Hacker News: wolpoli

New comment by wolpoli in "Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux"

wolpoli — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:58:06 +0000

Does anyone know why the 3DMMForever project stalled? Was technical or was it just a general lack of interest?

New comment by wolpoli in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

wolpoli — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:35:20 +0000

At my school, I purchased my cap but rented the gown. The cap is in a box never to be looked at again. I can't imagine what I would do with the gown.

New comment by wolpoli in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

wolpoli — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:20:40 +0000

There is a lot of information, in various forms, on the internet that are specifically designed to misinform those who hadn’t taken a course on that particular topic, but leaves the reader feeling they learnt something. Right now LLM’s are good at picking those apart for the reader if they decide to dig deeper, however, I fear this era might not last.

New comment by wolpoli in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

wolpoli — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:39:39 +0000

> EAT-Lancet healthy reference diet

I am unable to find this diet. It's likely referring to something called Planetary Health Diet [0]

[0] https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet/the-planetary-health-diet/

New comment by wolpoli in "They’re vibe-coding spam now"

wolpoli — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:27:48 +0000

I am quite surprised that Google hasn't done this in the name of security, as email, one of the few channel that brands do not have to pay any middleman, is a competitor to search ads.

New comment by wolpoli in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

wolpoli — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:07:22 +0000

Sure, but those same professional certifications and development hours also allow them to not need to re-prove their basic competency when interviewing.

New comment by wolpoli in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

wolpoli — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:50:55 +0000

PC makers are going to stop some of the artificial segmentation they used on the lower price devices, and that is going to hurt the sales of their higher-end lines. There is no reason they kept pushing 70 percent srgb panels on even the mid tier Thinkpads when the Neo has a good display.

New comment by wolpoli in "The window chrome of our discontent"

wolpoli — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:28:56 +0000

None of the reason for the redesign in 2014, 2020 and 2025 had anything to do with solving any problem users had with the interface. The goals were just to blend controls and content visually and make the interface feel fresh, which I doubt that any users were asking for in the first place.

New comment by wolpoli in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

wolpoli — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:26:55 +0000

> For what they designed it, allowing beginners to discover all the functionality that's available, it works perfectly.

Sure, but where are the beginners are we talking about? In 2007, Microsoft office had long reached dominance in the workplace and school such that the only beginners are students learning word prcessing for the first time.

New comment by wolpoli in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

wolpoli — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:13:40 +0000

I believe the security vulnerability issues will be addressed with companies using cloud based vibe-code platform or a ai security auditor agent that runs through the code base and flags security issues.

New comment by wolpoli in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

wolpoli — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:19:44 +0000

> 3. If Amazon finds your product on another website for lower than its own website, it'll just hide your listing from the search -- this is meant to be pro-consumer (when you go to Amazon you'll get the lowest price).

Most favored nation clauses are often considered anti-competitive.

New comment by wolpoli in "NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker"

wolpoli — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:56:35 +0000

The code is always generated using the latest LLM, ensuring that it takes advantage of the latest architectures and programming language features.

New comment by wolpoli in "Keep Android Open"

wolpoli — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:13:25 +0000

At this point, I wouldn't recommend Android other than enjoying the much steeper discount with the headset. For me, the only thing that is keeping me on Android is easier access to commas on the keyboard.

New comment by wolpoli in "Skip is now free and open source"

wolpoli — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:05:30 +0000

While many hobbyists developer market, like the hobbyist graphic design market, pirated their tools, the corporate market did paid for their tools.

The issue here is that they the developers aren't convincing their companies to pay for libraries now, partly because a lot of the tools are now free.

New comment by wolpoli in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

wolpoli — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:35:03 +0000

In the face of productivity increase and lower barrier of entry, other professionals move to capture the increase in productivity for their own members and erect barriers to prevent others from taking their tasks. In IT, we celebrate how our productivity increase benefited the broader economy, how more people in other roles could now build stuff, with the strong belief that employment of developers and adjacent roles will continue to increase and how we could get those new roles.

New comment by wolpoli in "Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation"

wolpoli — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:34:30 +0000

My bad. Still not sure which business unit is paying for their payroll.

New comment by wolpoli in "Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation"

wolpoli — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:21:30 +0000

> Consulting business? I was under the impression (from Google Reader) that if users aren’t in the millions, then they’ll kill the project. How could they also run a high-touch consultancy?!

Google also has the Project Zero which doesn't fit into Google business culture either. I wonder if Mandiant is paying for their payroll.

New comment by wolpoli in "ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'"

wolpoli — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:57:20 +0000

Sadly, ads on Google used to be fenced off too. Then they slowly evolve to look more and more like part of the search result. I expect the same to happen here.

New comment by wolpoli in "The next two years of software engineering"

wolpoli — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:49:05 +0000

Just to add to the point: no code web site makers have already incorporated AI to simplify marketing tasks like drafting copies/blogs/emails.

New comment by wolpoli in "AI is a business model stress test"

wolpoli — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:43:36 +0000

Tailwind plus is available for one time payment that provides lifetime access to current and future components. With AI cutting off the flow for new buyers, revenue shrivels up much quicker than what it would've been if it was a recurring subscription.