Hacker News: ThrowawayTestr

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments"

ThrowawayTestr — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:27:48 +0000

No, those are more similar to old fluorescent bulbs.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't"

ThrowawayTestr — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:18:26 +0000

Edison perfected the light bulb, which is all that really matters.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?"

ThrowawayTestr — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:01:39 +0000

That game where you sort the vials with different colored water in them. I'm on level 1473. Part of a collection called Offline Games

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill"

ThrowawayTestr — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:55:19 +0000

The Liberal Party of Canada

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

ThrowawayTestr — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:26:05 +0000

Just download the zip file

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Norway plans temporary ban on smart glasses"

ThrowawayTestr — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:45:08 +0000

Tiny spy cameras have existed forever. I don't understand why a pair of glasses with a recording light is so controversial

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi"

ThrowawayTestr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:42:47 +0000

I use an esp8266 to control a relay attached to a lava lamp. Every 5 minutes it pings an NTP server and closes the relay if it's the evening.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Two-Tier Encryption in the UK – Identical Apple Devices, Different Protection"

ThrowawayTestr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:39:36 +0000

Define dignity

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

ThrowawayTestr — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:30:35 +0000

Remember that Samsung is more of a kingdom of feuding lords than a single unified company

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy"

ThrowawayTestr — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:19:25 +0000

Do people not like juice? How do you get scurvy in 2026?

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising"

ThrowawayTestr — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:31:13 +0000

At my old job, there was one black guy in the entire department. Every promotional photo, external or internal, had the same 10 year old photo of him posing for the camera.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers"

ThrowawayTestr — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:22:59 +0000

That's why I've always described myself as an engineering graduate

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)"

ThrowawayTestr — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:12:09 +0000

I memorized up to like 30 by singing the pi song over and over

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

ThrowawayTestr — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:58:12 +0000

Love the reverse captcha

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip"

ThrowawayTestr — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:17:46 +0000

AI can barely fold a shirt

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

ThrowawayTestr — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:17:38 +0000

No-ip gives out free dynamic DNS with a static URL. I use it for Sunshine desktop streaming when I travel.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

ThrowawayTestr — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:50:47 +0000

I haven't paid a dime for any of the LLMs I've used (electricity and internet aside)

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?"

ThrowawayTestr — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:13:52 +0000

You know science fiction is not real, right?

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

ThrowawayTestr — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:22:26 +0000

What does you mother look like?

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

ThrowawayTestr — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:21:47 +0000

I think this is cope to avoid the realization that some people are walking around with drastically different life experiences.