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New comment by williadc in "What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?"

williadc — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:42:30 +0000

The Culinary Institute of America doesn't have a football team that I can find, but I would still like to analyze it.

Missed shifts were costly to this McDonald's. An app has fixed the problem

williadc — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:26:05 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5893721

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340880

Points: 11

# Comments: 9

New comment by williadc in "AI tool may help doctors, but sample size too small"

williadc — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:03:22 +0000

Original title: This AI tool promises a 'second pair of eyes' to clinicians. Did patients benefit?

This title seemed like clickbait, so I submitted an alternate.

AI tool may help doctors, but sample size too small

williadc — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:03:22 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/g-s1-134929

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030790

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by williadc in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

williadc — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:25:10 +0000

I do it the opposite way, disable my kids' devices at night, but I suspect your desired method would also be supported using native features. I have found LLMs to be very helpful in providing the right settings.

There is a plugin marketplace that provides more features, like ad-blocking. I haven't played with those yet, so I cannot vouch for them.

New comment by williadc in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

williadc — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:42:27 +0000

I switched from a Google Wifi to this and found it to be just as stable, but with better range/signal strength, and easier to apply the parental controls I want.

New comment by williadc in "Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs"

williadc — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:29:11 +0000

Maybe not: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/qualcomms-t...

New comment by williadc in "OpenPrinter"

williadc — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:23:52 +0000

I had an Epson Ecotank for a couple of years. The printer heads got clogged all the time. We bought a series of cleaning products to address it, they often solved the problem for only a few prints. We finally gave up and bought a Brother laser printer.

This project seems like it's trying to address a similar market to the Ecotank. What assurances can the project team provide that OpenPrinter will have better reliability?

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

# Comments: 0

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.