Hacker News: fitzroy

New comment by fitzroy in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

fitzroy — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:46:16 +0000

Obviously, one cuts a small hole in the ziploc bags and runs the cable between them so that each connector can be in the correct bag.

New comment by fitzroy in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

fitzroy — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:02:53 +0000

Timeless tactic!

"The Power Mac G4 is so fast that it is classified as a supercomputer by the US government, and we are prohibited from exporting it to over 50 nations worldwide," Jobs said the Apple Expo, CNN reported in September 1999. (edit: added link)

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-steve-jobs-us-export-c...

New comment by fitzroy in "Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10"

fitzroy — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:52:38 +0000

Would love a gluten-free / dietary restriction filter, or at least a filter where gluten/wheat is not an ingredient (separate from cross-contamination). Unfortunately, cheap-ish food is harder to find with dietary restrictions. Even filtering by Asian, Mexican, Italian, Mediterranean, etc., would be helpful.

Also, a way to verify or link to the menu item, hours, etc., at a place would also be helpful.

New comment by fitzroy in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

fitzroy — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:34:33 +0000

> a feature that simply makes your product easier to use

Except it doesn't. You lose context and are now drowning in an endless morass of lazy-loaded blocks and widgets, all hiding under invisible elements. Nothing has a permanent URL, so there is zero accountably if the user was shown something that they need to reference - unless it benefits the platform. And of course, it will eventually all force reload when the page complexity exhausts the available memory, or at least when it becomes too exhausted to reliably serve ads.

New comment by fitzroy in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

fitzroy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:41:51 +0000

https://xcancel.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538

Government: We will destroy any company that refuses to create the Torment Nexus

New comment by fitzroy in "VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun"

fitzroy — Fri, 02 May 2025 22:59:46 +0000

Beat Saber was the reason I bought a Quest 2. Now I actually find Synthriders to be a lot more fun. In Synth, if one person has purchased a song/map, everyone can play and players can create/share/upload maps and songs (there used to be a great free repository of songs that got taken down recently unfortunately).

Synth also removes some anxiety about playing in smaller spaces because AFAIK you're not encouraged to aim for big swings.

New comment by fitzroy in "23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount"

fitzroy — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:09:12 +0000

It sold for $8.5 million... ..."The auction was for the building itself, not the land. That is owned by a publicly traded real estate firm, which collects a monthly lease. But the rent from the building’s current tenants is not enough to cover those monthly payments, which are set to increase every five years and do not expire until 2123."

New comment by fitzroy in "Apple patents suggest future AirPods could monitor biosignals and brain activity"

fitzroy — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:43:56 +0000

When my AirPods actually stay in my ears, I'll worry.

New comment by fitzroy in "Office Cubicle Manufacturing (1954) [video]"

fitzroy — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:14:24 +0000

As kids, we were usually in the back of a Ford pickup on I-95 bouncing around in a sea empty beer cans. My mom was very safety conscious, however, so we were forbidden from sitting on top of the wheel wells.

New comment by fitzroy in "Apple passwords deserve an app"

fitzroy — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:01:06 +0000

I use this Menubar short cut for Passwords, so it's only 2 clicks and fingerprint away.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/22133925f3e34579b22951d6593...

New comment by fitzroy in "Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style"

fitzroy — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:46:31 +0000

And we'll institute aggressive countermeasures and discover that millions of real people can no longer pass a Turing test.

New comment by fitzroy in "The Death of Personality (2017)"

fitzroy — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:36:53 +0000

The problem with ubiquitous apps (or almost anything) having "personality" is that a large number of users may not like that particular "personality" and, from a UX standpoint, it may not serve a large number of particular use cases. Instagram is no longer a niche project.

I would argue the death of personality is more attributable to growth and optimizing for mass market dominance. There's a reason mom and pop business can be quirky and Citi and McDonalds can't.

New comment by fitzroy in "The Camera-Shy Hoodie"

fitzroy — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 18:35:51 +0000

Aren't traditional (non-LED) lightbulbs that get hot much higher in the IR spectrum since they're dissipating most of their energy as heat?

New comment by fitzroy in "We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability"

fitzroy — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:37:43 +0000

I keep thinking of a service that sends famously long books in short chunks.

"Infinite Text" or "War 'n Pieces"

New comment by fitzroy in "My bad habit of hoarding information"

fitzroy — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:47:07 +0000

How is it different from https://pinboard.in (besides $1/ mo)?

New comment by fitzroy in "Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately"

fitzroy — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:41:51 +0000

If your favorite song is by Pearl Jam you get an extra layer of security:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU

New comment by fitzroy in "Show HN: Create a paid link to anything"

fitzroy — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:13:07 +0000

Does the buyer need to setup an account?

How does this service prevent the actual (free) URL of the content from being visible / shared after a user pays? It seems like this would be difficult for some of the use cases presented (YouTube, Wordpress, etc) without managing the backend.

And how long does the buyer have access? How do they regain access to the link later?

New comment by fitzroy in "How to rebuild social media on top of RSS"

fitzroy — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 06:11:22 +0000

Isn't this idea basically FriendFeed (which Facebook bought to kill)? I've always wondered why nobody has simply recreated it.

New comment by fitzroy in "Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth"

fitzroy — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 23:17:31 +0000

I knew this was true for nuclear weapons. It was just surprising that a smaller asteroid could be that much more dangerous than a larger one due to potentially exploding in the atmosphere.

New comment by fitzroy in "Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth"

fitzroy — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:58:52 +0000

I'm confused. A 100 ft asteroid that explodes 2.2 miles in the air seems to result in far more deaths from a 0.6 mile wide fireball compared to a 200ft asteroid that would hit the ground in the same location (Fort Lauderdale, FL).

100ft = 211,172 deaths

Is this correct? https://imgur.com/a/Elst6Q3