Hacker News: willdr

New comment by willdr in "EFF is leaving X"

willdr — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:08:23 +0000

What are you talking about? X is exclusively the domain of terminally-online people.

New comment by willdr in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

willdr — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:43:44 +0000

How is that worse? Leaving it open signals to anyone searching about it that's it's still an issue of concern. It will show up in filters for active bugs, etc. Closing it without fixing it just obfuscates the situation. It costs nothing (except pride?) to leave "Issues (1)" if there is indeed an Issue.

New comment by willdr in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

willdr — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:49:16 +0000

Not every topic will be covered yet. While *The deadline is now* is an essay, *WP:NOTNEWS* is policy — and inherent in an encyclopedia.

New comment by willdr in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

willdr — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:47:43 +0000

Recent Wikipedia articles are kind of an oxymoron; Wikipedia by design is meant to be a tertiary source, downstream of both news media but also mainstream scholarship. The problem is that it's "an encyclopaedia anyone can edit" — and that inherently means a rush to create or update articles when news outlets publish something novel.

While news media is an acceptable source, proper peer-reviewed journals and other scientific publications are preferred. People would do well to remember Wikipedia is NOTNEWS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...).

New comment by willdr in "Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend"

willdr — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:27:52 +0000

Unfortunately to survive the next few hundred years, we may need another dictator of human behaviour than what the market wants.

New comment by willdr in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

willdr — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:22:20 +0000

Rewritten *into* Flutter? People should be rewriting away from Flutter.

New comment by willdr in "What's Happening to Students?"

willdr — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:06:30 +0000

That's a useful strawman for this issue, but you know as well as I do that none of those bogeymans were anywhere near as transformative as the smartphone. They were not networked, they were static, and they had limits (eg. TVs limited programming). They are incomparable to a never-ending firehose of stimulus, algorithmically engineered to be appealing to your personality and optimised for "engagement" (read: more screen time).

New comment by willdr in "Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)"

willdr — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:19:42 +0000

Does this argument then reinforce the value of government news orgs like we see in Australia (ABC) & England (BBC) - if England's was to exist without the draconian tv licence? Edited: I didnt mean impartial but rather non-commercial, updated.

New comment by willdr in "Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content"

willdr — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:57:40 +0000

can you elaborate?

New comment by willdr in "The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap"

willdr — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:36:15 +0000

Wow. This sort of obstructionism is what convinces people Open Source is not worth the time and effort. Really disappointing. As someone else said in that issue, "perfect is the enemy of good". Thousands of KMs of road are currently not VISIBLE on the map due to stonewalling.

Yet Another REST Client? – Insomnia Founder Explains Yaak

willdr — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 01:42:26 +0000

Article URL: https://yaak.app/blog/yet-another-api-client/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072112

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by willdr in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

willdr — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:54:21 +0000

As someone who has been in a fair few discord chats with soldiers, I'd beg to differ...

New comment by willdr in "Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac"

willdr — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:26:14 +0000

For $150 I want a native app

New comment by willdr in "Hackintosh is almost dead"

willdr — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:22:09 +0000

If you sincerely believe this, you've tinkered enough that the massive knowledge barrier that is Linux seems like nothing to you.

I would never sit my 70 year old mother down in front of a Linux machine. We're not at "caring that video files download too slowly" - we're at "how do I put a file on a USB".

New comment by willdr in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

willdr — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:52:37 +0000

How does it affect Boeing? I suppose in terms of service contracts and the like, but haven't the airlines bought the planes already?

New comment by willdr in "The hater's guide to Kubernetes"

willdr — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:51:16 +0000

Why does this seem ridiculous? There are more national companies than international companies, by a large factor.

New comment by willdr in "Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts"

willdr — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:10:09 +0000

I'd probably reach for playwright to do something like this. The form seems structured enough that you could easily hack something together.

New comment by willdr in "Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++"

willdr — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:41:21 +0000

This seems like a cop-out by one of the largest companies in the world to avoid giving back to the tools and languages they use to extract their profit. If you're worried about funds mismanagement, assign some oversight, add a distribution schedule (5m over 5 years) and so on.

New comment by willdr in "Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source"

willdr — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:42:58 +0000

Open it at 8am, close it at 8pm

New comment by willdr in "Forging signed commits on GitHub"

willdr — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:21:45 +0000

A proper AST would "read" the source code programmatically, as opposed to brittle regex? Is there any benefit to building that when your regex works and what you're parsing is static? (Genuine questions, my compsci background is not strong).