<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: justinc8687</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=justinc8687</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:49:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=justinc8687" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who suffers from vestibular migraines, unfortunately visiting the demo  site instantly made get dizzy.  I highly encourage you to implement the "@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)" media query to handle accessibility [1].  I'd hopefully expect the zooms to turn into normal links or failing that, either slow down or have some kind of non-vestibular-attack-inducing flow.<p>Here are some other good resources: <a href="https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/understanding-vestibular-disorders/" rel="nofollow">https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/understanding-vestibular-d...</a> or <a href="https://web.dev/articles/prefers-reduced-motion" rel="nofollow">https://web.dev/articles/prefers-reduced-motion</a><p>I don't say this as criticism as I'm sure you've never heard of these issues before, but something I'd encourage you (or anyone who relies on animations) to implement into their package.<p>[1] <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/At-rules/@media/prefers-reduced-motion" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:17:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669128</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stolen laptops would be my one idea here to always encrypt, even if MS / Apple has your key and can easily give it to the government?  This way you have to know a user's password / login info to steal their information if you steal their computer (for the average theif).  You still get their laptop, but you don't get their personal information without their login information.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:59:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749907</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I personally have a Samsung TV, but this ACR and ad stuff is why ever since the moment I took it out of the box, it has never and will never, be plugged into the internet. I simply use an Google TV plugged into it for my actual streaming, and avoid all of this ACR nonsense (yes Google has their own tracking but I want Tailscale and SmartTube). I think this is the way to do it. Just use your smart TV as a dumb TV, and move on.</p>
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<p>I've had quite good luck asking Gemini and ChatGPT to include links to research papers for every claim they make.  Not only can I review at least the abstracts but I find when I do this, they'll retract some of the hallucinations they've have made in prior messages. It almost seems (and maybe they do) in their web searching tools, reread the content they include. Thus, greatly reducing errors, with minimal extra effort on my part.</p>
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<p>I think the thing to remember with this, as with any kind of medical procedure, is the benefits versus the risks. In many cases, if you're getting this kind of MRI contrast, there's probably a good reason for it. So even if there's some risk, it might be better than say, the cancer or something else they're looking for. I feel like this is something that's often forgot in these discussions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 02:39:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700981</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45700981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "How to sequence your DNA for <$2k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So given the mostly negative comments in this thread about various companies, can anyone recommend a reasonably priced, reasonably quick, place to get your DNA sequenced and subsequently analyzed?  I'm curious about a more general view as well as some specific mutations.<p>Any recommendations?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:27:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633687</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633687</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just sent you an email. My email is in my profile if it goes to spam.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:42:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566910</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious what you mean by those?  I'm open to any suggestions as to things to track / add!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:40:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566896</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been suffering from migraines for the last month, so have channeled my (non-migraine) time into a migraine tracker to try and find the root causes.  All the tracking apps I tried all have nice complex forms, which is all well and good, unless...you are having a migraine.<p>Rough idea is easy to use voice mode to record data, then analyze unstructured data with AI later on.<p>I want to track all relevant life information, so what I'm eating, meds I'm taking, headache/nausea levels, etc.<p>Adding records is as easy as pressing record on my apple watch and speaking some kind of information. Uses Deepgram for voice transcription since it's the best transcription API I've found.<p>Will then send all information through to a LLM for analysis.  It has a "chat with your data" page to ask questions and try and draw conclusions.<p>Main webapp is done, now working on packaging it into an iOS app so I can pull biometrics from Healthkit.  Will then look into releasing it, either on github or possibly in the app store. It's admittedly mostly vibe coded, so not sure if it'll be something releasable, but we'll see...<p>Let me know if this would interest anyone!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:53:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45565087</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45565087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45565087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "High Altitude Living – 8,000 ft and above (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I lived in Breckenridge (9,600ft) for a few winters post college.<p>Before college, when I had last been to CO, I didn't get any altitude sickness. Post college, I discovered (by blacking out on the slopes at Vail) that I now got bad altitude sickness. It now takes me almost 2 weeks to aclimate, but once I do, boy, is it amazing.