Hacker News: wilde

New comment by wilde in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

wilde — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:37:32 +0000

If your friend keeps taking you out to lunch and you never return the favor, he’s probably going to stop.

New comment by wilde in "4chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US"

wilde — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:41:33 +0000

It’s rather saddening to watch the death of the global internet. China was really ahead of the game I suppose.

New comment by wilde in "Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere"

wilde — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:40:06 +0000

I love the concept (and was going to hack something for myself).

I can’t get through onboarding. The main omnara command just exits complaining of a missing session id and doing “serve” asks you to set up sessions on a page that doesn’t exist?

Nit: why is pipx required if you’re using uv?

New comment by wilde in "Claude Code now supports hooks"

wilde — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:16:11 +0000

This is nice but I really wish they’d just let me fork the damn thing already.

New comment by wilde in "Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine"

wilde — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:26:06 +0000

> It was hurtful to hear Google thought our site was of “little value” to the web.

I read some of the guides. Google is right that there’s little unique content here.

Perhaps this is the right tone for a letter to the FTC. I find it hard to sympathize with the author with this style (even though they are likely right that Google is killing the web)

New comment by wilde in "The Dino, the Llama, and the Whale (Deno and Jupyter for Local AI Experiments)"

wilde — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:04:50 +0000

“We advise on technology”

proceeds to overengineer a hello world example while providing no demonstration of advantage over curl

New comment by wilde in "Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model"

wilde — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:51:44 +0000

The deep irony is that some of the original contributors to Birdwatch were working on this stuff at Facebook before being blocked for various reasons and leaving to work at Twitter.

To steelman this a bit, early versions of Birdwatch had problems with unsourced notes and speed of note display. There’s a bunch of research that shows that 1st impressions of info tend to dominate, so speed matters a lot.

In practice FB’s program was poorly resourced and overly complex so I’m not sure it ever achieved its theoretically lower latency.

New comment by wilde in "Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta (2015)"

wilde — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:03:57 +0000

I’m very sad that this service is basically on life support and got moved into PHP with everything else.

New comment by wilde in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

wilde — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:42:42 +0000

Ben Thompson tried to make this case in various places when Amazon was sued by the FTC. Roughly “businesses should be able to make a case for why you should still be a subscriber”.

I disagree. Fuck subscriptions, they’re predatory.

New comment by wilde in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

wilde — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:43:01 +0000

TBF it looks like it’s intended as a “before” image but yes suspect the “after” isn’t much better

New comment by wilde in "Facebook will soon use your photos, posts and other info to train its AI"

wilde — Tue, 28 May 2024 23:09:18 +0000

From the full screen cookie dialog preventing me from reading this article:

We and our 71 vendors process data for the following purposes:

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a device. Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development.

New comment by wilde in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

wilde — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:45:46 +0000

Ehhh at this point Apple’s privacy strategy is little more than marketing. Sure they’ll push stuff to the edge to save themselves money and book the win, but they also are addicted to the billions they make selling your searches to Google.

Agreed on the UX improvements though.

New comment by wilde in "Apple's risky bet on CarPlay"

wilde — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:36:19 +0000

Ugh, CarPlay 1 is exactly the division of responsibilities I want. I don’t want Apple anywhere near the actual driving functions and instruments. It takes a long time for my car to connect to CarPlay and it’d be super distracting to have the instruments suddenly change to Apple’s as I’m driving.

New comment by wilde in "Why you should not apply to YC"

wilde — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:08:08 +0000

Same engagement baiter who said product reviewers should all be shills. Nothing of value here.

New comment by wilde in "Ask HN: What would you do for developer experience"

wilde — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:00:15 +0000

Are you a principal eng? The principal engs I’ve known express things in terms of measurable business problems. You have a list of practices with no success criteria.

New comment by wilde in "iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose third-party app stores"

wilde — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:54:03 +0000

Apple has always been litigious and petty. We just looked the other way when they were innovating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....

New comment by wilde in "Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel"

wilde — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 02:13:00 +0000

Ah yes. Why do I need government help managing my subscriptions when I can checks notes literally get the content from the government?

New comment by wilde in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

wilde — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:02:35 +0000

Right before this they chose to exit Korea. https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/05/an-update-on-twitch-in-...

New comment by wilde in "Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights"

wilde — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:03:09 +0000

Slow and steady won this race.

New comment by wilde in "Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars"

wilde — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:32:03 +0000

You're about to have a lot more of them, since GM is ditching both. https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-removing-appl...