Hacker News: austhrow743

New comment by austhrow743 in "Firefox Enterprise"

austhrow743 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:08:36 +0000

Can people working at places that don’t let them install Firefox without an enterprise contract just go and install extensions?

New comment by austhrow743 in "FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review"

austhrow743 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:30:47 +0000

Legislators didn’t pass it. It was directly voted on by voters.

New comment by austhrow743 in "FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review"

austhrow743 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:17:35 +0000

How sure are you that it was wishful thinking and not just your mom avoiding a fight with you?

New comment by austhrow743 in "MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'"

austhrow743 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:47:45 +0000

Plenty of people minmax video games where they're paying, not being paid, to do it.

I don't see any reason why view-maxing and what he loves to make can't be the same thing.

New comment by austhrow743 in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

austhrow743 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 03:32:34 +0000

Wrong person. Im just correcting the other commenters trade off problem. I don’t have a stance on if ai will lead to the destruction of humanity, only that if it does then any one ai company can’t change that by not making new ai advancements themselves.

New comment by austhrow743 in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

austhrow743 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:46:04 +0000

If you flip the switch then the trolley still proceeds and there’s still a 50% chance every human on the planet gets run over. You’re just not the one at the wheel.

New comment by austhrow743 in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

austhrow743 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:00:57 +0000

PNG is in the commonwealth. It was also part of Australia for a bit.

New comment by austhrow743 in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

austhrow743 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:53:54 +0000

Are you logged in to a Google account?

New comment by austhrow743 in "What will our economic future look like?"

austhrow743 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:08:13 +0000

Use technological gains to reduce costs while maintaining results hasn't been the historical rule for healthcare so I think you should say what makes this technological gain unique.

New comment by austhrow743 in "South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones"

austhrow743 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:35:23 +0000

What's the equivalent that they did to Botswana of burning the house and farm down?

New comment by austhrow743 in "Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company"

austhrow743 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:04:09 +0000

Twitter doesn't show an author's follow on tweets to an initial tweet when the viewer is not logged in, and people frequently post their twitter thoughts in chains of tweets rather than in the one post. Historically people would therefore post links to sites like xcancel that showed the full content instead, but it appears to be dead.

So reading the linked post, I have no idea if that's the whole thing or if that's just the introductory statement to a larger idea.

New comment by austhrow743 in "Reverse engineering my ADHD test"

austhrow743 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:51:31 +0000

As an ADHD person who was already planning to ask my psychiatrist if we can try different medication at my next appointment, thank you very much! That description sounds exactly like what I want to achieve.

New comment by austhrow743 in "Notes on Private Trackers"

austhrow743 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:55:22 +0000

I've never sat down and read how seeding/bonus point/etc rules work at MAM, never uploaded my own content, or otherwise tried to optimise anything. I open the site, download what I want, close it, and every so often when I'm running out of hard drive space I clear out everything super old.

I still have 569 freeleech tokens and bonus points are always capped at 99999. It's a very easy site to maintain ratio (mine is 13) on.

New comment by austhrow743 in "Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas"

austhrow743 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:19:51 +0000

Not exclusively but predominantly. Which makes me doubtful that the Catholic Church moved the numbers much on the HIV pandemic. Assuming of course that they weren't against condom use between men, which I'm not sure if they had or have a stance on.

New comment by austhrow743 in "Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas"

austhrow743 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:58:17 +0000

Is the Catholic Church against condoms being used for gay sex? It's my understanding that they're only against them because they're against purely recreational sex. If the sex can't result in a child anyway then I dont think they're going to treat it as a double sin.

New comment by austhrow743 in "Building my own network stack"

austhrow743 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:28:07 +0000

Where's the time left to actually live your life?

New comment by austhrow743 in "My Friend Aaron"

austhrow743 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:56:07 +0000

Right, and if someone doesn't have the loser's mindset then reading "it's hard to beat the odds, don't try" wont deter them. So there's no loss there. It might deter someone with the loser's mindset though, and given that they weren't going to make it anyway if you knock them off track early then that's a benefit.

New comment by austhrow743 in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

austhrow743 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:16:07 +0000

Yes there are people who are both for and against copyright.

New comment by austhrow743 in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

austhrow743 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:17:02 +0000

The primary activity is sitting and holding my partner. I can and do happily do that without secondary entertainment, but it doesn't take any concentration so why not add a show in to the mix.

New comment by austhrow743 in "SupererDuperer"

austhrow743 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:02:03 +0000

The HN crowd aren’t tech people who use MacOS?