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New comment by willchis in "After AI Takes Everything"

willchis — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:20:02 +0000

> If the answer is a small number of humans, that is probably a dystopia worth resisting.

Have you looked around at the current state of wealth inequality?! The internet (without AI) already did that.

New comment by willchis in "After AI takes everything"

willchis — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:18:36 +0000

But what about putting food on the table for your babies and spouse?

New comment by willchis in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

willchis — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:28:26 +0000

What about a backend that prompts the LLM at runtime and generates a new frontend for every user? It'd be like A/B (C/D/E/F..) testing with no possible way to validate the results or fix bugs. Somebody make me their CTO, quick.

New comment by willchis in "Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation"

willchis — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:15:04 +0000

I make sure I frequently talk about running a marathon someday, just so all my friends think I'm in better shape than I am.

New comment by willchis in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

willchis — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:09:04 +0000

The iPant? Or a Samsung WCPP1?

New comment by willchis in "Confessions of a Millennial in Tech"

willchis — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:44:44 +0000

"betatester for bananaware" hahaha amazing

New comment by willchis in "Your website is not for you"

willchis — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:34:14 +0000

Exactly! This whole sentiment reminds me of the Jobs quote "people don't know what they want until you show it to them".

New comment by willchis in "UAE to leave OPEC"

willchis — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:48:09 +0000

That's the ad-free version, it's an extra $12.99 a month.

New comment by willchis in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

willchis — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:53:00 +0000

People assume that accessibility is all about some small minority of less abled people who can't "read good", but it's a broad category that affects all users. If you build following the guidelines then you end up with a quality product that can be used by people who stumbled upon it while doom-scrolling instead of enjoying their beach vacation. The best analogy I heard was about drop-kerbs/curb-cuts... people wonder why we're catering for a small minority of wheelchair users everywhere and then they have a kid (or wheel luggage from the airport) and realize how great they are.

New comment by willchis in "There's something off about LED bulbs"

willchis — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:14:57 +0000

I was about to post the exact same thing. They even had a couple of warmth options and the 2700K ones seem to work just fine in lamps that I use every day around the house.

New comment by willchis in "Don't force users to register before they can buy (2015)"

willchis — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:35:02 +0000

This is cool! Just added my local course.

New comment by willchis in "High-documentation, low-meeting work culture"

willchis — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:01:24 +0000

The motion and blurring made me feel sick so I quit reading too!

New comment by willchis in "Why do you waste so much time on the internet?"

willchis — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:51:03 +0000

I downloaded Duolingo and now every time my finger itches for reddit/instagram/YT at quiet point, I force myself to do a few exercises on Duo instead. I'm not going to master a language like this, but it feels a bit more worthwhile.

New comment by willchis in "AirPods don't “just work”"

willchis — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:39:49 +0000

I was about to post this. People with AirPods really should know this - you sound like you're talking on a 1980s radio when you're on a Slack/Zoom/Teams call.

New comment by willchis in "Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome"

willchis — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:33:12 +0000

Maybe he did have imposter syndrome too? He probably went home at night thinking "Why is this con taking so long to pull-off? I'm terrible at this, what do all my conman buddies really think of me?!"

New comment by willchis in "Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500k"

willchis — Tue, 25 May 2021 19:22:04 +0000

And the horrifying thing is that they are selling NFTs for NBA trading cards (GIFs). So people now own a trading card of a trading card of a real person dunking :(

New comment by willchis in "68k.news: A Netscape 1.1 makeover of Google News"

willchis — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:41:49 +0000

This is similar to a site that I built! http://feather.news

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