review loops before settling, with Astra/Sol

New comment by wahnfrieden in "Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike"

wahnfrieden — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:17:44 +0000

Lonsdale was also accused of rape and is quoted as saying that women need to be raped to learn to respect men.

New comment by wahnfrieden in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

wahnfrieden — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:48:40 +0000

The info you’re citing is for API not Codex

New comment by wahnfrieden in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

wahnfrieden — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:01:26 +0000

You’re sharing outdated info