Hacker News: wmichelin

New comment by wmichelin in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"

wmichelin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:01:32 +0000

and everybody clapped

New comment by wmichelin in "The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44"

wmichelin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:01:09 +0000

Well, it was for many. MySpace, and then BBM, Facebook, and Twitter were absolutely huge at that time for the folks using them.

New comment by wmichelin in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

wmichelin — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:44:13 +0000

Not a cursor shill by any means, I do use it at work but that's because it's what they pay for.

But Cursor has a CLI harness.

New comment by wmichelin in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

wmichelin — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:37:05 +0000

I also hate the idea of streaming, but I have been super lazy in the past

I have listened to 44,000 songs on Spotify over the last 13 years. It has brought me a ton of value, but I would love to move back to owning my music as files. I've been getting fancier with managing self-hosted infra at home, especially using AI to help me out.

Maybe I'll get back there, but I also can't imagine only listening to 500 songs!!!!

New comment by wmichelin in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

wmichelin — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:37:09 +0000

Framework has always been appealing to me as a Mac competitor

New comment by wmichelin in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

wmichelin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:05:13 +0000

At my job, I would just say they are in the ear of engineering leadership, but are not part of it.

New comment by wmichelin in "Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?"

wmichelin — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:42:36 +0000

I had to take computer architecture. We made a 4 bit CPU... or maybe it was 8 bit. I can't remember. But it was all in a software breadboard simulator thing. LogicWorks.

New comment by wmichelin in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

wmichelin — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:31:43 +0000

why is it asking me to select a model during setup if it supposedly runs on my machine?

New comment by wmichelin in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

wmichelin — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:37:19 +0000

https://waltermichelin.com

New comment by wmichelin in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

wmichelin — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:43:11 +0000

your test environment should not have the credentials to write to prod data. yiiiiikes!

New comment by wmichelin in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

wmichelin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:50:34 +0000

GraphQL and SQL are not comparable or competing technologies. GraphQL is more analogous to a REST API. GraphQL can use SQL under the hood, or you can even hand serve the bytes (tongue in cheek here). It's just an over-the-network protocol to serve data.

a Node.JS server might use SQL directly or call out to a GraphQL API, but I literally don't think it's possible to let client-side JavaScript (safely) call a SQL database server directly.

New comment by wmichelin in "Internet Protocol over Avian Carriers (1990)"

wmichelin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:20:39 +0000

TIL

Internet Protocol over Avian Carriers (1990)

wmichelin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:20:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024660

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by wmichelin in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

wmichelin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:52:40 +0000

My iPhones last at least 3-4 years.

New comment by wmichelin in "Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted"

wmichelin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:43:59 +0000

How does this hurt you if your kids don't go there?

New comment by wmichelin in "Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files"

wmichelin — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:13:02 +0000

ffmpeg but for PDFs

New comment by wmichelin in "PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports"

wmichelin — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 21:37:49 +0000

This seems unnecessary if we can run imports from functions, right? This feels like a layer of indirection and a potential source for confusion. Rather than implicitly importing a library when the variable is first used, why don't you just explicitly do it?

Edit

> A somewhat common way to delay imports is to move the imports into functions (inline imports), but this practice requires more work to implement and maintain, and can be subverted by a single inadvertent top-level import. Additionally, it obfuscates the full set of dependencies for a module. Analysis of the Python standard library shows that approximately 17% of all imports outside tests (nearly 3500 total imports across 730 files) are already placed inside functions or methods specifically to defer their execution. This demonstrates that developers are already manually implementing lazy imports in performance-sensitive code, but doing so requires scattering imports throughout the codebase and makes the full dependency graph harder to understand at a glance.

I think this is a really weak foundation for this language feature. We don't need it.

New comment by wmichelin in "MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data"

wmichelin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:54:45 +0000

The way this is written makes it sound like you think there's an algorithm saying "if bad person: then boost".

The credibility is ranking. The ranking is a function of engagement. The engagement is a function of human nature. Things delightful, shocking, or unusual usually strike that chord. Sprinkle capitalism into the mix and people become professionally delightful, shocking, or unusual.

I don't think the ranking algorithms are the problem here.

New comment by wmichelin in "Pocket Casts, you altered the deal, so I will alter your app"

wmichelin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:08:50 +0000

To play devil's advocate here, clearly there are hosting costs and maintenance costs beyond a one time mobile app payment 14 years ago.

Kinda sped read the article so apologies if I missed it, but why does the author here feel so entitled to something that clearly the company feels unreasonable to continuously maintain? They're clearly a struggling business, it feels like this author has a personal vendetta against the company and would rather they go out of business than break a 14 year old promise made from an entirely different internet economy era.

New comment by wmichelin in "Making Minecraft Spherical"

wmichelin — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 23:13:04 +0000

I chuckled when I got to the Core and it was a cube