Hacker News: exhilaration

New comment by exhilaration in "Organic Maps"

exhilaration — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:55:25 +0000

Google doesn't just scrape websites for store hours, they actually call to confirm them: https://support.google.com/business/answer/7690269?hl=en

New comment by exhilaration in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

exhilaration — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:23:06 +0000

There was a great episode of the Planet Money podcast a few weeks back that talked about boarding houses https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5851902/housing-afforda... they're apparently illegal in most places

New comment by exhilaration in "Immich 3.0"

exhilaration — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:03:44 +0000

Oh wow, it recreates the Google Photos albums? That's the first time I've heard of a tool doing that. I've spent a ton of time organizing my Google Photos albums, that's a big reason I stay with it.

New comment by exhilaration in "GitHub Is Down"

exhilaration — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:29:30 +0000

Our Big Giant Enterprise wants to move all our repos from ADO to GitHub for all the nifty AI features, but I'm told the frequent downtime is a major issue so we're slow-walking the migration.

New comment by exhilaration in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

exhilaration — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:29:51 +0000

FYI my local library in suburban Pennsylvania has a 3D printer for public use. Check yours.

New comment by exhilaration in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

exhilaration — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:57:23 +0000

Prices from OpenAI and Anthropic have really jumped in the past month. I work for a big giant company and our Github co-pilot costs increased as of today, June 1st. Our internal estimates are that our bill will double or triple. How much are we willing to pay? I don't know, but nobody wants to be "left behind".

I think there's actually a big market opportunity here. Somebody, like Dell or HP, should start selling turnkey on-prem LLM servers.

New comment by exhilaration in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

exhilaration — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:41:52 +0000

I'm curious, how much to replace the battery? I bought my kid a used 2015 MacBook Air like 5 years ago and it needs a new battery, otherwise it's totally fine.

New comment by exhilaration in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

exhilaration — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:38:59 +0000

Funny you mention iOS - my MegaCorp-issued iPhone has Microsoft entune for device management and Active Directory membership, Microsoft Authenticator for single sign-on, and really high quality versions of Microsoft office apps - Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel. Microsoft is all-in when comes to iOS.

Over Peak I had to update a shared Excel file on SharePoint each night - because as we all know, Excel is the finest multi-user database in existence. I had no problems doing that from my iPhone.

New comment by exhilaration in "First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study"

exhilaration — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:44:10 +0000

Does that matter though? My impression is that most people don't see doctors anymore. Every urgent care visit I've had in the past few years has been with a physicians assistant or nurse. Same for our pediatrician, I can't remember the last time we saw her instead of one of the nurses.

I actually have a routine visit with a specialist at one of the top hospital systems in the country in 2 days, and I see in the portal I'm seeing a "CRNP, MSN", not a doctor.

New comment by exhilaration in "Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density"

exhilaration — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:48:43 +0000

They're behind, Toyota announced in 2017 that they would begin solid state battery production in 2022: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1111717_2022-toyota-ele...

I would take solid state battery announcements with a large grain of salt.

New comment by exhilaration in "Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA"

exhilaration — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:09:28 +0000

Recent car tracking discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097624

New comment by exhilaration in "Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it"

exhilaration — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:58:49 +0000

Disabling the hardware can be really hard, my 2025 Toyota Sienna is always connected. You can't just pull a fuse or rip out an antenna, I have to take the entire dashboard apart to reach the Data Communication Module (DCM) module. If anyone's curious what that looks like, it's a little bit easier on the Toyota Tacoma, here are some pictures of the process: https://www.tacoma4g.com/forum/threads/disabling-dcm-telemat...

It's complex enough that I haven't done it yet in my Sienna, but I plan to!

New comment by exhilaration in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

exhilaration — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:39:23 +0000

In Beijing alone, some activists said more than 1 million people were forced from their homes to make way for new sports venues for last year's Olympics.

Wow...

New comment by exhilaration in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

exhilaration — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:47:13 +0000

Nice, I just subscribed to their podcast. I'm an adherent to the Starting Strength / Mark Rippetoe school of thought but always looking to learn more.

New comment by exhilaration in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

exhilaration — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:20:59 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I was able to plug in all the required values from my last checkup and blood work. Even EGFR was there, I've never paid attention to that before.

New comment by exhilaration in "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died"

exhilaration — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:07:10 +0000

My wife got this from her doctor as an alternative to a colonoscopy (in the US): https://www.cologuard.com/

It's an at-home collection stool test. It seems like a super easy and cheap first step before getting a colonoscopy.

New comment by exhilaration in "Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars"

exhilaration — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:44:40 +0000

Yeah it's really hard, my 2025 Toyota Sienna is always connected. You can't just pull a fuse or rip out an antenna, I have to take the entire dashboard apart to reach the Data Communication Module (DCM) module. If anyone's curious what that looks like, it's a little bit easier on the Toyota Tacoma, here are some pictures of the process: https://www.tacoma4g.com/forum/threads/disabling-dcm-telemat...

It's complex enough that I haven't done it yet in my Sienna, but I plan to!

New comment by exhilaration in "Electronic Arts to be acquired for $52B in largest private equity buyout"

exhilaration — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:15:55 +0000

Previous extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45413083

New comment by exhilaration in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

exhilaration — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:53:24 +0000

So here's a tip for those of you thinking about using Teams: the huge F500 company company I work for uses Teams but it's used strictly for chat and real-time communications, so essentially it's a replacement for office phones. They enforce this by limiting its history to 10 days!

At first I hated this - it was like using a chat app from the 90's! Why can't I have unlimited history like Slack? Why can't I link to chat discussions in tickets and code comments like I did at every other company I've worked at? But the enforced 10 day limit means you HAVE to properly document conversations and decisions outside of the chat platform. It completely eliminates any reliance on the chat platform - we could switch to something new tomorrow and (except for some grumbling about have to relearn a new interface) nobody would really care.

New comment by exhilaration in "California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record"

exhilaration — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:45:01 +0000

I know nothing about surfing but I picked up Barbarian Days on Audible https://www.audible.com/pd/Barbarian-Days-Audiobook/B00YMMTO... and I was captivated. After I finished it I started looking for surf schools within driving distance of my home, still looking for something on the (New) Jersey Shore or Long Island. Anyone have any suggestions?