Hacker News: Throwthrowbob

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

Throwthrowbob — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:41:55 +0000

Looks like about 30 MiB with a quick test.

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades"

Throwthrowbob — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:50:28 +0000

Dave Jones also did some videos on the LMV321 used in his uCurrent Gold project. The AS5X variant caused issues while others worked fine.

Looking now, a document source suggests the AS5X variant in the parts list... but it's explained in the video around 19:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VlKoR0ldIE

EV charging station fire caused by remote technician, report finds

Throwthrowbob — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:34:39 +0000

Article URL: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/05/15/ev-charger-fire-caused-u-s/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169287

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Stripe launches Link for AI agents"

Throwthrowbob — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:41:18 +0000

Looks like the vendor has the option to disable Link: https://support.stripe.com/questions/how-to-turn-off-link

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

Throwthrowbob — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:24:32 +0000

Neat, but Ruffle failed to load the first game I tried, with reasoning that there is possibly no file to load.

And then I was blocked by Cloudflare, even though there were no Cloudflare scripts to enable (checking in an alternate browser).

edit: It looks like uBlock origin sees the cloudflare scripts, but NoScript does not (and did not display 3 scripts) initially. I'll have to try again later.

YouTube Meet the Line-Dancing Community Doodle Taking Up Resources

Throwthrowbob — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:19:42 +0000

Unsure what page to suggest, but while trying to watch a video, the page was lagging. I found that the tab was taking 40% of my CPU and several hundred MB of RAM according to my system monitor. Using my browser's inspection tool and removing the "Meet The Line-dancing Community" doodle brought things back to normal.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886306

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Kobalt Tools"

Throwthrowbob — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:50:33 +0000

I thought this was entertaining, getting AI generated header images and then discovering the actual tool below. Plus the verbose descriptions.

Kobalt Tools

Throwthrowbob — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:50:33 +0000

Article URL: https://kbalt.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360483

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]"

Throwthrowbob — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:38:26 +0000

It may just be me or my internet, but I tried this specifically to see the effect and it was a very slow escape (seemed delayed starting to load, and then loading the escape page).

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Self Sanitizing Door Handle"

Throwthrowbob — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:20:03 +0000

Alternatively, the back of your knee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkLfAG0AAzQ

Though this is more for the coughing/sneezing rather than the door opening.

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Firefox 144.0 Includes Perplexity AI Search"

Throwthrowbob — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:39:13 +0000

This occurred without an update to Firefox, and against my explicit wishes in my user.js: user_pref("browser.search.update", false);

Not impressed.

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

Throwthrowbob — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:29:14 +0000

I used https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/income-tax/personal-... (or an equivalent page, in case it's shifted around) to look for options a couple years back. I was glad I had this list to look through. I believe I compared Wealthsimple, EachTax, and UFile.

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?"

Throwthrowbob — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 03:22:04 +0000

How does one get the combined effects of multiple subdomains? For example, no AI, safe browsing, html, lite, as proposed by others?

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?"

Throwthrowbob — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:40:05 +0000

If you don't use Private Browsing (or the equivalent) or otherwise clear your browsing cache, DuckDuckGo's AI assistant can be disabled by:

- clicking the little gear to the right of the search types (near "Assist" and "Duck.ai")

- Click on "Manage" for AI Features

- Setting "Duck.ai" to Off

- Setting "Assist" to Never

To the right of the features above, I saw one can save their settings with a password, to the "cloud". This seems to be that you can enter this password when using DuckDuckGo elsewhere for your settings to be set again (or in Private sessions, though you'd have to re-enter the password on a new session).

Why Gamers Are Furious over Take-Two and 2K's New Terms of Service

Throwthrowbob — Sun, 18 May 2025 04:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@DarkRa/why-gamers-are-furious-over-take-two-and-2ks-new-terms-of-service-051e7a6a5594

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44019087

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "A look at Firefox forks"

Throwthrowbob — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:51:46 +0000

I remember being thrown off by this.

A user.js entry may help. user.js runs on startup of Firefox/Librewolf, so keep this in mind for your usage application.

the setting is: "privacy.resistFingerprinting", as in: user_pref("privacy.resistFingerprinting", true);

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser"

Throwthrowbob — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:52:37 +0000

I had stopped using Waterfox in 2020 because of their association with System1, an advertising company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338321

I learned today that Waterfox cut ties with System1 in July of 2023, so I'm glad to have an alternative to switch to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36590056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36606210

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years"

Throwthrowbob — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:26:22 +0000

Would you please name the bank that had/has this issue?

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

Throwthrowbob — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:43:00 +0000

I found that damage to either my character or the opponent occurs before what looks like the damage animation (red fill) occurs.

This is neat, thank you for sharing!

New comment by Throwthrowbob in "Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC"

Throwthrowbob — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:13:49 +0000

Users are noticing: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://answers....