Hacker News: AndrewThrowaway

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

AndrewThrowaway — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:01:12 +0000

If AI fails, you wrote the prompt wrong.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%"

AndrewThrowaway — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:28:13 +0000

If you look at dog breeds the difference between longest living (~15 years) and shortest (~10 years) is ~5years or 50% of the lifetime.

However we still struggle to appoint the very same to humans. In popular sciences and general understanding we still give so much attention to food and exercise and lifestyle and etc.

As if somehow changing the diet and exercise plan of Chihuahua you could make it into Doberman.

Of course, you play with the cards you get. Diet and exercise help. However you should still be aware about the game you play.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

AndrewThrowaway — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:13:54 +0000

I believe the "theater" is needed precisely for this - to catch bad actors. There could just be a long queue with some blind dog and scary looking guy at the end. What it still does is makes a bad guy sweat, plan against it and etc. You just can't have free entrance for all. However you will never prevent state actors or similar with any kind of theatre because they will always prepare for it.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army (2025)"

AndrewThrowaway — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:05:01 +0000

It looks like I am sharing all of my data with US Army!

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth"

AndrewThrowaway — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:55:56 +0000

Doesn't then a person with half a trillion have that ability? At what point does the ability start?

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth"

AndrewThrowaway — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:40:40 +0000

If you take any ancient or not so ancient civilization or kingdom, all the wealth including land and people's lives belonged to king/imperator which was appointed by god or something like that.

Isn't is exactly the same with the system we have now?

The question we have to ask is about 99% of population of peasants who work 8h a day same as they did in Mesopotamia. Do they have a living standard, healthcare, possibility to have social bonds, possibility to retire. Basically all the things to have a life.

If peasants are able to have all this, I really don't care if some King of ours has 20 trillion or 50 bazillion. In money or in gold.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "The fuck off contact page"

AndrewThrowaway — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:37:47 +0000

I had to go back to the page to check that it actually uses pixel font. To each its own I guess. For me the font was barely noticeable.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

AndrewThrowaway — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:58:28 +0000

It is like discussing zombie apocalypse. People who are invested in bunkers will hardly understand those who are just choosing death over living in those bunkers for a month longer.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "For centuries massive meals amazed visitors to Korea (2019)"

AndrewThrowaway — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:22:41 +0000

Anecdotal story. Once I stumbled into Korean restaurant in China Town in NYC. I just ordered something like lunch. I was alone. They kept bringing plates after plates of various dishes. I was ashamed to leave so much food. Paid like 11 dollars but it was in ~2015.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage"

AndrewThrowaway — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:21:55 +0000

But the network is not working!

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "A valid HTML zip bomb"

AndrewThrowaway — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:19:04 +0000

Crashed Chrome tab on Windows instantly but Firefox is fine. It shows loading but pressing Ctrl + U even shows the very start of that fake HTML.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)"

AndrewThrowaway — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:00:05 +0000

Then again what if showing some funky hallucinogenic images/movies would have the same effect on some people? We surely know that people can go crazy (so have psychological effects) in cults and similar settings. What if intense visual/sonic/etc stimulation, visual distortions etc. together with messaging like "it will change your life and cure your anxieties" is the key in this therapy?

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Psilocybin produces substantial sustained decreases in depression and anxiety"

AndrewThrowaway — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:00:43 +0000

As far as I know antidepressants and even pain killers are the most susceptible to placebo effect.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)"

AndrewThrowaway — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:33:33 +0000

Was she in placebo group?

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Why the Chip Industry Is Struggling to Attract the Next Generation"

AndrewThrowaway — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:59:48 +0000

Looks like some kind of a gatekeeping ritual to rationalize why upper management salaries are in millions. I think we can also see in other industries too.

You hire hundreds of interns and entry level workers to let them fight in the bloodbath for 100h a week. Pay peanuts. Let them do all the work.

The ones who survive get a bit bigger salaries. Those who still persist in upper level bloodbaths are upgraded into millionaires. And paying them millions looks acceptable as it is so hard to reach the top.

While you clearly could share all those millions between entry level and paid internships, don't have 100h weeks and have a healthy industry.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Detecting Noise in Canvas Fingerprinting"

AndrewThrowaway — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:30:55 +0000

I feel conflicted about this. On one hand canvas being client side will always lead to cat and mouse game where fraudsters can always generate required "answer". On the other hand innocent users will always be fingerprinted by ad networks and similar.

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Detecting Noise in Canvas Fingerprinting"

AndrewThrowaway — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:25:33 +0000

What is "a bad company"? Google? Amazon? Facebook? Tesla? Tinder? Boeing? Rheinmetall? Lockheed Martin? Pfizer?

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg"

AndrewThrowaway — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:34:56 +0000

RTOS does not improve playback of music but is crucial if you e.g. want to produce music. Imagine a situation where you connect some MIDI keyboard and play some music - you want OS to produce the sound "real time" instead of "scheduling it".

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "How to Inspect React Server Component Activity with Next.js and OpenTelemetry"

AndrewThrowaway — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 12:19:14 +0000

Excuse my ignorance but why does it look so complicated and unnecessary? What exactly does it improve over lets say PHP or Rails or whatever?

New comment by AndrewThrowaway in "Common Google XSS"

AndrewThrowaway — Wed, 08 May 2024 07:22:53 +0000

From article:

So I tried placing there continue=javascript:alert(document.domain), and… It works!

What do you think document.domain returns in this case?