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New comment by wlonkly in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

wlonkly — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:13:33 +0000

I read an article not long ago which I cannot find for the life of me now, but the thing in it that stuck with me was the idea that people (in the context, career software developers) were not either AI-pilled or anti-AI, but rather that people are both excited and afraid at the same time.

New comment by wlonkly in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

wlonkly — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:57:15 +0000

It's not uncommon to have small amounts of data come out of experiments. These are appropriate tests for the size of the data. These tests failed to disprove the null hypothesis.

New comment by wlonkly in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

wlonkly — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:20:00 +0000

-vex

New comment by wlonkly in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

wlonkly — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:19:42 +0000

I was also curious. It looks like it's probably Kristy Noem[1], and the citations are to The Week and the NYT:

> Noem has since become one of the most prominent examples of so-called "Mar-a-Lago face", a cosmetic surgery trend among conservative women,[370][371] also known as "Republican makeup".[372]

Is [370] pushing it for a biography of a living person? Yeah, probably, especially with the "one of the most prominent" and "so-called" in there. But since "Mar-a-Lago face" has its own, cited Wikipedia entry... maybe not? It's not like Wikipedians made up the term, they're citing that _others_ use that term for her.

I'm not sure how I'd phrase it to say that she is a prominent example of the plastic surgery common to the Republican inner circle, and reference the "Mar-a-Lago Face" article, without attributing the phrase to her plastic surgery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Noem#Religion_and_publi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face

[370] https://theweek.com/health/mar-a-lago-face-the-hottest-maga-...

[371] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/style/kristi-noem-teeth-t...

[372] https://www.thelist.com/1796655/politicians-reporters-republ...

New comment by wlonkly in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

wlonkly — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:02:39 +0000

If the Vision Pro was balanced on top of the head, it would definitely be easier to sustain for a longer period of time, but the weight is attached to the front. That means you're holding it up with your neck muscles instead of straight down your spine.

New comment by wlonkly in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

wlonkly — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:37:04 +0000

This reminded me of the Diataxis documentation model.[1] A lot of what's out there now is the "application" side of the model, leaving the "acquisition" side unfulfilled.

[1] https://diataxis.fr/

New comment by wlonkly in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

wlonkly — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:04:29 +0000

You mean a mandala effect. A lot of people thought it was Mandela Effect, but it's been the mandala effect all along.

New comment by wlonkly in "Starship V3"

wlonkly — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:13:07 +0000

I was pleased, because for a moment I was worried they'd had an LLM rewrite the prompt thing into some other language.

New comment by wlonkly in "A new book on Steve Jobs at NeXT"

wlonkly — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:34:01 +0000

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a metaphor?"

New comment by wlonkly in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

wlonkly — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:34:58 +0000

And by induction, earplugs don't give anyone an ear infection. QED!

New comment by wlonkly in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

wlonkly — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:01:49 +0000

do do, de do do

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA)

New comment by wlonkly in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

wlonkly — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:58:55 +0000

that's k2k!

New comment by wlonkly in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

wlonkly — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:58:46 +0000

I've always liked to think that "k3s" is the numeric-abbreviation of "kates".[1]

[1] https://xcancel.com/PHP_CEO/status/823620960960053248

New comment by wlonkly in "Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business"

wlonkly — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:54:38 +0000

It might've been the straw that broke the camel's back, but they've been unprofitable since the pandemic.[1] Mainline airlines introducing "basic economy" fares that weren't as no-frills as Spirit seems to have been a contributor.

[1] https://theaircurrent.com/airlines/spirit-airlines-trump-adm...

New comment by wlonkly in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

wlonkly — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:02:53 +0000

Sadly Ice is no longer maintained, but the fork Thaw[1] is active:

https://github.com/stonerl/Thaw

New comment by wlonkly in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

wlonkly — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:01:28 +0000

> It's not clear why

People asked for it in these comments here and the developer added it.

New comment by wlonkly in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

wlonkly — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:00:27 +0000

Thaw is a fork of Ice which is maintained and woks on Tahoe.

https://github.com/stonerl/Thaw

New comment by wlonkly in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

wlonkly — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:51:52 +0000

This reminds me of this comic[1], which also works well for things such as MANAGE MENT or PARENT HOOD or FOUNDER SHIP.

[1] https://eelhips.tumblr.com/post/7035963689/early-life-crisis

New comment by wlonkly in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

wlonkly — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:19:28 +0000

I'm not sure it will. The problem in Tor here is that the ordering persists beyond "New Identity". It does not persist between browser restarts.

New comment by wlonkly in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

wlonkly — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:37:31 +0000

Typically, "globalists" from the Alex Jones crowd means "Jews".

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-ori...