Hacker News: wesleywt

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

wesleywt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:26:04 +0000

The US have been removing leaders for decades.

New comment by wesleywt in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

wesleywt — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:43:55 +0000

I love how we in Africa can finally see open corruption in US. You guys can't be high and mighty anymore. You are one of us now.

New comment by wesleywt in "DOGE Track"

wesleywt — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:29:21 +0000

OP then proceeds not to list the massive fraud.

New comment by wesleywt in "Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says"

wesleywt — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:30:17 +0000

In this case, saving the children from the toxic misinformation firehose that is social media might save our democracies.

New comment by wesleywt in "Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89"

wesleywt — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:07:41 +0000

Politicians and empire-builders (Elon) is currently standing in the way of human progress and history.

New comment by wesleywt in "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills"

wesleywt — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:26:57 +0000

But to understand the solution from someone else, you would have to apply your mind to understand the problem yourself. Transferring the hard work of thinking to GPT will rob you of the attention you will need to understand the subject matter fully. You will be missing insights that would be applicable to your problem. This is the biggest danger of brain rot.

New comment by wesleywt in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

wesleywt — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:56:08 +0000

Without the engagement on the material you are studying you will not have the context to know and therefore focus on the larger problem. Deep immersion in the material allows you to make the connections. With AI spoon feeding you will not have that immersion.

New comment by wesleywt in "X For You Feed Algorithm"

wesleywt — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:06:20 +0000

Nobody is competing in this loss making buisiness model.

New comment by wesleywt in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

wesleywt — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:12:48 +0000

Why can't you do both? Why does it always have to be either or?

New comment by wesleywt in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

wesleywt — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:59:06 +0000

> Electronic music...

Your instrument is the computer and designing sound. You still have to have talent and musical ear to make this music.

New comment by wesleywt in "U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded"

wesleywt — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:24:10 +0000

Increase coal usage does not mean increase in coal jobs.

New comment by wesleywt in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

wesleywt — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:19:37 +0000

He promised his voters no new wars. So your statement is completely wrong.

New comment by wesleywt in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

wesleywt — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:41:45 +0000

Trump gave one of the biggest drug dealers ever a pardon as well as the Silk Road guy. Time to sanitise where you get your news, you seem to be eating all the propaganda.

New comment by wesleywt in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

wesleywt — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:53:31 +0000

Its an attenuated vaccine, which means it was grown to be weaker then the wildtype by growing it in non-human cells making it more specific to what it was grown in. I have never had chickenpox because i had the vaccine. If had chickenpox as a child you were extremely unlucky because its completely unnecessary.

New comment by wesleywt in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

wesleywt — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:27:08 +0000

Humans are pretty good at edge cases.

New comment by wesleywt in "Python Data Science Handbook"

wesleywt — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:58:14 +0000

Nothing, it gets the job done for most people. If you don't like it, make a better tool. Polars is not it.

New comment by wesleywt in "Python Data Science Handbook"

wesleywt — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:55:59 +0000

Maybe you are just bad at pandas.

New comment by wesleywt in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

wesleywt — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:39:19 +0000

And yet there are licenses restricting open source use. You should absolutely stop people from using your work if it doesn't align with your values.

New comment by wesleywt in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

wesleywt — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:12:37 +0000

I don't see the problem. The market to fix these will eventually emerge.

New comment by wesleywt in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

wesleywt — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:54:10 +0000

Because Twitter doesn't pay rent. IDK?