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New comment by williadc in "Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops"

williadc — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:47:39 +0000

Does WinCo Foods count? https://www.wincofoods.com/employee-owned

New comment by williadc in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

williadc — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:44:25 +0000

It's what CDs use, so it would make sense for mp3 encoders to follow suit.

New comment by williadc in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction"

williadc — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:01:50 +0000

The "99 Bottles of OOP" book mentioned at the bottom was an excellent introduction to refactoring. I highly recommend it if you struggle with finding the right data models for the problems you work on.

New comment by williadc in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

williadc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:15:33 +0000

ArchLinux

New comment by williadc in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

williadc — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:46:59 +0000

I also experience this on Firefox 151.0.3 on Linux

New comment by williadc in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

williadc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:42:17 +0000

His manager deserves the thank you. If someone started exhibiting the issues described in this post at any of my employers past and present, I suspect they would figure out how to get rid of them.

New comment by williadc in "Finding success in industry as a chip designer"

williadc — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:48:43 +0000

The biggest blocker to this vision is the lack of libre EDA tools for "modern" process nodes. As things scale down, new types of analysis are required. The OpenRoad project has some great stuff, but there's a long way to go if we want to build a compelling open IP ecosystem.

New comment by williadc in "Finding success in industry as a chip designer"

williadc — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:11:13 +0000

I suspect this revelation is why his start-up didn't succeed. The economics in silicon are brutal.

New comment by williadc in "Chuwi Minibook X"

williadc — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:53:23 +0000

I bought a Chuwi Lapbook[0] for my wife a few years ago. It was great at first, but got unusably slow running Windows within ~1.5 years. I got her a new laptop and put Linux on the Chuwi. It worked fine for checking email and light browsing. The touchpad had strange sensitivity and seemed to be hard-coded so that scroll worked the opposite of my preference. It was tolerable until the keys stopped responding to my typing. I found that if I pushed really hard in the center of the key, it would sometimes register, but required firmer pressing. Ctrl and Shift stopped working altogether after awhile. The problem crept up from the bottom-right side of the keyboard, and I eventually gave up on it at the end of last year.

[0]: https://techtablets.com/chuwi-lapbook-14-1/review/

The U.S. Education Department fired workers. Now, it's on a hiring spree

williadc — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:38:35 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5820922

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251247

Points: 3

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New comment by williadc in "Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal"

williadc — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:35:22 +0000

From the article you linked:

> With the new Panther Lake mobile processors, Intel has managed to successfully combine the two previous generations, Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, as the performance is even better than with Arrow Lake, while efficiency has been improved at the same time. Even with low power limits, the performance is very competitive, and Intel (in conjunction with the new GPUs) is therefore the better choice for slim laptops.

New comment by williadc in "Apple reports second quarter results"

williadc — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:25:21 +0000

For the same reason that Yahoo should have bought Google after the dot-com bust. AI is useful and will eventually change the world. Many companies won't be able to provide sufficient returns, but will still have useful assets that Apple could buy at a discount.

New comment by williadc in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

williadc — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:05:51 +0000

Apple does make the product described in this article, aside from the fantasy price. It's called the iPad.

New comment by williadc in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

williadc — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:06:20 +0000

This is a really well-thought out comment, and I agree with just about everything in it. One comment I'd like to call out for additional consideration is the comment on retirees being priced out due to rising property taxes.

In my experience, most retirees have more rooms/land than they can make productive use of. I feel that there should be some pressure for them to sell that property to families who can use it more productively. That's the stick, but I feel there needs to be a carrot, where builders are constructing homes that these retirees will be drawn to. There are retirement communities in the southern US like "The Villages" https://www.thevillages.com/, but as the population here ages, we need to build these everywhere so retirees can move into the communities that meet their needs without being forced to leave their cities.

New comment by williadc in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

williadc — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:57:44 +0000

I've been thinking about this problem for quite awhile, and recently coded up something that allows for easy conversion between today's written English, and a phonetic spelling convention.

https://git.sr.ht/~dcw/iNgliS

I've created a Firefox Add-on for it as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inglis/

New comment by williadc in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

williadc — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:01:28 +0000

The idea is that you don't want to check-in any builds.

New comment by williadc in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

williadc — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:20:51 +0000

Is it your fault when someone puts a bad file on the Internet that the LLM reads and acts on?

New comment by williadc in "Two Weeks Until Tapeout"

williadc — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:26:41 +0000

I'm shocked that SRAMs would be considered a luxury item for open silicon. They're essential for building anything that would be commercially viable, since area is far from free.

New comment by williadc in "Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow"

williadc — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:20:28 +0000

`time` is a shell command that you can use to invoke other commands and track their runtime.

New comment by williadc in "Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit"

williadc — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:58:18 +0000

Alexandr Wang is 28 years old, the same age as Mark Zuckerberg was when Facebook IPO'ed,