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WalterGR

5,206 karma · joined January 26, 2009

Hi. I'm Walter Rader. In 1996, there were no slang dictionaries on the web that took user contributions. So I created one. I called it The Online Slang Dictionary. It still going after nearly 30 years!

I'm a Software Engineer with more than 15 years of experience across all stages of the software development life-cycle. I've worked in a variety of industries; at companies huge (100k+ employees,) small (30 - 60,) and tiny (my own); and have shipped code in 10 languages.

As of 2026, I am open to new opportunities in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento metropolitan areas.

My resume is available on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/waltergr

You can reach me at waltergr@gmail.com

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Here are some cool features of a couple of my more visible sites:

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

* Usage statistics

* Vulgarity ratings

* Maps that show where slang is used

* More of the interesting features are listed here: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/about/

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http://www.offensivest.com/books/

* An analysis of the offensiveness of English works in the Project Gutenberg corpus.

* This analysis used >250,000 vulgarity votes cast on The Online Slang Dictionary.

* Analyses of more corpora are in planning.

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http://cokepopsoda.com/

* Put a pin in a global map for a word or phrase. (Think: "hashtags plus location".)

* This site powers the "I use this word - put me on the map!" feature of The Online Slang Dictionary.

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WalterGR··on The Front Page of the Internet Is Killing RSS Feeds
27 comments from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912499

6 here, also from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912288

WalterGR··on 1/8 of cancers worldwide linked to infections, accordig to WHO [video]
2 days ago with 163 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892120
WalterGR··on macOS 27 is so buggy
2 days ago with 361 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894005
WalterGR··on 16-year-old found Microsoft bug, got admin access to 17.3T-row databases
113 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883970
WalterGR··on EDG C++ Compiler is open source
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913192
WalterGR··on FBI Announces ShinyHunters Arrest
Related: “'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees” (404media.co) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805278

814 points | 7 days ago | 628 comments

WalterGR··on The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own Linux
359 comments, posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891550
WalterGR··on Walking Men
Direct link to the project: https://walking-men.com/
WalterGR··on New Cyber-OSINT model released
Does clicking the link and reading it not work? I haven’t logged into X/Twitter in years, and never from the device I’m using right now, and it loads fine. My impression is that X has relaxed some of its restrictions for non-logged-in views.
WalterGR··on What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/georgzoeller_the-transformer-...

It works for me in an Incognito window, but YMMV.

WalterGR··on GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358216
WalterGR··on Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
> I just asked Claude

How well are LLMs able to reason about their own behavior?

Put another way, this entire post is about getting AI to not bluff. How do you know that it’s not bluffing in its response to you?

WalterGR··on In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
From my reading of the article, my understanding is that they’re doing science in the hotel room, not living there long-term.
WalterGR··on Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests
Floci happened to be discussed yesterday, with 47 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854416
WalterGR··on AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off "The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History"
878 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752056
WalterGR··on Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
871 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845977
WalterGR··on Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo
Related, also from The Economist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837473

"Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless" | 121 points | 1 day ago | 152 comments

WalterGR··on Google's orbital AI data center test packs four TPUs and 1,000W of solar power
Related, with 525 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830606

“Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space” (blog.google)

WalterGR··on The Day Bobby Fischer Blew It
(1973)
WalterGR··on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Set to Explore the Universe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490870
WalterGR··on There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831098
WalterGR··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851355
WalterGR··on Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848227
WalterGR··on ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805278 - “'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees” (404media.co)

811 points | 3 days ago | 626 comments

WalterGR··on Pope: AI must serve humans not become tool of domination
The encyclical, Magnifica Humanitis, was discussed here, with 1,015 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206
WalterGR··on The implicit cognition of relationships: Inattention to attractive alternatives [pdf]
(2008)
WalterGR··on There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831098
WalterGR··on Stabilizing Rust's Never Type
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625056
WalterGR··on Google plans first test ofAl chips in space under Project Suncatcher
311 comments on this earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830606
WalterGR··on Restaurants Are Using AI to Advertise Their Food and It's Making People Sick
Yes, The Wall Street Journal is always paywalled.

This is a topic that's been making the rounds recently. Here are some other resources that may or may not be paywalled.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-unique... - "The Unique Horrors of A.I. Food Slop"

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/side-slop-bizarre-ai-... - "Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/06/ai-food-m... - "Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus"

https://theweek.com/culture-life/food-drink/the-nauseating-h... - "The ‘nauseating’ horror of AI food slop"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/02/us/ai-food-slop-menus-viral-c... - "Appalling AI menu pictures keep going viral. But what makes them so revolting?"

https://www.wired.com/story/ugly-ai-food-photos-are-only-the... - "Ugly AI Food Photos Are Only the Beginning"

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