Hacker News: ThrowawayTestr

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "EFF is leaving X"

ThrowawayTestr — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:01:42 +0000

>What exactly are “neutral rights”?

Rights that apply to people even if you disagree with them, like free speech. Something both the left and the right seem to hate.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

ThrowawayTestr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:58:15 +0000

From what I've read from rat owners, the worst thing about owning a rat is their short lifespans.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

ThrowawayTestr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:28:00 +0000

If you were 2 decades earlier you could have been Zuckerberg. Hope you learned something from this experience.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

ThrowawayTestr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:44:47 +0000

That's an indictment of humanity not the creator.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

ThrowawayTestr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:19:20 +0000

There are no results past the first three videos.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

ThrowawayTestr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:50:48 +0000

When I was in grade school I did a presentation on ipv6 and how it was the future of the Internet. That was like 20 years ago.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "15 Years of Forking"

ThrowawayTestr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:38:35 +0000

Maybe if you donated some money he wouldn't have had to.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "15 Years of Forking"

ThrowawayTestr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:06:27 +0000

Have you ever sent a donation to Alex?

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

ThrowawayTestr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:28:09 +0000

It really depends on your hard drive space and your tolerance for compression. Two hours of decently compressed video is a few gigs, but if you want 10-bit HDR with 5.1 audio, then choose the 15 gig torrent.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

ThrowawayTestr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:23:05 +0000

I just torrent everything. It's equally as illegal.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "AI coding is gambling"

ThrowawayTestr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:48:04 +0000

>you'll be left with a weird empty feeling you won't really have the words for

I want computers to do work for me. Any barrier between me and the result I want is an annoyance.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Have a fucking website"

ThrowawayTestr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:20:29 +0000

Squarespace made a business simplifying all that. It's expensive but there are templates and it had a WYSIWYG editor.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

ThrowawayTestr — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:48:42 +0000

Doctors in Canada also bill the government for everything they do but I've never felt pressured for procedures by my doctor. Don't kid yourself, it's the insurance companies.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

ThrowawayTestr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:17:25 +0000

I'm guessing that happened 8 years ago and you're still mad at it. I also have an experience where their map data was sightly wrong and I got into an argument with my mother.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

ThrowawayTestr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:17:22 +0000

That's even worse, they should know better

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

ThrowawayTestr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:10:55 +0000

I haven't given a cent to openai or anthropic but they have given me many thousands of tokens for free.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

ThrowawayTestr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:08:57 +0000

The amount of value Google Maps has given me is far beyond what I'd be willing to pay in actual dollars.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

ThrowawayTestr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:56:19 +0000

I come to HN because I don't want to read reddit-tier comments like the above.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

ThrowawayTestr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:49:52 +0000

You're hilarious.

New comment by ThrowawayTestr in "Can I run AI locally?"

ThrowawayTestr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:46:10 +0000

For image generation or even video generation, local models are totally feasible. I can generate a 5 second clip with wan 2.2 in about 30 minutes on my 3060 12G. Plus, I have full control on the loras used.