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

walterlw — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:46:15 +0000

Living in Ukraine, I can tell you it's not niche here. Most homeowners without power walls already consider buying an EV because you also get to drive it to an area that has electricity at the time.

New comment by walterlw in "Bentley's Kyiv deadlership among the strongest, despite the war"

walterlw — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:11:36 +0000

Underground parking is available and a car is an asset that's easy to move.

New comment by walterlw in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

walterlw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:51:11 +0000

Come Back Alive was founded around 2014 and has operated continuously since. This is a conflict where long-term investments pay off. Also not saying they and others don't do short-term keep-up work - they do. But it's also important to develop education facilities and care for veterans.

New comment by walterlw in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

walterlw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:01:22 +0000

a "war chest" is usually saved by the state (by under-investing into everything civilian) and then given back to the working-class population as salaries, sign-up bonuses, investment into logistic infrastructure. If you look up the stats - there was a real-estate boom in the early years of the was as many families could finally take a mortgage. Now many cannot pay for it because the bonuses and soldier salaries "don't last" hence companies like "Samolyot" are now in trouble.

New comment by walterlw in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

walterlw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:26:02 +0000

Clarification: Starlink does not operate within Russia. If it did there would be fewer civilian casualties as drones would be guided to the actual targets. Civilian casualties are always a tragedy, it's just that russians don't care about them anymore - malls, transport hubs etc are targeted during the day. Putin explicitly says he wants us to freeze during winter and his propagandists cry for frontline cities as well as Kyiv, Kharkiv and others to be bombed into oblivion.

New comment by walterlw in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

walterlw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:10:52 +0000

and be overrun by soldiers who kill civilians with drones, rape and pillage? No thanks

New comment by walterlw in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

walterlw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:03:43 +0000

I work for a Ukrainian product firm and interviewed around 50 people in the last quarter for in-office work. Some of them are migrants discouraged by european salaries where an entry-level IT professional can make as much as a waiter.

New comment by walterlw in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

walterlw — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:57:54 +0000

If in doubt - pick Come Back Alive. They have spotless reputation and invest into long-term projects such as military education and veteran sports/aid.

New comment by walterlw in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

walterlw — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:40:55 +0000

On the other hand it should be so much easier to port full games to mobile. For example Stacklands is a game that would feel right at home on a iPhone or iPad, but currently it's not an app I can download and play on a bus.

New comment by walterlw in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

walterlw — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:10:47 +0000

from what I understand the goal for now is not to get the people to use it, but for enthusiasts to try it

New comment by walterlw in "If You're Only Running One Claude Code Session, You're Not Going Fast Enough"

walterlw — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:10:00 +0000

Can we please stop with the "you're not doing X enough" culture? This is in part what leads to burnout and the feeling of being a hamster in a wheel.

New comment by walterlw in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

walterlw — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:20:11 +0000

I doubt it very much that either Russian war on Ukraine or the US attacking Iran happened due do scarcity of resources. Old folks in power want their page in history books.

New comment by walterlw in "Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly"

walterlw — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:30:27 +0000

could you please point to an example? For my project i'm currently animating matplotlib plots and walk through the video later, but rendering times are quite painful.

New comment by walterlw in "Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms"

walterlw — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:11:21 +0000

thanks for the work, this looks amazing. Have you considered trying numba for acceleration? It's great for number crunching.

New comment by walterlw in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

walterlw — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:00:12 +0000

It's also a form of reconnaissance. In doing these acts they observe how different actors respond and look for potential weak points.

New comment by walterlw in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

walterlw — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:58:24 +0000

and the goal for this toeing the line is to spark discussion and disagreement between member states. Article 5 credibility is already at it's lowest point after Vance's speech and the new US security strategy, now isn't just the matter of sowing further disagreement.

New comment by walterlw in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

walterlw — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:51:19 +0000

I believe this is about the perceived switching cost for the masses who, in the US and Europe for example, are predominantly not vegetarian.

New comment by walterlw in "The terminal of the future"

walterlw — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:34:02 +0000

If you haven't yet do check out Marimo

[0] https://marimo.io/

New comment by walterlw in "SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python"

walterlw — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:57:56 +0000

I believe that Python is as popular and widely used as it is because it's old enough to have an expansive ecosystem of libraries. It's easy enough to implement one in pure Python and possible to optimize it later (Pydantic is a great recent-ish example, switching to a Rust core for 2.0). That same combination of Python + (choose a compiled language) makes it quite difficult for any new language to tap into the main strength of Python.

New comment by walterlw in "Why haven't local-first apps become popular?"

walterlw — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:20:36 +0000

wouldn't it be enough for the underlying user data to be stored in a well-documented and widely supported format? I don't care if Obsidian, Logseq or similar are open or closed source if my data is just a folder of markdown and jpeg/pngs.