Hacker News: wil421

New comment by wil421 in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

wil421 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:42:32 +0000

Don’t confuse yourself. HOAs are in addition to state/county/city regulations. A lot of local governments allow HOAs to enforce additional quiet hours or other things.

I’ve never lived in a HOA that had to maintain roads, sewers, or street lights. All the infrastructure is covered by the county or city. Neighborhood pools, playgrounds, and common areas are HOA. That’s in addition to local parks, aquatic centers, and all the other local public service stuff the county and cities provide.

Our lots are 2,000-4,000 square meters or more.

New comment by wil421 in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

wil421 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:20:50 +0000

You must live in a terrible place. That’s not my experience at all in a suburban neighborhood.

I’d imagine you don’t have any family around so the expats are sending time together instead of trying to assimilate.

New comment by wil421 in "Ukraine says new Starlink restrictions disrupt their military"

wil421 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:17:41 +0000

How will their neighbor allow such a thing to happen? I’d imagine a drone storm every time Ukraine tried to launch.

New comment by wil421 in "Ukraine says new Starlink restrictions disrupt their military"

wil421 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:24:13 +0000

Europe will take years and fight over what member will make what piece. It’s the same problem NASA has when senators what to spread the job making program to their states.

The EU telcos will sweep up spectrum to inhibit new entrants from becoming successful. An EU rocket/satellite marker should be doing all of this.

New comment by wil421 in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

wil421 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:19:53 +0000

Apple refused service and OP was left holding the bag.

Amazon sent me fake RAM a couple times years ago. It was a space blanket in a fake crucial RAM box. I’m 99% sure Amazon took the return and shipped the retuned space blanket on the next order.

New comment by wil421 in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

wil421 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:09:51 +0000

A good friend of mine manages installs of AV equipment. He installs some neat equipment. Some of it is cool tech stuff HN would like. He says a lot of conference rooms have video and audio recording devices.

New comment by wil421 in "Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years"

wil421 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:33:50 +0000

It was phrased oddly but you understood.

New comment by wil421 in "The value of not getting to the point (2015)"

wil421 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:16:24 +0000

I thought I clicked on “Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days” but I was pleasantly surprised by the read.

New comment by wil421 in "Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years"

wil421 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:36:24 +0000

I knew quite a few people in high school and college that wouldn’t have been able to afford it without crippling debt but we were able to get our tuition paid for by the State if you had a B average.

New comment by wil421 in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

wil421 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:57:10 +0000

If it’s better for you and your neighbor to switch houses and rent from each other the system is broken.

New comment by wil421 in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

wil421 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:47:27 +0000

Shimano reels are the best I dumped Penn and switched everything over. I’d like to add a Talica to the collection.

I love their group sets and a 1x11 blew my mind during covid. I was always used to 3x setups and I don’t think 1x’s were around when I was a kid.

New comment by wil421 in "Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video]"

wil421 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:38:02 +0000

My iPhone 4 was like the Nokia of iPhones. Mine lasted forever and I think it was my longest lasting one. I had it for 5 years, I knew people who had it until 3G was being phased out and they had to switch.

I always use a case on every phone and never had a single issue with the 4.

New comment by wil421 in "Nokia Design Archive (2025)"

wil421 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:31:20 +0000

They were doing phone switching in the 70s. The Nokia DX 200 had a couple of firsts on the wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_DX_200

New comment by wil421 in "Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll"

wil421 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:36:14 +0000

Wait until future kids see what X (Twitter) does to society today.

New comment by wil421 in "Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables"

wil421 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:49:22 +0000

Cable curious.

My categories are identical to yours. Home Depot had a sale on these stackable dewalt boxes that are much more cost effective for semi-junk stuff than Milwaukee pack outs.

New comment by wil421 in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

wil421 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:48:41 +0000

My dad worked at Lockheed and in the 80s they joked they used JIC (just in case) manufacturing. They had so many parts without a clear reason as to why they created so many.

New comment by wil421 in "Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food"

wil421 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:56:02 +0000

They had honey and could sweeten things that way but it’s not like table sugar from beets or sugar cane.

New comment by wil421 in "Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond"

wil421 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:34:42 +0000

All the kids in my neighborhood do this weekly in the US.

New comment by wil421 in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

wil421 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:38:00 +0000

A former professor went through startups to acquisition with 7 or so startups during this era. He said one VC kept funding them. The VC visited their new office and said this is why we love you guys everyone else we are funding drive brand new Mercedes.

New comment by wil421 in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

wil421 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:33:03 +0000

Toyota made un-Toyota like mistakes on the new v6 twin turbo. They are not immune anymore.