Hacker News: wetpaws

New comment by wetpaws in "I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270"

wetpaws — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:22:58 +0000

Does it matter?

New comment by wetpaws in "First, make me care"

wetpaws — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:22:49 +0000

Gwern has hands down one of the worst blogs, readability wise, ever created on the internets. His writing style can be hit or miss too.

New comment by wetpaws in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

wetpaws — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:36:35 +0000

How would you possibly grade comments if you change them?

New comment by wetpaws in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

wetpaws — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:09:41 +0000

Why don't they switch to java?

New comment by wetpaws in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

wetpaws — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:38:30 +0000

Stock market is not the economy

New comment by wetpaws in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

wetpaws — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:06:48 +0000

I have a simple answer for you - just don't play games that require any significant level of anticheat. 100 times of 100 you are not missing anything.

New comment by wetpaws in "Inside Amazon's engineering culture: Lessons from their senior principals"

wetpaws — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:36:14 +0000

Asserting your dominance is part of the leadership /s

New comment by wetpaws in "A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs"

wetpaws — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:45:24 +0000

How to write a long article and not say anything of substance.

New comment by wetpaws in "First thoughts on o3 pro"

wetpaws — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:44:35 +0000

Dog's/dogs are ambiguous. It's/its is not.

New comment by wetpaws in "The Problem with Modern Engineering Isn't Speed. It's Chaos"

wetpaws — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 02:33:18 +0000

Link is glorified ad piece

New comment by wetpaws in "Better Shell History Search"

wetpaws — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:57:24 +0000

fzf also has a zsh plugin

New comment by wetpaws in "Svelte 5 is not JavaScript"

wetpaws — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:06:14 +0000

People who use observables-based frameworks are asking for trouble.

Every single industrial scale project I saw was inevitably breaking apart on seams.

New comment by wetpaws in "California homeowners to fund half of high-risk insurer's $1B 'bailout'"

wetpaws — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:16:44 +0000

"Nothing can be done" says the only place on the planet where this happens.

New comment by wetpaws in "The NBA Apple Vision Pro app now has a 3D tabletop view"

wetpaws — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:16:29 +0000

Nobody cares

New comment by wetpaws in "Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure"

wetpaws — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:34:41 +0000

Cause it works and works good enough. Also, immutability is a feature, not a bug

New comment by wetpaws in "Intel ruined an Israeli startup it bought for $2B–and lost the AI race"

wetpaws — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:51:11 +0000

Sometimes there is just a one point of view. Sometimes you have a company that keep fucking up consistently for several decades.

New comment by wetpaws in "Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search"

wetpaws — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:05:05 +0000

Yes

New comment by wetpaws in "Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns"

wetpaws — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:33:33 +0000

Walled garden is not a substitute for security

New comment by wetpaws in "The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory"

wetpaws — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:55:27 +0000

For 1993 hardware?

New comment by wetpaws in "Richard A. Cash, who saved millions from dehydration, has died"

wetpaws — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:40:31 +0000

>people clinging to orthodoxy for orthodoxy's sake.

Always been like this. Even something as simple as making them wash hands was a pain.