Hacker News: birdman3131

New comment by birdman3131 in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

birdman3131 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:16:13 +0000

The title claims to search every platform but I don't see any evidence of either https://www.govdeals.com/ or https://www.publicsurplus.com/ which are probably the biggest government auction sites.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

birdman3131 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:23:35 +0000

Everybody else looks for em dashes. For me that is the number 1 tell of AI.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB"

birdman3131 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:19:54 +0000

Had that happen a few times but switching the use old reddit box off and back on fixes it.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Cigarette smoke effect using shaders"

birdman3131 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:44:26 +0000

A bit pedantic but that is a pipe smoke effect not a cigarette effect. Cigarette smoke tends to go horizontal for a ways before kinda going vertical.

It works well in the image they use to demo it but the image shows a pipe where it actually looks right.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

birdman3131 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:10:18 +0000

It seems nobody recalls how bad it was back in the day. CDMA phones (Mostly carriers like Alltel, Verizon and sprint.) did not have sim cards until 4g/LTE. Before that to migrate phones you had to get customer support involved.

AT&T and other GSM based carriers had sim cards on their phones and it was so much nicer.

Nobody has been able to convince me that esim is not just going back in time 15+ years. We moved to sim cards for a reason.

New comment by birdman3131 in "I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky"

birdman3131 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:28:02 +0000

By a verification service owned by epic games apparently. So not fortnite but its not a super stretch.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

birdman3131 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:59:44 +0000

https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/programmable-fax/send-a-f... I use Telnyx. (Mainly because I also use them for voice.)

New comment by birdman3131 in "Steam Frame"

birdman3131 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:29:12 +0000

Thats not what he said. What he said was even rapidly moving his eyes around he could not spot the lower resolution part.

New comment by birdman3131 in "iPhone Pocket"

birdman3131 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:28:38 +0000

Its showing as $149 for me.

Which still feels outrageous for what is basically a knitted scarf.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Gmail AI gets more intrusive"

birdman3131 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:46:31 +0000

It started about a month ago for me. I am subscribed to emails from an IT as a Gig platform called Field Nation. Thought I might pickup a bit of side work but never did.

Recently it started adding them to my calendar and there is no way to turn off this feature without also turning off useful features such as package out for delivery notifications.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

birdman3131 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:35:15 +0000

They do not want to have such a list as it makes them a target.

What they do have is a searchable password list not connected to any usernames.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost"

birdman3131 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:14:53 +0000

Modern DVR's are not the same as classic ones. As per this article from today shows that people have prerecorded are being pulled from their DVR's.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/youtube-tvs-disney-b...

New comment by birdman3131 in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

birdman3131 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:31:01 +0000

As a note hetzner has a lot of auction servers and I believe they lack the setup fee

New comment by birdman3131 in "Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?"

birdman3131 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:58:20 +0000

The main reason is wanting it on a second drive.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss"

birdman3131 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:05:42 +0000

Given that it is a car post Internal Combustion Engine would be my first guess when seeing ICE but I can see where one might think of the other as well.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?"

birdman3131 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:41:15 +0000

So I don't personally find text hard to read or very much focus impacting.

However, it is very person dependent. Personally, I am one of the fastest readers I know.

It's also day dependent. I've had days where my ability to focus switch is significantly impaired.

The big issue is that while there are people that touch screens are not going to impair their driving, you can't gear your system to them.

You have to aim it at the lowest common denominator.

Personally, I am a fan of my current vehicle which while being at 2015 because it's one of the police interceptors still has the basic ish radio. And has twist knobs for volume, tune, fan speed and temperature.

And while I probably wouldn't mind having the actual Ford sync stuff, I don't find myself missing it either.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

birdman3131 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:11:09 +0000

So windows 11 easily bypasses this when taking a screenshot. Just switch to video mode. (Yeah yeah. Not technically a screenshot but same default software built in to windows.)

New comment by birdman3131 in "Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?"

birdman3131 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:46:32 +0000

No its not. Slicer software is just CAM software for 3d printers. It just creates Gcode like any other CAM software. Calling it " basically just your interface to the dials and knobs on the CNC settings for speeds and feeds." shows a deep misunderstanding of operating CNC's in general.

Your manual controls on pretty much all 3d printers suck. But that's because manual operation is considerable far down the priority list. I've never seen one that did jogging other than setting an increment and tapping a touchscreen button to make it move 1 increment.

Every CNC machine I have ever ran did way better with the jogging. Even the ones from the 70's. You set a speed with a knob and then hold down a button. It goes till you let up. Or you use a rotary wheel for fine control.

And don't even get me started on homing. The homing sequence on all the printers I have dealt with is home X and Y before homing Z. Most machinists will be aghast at this as if you are homing all 3 axis's at once you home Z first to get the tool out of the way.

New comment by birdman3131 in "We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds"

birdman3131 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:57:12 +0000

AI is not a replacement for a greybeard.

That said AI, Search and the like can be quite useful and helpful.

New comment by birdman3131 in "Imgur's community was in revolt"

birdman3131 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:02:10 +0000

Tinypic maybe? I know we used it a lot on Gaia back in the day.