Hacker News: Rychard

New comment by Rychard in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

Rychard — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:11:44 +0000

I'm not saying that Firefox on Android has significant market share; rather that Android has significant market share, and those users could be served by switching to Firefox solely for the purpose of using an adblocker.

If all Android users did this, something would change.

New comment by Rychard in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

Rychard — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:44:42 +0000

Firefox on Android supports it without any issue. That would cover a significant enough segment of the population that it might encourage actual change in the industry if people started moving to that platform.

New comment by Rychard in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

Rychard — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:31:00 +0000

You'd be required to jump through the hoops to get your custom firmware approved by the necessary regulatory bodies, just as Tesla did for theirs.

It's not really feasible for a private owner, so I can see why it's not offered as an option.

New comment by Rychard in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

Rychard — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:04:50 +0000

I live in a not-so-great area of town. There were two murders in the last 6 months. One in my neighborhood, and the other in an adjacent public park.

The always-on lighting is a deterrent to anyone trying to hide from police.

New comment by Rychard in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

Rychard — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:19:21 +0000

The lights are indeed outdoor, and cover most of my backyard. It's a neighborhood within a major metropolitan area, but the light doesn't bleed beyond my property lines.

As for the "why", the answer is security. If someone attempts to hide in my yard, they'll find it quite difficult to remain unseen.

Most of my neighbors have floodlights of their own (though mine are easily the brightest), and I've gotten no complaints in the years I've had them. If any of my neighbors voiced concerns about them, I would try to work with them to find a solution. I have to live next to them, so it only makes sense to stay on good terms.

New comment by Rychard in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

Rychard — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:20:08 +0000

I have a pair of PAR38 LED bulbs from Cree Lighting (2100 lumens) that are rated for 25,000 hours. They're in a flood-light mounted under the eaves of my house.

I never got around to putting them on a dusk-to-dawn timer, so they've been burning 24/7 since I purchased them at the end of 2020 (except for the occasional power outage, of course). I paid $20/each for them.

Sample size of 1 (technically 2), but there are definitely products on the market that meet your criteria.

New comment by Rychard in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

Rychard — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:24:24 +0000

As the saying goes, "past performance is not indicative of future results"

New comment by Rychard in "Microdosing GLP-1 drugs became a longevity 'craze'"

Rychard — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:10:59 +0000

If we consider that roughly 73.6% of Americans are overweight[0], perhaps there would be some benefit if substantially more people started taking GLP-1 medications.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

New comment by Rychard in "Microdosing GLP-1 drugs became a longevity 'craze'"

Rychard — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:07:24 +0000

It's 40% of the _starter dose_ (2.5 mg), which is what patients begin taking to get their bodies accustomed to the drug. The "maintenance dose" that patients build up to can be many times higher (10-15 mg).

40% of the starter dose (40% of 2.5mg = 1mg) would be between 6-10% of the "maintenance dose" (betweeen 10-15mg).

New comment by Rychard in "The United States Withdraws from UNESCO"

Rychard — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:28:50 +0000

Not all supporters of a given political party agree on everything. They may simply align with the party on the topics that are most important to them, even if they disagree with other topics that are lower on their priority list.

It is disingenuous to suggest that any group of people unilaterally agree on a diverse collection of topics.

New comment by Rychard in "Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user"

Rychard — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:19:16 +0000

Not to mention that these "phone books" also included everyone's address, and married couples were usually listed together.

New comment by Rychard in "Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware"

Rychard — Mon, 26 May 2025 23:14:58 +0000

If they already have your password (i.e. it has been compromised) there is no social engineering taking place.

In fact, they're doing the honorable thing and not simply trying the credentials to see if they work.

New comment by Rychard in "Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon"

Rychard — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:57:55 +0000

What would be the benefit of using SFP+ on mainstream consumer motherboards? It would further increase the effective price to consumers as they'd have to purchase a separate transceiver, which are bulkier and might overly crowd an already compact I/O shield layout.

New comment by Rychard in "ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)"

Rychard — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:56:52 +0000

The comment is referencing the "Dropbox" comment of lore

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Basically, something along the lines of (paraphrasing) 'this can be done today by using existing tooling'

New comment by Rychard in "Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools"

Rychard — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:02:54 +0000

I'm having a hard time reading this as a reasonable suggestion, so I apologize in advance if I'm being closed-minded.

Do you not believe that this would lead to further bad outcomes? Children need something to do during the day, and with neither the ability to work, nor other obligations (not to mention their brains are not fully developed) it seems like they would end up far worse off than they would otherwise, even if the school was under-performing.

New comment by Rychard in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"

Rychard — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:29:17 +0000

All the browsers on my machine report my resolution as 1080p despite using 4k. I assume this is because I run at 200% scaling (I believe this is relatively common among anyone using a 4k resolution)

If the above-linked website uses data reported by the browser, I wonder how this scenario might be taken into consideration (or even if such a thing is possible)

New comment by Rychard in "JSON Formatter (Free, no ads, no signups)"

Rychard — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:43:53 +0000

There is a level of trust involved as unless you pull down the code, audit it and only ever run it locally, you really have no way of knowing that on any given page load the code hasn't changed.

While I also appreciate tools that don't send data, I don't like the normalization of teaching people to paste (potentially) private data into a browser while blindly trusting that it's not being offloaded to some server somewhere.

New comment by Rychard in "World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating"

Rychard — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:05:33 +0000

I think you're referring to a similarly named N64 game. This story is about a game played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers

New comment by Rychard in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

Rychard — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:56:33 +0000

The widespread adoption of Chrome was largely driven by word of mouth, people like you and I installing it on our friend's/relative's computers and telling them it was safer/faster/better.

Nothing stops us from doing the same thing again. I've been recommending Firefox to all my family/friends/colleagues for years (ever since I've seen the writing on the wall for Chrome). While Firefox isn't perfect, it's in a much better place than Chrome is, and meets the the needs of nearly 100% of people.

New comment by Rychard in "Elle's Homepage"

Rychard — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:50:37 +0000

If you don't acknowledge them, they'll get bored and move on. They're only looking for attention, so your best weapon is to not give it to them.

Definitely agree about it being cute/impressive. There's lots of clickables that further showcase things. Don't forget to explore!