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FreeCloud: Use your excess web hosting space as your own cloud drive, with sync

hilliardfarmer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:50:27 +0000

Article URL: https://freecloud.wiki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834329

Points: 1

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New comment by hilliardfarmer in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hilliardfarmer — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:29:16 +0000

People need to stop buying apple products. Anyone dumb enough to have already done so deserves what they get.

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "There is no spoon – A software engineers primer for demystified ML"

hilliardfarmer — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:08:28 +0000

Please stop trying to trick us into reading AI generated text.

"This isn't a textbook or a tutorial. It's a mental model — the abstractions you need to reason about ML systems the way you already reason about software systems."

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor"

hilliardfarmer — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:50:21 +0000

That was 10 months ago!!!

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

hilliardfarmer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:16:46 +0000

You don't have to go back that far! Even now just listen to how they talk about cryptocurrency. Most people on this website hate anything they don't understand.

Show HN: A votable list of the one thousand best books

hilliardfarmer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:11:28 +0000

Article URL: https://kylebenzle.com/bookreviews.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545439

Points: 2

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New comment by hilliardfarmer in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

hilliardfarmer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:06:38 +0000

Exactly, the article is silly, the perspective, idiotic. She says it's, "addictive" like driving a car is addictive compared to walking???

My 1k Favorite Books

hilliardfarmer — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:41:35 +0000

Article URL: https://kylebenzle.com/bookreviews.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526698

Points: 2

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New comment by hilliardfarmer in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

hilliardfarmer — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:31:04 +0000

Get out of my head, lol :)

But yeh, never thought this was a problem anyone else delt with. My passwords are all a variant of my on "master password" and sometimes forget which session I'm in so trying to save keystrokes, count backward to where I think the cursor should be.

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

hilliardfarmer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:51:32 +0000

They are saying that things that have already been dumbed down can't go back. Obviously that's just their opinion, but I would guess that most people agree with them.

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics"

hilliardfarmer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:43:32 +0000

Because 1 is free and the other 2 cost $$$.

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere"

hilliardfarmer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:48:27 +0000

A lot of times I can't tell if I'm the idiot or if everyone else is. Says that this isn't an interesting question at all and the article was horrible. I studied data science for a few years but I'm no expert, but it seems pretty obvious to me that if you make a series of 50/50 choices randomly, that's the shape you end up with and there's really nothing more interesting about it than that.

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics"

hilliardfarmer — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:28:52 +0000

As a Linux user it's hard to understand people using either windows or mac. At this point it's looking more like brainwashing than out of convenience.

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "To the Polypropylene Makers"

hilliardfarmer — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:34:15 +0000

Great article but it should have included some remarks about how unnecessary, fruitless and a waste of time and resources it all was.

Are people on average still not able to accept the whole thing was idiotic from start to finish? The very idea masking ever helped a single person avoid getting covid is just stilly at this point, right? Otherwise we'd still be doing it or at least getting the vaccine, I don't know anyone that's gotten it the last 3 years.

Article would have been better from the angle of, "look at all the stupid stuff people were doing, ha" not, "these people were HEROES!" At best they were misled, at worst, profiteer idiots.

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products"

hilliardfarmer — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:18:09 +0000

Yes, palantir is lying to the press, suprise suprise!

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

hilliardfarmer — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:25:21 +0000

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New comment by hilliardfarmer in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

hilliardfarmer — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:26:51 +0000

That is not what we are talking about.

Also, amazing article, haven't laughed that hard all day!

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

hilliardfarmer — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:05:57 +0000

The lightning network is a joke and always has been. It was never going to work and the creator has been open about that from day one.

Only question is, if Elizabeth Stark knows it's unworkable slop why does she keep raising money for it???

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

hilliardfarmer — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:01:52 +0000

Thank you, had to ready this 3 times but wow, well said!!!

New comment by hilliardfarmer in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

hilliardfarmer — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:06:14 +0000

What a deeply troubling and cynical comment.

As far as I know, nowhere in the Bitcoin white paper or the original code base. Does it say anything about what you seem to think it's use cases are.

Bitcoin has one main use, digital cash, that can be sent instantly and for free or a very low fee.

Edit: I would agree though, that anything other than that is probably a scam.