Hacker News: chucksta

New comment by chucksta in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

chucksta — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:30:36 +0000

How many man hours could the department in question realistically dedicate to the investigation without the technology

New comment by chucksta in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

chucksta — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:22:26 +0000

Both Merriam-webster and thesaurus.com have intimate as a synonym for persaonl. Thesaurus.com says its one of the strongest.

New comment by chucksta in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

chucksta — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:14:58 +0000

Wild, there are also other people around you who might they're more fun too, they might want you to turn it up.

New comment by chucksta in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

chucksta — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:16:30 +0000

Even a completed one has limited use to other industries

New comment by chucksta in "Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool"

chucksta — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:47:25 +0000

No expert but I would think an indoor pool in a temperature controlled environment would control for a lot of heat loss from the water.

New comment by chucksta in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

chucksta — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:11:35 +0000

It also just so happens grey scale is almost always cheaper. Car color historically correlates with prosperity in the US

https://magazine.northeast.aaa.com/daily/life/cars-trucks/au...

https://www.ppg.com/en-US/autocoatings/color/history-of-colo...

New comment by chucksta in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

chucksta — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:48:43 +0000

That's definitely a point but doesn't address mine. People like corn, people don't like AI.

New comment by chucksta in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

chucksta — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:45:36 +0000

You can? Is that not what all the the lobbyist and special interest money is doing? Perdue told everyone OxyContin had a low addiction risk

New comment by chucksta in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

chucksta — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:09:16 +0000

Okay - people like eating popcorn, beef, and driving too.

New comment by chucksta in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

chucksta — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:28:17 +0000

Generally people enjoy being around them, looking at them, and eating what they produce.

How does HN feel about ai written blogs? Who wants to go stand next to a 30' warehouse?

New comment by chucksta in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

chucksta — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:09:08 +0000

If the neighborhood was all built around the same time or by the same developer, I would say high

New comment by chucksta in "New Jersey residents say they can't even wash their clothes due to data centers"

chucksta — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:58:13 +0000

Could be iron rich soil

New comment by chucksta in "Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets"

chucksta — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:45:08 +0000

Potential for fraudulent activity makes something a scam? That list is gonna be long

New comment by chucksta in "Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones"

chucksta — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:37:05 +0000

weather and protecting it from it?

New comment by chucksta in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

chucksta — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:03:53 +0000

Facial recognition

https://epic.org/krogers-surveillance-pricing-harms-consumer...

New comment by chucksta in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

chucksta — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:15:30 +0000

Coffee?

New comment by chucksta in "Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI"

chucksta — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:46:53 +0000

10,000 followers within a month

New comment by chucksta in "Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge"

chucksta — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:58:21 +0000

Was a big fan of Travian too and have thought about trying to remake something as a side project as well. Can you share any resources or have any tips as a place to get started?

New comment by chucksta in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

chucksta — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:27:14 +0000

There are all kinds of degrees for farming

New comment by chucksta in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

chucksta — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:24:48 +0000

And you wouldn't cancel if they said you were gonna get ads upfront?