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New comment by willdr in "Everything I own, owned"

willdr — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:12:44 +0000

The end user disables pixel cleaning because the pop-up annoys them. They then start bitching about burn-in within 6 months, RMA the monitor even though it was their choice to do so, and spread negative sentiment about your brand going forward for being "prone to burn in".

New comment by willdr in "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"

willdr — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:39:33 +0000

What does this product do? There's absolutely nothing on the main screen of the app except a chat box.

New comment by willdr in "Superlogical"

willdr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:05:41 +0000

And yet, that is in the conclusion, the section with the lowest chance of being read in any article. Much higher appears,

> I rewrote Bun in Rust using about 50 dynamic workflows in Claude Code run continuously over the course of 11 days.

Is this Schrodinger's rewrite?

New comment by willdr in "Superlogical"

willdr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:03:17 +0000

The eleven day figure features in multiple animated infographics in Jarred's blog post; https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust, including a calendar that shows commits over 11 days.

> I rewrote Bun in Rust using about 50 dynamic workflows in Claude Code run continuously over the course of 11 days.

New comment by willdr in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

willdr — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:21:22 +0000

You should try it again. I had a similar experience to you about 5 years ago and completely gave up on game streaming.

However, I had a cold a month or so ago and wanted to play Oxygen Not Included from the couch from my old-ass Linux laptop which couldn't run it. I set up Sunshine and Moonlight in about... 5 minutes? And it "just worked". And worked well. I was able to play perfectly, and that is including my host machine being on WiFi even though all the documentation says use Ethernet if at all possible (which ofc would be better).

It was honestly the most magical thing I've done with technology in the past few years.

Disclaimer: this was only for local/wifi streaming.

New comment by willdr in "Road to Elm 1.0"

willdr — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:09:16 +0000

Did they walk back that thing where certain language features could only be used by the Elm team? That seemed like a language-killer to me.

New comment by willdr in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

willdr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:43:16 +0000

Unfortunately the AI bubble means we are witnessing the death of PC gaming. Watch the GamersNexus video, The Collapse of Personal Computing: https://youtu.be/zyQwAhppWj8

Costs are driving manufacturers out of business. Essential components for PCs are becoming out of reach for the average consumer.

You will own nothing and be happy.

New comment by willdr in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

willdr — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:23:19 +0000

Yes, I tried saying this to both GingerBill and Casey on Twitter but they were unreceptive. I understand their frustrations and I think Wikipedia does have sourcing gaps for projects like Odin. But you can't really understand the spam problem until you've seen it firsthand, and general case notability requirements are one of the first lines of defence against bad actors.

New comment by willdr in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

willdr — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:20:40 +0000

Encyclopedias are not designed to report on pop culture. The entire nature of an encyclopedia is to be downstream of good secondary sources, ideally academic, and summarise what those good secondary sources have said about specific topics.

Side note, it is very funny that the same people lamenting the state of Wikipedia seem to be desperate to have their topic included on it. If the site sucks, why care about it so much?

New comment by willdr in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

willdr — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:06:20 +0000

Interesting article (I tend to agree with you re SNG in the programming field). But unfortunately I couldn't easily absorb the substance as your site needs some work on mobile:

- text completely overflowing the background

- body text is arguably too small

- the masonry grid layout of posts does not work visually

- footnotes appearing out of order

New comment by willdr in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

willdr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:42:24 +0000

The content is rendered unreadable by the LLMs sentence construction. Secondly, it's insulting. If you didn't care enough to write it, why should I care enough to read it?

New comment by willdr in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

willdr — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:32:45 +0000

You don't see how adding functionality that requires writing to the database rather than just reading from a cache could "drastically increase database load"?

New comment by willdr in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

willdr — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:03:07 +0000

Edit: I was incorrect / non-American, I was thinking of your FAA.

New comment by willdr in "Vercel’s pricing page"

willdr — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:09:45 +0000

If you couldn't be bothered to write it yourself, why should I read it? The same goes for the overly-complex components that express the same idea over and over again, but somehow without adding any clarity.

New comment by willdr in "Stop Flock"

willdr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:31:30 +0000

I think we can agree that when they're executing innocent citizens in the street, the agency is no longer effective.

New comment by willdr in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

willdr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:48:19 +0000

Nobody cares about the DMCA guardrails and they are never meaningfully enforced. Case in point, Anthropic DMCAing thousands of repositories that simply mentioned the word "claude".

New comment by willdr in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

willdr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:18:01 +0000

Orbital data centres are a stupid concept.

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.