Hacker News: wizardforhire

New comment by wizardforhire in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

wizardforhire — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:01:23 +0000

Pedantic fyi: Solar is nuclear…

I’ll see myself out

New comment by wizardforhire in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

wizardforhire — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:24:48 +0000

Its not big truck you cant just dump something on it! Its… its a series of….oh my! LOL!!!

New comment by wizardforhire in "Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children"

wizardforhire — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:09:12 +0000

Citation needed

New comment by wizardforhire in "[dead]"

wizardforhire — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:52:04 +0000

Idk… the comments so far a just dismissing this out right as AI slop… and then some comments about Elon Musk and some anecodatal experiences… Any ways this is a real person you can contact if you take the time to click to the site… and here’s the author’s bio on said site.

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New comment by wizardforhire in "Extra Big Ass Intelligence"

wizardforhire — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:41:48 +0000

Yeah we still haven’t figured out cryostasis

New comment by wizardforhire in "Things that apparently cause cancer"

wizardforhire — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:02:09 +0000

Yeah but the burnt hydrogen products are not capable of being separated making it all the more insidious

New comment by wizardforhire in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

wizardforhire — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:15:01 +0000

I’ve taken to sharing this clip [1] with anybody expressing the kind consumer behavior you outline… once they’re done laughing I simply say “now replace wa’er with [insert item of debate]” if they’re still arguing with me I share this clip [2]…

Maybe cruel, but I haven't found a better way to get someone to realize the error of their ways… because logic has obviously failed them.

[1] https://youtu.be/GceNsojnMf0 [2] https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg

New comment by wizardforhire in "I said no and Apple said yes"

wizardforhire — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:17:20 +0000

Yeah linux is awesome! … But for me personally after spelunking distros… getting past the immense learning curve… again and again and again… settling , tweaking with stability, getting past foundational philosophical approaches, tweaking some more… and some more and some more… Finally getting somewhere and then… only then after starting to get to a place where i’m feeling some semblance of holy shit this is gonna work!?! Only to sit down and discover that Copy/Paste is this fucking dramatic cluster fuck… that yeah I could go through and I’m sure people have work arounds and it could arguably be solvable… or maybe I just need to get over my muscle memory yeah i’m the problem… Or… I can just build a hackintosh… and would you look at that, even a janky hack that came together in literally two hours just fucking works…and I didnt have to spend six month of my life for it, and omg I can copy and paste across every application with the same key binding that I never had to tweak…

So yeah, I love linux but fucking shit if it aint ridiculous on some pretty fundamental issues that (looking at my watch) were solved forty years ago!

New comment by wizardforhire in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

wizardforhire — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:51:31 +0000

Adults have piñatas… theyre called starups

New comment by wizardforhire in "What will our economic future look like?"

wizardforhire — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:10:18 +0000

And I think the apprehension can be summed with “good luck with that”

New comment by wizardforhire in "Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post"

wizardforhire — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:33:25 +0000

Manually post without curl by editing this link below

https: //gettogether.dev/post?name=name&text=

New comment by wizardforhire in "An Alien Mind"

wizardforhire — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:29:58 +0000

Lol thousands?!?! Try roughly 250 and even then Hume only opened the door for us…

New comment by wizardforhire in "An Alien Mind"

wizardforhire — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:19:50 +0000

Game mechanics and evolutionary biology would like to have a word with you.

New comment by wizardforhire in "How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret"

wizardforhire — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:30:31 +0000

Well we all know now that the greatest crime is owning zines

New comment by wizardforhire in "I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul"

wizardforhire — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:54:06 +0000

The history of burning man is well documented and predates the playa…

The head of the original man is still preserved by one of the original co-founders and I have personally seen it and touched it.

https://presidio.gov/explore/blog/then-now-burning-man-at-ba...

DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

wizardforhire — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:31:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444390

Points: 4

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New comment by wizardforhire in "But yak shaving is fun"

wizardforhire — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:55:50 +0000

Maybe the most beautiful examples of the joy and importance of yak shaving that I’ve ever come across is inheritance machining on youtube. [1]

But truthfully part of the process of creating in general is yak shaving… as is so often said “trust the process”.

Arguably, the entire concept of tech debt is owed to the lack of yak shaving.

[1] https://youtube.com/@InheritanceMachining

New comment by wizardforhire in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

wizardforhire — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:36:54 +0000

Why stop there? While meshtastic would require additional hardware, tor entry exit nodes would not. Nor would other mesh protocols… also as for hosting ideas… the text files? Def cad and related models… skies the limit with space the only limiting factor.

New comment by wizardforhire in "Your ePub Is fine"

wizardforhire — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:51:30 +0000

Vocally public yes… but they wanted to see what the diy scene created, how the power users were using the device and letting them develop the ideas and implement… they would open up and co-opt… boss tools is your drag down for all your settings case in point. This has been openly admitted to in interviews after the fact.

New comment by wizardforhire in "FarOutCompany"

wizardforhire — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:27:35 +0000

The reasons are varied… groups implode or become cults… people move on often times when kids get involved for all the reasons other have stated already… but also things get co-opted way faster now given less time for groups and movements to gestate and coalesce… but theres still groups like this and there probably will be in perpetuity…

they either implode or get so successful that they assimilate and morph… The early US was rife with utopian societies whose stories are legion, onieda and the mormons to name two contrasting early examples. More modern and infamous inline with the time period of this post is drop city… they got too successful as they were a stop on the way out to sf but they went onto do great things.