Hacker News: dbancajas

New comment by dbancajas in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

dbancajas — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:37:35 +0000

@burntsushi thanks for sharing this. A few of the symptoms you described felt painfully familiar to my aunt who's still undergoing AE treatment and is deteriorating after a short recovery.

She's 59y.o. living in the Philippines and was recently diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis after initially being misdiagnosed as having a mild stroke and later psychosis. She had balance problems and fell down while sweeping the floor. She developed language problems. So she knew what she wanted to say but couldn't get the words out. My mom and I thought it was mild stroke. Over the following weeks she developed seizures, required a feeding tube and ventilator support, and is currently undergoing treatment in Cebu Doctor's Hospital, Philippines.

If anyone here has experience with autoimmune encephalitis, patient advocacy groups, research programs, financial assistance resources, or treatment centers that might be helpful, I would be grateful for any suggestions.

My family has also put together a fundraiser to help cover her ongoing treatment costs if anyone would like to learn more. We'll provide weekly updates and full transparency. Mods, I hope you allow this link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-rowenas-life-from-autoi...

If not, my email is in my profile and you can DM me. I can't post pictures of her with her current state because I don't have consent. The one picture I have of her current state is also censored.

New comment by dbancajas in "How people woke up before alarm clocks"

dbancajas — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:44:51 +0000

any brands or models you can recommend?

New comment by dbancajas in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

dbancajas — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 02:26:45 +0000

What's the biggest damage someone could have done with that info?

New comment by dbancajas in "After my dad died, we found the love letters"

dbancajas — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:39:40 +0000

tell us your story

New comment by dbancajas in "Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody"

dbancajas — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:05:44 +0000

How can you ID these guys if they get a new passport. Changed hairstyle and do some surgery to the face?

New comment by dbancajas in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

dbancajas — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:53:38 +0000

1 waymo car delivering 10 hamburgers to 5 different houses better than 5 cars on the street.

New comment by dbancajas in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

dbancajas — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:35:59 +0000

It's nature's way of communicating to the next generation. That is crazy and beautiful.

New comment by dbancajas in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"

dbancajas — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:42:34 +0000

Ghibli! I didn't expect someone would make this comment!

New comment by dbancajas in "Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments"

dbancajas — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:39:26 +0000

If there's a photo op opportunity I'm sure you would be.

New comment by dbancajas in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

dbancajas — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:46:35 +0000

Would you be willing to teach me how to do this. Develop a course from my expertise (programming/python/whatever) for like 20% of the profits?

New comment by dbancajas in "Why YC went to DC"

dbancajas — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:13:43 +0000

Can you expand on the last one? Is there no market (providers/demand) for this right now?

New comment by dbancajas in "Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI"

dbancajas — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:16:39 +0000

didn't know this. can you explain or link a few articles?

New comment by dbancajas in "The Cloud Computer"

dbancajas — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:23:44 +0000

Follow up question would be how much are equivalent solutions from established rack providers?

New comment by dbancajas in "The casino in your pocket"

dbancajas — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:42:22 +0000

how do you make friends from an online mobile game?

New comment by dbancajas in "Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore"

dbancajas — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:35:49 +0000

and why did they do this? who paid for this recovery?

New comment by dbancajas in "Loneliness is stronger when not alone"

dbancajas — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:31:35 +0000

Exploitative in a sense where old dudes with questionable morals go to 3rd world countries and use their money to do questionable things like have sex with underage individuals or just exploit women in general. Women will tend to be submissive because they can get financial security. Your average joe programmer in HN isn't the usual type to go and stay in another country and try to assimilate properly. A good portion of them are outcasts or losers in their home countries (for a reason) and trying to experience rockstar life in a 3rd world country. That's a cynical take but if you ever to go Philippines/Vietnam/Indonesia you'll see what I mean and remember this comment. Obviously there are exceptional cases where people marry for "love" but usually it's for financial security.

New comment by dbancajas in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

dbancajas — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:20:08 +0000

Can you send me the dump so I can host it somewhere?

New comment by dbancajas in "AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will"

dbancajas — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:04:55 +0000

How do you know the translations are accurate if you don't speak the native language?

New comment by dbancajas in "Why take a compiler course? (2010)"

dbancajas — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:13:03 +0000

CS6120 Cornell that has focus on optimizations and less on parsing. It got posted around within last month on HN.

New comment by dbancajas in "Swarm M138 Modem"

dbancajas — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:44:36 +0000

Could you try with QRP 5watts to see how far you can reach? 11K miles on 100w is not that impressive?