Hacker News: wiskinator

New comment by wiskinator in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

wiskinator — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:46:40 +0000

Ohhh the links at the bottom of this guys site are wild and good reading.

Please note I am disputing his science on the efficacy of a vertical fridge.

New comment by wiskinator in "Seeing Like a Sedan"

wiskinator — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:51:16 +0000

I’m interested in comparing the ratio of (accidents / miles driven) between the two.

Tesla seems like it has an engineering culture built around shipping whatever version of product they have at the date Elon announces, regardless of the quality (based on the engineers I have met who have worked there).

New comment by wiskinator in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

wiskinator — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:39:21 +0000

Without the context of “Antigravity” being a product name this headline is science fiction gold.

New comment by wiskinator in "Banned in California"

wiskinator — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:06:09 +0000

The site would be better if it linked to the actual regulation that prohibits each type of business instead of just making the claim “0 new factories of this type have been built”.

New comment by wiskinator in "Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test"

wiskinator — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:10:18 +0000

Oh hey, it’s the history of Indigenous people in North America (especially Canada and the USA) repeating itself in Greenland.

Make a biased test, call it impartial, then use it to ruin the lives of people who don’t meet some perceived standard.

Tell me how does reciting the alphabet backwards in a foreign language tongue mean one is a good parent?

New comment by wiskinator in "A Fond Farewell"

wiskinator — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:22:23 +0000

Dang. This is one of those annoying cases of finding out something that I would clearly love exists only as it leaves.

I would have subscribed if I knew that the Farmer's Almanac still existed :(

New comment by wiskinator in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

wiskinator — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:14:53 +0000

We are in so much trouble as a society.

The real danger here is that ABC did it before the White House ordered or told them too.

Fascists rise in power the more scared we are to speak.

New comment by wiskinator in "Difficult Employees (and How to Handle Them)"

wiskinator — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:22:54 +0000

The first sentence tells you what you need to know. The leader assumes the worker is making a “web of lies” to get out of responsibility. This leader is trash. You need to listen to your employees and respond to their needs. If deadlines are being missed there is likely something wrong with the company; whether it be resourcing, time expectation from above or even just working conditions.

New comment by wiskinator in "NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders"

wiskinator — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:58:48 +0000

The NsF shouldn’t be rolling over to do what this new dictator in the US wants.

This goes way beyond DEI; that’s just the trap to get insecure white men to agree with it.

The NSF is “reviewing anything that goes against the stated national interest”. What does that even mean.

New comment by wiskinator in "Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?"

wiskinator — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:15:57 +0000

Article is paywalled but I think inverting the question is fun.

Why don’t small kids in other western countries ride the subway alone?

New comment by wiskinator in "Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts"

wiskinator — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:18:16 +0000

Good on them. I truly don’t understand how people can be against furthering diversity in a mostly homogeneous sector of society (corporate tech).

New comment by wiskinator in "An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs"

wiskinator — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:34:59 +0000

And this is why right to repair laws are a thing.

Also, genuinely I’d be interested in helping this guy hack his exoskeleton to let it work again.

New comment by wiskinator in "Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws"

wiskinator — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:36:41 +0000

Or. And I’m just spit balling here. Plant super long lived trees. Redwoods live for >200 years. Eucalyptus grow very quickly and might be a good option too.

New comment by wiskinator in "Work with people who tell you when you're stupid"

wiskinator — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 06:48:02 +0000

Yes and, I hate working with people who think this means you can literally say “you are stupid” and that this the same as providing helpful feedback.

If you are blunt to the point of being rude, then any communication you’re attempting is going to get lost behind the other person getting angry. People, generally, don’t think productively if they feel attacked, diminished or insulted.

You’ve gotta phrase what you want to say in a way that won’t elevate someone’s emotions beyond the point that they can actually hear your real feedback.

New comment by wiskinator in "LwIP – Lightweight IP Stack"

wiskinator — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 06:39:41 +0000

Depends on the microcontroller and the rest of your stack but it should be fairly straight forward.

Feed received frames from your MAC into the appropriate receive function in a netif, and link the output function pointer to something that sends frames to your MAC.

Examples for STM32 parts are so prevalent on the web that ChatGPT or Copilot can probably get you working source in 30 seconds.

New comment by wiskinator in "Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?"

wiskinator — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:53:33 +0000

Ask yourself why you want something that is made in the US. I have long had the same bias, and I am trying to understand it myself. Is it perceived quality of the final object? Do you feel that the environmental impact of shipping is worth overcoming? Do you want to keep money in local communities? Do you just think Americans make things right? What’s your goal here.

Also read about the too numerous to count HW kickstarter projects that 10x their funding goal and then still never deliver.

Also go read everything [Bunnie Huang](https://www.bunniestudios.com/) has written.

New comment by wiskinator in "Schools for children of military achieve results rarely seen in public education"

wiskinator — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 05:00:27 +0000

An important thing to take from this is that if you pay your teachers well, and also make sure that all the kids in school have a house (since military folk get housing for their families), and at least one parent is paid well, then the kids do well (and don’t write run on sentences like me).

New comment by wiskinator in "The main reason projects fail (Old Coder Guy) [video]"

wiskinator — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:08:11 +0000

4 profanity filled minutes of solid advice on how to be better at the slightly absurd job we call "engineering", or "development" or whatever.

Also, proof that some content from TikTok is un-ironically good (though I've posted a YouTube link to break through people's prejudices).

The main reason projects fail (Old Coder Guy) [video]

wiskinator — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:08:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD3l9ufEDBo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37741143

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by wiskinator in "How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?"

wiskinator — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 03:38:26 +0000

This was the most poorly written and blatantly biased article I’ve seen in a while.