Hacker News: baaron

New comment by baaron in "Google changes its search box"

baaron — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:44:31 +0000

Checkout Kagi. You can blacklist sites. You can also weight certain sites higher than others. I've been using it for almost a year at this point. When I'm forced to use Google at work, I am legitimately less effective at finding the information I need.

New comment by baaron in "When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software"

baaron — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:58:59 +0000

I have had an itch to disect an Aura frame and do something akin to the Tonie Box jailbreak. But I am too afraid of being responsible for bricking our frame and I can't justify spending the money on one just for R&D.

New comment by baaron in "A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer"

baaron — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:39:40 +0000

I have had PMs and POs spend hours with the dev team spilling all the tea because they think it will help the devs better craft their vision. This particular aspect is very plausible to me.

New comment by baaron in "Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users"

baaron — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:34:31 +0000

My tinfoil hat might be on too tight again... but the timing of this exploit coinciding with Google's full court press on Android user rights is just a little suspect. Especially after the ongoing public education campaign about the evils of "sideloading" an Android application.

New comment by baaron in "Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons"

baaron — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:46:49 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984143

New comment by baaron in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

baaron — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:00:29 +0000

As an American solo developer, I am close to doing the same. These mega-corps are out of control.

New comment by baaron in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

baaron — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:55:39 +0000

My tinfoil hat has me wondering if it's just coincidence.

New comment by baaron in "RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization"

baaron — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:52:16 +0000

For anyone else who thought this was simply a rad chip, it's radiation hardened

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/pic64-hpsc1000

New comment by baaron in "The Police Are Scanning the Faces of Every Single Person at Download"

baaron — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:58:40 +0000

If one wanted to attend the festival without being subjected to facial recognition software, I might recommend masks from http://www.urmesurveillance.com/ or something similar. A number of sites selling "anti-facial-recognition" masks have opened in the last few years.

New comment by baaron in "Mark Cuban on ReplyAll"

baaron — Wed, 06 May 2015 17:56:46 +0000

I'd be curious to hear from a lawyer if a system like this would cause a Rosario violation (in New York, for instance).

New comment by baaron in "No Facebook Messenger for Me"

baaron — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:11:24 +0000

Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't address the author's concern of keeping all IM sessions confined to a single desktop window. It's simply a method of using Facebook's Messenger platform without having facebook.com loaded in a browser. So it placates users with privacy concerns regarding opening Facebook on a corporate network, but it does nothing for the advocate of a single chat client.

New comment by baaron in "Show HN: I created an Excel plugin for using SQL inside Excel"

baaron — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:39:42 +0000

I just downloaded it, and I have to say... this plugin is really cool and extremely powerful.

Two things:

1) It needs to be more clear that your data needs to be in a "table" for the plugin to work. Unless I'm mistaken, the only place that is stated (except for the tutorials) is embedded within the screenshot on the homepage. Add a help or FAQ page, and highlight this point!

2) I'm not a fan of the personal license having restricted use in a domain environment. I have a domain controller in my house, and many of my IT-professional friends do too. My house is not a commercial space. I like the software, and I would definitely pay $28 for a license, but I think $50/year is too steep to be able to use this at home.

New comment by baaron in "Probation officers face redundancy in plan to replace them with machines"

baaron — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:05:54 +0000

http://i.imgur.com/M9N3CLM.jpg