Hacker News: wampwampwhat

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

wampwampwhat — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:07:48 +0000

just compare the landing pages for taobao or baidu to the western equivalent. UX for the asian market has wildly different expectations and best practices

New comment by wampwampwhat in "AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robots"

wampwampwhat — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:18:27 +0000

no theyre not. the founder has clearly never worked a day in maintenance-trades and doesn't understand the problem space at all. new construction residential plumbing is so cheap that there is no edge to having a robot do it, and emergency plumbing triage in finished homes is a game discovering exactly how wrong the usually non-existent schematics are.

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows"

wampwampwhat — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:26:32 +0000

university of utah has several studies on the matter. a substantial percentage of the snowpack sublimates during a heatwave, never has a chance to melt. Of the remaining snowmelt, it has to saturate the ground before any can flow to an adjacent stream to feed the water table, and the bone dry soil around here can absorb a significant amount of water.

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

wampwampwhat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:16:26 +0000

That's a monthly mortgage payment for anyone who bought a starter house in a tier2/3 city prior to ~2024

New comment by wampwampwhat in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

wampwampwhat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:10:25 +0000

your argument sounds very similar to how ar15 larpers claim they need a forced reset trigger and a bump stock on their short barrel 'truck gun' otherwise they won't survive a SHTF scenario... like what world are you living in?

New comment by wampwampwhat in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

wampwampwhat — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:54:46 +0000

do you have a key for the color meanings?

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

wampwampwhat — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:37:10 +0000

facebook was lagging on the bot:human user ratio and they needed to scale the left side of the equation to really improve their je ne sais quoi

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

wampwampwhat — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:56:34 +0000

I'm going to repeat this verbatim in my next technical interview. I still have nightmares about an old peugeot px10

New comment by wampwampwhat in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

wampwampwhat — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:14:12 +0000

i'm 36, self-employed. silver plans in my state are ~800/month next year, with 8k deductible, no out of network coverage at all, with no in-network providers out of my state, so god forbid I get injured while traveling to visit my in-laws. the marketplace is a joke and health insurance in this country is pointless.

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)"

wampwampwhat — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:49:22 +0000

I believe jokes inserted into code that dont impact user experience negatively are called easter eggs, not bugs

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

wampwampwhat — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:01:03 +0000

https://shop.app is their federated retail platform

New comment by wampwampwhat in "The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal Flubs"

wampwampwhat — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:27:51 +0000

any chance someone here works at ford and is willing to share the full spreadsheet? I need some inspiration

New comment by wampwampwhat in "The Japanese word ikigai refers to a passion that gives joy to life (2022)"

wampwampwhat — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:43:57 +0000

not to be confused with ikijime: The secret to tasty fish

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now [video]"

wampwampwhat — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:30:41 +0000

I would honestly love to pay $2-$5 for a weekend license to Canva or Illustrator. Once in a blue moon I need to hammer a logo or an event flyer or a random SVG and then I won't touch the tool again for 3 months.

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Drones are the new drug mules"

wampwampwhat — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:25:26 +0000

I believe that already happens every September in North Nevada...

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Are cooking videos making us better cooks?"

wampwampwhat — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 03:06:42 +0000

The Food Lab, by J Kenji Lopez-Alt should be on the shelf of any HN reader who likes to cook. dives deep into the 'why' behind each recipe, includes a lot of A/B testing results (e.g. differences roasting russet potatoes vs gold vs red)

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy"

wampwampwhat — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:02:08 +0000

Its aggressively simple to solve. Sell Bezos yacht. pay people.

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Home Depot is introducing power tools that won’t work if they’re stolen"

wampwampwhat — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:45:31 +0000

Home Depot could solve this problem really easily by having more than two people working in a store at a given time.. It's a pretty simple solution. Every single person I know has stolen something small (like a box of screws) from home depot in the last few years because they got tired of trying to find someone to check out with and said fuck it and walked out. Theres other examples of that same forced to steal because theres no way to pay in this thread, and all over the internet. HD has incompetent top down leadership. Fire your C Suite.

New comment by wampwampwhat in "On Depression and Founders"

wampwampwhat — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:44:52 +0000

I'm almost certain this thread is just a transcription of a Joe Rogan podcast

New comment by wampwampwhat in "Burnout from an Organizational Perspective"

wampwampwhat — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:40:40 +0000

The article being discussed here makes no mention of software development at all, and clearly defines exactly what burnout is and how it differs from depression, anxiety, and compassion fatigue. Give it a read, it could prove to be insightful