Hacker News: wwalker2112

New comment by wwalker2112 in "Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically"

wwalker2112 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:48:28 +0000

Very fun. Would you consider putting years on the timeline to match the events up to? I think from an education perspective it would be a great feature! Nice Work!

New comment by wwalker2112 in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

wwalker2112 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:46:46 +0000

One thing I've done to improve my communication with strangers is to stop trying to think of the perfect way to start a conversation or question.

Some of the best conversations I've had started by me asking or telling someone something in a awkward or overly simplified way at first. It takes the pressure off of both of you and a more natural conversation takes place as you both work to get on the same page, which takes time and leads to more conversation.

In the past I'd think of the perfect sentence with little nuances and edge cases covered in that sentence to what I was trying to convey, which would result in no real conversation to even take place.

Of course you will run into people who are unfriendly and won't receive this well but overall it's lead to more pleasant and natural conversations.

Ben Franklin's Newsletter

wwalker2112 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:20:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joinlsn.com/p/ben-franklins-newsletter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46112650

Points: 2

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New comment by wwalker2112 in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

wwalker2112 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:37:43 +0000

Because they are not. If I was 18 years old right now, I'd be going into a trade of some sort. No debt, immediately earning a decent amount of money. AI will push even more kids towards this route.

New comment by wwalker2112 in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

wwalker2112 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:05:39 +0000

I've been doing a lot of SE interviews lately for my company and one of my favorite coding assessments is a polymorphism challenge, mainly because our codebases are full of it. I was shocked at the number of engineers with 20+ years of experience who didn't understand it.

Making Uber's Experiment Evaluation Engine 100x Faster

wwalker2112 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:48:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uber.com/blog/making-ubers-experiment-evaluation-engine-100x-faster/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087955

Points: 1

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New comment by wwalker2112 in "Why a 'Boring' Life Might Be the Happiest One"

wwalker2112 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:21:01 +0000

I'm not sure if a 'Boring Life' is for me. But I am sure I need some seasons of my life to be boring.

Since I was 20 I've grinded away at my career, side hustles, etc... It made me happy. But at a certain point I got far enough ahead I felt complete. I needed a boring phase.

I now wake up, have breakfast with my family, go to work, come home, play with my kids, watch a show, and go to bed. This is a day I would have scoffed at 10 years ago. But it now makes me happy. I don't think it would make me happy if I hadn't went for something the last 15.

And it might not make me happy forever, but it's perfect for me right now.

New comment by wwalker2112 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

wwalker2112 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:11:10 +0000

A .NET library for quickly making internal tools and admin screens. Very early prototyping right now.

https://github.com/westonwalker/primelit

Drawing a lot of inspiration from interval.com. It was an amazing product but was a hosted SAAS. I'm exploring taking the idea to the .NET ecosystem and also making it a Nuget package that can be installed and served through any ASP.NET project.

New comment by wwalker2112 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

wwalker2112 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:40:51 +0000

A website builder but instead of drag and drop, you can create the entire site in markdown. There are a dozen or so themes the user can select.

Currently implementing custom markdown elements for more advanced things like forms and buttons.

New comment by wwalker2112 in "AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year"

wwalker2112 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:40:09 +0000

Who or what is determining what is false or true in this study? I'm just as suspicious of this study as I am with the news.

New comment by wwalker2112 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

wwalker2112 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:08:29 +0000

It was a 40 minute long conversation and everything was fine until the last 5 minutes when Zelensky got mad about Vance talking about using diplomacy with Russia.

New comment by wwalker2112 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

wwalker2112 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:54:22 +0000

I live in rural Illinois. Surrounded by people west coast elites would consider "simple". They aren't voting for a candidate because he's tall and confident.

They have 401ks. Own small businesses. Have Mortgages. Send their kids to public schools. Budget for their families. Hell, even farmers are trading commodities and are very familiar with the markets. There are so many legitimate factors that go into who they vote for.