Hacker News: wnolens

New comment by wnolens in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

wnolens — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:05:32 +0000

As an old user of thinkpads for years, on a Macbook the trackpad is as much under your thumb as the trackpoint is under your index finger and I find the trackpad far more accurate and less strain to use. In fact, my work-at-home setup is macbook pro, open face so i can use the keyboard+trackpad but external monitor so my posture isn't terrible.

New comment by wnolens in "The desperation of NYTimes"

wnolens — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:26:16 +0000

I subscribed 2 years ago and it took over 2 weeks to actually get my first paper at my door. I live in NYC..

Cancellation wasn't difficult though, and didn't require me to call anyone.

New comment by wnolens in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

wnolens — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:54:14 +0000

I loved this. And love when someone chats me up at the gym more than just "you using this?". See you around the gym, my guy.

New comment by wnolens in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

wnolens — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:44:44 +0000

I'm not applying at all! Happy employed and not looking. They're mailing me through linkedIn (i have a profile, and it's not set to looking and i'm completely inactive there), and or finding my email on the internet somehow and going direct.

New comment by wnolens in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

wnolens — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:51:48 +0000

Anyone else's inbox slammed with recruiters, more than it ever has been in the past? Feels like there's 10x the jobs available, but perhaps it's just that LLMs have automated a recruiter's job and they're letting the slop fly

New comment by wnolens in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

wnolens — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:19:37 +0000

This advice was also given to me if I ever get caught in the rain while camping and soak my shoes. Bring some newspaper for both a firestarter and for leaving in your shoes overnight, and wake up to dry shoes!

New comment by wnolens in "AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It"

wnolens — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:43:46 +0000

This has been my experience too. I feel freed up from the "manual labor" slice of software development and can focus on more interesting design problems and product alignment, which feels like a bit of a drug right now that i'm actually working harder and more hours.

New comment by wnolens in "I miss thinking hard"

wnolens — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:30:10 +0000

Yes, if anything I think harder because I know it's on the frontier of whatever I'm building (so i'm more motivated and there's much more ROI)

New comment by wnolens in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

wnolens — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:42:58 +0000

Exactly my experience and how I leverage Claude where some of my coworkers remain unconvinced.

New comment by wnolens in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

wnolens — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:14:47 +0000

Same. I've resurrected side projects and done months of work on them overnight, getting to my true end goals. Creating software is fun. Wrangling a bunch of opinionated libraries and plumbing together systems with terrible ergonomics (i.e. webpack, maybe web development generally?) is bs work I'm glad to not have to do.

New comment by wnolens in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

wnolens — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:45:33 +0000

Why would I want to spend 1-2h researching humidifiers if I can spend that time in any other way, and still end up with a humidifier that fits my needs first try?

This kind of task is perfect for AI in a way that doesn't take away too much from the human experience. I'll keep my art, but shopping can die off.

New comment by wnolens in "We put a coding agent in a while loop"

wnolens — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:54:25 +0000

> Each Sonnet agent costs about $10.50/hour to run overnight.

When expressed like that, I can't help but see it as a wage figure.

New comment by wnolens in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

wnolens — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:37:14 +0000

A cool solution using only cardboard and hot glue. Love this person's channel.

https://youtu.be/fUyQEPzpkLk?si=cADJNQbbquJCUBKD

New comment by wnolens in "NYC Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates"

wnolens — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:19:14 +0000

> e-bikes above a certain power level

This is already true in NYC. It just another law that there aren't enough resources to be enforced IMO

New comment by wnolens in "Show HN: Lumoar – Free SOC 2 tool for SaaS startups"

wnolens — Tue, 13 May 2025 02:04:17 +0000

Genuinely curious and debating the costs of other SOC2 platforms. But your tool doesn't load anything when I go to controls.

> Error: Failed to fetch

Not a good way to debut

New comment by wnolens in "Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?"

wnolens — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:03:54 +0000

North Americans (my exp only) value cheap goods and services so highly, they don't care how the sausage is made.

New comment by wnolens in "Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks"

wnolens — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:55:30 +0000

Yea placebo is probably the wrong word here. And I agree with you. Often just recognizing something removes it's power. I'm glad the commenter experienced the change they did. Just makes me wonder in this case, the root of it seems like self acceptance - a major theme in (at least my own) therapy. Perhaps a label is a powerful shortcut.

New comment by wnolens in "Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks"

wnolens — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:19:47 +0000

I was going to reply to the same post with similar. If just having a label to apply alleviates the negative emotion, isn't it a placebo?

I think a far far greater number of people experience the exact same problems of focus and distress, and learn to cope effectively in their own deeply personal way. I identify strongly with all the symptoms stated. A label feels useless, or worse - constraining, as it becomes your identity. I still have to drag my ass out of bed, do enough good work everyday next to colleagues who figuratively lap me every day, make a to-do list to remember to buy soap, go without soap for a week, .. etc lol.

I call it being me.

New comment by wnolens in "The game designer playing through his own psyche"

wnolens — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:08:38 +0000

Purely selfish pursuits lose their allure when you have the ability to just do them (once the initial rush of being able to do them runs out). At least they did for me.

New comment by wnolens in "Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly"

wnolens — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:09:09 +0000

Unique experience. I've had mostly useless managers in my 15y career, downright toxic ones in my 3y AWS stint.