Hacker News: wil421

New comment by wil421 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

wil421 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:42:58 +0000

Garmin was and is better than Google Maps and Mapquest was better than Google Maps when you needed to print directions. If Google didn’t have Android would maps matter as much?

Apple Maps and Waze is better for directions. Apple has better CarPlay integration and HUD. Google Maps is way better at searching for things like restaurants or local businesses but not as much the nav part.

New comment by wil421 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

wil421 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:20:17 +0000

Yes, most will at least test GFCI receptacles especially in the kitchen. I bought one to test my basement after a renovation.

New comment by wil421 in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

wil421 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:42:58 +0000

Congrats your getting older. Welcome to the club. Find hobbies and keep them, it doesn’t matter what they are it’s important as we age.

New comment by wil421 in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

wil421 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:21:52 +0000

I was gifted a Touch Bar and bought an M1 air when they came out. It was a night a day difference. Fan speed and throttling killed the experience and Touch Bar was not good.

New comment by wil421 in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

wil421 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:35:37 +0000

The desktop support people agreed at my last job said MACs was more expensive upfront but less hardware faults and RMA for devices that were dead on delivery. They also had less support calls after new users learned the platform. The business said hell no we would rather pay less upfront.

New comment by wil421 in "Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry"

wil421 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:26:40 +0000

Hack is being used to get more clicks.

New comment by wil421 in "The dead economy theory"

wil421 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:23:15 +0000

The Cotton gin was created in the 1700s.

Maybe you mean this one, Green Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

New comment by wil421 in "ICE has spent over $25M on iris scanners in no-bid contracts"

wil421 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:02:39 +0000

We’ve all seen minority report. Some executive somewhere is foaming at the mouth to scan your iris and connect the data broker dots when you walk into a store.

I’m sure they’re already fingerprinting your iPhone or scanning your face when you walk into certain places. Some team is probably working on an Iris scanner.

New comment by wil421 in "Oura says it gets government demands for user data"

wil421 — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:10:23 +0000

Nobody cares that’s why this stuff sells.

New comment by wil421 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

wil421 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:20:22 +0000

Not in the articles example.

New comment by wil421 in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

wil421 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:45:41 +0000

What about your insurance company?

New comment by wil421 in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

wil421 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:53:50 +0000

They don’t own the drainage ditch. They can still dump the water into the local watershed/river whatever body of water per the permit you stated.

New comment by wil421 in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

wil421 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:16:14 +0000

They have a permit to dump water but not put it in the ditch where the pipe runs.

They need to get it to a body of water, not a ditch. Dumping into the drainage ditch or running a pipe in the drainage ditch requires a separate permit.

The water quality is also questionable. Tesla and the drainage company are at odds on the testing method.

At least that’s my understanding of the situation

New comment by wil421 in "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"

wil421 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:43:43 +0000

At my job the commits wouldn’t have even made it to our private GitHub repo. The scanners would’ve rejected it when you tried to push a commit.

They find keys and tokens all the time.

New comment by wil421 in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

wil421 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:52:35 +0000

They already check mileage when they do emissions. Not sure if the state gets the info back.

New comment by wil421 in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

wil421 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:46:23 +0000

I drove 15,000 miles last year and paid 33.3 cents per gallon to my state. That’s around 833.33 gallons of gas so I paid about $278 dollars. $20 more. Assuming 18mpg.

For an EV I’d pay $258.90 extra to register.

My state must be factoring in average miles driven to come up with the $258 number instead of charging per mile driven.

New comment by wil421 in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

wil421 — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:41:11 +0000

The F-150 is not the most popular vehicle or even truck. The F-Series is, which includes all the bigger versions and fleet models.

How do you pay more taxes on EVs when you factor in gas taxes?

New comment by wil421 in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

wil421 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:56:10 +0000

If they were in Iran a drone would’ve paid a visit, based on current events. Most of them are in Russia or former Eastern Bloc like Belarus. USA and the west doesn’t want a direct conflict so the drones never pay them a visit.

Instead, they trick the hackers into going on a vacation in a country that will let them grab them.

New comment by wil421 in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

wil421 — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:47:33 +0000

I’m constantly badgered by google apps on my iPhone to use Chrome. In fact I’m not able to just click a link and open my default browser, I have to see the big chrome logo and a smaller link to choose my default browser.

New comment by wil421 in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

wil421 — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:32:54 +0000

Push the goal posts of you want. OP specifically said rear wheel drive.

There’s a whole community that doesn’t consider anything without front and rear lockers, dana 44 axels, frame on body, and 37s with bead lock a real off road rig.