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New comment by en3r0 in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

en3r0 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:29:20 +0000

https://x.com/iannuttall/status/1966074800595698131?t=SDsVQI...

New comment by en3r0 in "An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021)"

en3r0 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:19:17 +0000

Agreed. I love that this happened, and on IRC!

New comment by en3r0 in "My Billion Dollar Idea (Seedless Torrents) Is Dead – A Retrospective"

en3r0 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:45:52 +0000

Ya, I can see that now. My thought here was in regards to processing power and storage capacity.

New comment by en3r0 in "My Billion Dollar Idea (Seedless Torrents) Is Dead – A Retrospective"

en3r0 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:43:42 +0000

I would enjoy hearing your perspective on this.

My Billion Dollar Idea (Seedless Torrents) Is Dead – A Retrospective

en3r0 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:43:42 +0000

Article URL: https://dustinmontgomery.com/seedless-torrents.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782712

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by en3r0 in "My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking"

en3r0 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:55:22 +0000

It's the kids whose teachers can't or want to adapt that will most likely suffer in their education. Not saying it is easy, but it is possible.

I have a friend who's a teacher that is pioneering methods to include (modified / preprompted) LLMs as a part of their lessons. He calls it Modern PBL: Project-Based Learning. He wrote a book on it if you are interested: https://a.co/d/7MFQ5wa

New comment by en3r0 in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

en3r0 — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:32:15 +0000

Several years ago I spent a great deal of time thinking about how to create something like this, glad someone did it!

My vision went beyond this into allowing users to create their own channels (still only identifiable by a channel number) which would basically just be a playlist. I think a better idea now would be to have them add a list of channels and have it randomly play videos from only those channels and have that interrupted by anytime that channel is live streaming.

New comment by en3r0 in "Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup"

en3r0 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:28:54 +0000

Good read, very encouraging.

New comment by en3r0 in "MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names"

en3r0 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:43:34 +0000

No way! The Internet is a small place. I remember seeing your original post and feeling very inspired to do something similar. One of these days I will find some time.

New comment by en3r0 in "Ask HN: Any good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?"

en3r0 — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:45:55 +0000

Just started testing them out last week. Amazing how much better it is than GA4.

New comment by en3r0 in "Ask HN: Who of you thinks they have what it takes to start a company?"

en3r0 — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 01:32:15 +0000

Of course I I think I have what it takes... Don't most of us here?

I have endless ideas, a diverse set of technical skills that can get me most of the way there...

What stops me though is time and money.

I have a family to provide for, who are a much bigger priority than anything else. So my ideas take the back burner, and I prioritize the ones that have a higher percent chance at freeing me from a 9-5, instead of the more interesting moon shots.

However, the failures and wasted money do add up, and it emotionally wears on my wife... I do think of giving up trying to start something, but I dread the idea of working for someone else for the next 30 years. I feel like starting something of my own is part of how I am wired.

So I keep plugging away in my limited free time, getting up too early just to make the time. Maybe some day, but the years are already flying by, my family is most important.

New comment by en3r0 in "0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years"

en3r0 — Fri, 26 May 2023 22:12:30 +0000

Remember playing that demo over and over as a kid! Really cool that you worked on it.

New comment by en3r0 in ".kkrieger"

en3r0 — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:56:14 +0000

I remember finding this and being super excited about how awesome it looked and how small the file size was. This was back in the day when LAN parties were common, and not everybody had high speed internet.

I still wonder if things like this have a place in the future?

New comment by en3r0 in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

en3r0 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:33:18 +0000

Thank you, really appreciate you saying something.

Not sure I have ever had anyone comment on my writing style. Probably means I should write more!

New comment by en3r0 in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

en3r0 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:23:14 +0000

That is super interesting, care to share why it was on your list? I mean it was legit after all lol.

New comment by en3r0 in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

en3r0 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:22:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

I had high hopes for Revision3, it was really an exciting time with Web 2.0 and the like.

New comment by en3r0 in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

en3r0 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:19:59 +0000

Yup, can't blame you there!

New comment by en3r0 in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

en3r0 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:28:51 +0000

Thank you for the kind words.

New comment by en3r0 in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

en3r0 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:27:15 +0000

Thanks so much for chiming in, glad you liked the lime green!

I definitely remember some RuneScape stuff on there, I played it a lot in the early 2000's myself.

New comment by en3r0 in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

en3r0 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:25:12 +0000

API would be interesting.

Tried the affiliate route for Amazon (Hard Drives ect) and VPN ofers. Never had any luck with those.

My conclusion: if you are on a torrent site, you probably are not looking to buy something.