1. 44 points Dec 28, 2025

   Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?

   102 comments W-Stool
2. W-Stool Dec 26, 2025 parent

   What about Ken Thompson?
3. W-Stool Dec 5, 2025 parent

   Thank you General Turgidson.
4. W-Stool Nov 29, 2025 parent

   Was there ever a cooler guy who could actually write? I don't think so.

   Anyone who rates "Dr. Strangelove" as a great movie is OK by me.

5. W-Stool Oct 12, 2025 parent

   "Play It Again Sam". Diane Keaton++.
6. W-Stool Sep 27, 2025 parent

   East St. Louis, Illinois would like to have a chat with Decatur about which is worst.
7. W-Stool Aug 27, 2025 parent

   TI Silent 700?
8. W-Stool Jul 4, 2025 parent

   Frankly I am glad to be an older American. I'd hate to be young and comtemplating America's future right now.
9. W-Stool May 27, 2025 parent

   I was going to say that the whole thing is more than a whiff of WeWork, but the article's author beat me to it.
10. W-Stool May 24, 2025 parent

    Excellent Sopranos reference.
11. W-Stool May 13, 2025 parent

    "I'm not afraid of women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence."
12. W-Stool Apr 5, 2025 parent

    One of my all-time favorite movies that not many of my friends have seen. What a shame ...
13. W-Stool Apr 4, 2025 parent

    All this winning.
14. W-Stool Feb 14, 2025 parent

    One state not to visit.
15. W-Stool Dec 19, 2024 parent

    Where have I heard that before?
16. W-Stool Nov 30, 2024 parent

    Now do chicken. Here in the USA chickens are getting bigger (I saw a 6.5 pound chicken in the store the other day) and blander. The tissue to me seems very spongy. What is going on with chickens?
17. W-Stool Sep 29, 2024 parent

    This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
18. 13 points Sep 29, 2024

    Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?

    16 comments W-Stool
19. W-Stool Sep 7, 2024 parent

    Many, many years ago I saw a Connection Machine running. Let me just say it was not a machine that you just walked by. "What the hell is that thing?!?" was more like it.
20. W-Stool Aug 23, 2024 parent

    I don't know who this is so please name names.
21. W-Stool Jul 16, 2024 parent

    Was working in Seismic Data Processing at the time and, a Cray being way too expensive, the Convex machine looked like the next Big Thing in our business, which was dominated by VAX 11/780 machines running attached array processors. We had some test code that I believe we ran on the third or sixth machine they built. Met Steve Wallach, I still have a signed copy of "The Soul of a New Machine" from him. Made a few trips to Convex, first in their rented space in a strip mall, then later to their bespoke factory. They really were something at the time.
22. W-Stool Jun 23, 2024 parent

    No one interested in railroad simulations running Run8 here?
23. W-Stool Jun 20, 2024 parent

    Donald Sutherland as "Hawkeye Pierce" in M.A.S.H. made such an impression on when I saw this movie on its release as a very young teenager. I've pretty much never got along with authority since.

    RIP Donald Sutherland.

24. W-Stool May 16, 2024 parent

    You are frankly out of your mind if you think Elon Musk and any of his companies are going to take you where you want to go.
25. 2 points Mar 30, 2024

    Ask HN: How do I protect myself if I open source some code?

    3 comments W-Stool
26. W-Stool Mar 22, 2024 parent

    Hard to believe that at one time Williams was one of the dominant teams in F1. The first F1 car I ever saw at full-song was Alan Jones in the Williams FW07 @ Montreal. I simply could not believe what I was seeing (and hearing).
27. W-Stool Mar 22, 2024 parent

    Only after they got caught.
28. W-Stool Mar 6, 2024 parent

    When I was running a micro-ISV way back in the day I thought I had really made it when I could afford to advertise in Dr. Dobb's journal. The magazine was a really big deal many years ago, and I still miss those days.
29. W-Stool Feb 27, 2024 parent

    I'm sure just about everyone has seen "Blade Runner" by now - double points if you've seen the later version without Harrison Ford's narration. But you really need to see "12 Monkeys" if you haven't yet. Amazing, and these days somewhat timely.
30. W-Stool Feb 16, 2024 parent

    Thanks for writing a great summary of year #6 for your business. Question: where do your advertising dollars go and how do you measure their success?

    Good luck in year #7!

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