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New comment by willchis in "Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company"

willchis — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:41:00 +0000

How do you manage permissions in the wiki? Does it require all content being available to everyone in the org or does it do some sort of vectorizing that is unique to every single user based on their perms? Whenever we've tried to build something similar, permissions is usually the first headache and is often why something like Microsoft's WorkIQ is appealing (if you're an O365 org).

New comment by willchis in "Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos"

willchis — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:02:42 +0000

But that makes them a hypocrite and undermines their previously produced works, no?

New comment by willchis in "Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos"

willchis — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:59:20 +0000

Eat the rich, not their Oreos.

New comment by willchis in "Incident with Github.com"

willchis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:40:12 +0000

A lot of it is inertia I think. I hear people saying that they "just use so-and-so for version control" but really we all have tons of CI/CD build and test pipelines, config, business processes etc in Github (rightly or wrongly).

New comment by willchis in "Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout"

willchis — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:12:59 +0000

Ha yes it definitely reads like an Onion headline.

New comment by willchis in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

willchis — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:11:50 +0000

I hope the irony of being concerned about hallucinations in a bible study app is not lost on you or others reading this!

New comment by willchis in "TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work"

willchis — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:17:08 +0000

Just softmax it over the KV cache dude!

New comment by willchis in "6am News"

willchis — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:26:30 +0000

Nice! It's similar in concept to something that I built (no ads, cookies, pop-ups etc.), except yours looks to be smarter and better organized! https://feathernews.org/

New comment by willchis in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

willchis — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:36:26 +0000

> 'Focus on happy path only, for the MVP' is how you build buggy software. Good developers can learn that this will guarantee the need for a rewrite in the future, but POs never will.

And then when the MVP is done, it magically becomes the shippable product. Then just when the team is getting to grips with how to improve the product, management does a reshuffle and moves teams around. "EXCITING NEWS GUYS, congratulation to Jimmy Whatevs for being promoted to SENIOR Director, he will now head-up the cross-functional-operations team which will be folded under the product-support division."

New comment by willchis in "Nothing works and everyone is euphoric"

willchis — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:31:55 +0000

Since upgrading iOS, my iPhone (13) will: - sometimes fail to open the camera - make the bottom half of the screen blank when you do email searches - use more battery - become unusable if you turn on any transparency effects.

New comment by willchis in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

willchis — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:21:18 +0000

Because their hearts are too heavy and emotional, and their community is too beloved, duh! I really wished companies would just TLDR so you didn't have to read this nonsense every singe time.

New comment by willchis in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

willchis — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:21:36 +0000

Good for job security I guess!

New comment by willchis in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

willchis — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:16:47 +0000

You're not a software developer, are you ;)? I'm not working on any timezone-aware products right now but I feel for all my brothers and sisters in the trenches if this passes and has to be fixed everywhere!

New comment by willchis in "War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history"

willchis — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:04:35 +0000

Wow this is really neat. I just did a really fast refresher on the history of (conflict in) Europe by scrolling through!

New comment by willchis in "GPT-5.6"

willchis — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:13:33 +0000

The marketing team must've done research that said "people are starting to think that you guys are evil-water-stealing-lay-off-loving-bubble-bursting scumbags" and decided to really lean into the small family business and happy font vibes!

New comment by willchis in "Stealing Is a Skill"

willchis — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:05:44 +0000

The best way to make a really boring and generic product pop is... by copying a really boring and generic marketing page. God I miss the old internet. Give me some insane pixelated flash website over this bland trash any day. https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-websites-in-the-early-...

New comment by willchis in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

willchis — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:35:38 +0000

I really want to agree and I can fill the rage building inside me when I talk to one... but on the flip side I just had a conversation with the Amazon one and it fixed my weird incorrect region/country problem in about 5 minutes. I was filled with rage the entire time, but it fixed my problem.

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.