Hacker News: will_pseudonym

New comment by will_pseudonym in "I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years"

will_pseudonym — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:49:08 +0000

At first when I read this, I was like "Why does The Onion's ClickHole site need so many servers?"

New comment by will_pseudonym in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

will_pseudonym — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:00:45 +0000

They’re not just x. They’re y.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see"

will_pseudonym — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:43:06 +0000

the great bifurcation will continue apace

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"

will_pseudonym — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:02:21 +0000

Pig-human organ transplants make me think of The Onion series, Porkin' Across America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQns6vGfj4&list=PL4NL9i-Fu1...

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Just let me select text"

will_pseudonym — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:55:07 +0000

> I have a habit of selecting and highlighting text on computer screens, while reading.

"There are dozens of us!"

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

will_pseudonym — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:14:38 +0000

This is my exact experience as well. I wonder if I should switch to using Sonnet so that I can have more time before auto-compact gets forced on me.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf]"

will_pseudonym — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:50:01 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/16/venezuela...

New comment by will_pseudonym in "US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing"

will_pseudonym — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:19:35 +0000

> Because money talks!

Could you elaborate in what ways money influenced Turkey to speak out about it, where others didn't? I'm intensely curious about this.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Every thought about personal finance I've ever had, as concisely as possible"

will_pseudonym — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:17:19 +0000

To me, participating in these markets is akin to telling people you have a hot tip on a game of musical chairs where you know when the music is going to stop.

I've played those games successfully, a la GME and BTC. But I don't feel good about the proposition. I feel more and more that Charlie Munger is mostly right on this one.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Every thought about personal finance I've ever had, as concisely as possible"

will_pseudonym — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:26:43 +0000

My money is resoundingly on yes. I'm deeply cynical about NFT's the same way I'm cynical about Beanie Babies and Pokémon & MtG cards. It's not for me, but I get it, and they'll likely do quite well in terms of investment returns.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Every thought about personal finance I've ever had, as concisely as possible"

will_pseudonym — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:13:37 +0000

35.5% in NFT's reads very young.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing"

will_pseudonym — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:58:34 +0000

Are we ready to talk about 9/11 yet?

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

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Is soy a key driver of deforestation?"

will_pseudonym — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:23:49 +0000

there's actually an interesting argument that i first heard Diane Fleischman pose -- that chicken is worse than beef on a calorie/animal measure and so would harm more animals because it takes more chickens to feed x people than it does cows, and so more animals suffer for the same amount of food produced.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors"

will_pseudonym — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:18:02 +0000

the ingredients.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Clubhouse Bio Generator"

will_pseudonym — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 04:57:25 +0000

it's like a combination between ad-hoc live podcasting and radio call-in shows. your question "what is clubhouse exactly?" is about as straightforward to answer as "what is the internet?". it's a new medium, with all the good and bad that brings.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Clubhouse Bio Generator"

will_pseudonym — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:39:32 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. It's absolutely hilarious.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook"

will_pseudonym — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 07:32:29 +0000

FYI, your comments all show up as "dead" to me. I vouched for this one, but not sure why they're dead.

New comment by will_pseudonym in "I Really Blew It (2020)"

will_pseudonym — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 06:16:28 +0000

the site is archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20101105111623/http://www.erasma...

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store"

will_pseudonym — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 06:09:11 +0000

If I'm not patronizing them, who is? Why would a browser want to get into the censorship business?

New comment by will_pseudonym in "Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store"

will_pseudonym — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 05:28:41 +0000

...and doesn't care about deplatforming.

"We need more than deplatforming"

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...