Hacker News: boldlybold

New comment by boldlybold in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

boldlybold — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:52:13 +0000

I've been saying this for years! I agree.

New comment by boldlybold in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

boldlybold — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:13:38 +0000

I frequently buy project car stuff on Ebay. You can find OE stuff with the part numbers scratched off that must have "fallen off the assembly line" pretty easily. Easily a few items per month between that and computer parts!

New comment by boldlybold in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

boldlybold — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:10:22 +0000

Illegal is a strong term here. While the wiki link you included indicates there might be some permitting nuances, I've seen nothing claiming the power is "illegal."

New comment by boldlybold in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

boldlybold — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:24:32 +0000

How can you have proof of work without consuming large amounts of power?

New comment by boldlybold in "Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle"

boldlybold — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:44:54 +0000

Great work! I really like the interface here, I think you put a lot of taste into the way this all came together. It's quite hard (appropriately so!) I would love to see a experienced structural biologist go at this.

New comment by boldlybold in "A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center"

boldlybold — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:27:18 +0000

Video didn't display for me even after turning off content blockers, here's the url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIjdKIMQh4s

New comment by boldlybold in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

boldlybold — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:39:36 +0000

I knew before clicking this was going to be a Saab, I miss mine!

New comment by boldlybold in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

boldlybold — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:26:48 +0000

Just set it to the "Efficient" tone, let's hope there's less pedantic encouragement of the projects I'm tackling, and less emoji usage.

New comment by boldlybold in "Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity"

boldlybold — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:38:20 +0000

If you're already down there, set up some geothermal!

New comment by boldlybold in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

boldlybold — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:29:26 +0000

This is a beautiful solution to a tedious problem that shouldn't exist in the first place! Great work.

New comment by boldlybold in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

boldlybold — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:27:53 +0000

You are an absolute legend, nice work!

New comment by boldlybold in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

boldlybold — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:27:03 +0000

Comics need a full "image" for the page, so this is unlikely to work. Can you inspect the requests and see what you get?

Or to the author: what happens to images in the ebook?

New comment by boldlybold in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

boldlybold — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:56:38 +0000

"Good" TVs are so cheap these days, that premium wouldn't be acceptable in my mind. The fix the other posters mention about banning it from the internet and just using HDMI works well enough for me.

New comment by boldlybold in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

boldlybold — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:53:47 +0000

Buy the ebook, then download a beautiful DRM-free and guilt-free version from Anna's Archive? win-win.

New comment by boldlybold in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

boldlybold — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:53:08 +0000

Damn, that's an impressive obfuscation and debugging. If you get around to releasing it I would be interested.

New comment by boldlybold in "Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan"

boldlybold — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:22:47 +0000

Between this and the other compression scams mentioned in the thread, is there any connection to the show Silicon Valley? I haven’t heard of this genre of scam before but it sounds a lot like the premise of pied piper!

New comment by boldlybold in "I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency"

boldlybold — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:25:43 +0000

Same. Hit escape shortly after the page loads to stop loading whatever modal is likely blocking scroll. I don't see the modal so it's likely blocked by ublock, but still stops scroll.

New comment by boldlybold in "ChatGPT Pulse"

boldlybold — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:30:24 +0000

I agree - the ability to lower activation energy in a field you're interested in, but not yet an expert, feels like having superpowers.

New comment by boldlybold in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

boldlybold — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:19:27 +0000

We need to change this perception. Setting up a hot wallet on a phone only takes a few minutes and is perfect for holding a small amount of crypto.

Projects like monero (https://www.getmonero.org/) ensure privacy and fungibility of the crypto you hold.

It should still be easier, but let's not pretend this is technology only available to those with deep tech experience.

New comment by boldlybold in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

boldlybold — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 03:33:13 +0000

Get a browser extension that does it, I finally looked for one after clicking the "not interested" button one too many times.