Hacker News: wgx

New comment by wgx in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

wgx — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:22:19 +0000

New comment by wgx in "Flipper Zero Geiger Counter"

wgx — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:58:34 +0000

Why did I see graphite on the roof?

Flipper Zero Geiger Counter

wgx — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:28:59 +0000

Article URL: https://kasiin.top/blog/2025-08-04-flipper_zero_geiger_counter_module/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289453

Points: 270

# Comments: 83

New comment by wgx in "Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?"

wgx — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:01:28 +0000

Try searching Reddit, I just found some lists. I’ve given up and instead just don’t allow things on my network. My “smart” TV begs me to see the network but I just use a Roku instead. I fear it’s come to this where we have to circumvent our own devices desperate need for connectivity.

CSS Minecraft

wgx — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:24:12 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275482

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

A Writers frustrating experience with ChatGPT's approach to lying

wgx — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:42:40 +0000

Article URL: https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44190306

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wgx in "Claude 4 System Card"

wgx — Sun, 25 May 2025 10:40:57 +0000

Interesting!

>Claude shows a striking “spiritual bliss” attractor state in self-interactions. When conversing with other Claude instances in both open-ended and structured environments, Claude gravitated to profuse gratitude and increasingly abstract and joyous spiritual or meditative expressions.

New comment by wgx in "'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn"

wgx — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:08:55 +0000

They’re not

Brain implant to cure addiction enters clinical trials

wgx — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:50:15 +0000

Article URL: https://brain-pacer.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373276

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wgx in "European leaders show support for Zelenskiy after Trump clash"

wgx — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:17:34 +0000

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a research group based in Germany that tracks support from foreign governments toward Ukraine, estimates that the U.S. has allocated about $119 billion. The reason the estimate is different from U.S. government data, the institute explains, is because it only includes direct aid to Ukraine -- not money appropriated in the bills that relate to Ukraine but are not bilateral, such restocking U.S. weapon stockpiles or aiding refugees.

By comparison, Kiel found European nations have all together allocated around $138 billion to Ukraine.

Show HN: Find Your Next Rabbit Hole

wgx — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://wgx.github.io/adno/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43067718

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wgx in "So you want to build your own data center"

wgx — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:12:08 +0000

I recall getting a DC tour of LON3 and being totally blown away by it all as a 20-something web dev. Good times.

New comment by wgx in "Neuters: Lightweight front end to Reuters News"

wgx — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 09:25:14 +0000

Is there a viable way for me to make every site load like this (iOS)? And optimally toggle back to the “full site” if I want to.

New comment by wgx in "The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed"

wgx — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:57:59 +0000

Add to that: Floating Points, Rival Consoles, Brian Eno…

Never Forgive Them

wgx — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:00:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42440326

Points: 21

# Comments: 9

New comment by wgx in "Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format"

wgx — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 07:03:03 +0000

Thank you for this! You just unlocked some old memories of “Digitiser” which led me here:

https://teletextart.co.uk/artists/paul-rose-mr-biffo

New comment by wgx in "A 132-Year-Old Message in a Bottle in a Scottish Lighthouse"

wgx — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:20:40 +0000

Text of the letter:

Corsewall Light & Fog Signal Station, Sept 4th 1892. This lantern was erected by James Wells Engineer, John Westwood Millwright, James Brodie Engineer, David Scott Labourer, of the firm of James Milne & Son Engineers, Milton House Works, Edinburgh, during the months from May to September and relighted on Thursday night 15th Sept 1892. The following being keepers at the station at this time, John Wilson Principal, John B Henderson 1st assistant, John Lockhart 2nd assistant. The lens and machine being supplied by James Dove &Co Engineers Greenside Edinburgh and erected by William Burness, John Harrower, James Dods. Engineers with the above firm.

SQLizer JavaScript Library on NPM Converts XML, JSON, Excel to SQL Statements

wgx — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:51:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.sqlizer.io/posts/sqlizer-javascript-client-library-npm-js/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40966459

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wgx in "Simple sabotage for software (2023)"

wgx — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:38:38 +0000

I find the EFF site perfectly readable. Not sure what you’re experiencing but it looks fine to me.

New comment by wgx in "An Ode to Deluxe Paint (2023)"

wgx — Tue, 21 May 2024 09:56:21 +0000

I think it's fair to say that my 25+ year career in design started with DPaint on an Amiga, and I'd be somewhere very different today without it.