Hacker News: wilsonnb3

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "F-Droid 2.0"

wilsonnb3 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:50:57 +0000

Even if you have a FOSS ereader app with good sync, where are you gonna get books to read on it?

The only options are stripping the DRM from kobo books or piracy, last I checked.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

wilsonnb3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:18:02 +0000

React Native apps are not webview based like Electron, they use native components. Arguably it is more native than flutter, which uses its own components designed to mirror native ones on Android and iOS.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

wilsonnb3 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:46:28 +0000

I really like the Samsung version of this, it shrinks the whole screen down into one of the bottom corners

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

wilsonnb3 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:45:52 +0000

Unihertz sells several small Android phones still, they are just very niche

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

wilsonnb3 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:17:02 +0000

Interesting, the tech specs page said Verizon was supported but the carrier coverage page says it isn’t

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

wilsonnb3 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:49:16 +0000

What does it feel like to type on?

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Devtools must be open source"

wilsonnb3 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:19:08 +0000

Even pre-LLM this is how suckless tools work, I actually don’t much mind having to edit a variable in a header and recompile when you make a config change.

https://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "HMD Touch 4G"

wilsonnb3 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:44:08 +0000

I suspected as much after their first use case for cloud services was cricket results.

Perhaps the limitation to whatever express chat is isn’t a dealbreaker in India.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

wilsonnb3 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:13:24 +0000

> How would an OpenAI employee know what Apple's security processes for departing employees are?

The openAI employee in question is also a former Apple employee.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets"

wilsonnb3 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:10:14 +0000

What user privacy? There would be no chat logs to subpoena if users had privacy.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

wilsonnb3 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:02:20 +0000

Companies are already shipping everything to Microsoft or Google and 17 other companies, just the cost of doing business.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

wilsonnb3 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:52:11 +0000

Article is from February so that tracks

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

wilsonnb3 — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:47:00 +0000

You can do that, in the US at least.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

wilsonnb3 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:34:58 +0000

Dealing with the alien coworkers has always been the job, that is what software is to most people.

Software developers get paid big money because they can speak alien, the only thing that is changing is the dialect.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

wilsonnb3 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:33:09 +0000

> I can easily anticipate how an inexperienced engineer is going to mess up their first pull request for my project.

Isn’t this just because you have seen a lot of PRs from inexperienced engineers? People learn LLM behavior over time, too.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

wilsonnb3 — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:41:05 +0000

That is definitely the case, they cover this and many other interesting things about Spotify in the book Mood Machine

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214151728-mood-machine

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

wilsonnb3 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:55:05 +0000

You can do whatever you want with your phone too, it isn’t illegal to jailbreak an iPhone for example.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

wilsonnb3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:19:57 +0000

Massive job loss from AI requires one of two things: actual human-equivalent AGI or no increase in demand.

Focusing on option 2 and software development, teams and companies will only downsize if the demand for software doesn’t increase. Make the same amount of stuff you do now but with less people.

What I think will happen is that enough companies will choose to do things that they couldn’t afford or weren’t possible without AI (and new companies will be created to do the same) to offset the ones that choose to cut costs and actually increase the amount of people making software.

I am pretty sure these are well known economic ideas but I don’t know the specific terminology for it.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

wilsonnb3 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:16:38 +0000

Just curious, how was SQL Server perceived at the time compared to Sybase and Oracle? I know it originated as a port of Sybase.

New comment by wilsonnb3 in "Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)"

wilsonnb3 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:33:03 +0000

I highly recommend the book “How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)” if you are interested in this subject.