Hacker News: d1str0

New comment by d1str0 in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

d1str0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:57:55 +0000

By that logic, buying a slow phone can also just be undone.

A perfect solution that works 100% is not the goal. Small influences that can help you change behavior can still be beneficial. Maybe they doom scroll 5% less because of this tweak? Still a positive change.

New comment by d1str0 in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

d1str0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:56:07 +0000

I think it’s a valiant effort. Sometimes having multiple influences can make it easier to change behavior.

New comment by d1str0 in "YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state"

d1str0 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:39:28 +0000

I would assume maybe 1% have read this tweet and maybe 20% would refuse to with them

New comment by d1str0 in "YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state"

d1str0 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:38:00 +0000

Is “worked” a pass/fail metric? Or just a way to improve a situation?

New comment by d1str0 in "YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state"

d1str0 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:37:11 +0000

Does everyone in the country agree with this sentiment? I have a feeling people might still apply. :/

New comment by d1str0 in "YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state"

d1str0 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:34:14 +0000

Ok, you’re right. Shut it down.

Should be rid of it by tomorrow then?

New comment by d1str0 in "YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state"

d1str0 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:23:20 +0000

Who would you prefer filling the ranks at a company like Palantir?

1. People who are sympathetic to these concerns, and more likely to change thinking from within or whistleblow if needed.

2. Everyone left over who are pro police state and fascism?

OP’s post would only fill Palantir with the second group. This seems more dangerous than to fill it with a diverse crowd.

New comment by d1str0 in "(Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss"

d1str0 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:34:44 +0000

If you’re under 18 and not already overweight and still growing, it probably is.

Pretty sure it’s well studied that kids perform better at school when they’ve had breakfast.

New comment by d1str0 in "Tesla offering insane perks as sales dry up"

d1str0 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:20:30 +0000

I stopped shopping at Home Depot because their profits are donated to super pacs I don’t agree with.

New comment by d1str0 in "The FAA’s Hiring Scandal"

d1str0 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:17:45 +0000

That’s literally what this whole article was about. Removing a high correlation performance test, that black candidates didn’t pass as frequently, and replacing it with a very low correlation questionnaire that provided a more diverse applicant pool while weeding out highly qualified individuals.

New comment by d1str0 in "Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect"

d1str0 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:24:39 +0000

I got a MK4 at launch and it worked out of the box with no issues, no bugs, and also was my first 3d printer. I found it perfectly easy to operate.

Prusa’s online documentation (and printed docs for that matter) are excellent.

New comment by d1str0 in "Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect"

d1str0 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:16:17 +0000

I’m not familiar with Bambu, I’m a Prusa user, but if I had to guess you would always be able to print via microSD. It would be wildly unpopular to disable local printing.

New comment by d1str0 in "My Experience Biohacking"

d1str0 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:16:44 +0000

A perfectly reasonable concern.

New comment by d1str0 in "M4 MacBook Pro"

d1str0 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:18:06 +0000

Same. My MBP and M1 Air are amazing machines. But I’m now also excited that any future M chip replacement will be faster and just as nice.

The battery performance is incredible too.

New comment by d1str0 in "M4 MacBook Pro"

d1str0 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:16:32 +0000

Check out Asahi linux

New comment by d1str0 in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

d1str0 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:10:21 +0000

I think you just proved his point. This response is clearly quite aggressive and over the top and thus falls in the camp of being unlikely friends vs. someone who takes a more cordial approach.

New comment by d1str0 in "The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining"

d1str0 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:32:04 +0000

This was my first thought too. Tree makes more sense.

New comment by d1str0 in "First 'cyberflasher' convicted under UK's new law, gets more than 5 years prison"

d1str0 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:43:48 +0000

If your intent was to cause distress, then probably. If you’re sending it to a pal that might be hard to prove but to a stranger would be easier to prove I imagine.

New comment by d1str0 in "Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished"

d1str0 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:06:56 +0000

I clicked the link to read this article because last week I received a paper letter from FedEx I initially thought was scammy.

It asked me to pay duty/taxes for my $799 Prusa 3D print order that arrived just last week.

So now I know Troy Hunt also bought a Mk4 assemble-yourself kit from Prusa.

Enjoy, Troy! Mine took 8 hours to build and it works like a charm! Fantastic little machine.

New comment by d1str0 in "We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime"

d1str0 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 08:48:58 +0000

Yes, we just ended up having to hardcode the db endpoint in the cdk stack after a manually restoration from snapshot into an encrypted db.