<p>The most fun time was when I flew home to the East Coast after being there 4 months. I felt like absolute Superman. So much energy, barely needed any sleep! I only wish those effects lasted more than 5 days...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:03:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239193</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://anycrap.shop/product/barbed-wire-alcohol-infused-toilet-paper" rel="nofollow">https://anycrap.shop/product/barbed-wire-alcohol-infused-toi...</a><p>> This toilet paper combines luxurious comfort with unyielding protection against unwelcome visitors.<p>I’m in love with this thing!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:02:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234888</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This might be a silly question: I understand the mitochondria from the mother's egg is unusable due to disease. Why do they need a 3rd person to provide one? Is there a reason they could take one from a father's cell?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:53:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620603</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use the technique of taping a microsd card with copies of my passport, credit cards, 2fa backup codes, etc, encrypted; along with a $100 to the bottom of my insole inside my shoe.  Put them in a little "crack sized" ziplock, add lots of gaffers tape (so if you take the insole out it's not obvious, plus makes it a bit waterproof) and if I ever get mugged, I have enough cash to get a cab (or depending on where I am, pay a bribe) and then find a computer I can use to get my info and figure out next steps.<p>Normally carry a yubikey with me (2, in fact, one on me, one in my big bag at my hostel / hotel). But if I get mugged between airport - hostel, then at least I have the shoe backup.<p>A 3rd level is that my parents have a yubikey and 2fa backup codes for me. They dont have my passwords, but in a pinch, I can call them to read me a code.<p>Very open to ideas on things to improve...</p>
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<p>Please make that recording!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:31:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44406983</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44406983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44406983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Detection of hidden cellular GPS vehicle trackers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Way back in the day (2010), I worked for a company using Bluetooth scanners to measure traffic speeds.  We could get about a 500' range with custom hardware.<p>The real fun part at the time was that every Bluetooth device pretty much was always in pairing mode, and that MACs didn't rotate...<p>Eventually those both happened, but in ways beyond my comprehension (I worked on the software side), the hardware guys could still pick up the signals to track cars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:19:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44245697</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44245697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44245697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another thing worth mentioning, if they are a coder, is that this is one of the places where some of the LLM tools can really shine.  Many people provide a rough spec, then either (shutter) vibe-code or edit substantially once it produces it.<p>Having a RSI myself, I find that I can provide very detailed instructions in regular english, for which voice dictation works quite well to Cursor (but any others should work too), then it will produce code that I have to edit very little.  For most people this wouldn't be an efficient flow, but it greatly helps me reduce typing, thus is beneficial to me.<p>With something like that, I believe you could do well pecking around with one hand for edits without needing to do much typing.<p>On Mac, Karabiner-Elements is incredibly useful to remap things, such that you can enable things like mousekeys or otherwise that would keep from having to move (either) hand very much.  It's also a way to do as others have shown on this post and do a mirror layout or add something analogous to layers without having to buy new keyboards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:49:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175121</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Once their finger movement has been restored, I'd look into various large-split keyboards.  The Kinesis Freestyle2 USB version has a large split (20") option that could help.  They have screw hole mounts on the bottom which you could likely jerry-rig with a sling to put the keyboard in the proper position.  I used it with a custom 3d-printed mount so that I could attach it to the arms of my chair.<p>The wireless version has less of a gap, but you could always just get two of them and use the left half of one and the right half of another.<p>Feel free to reach out to me at justin (at) justin-c (dot) com, if you want to talk.  I spent about 5 years working on custom mounting options for keyboards after getting a severe RSI, ultimately proven to be partially caused by a rheumatic condition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:42:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175062</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justinc8687 in "I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke students"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to work for a carpet cleaner in Madison, WI.  8/15 was always "hippie christmas" as we'd call it.  You'd find all sorts of goodies.  One of my friends even found a fully functional moped in a dumpster before.  Good times!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 21:31:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110829</link><dc:creator>justinc8687</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Scores Win in AI Copyright Dispute with Record Labels]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-scores-win-in-ai-copyright-dispute-with-record-labels-3f84be1c">https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-scores-win-in-ai-copyright-dispute-with-record-labels-3f84be1c</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490646">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490646</a></p>
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<p>I personally use Deel so that as a one-person company I can access large group benefits. Using their EOR saves me about $5000/year on health insurance compared to an ACA policy.</p>
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