Hacker News: kitcar

Wild Gunman: Resurrecting Nintendo's First Coin-Op on Its 50th Anniversary [video]

kitcar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:52:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfqnomGPkM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810440

Points: 3

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Test Microsoft's first in-house voice model, MAI-Voice-1

kitcar — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:47:57 +0000

Article URL: https://copilot.microsoft.com/labs/audio-expression

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056277

Points: 5

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TikTok's Native Cross-Platform UI Framework Lynx Goes Open Source

kitcar — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:57:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/03/tiktok-lynx-cross-platform-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43467719

Points: 3

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New comment by kitcar in "Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data"

kitcar — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:50:19 +0000

Tabula can do that (open source) https://tabula.technology/

Interactive Disentangled Editing for High-Resolution 3D-Aware Portrait Synthesis

kitcar — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:00:23 +0000

Article URL: https://mrtornado24.github.io/IDE-3D/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33012505

Points: 2

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New comment by kitcar in "The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home – Part I"

kitcar — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 22:20:55 +0000

I believe that is because when you finance a house you're financing the land+house combination, with the land making up the majority of value in most urban areas - when you finance a mobile home you are only financing the home, which depreciates (unlike the land component) - hence its a higher risk loan and therefore more expensive to finance.

New comment by kitcar in "Hermeus Raises $100M Series B"

kitcar — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:57:45 +0000

FWIW The Internet's development was funded by DARPA - The U.S.'s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For better or worse defense/offense has driven significant innovation for humanity, which has created many non-violent related benefits.

New comment by kitcar in "CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S."

kitcar — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:06:42 +0000

Somewhat tangentially related to people being afraid of Racoons carrying rabies, a Racoon risk people should actually be aware of is inhaling a parasite from their feces by mistake (i.e. sweeping/leaf blower, or children playing in a sandbox or yard where racoon does their business)

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/baylisascaris/gen_info/faqs.ht...

New comment by kitcar in "Someone attached an AirTag to my car while I was in a bar"

kitcar — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 19:02:33 +0000

In Canada Airtags are used for car theft

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/apple-tracking-devices-being-used...

New comment by kitcar in "New study examines ‘Achilles heel’ of cancer tumours"

kitcar — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 01:45:31 +0000

The phase 1 study mentioned in this article:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323835/

("Dr. Dedhar and colleagues previously identified a unique compound, known as SLC-0111—currently being evaluated in Phase 1 clinical trials—as a powerful inhibitor of the CAIX enzyme")

New comment by kitcar in "Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people"

kitcar — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:29:30 +0000

Out of curiosity - you mention that in the 90's there were a number of TV shows featuring prominent black characters but there isn't anymore. Why did you decide the solution to that problem was to create a black-focused distribution platform, instead of production company focused on creating new shows of similar quality to those in the 90's - has something changed about the market that would prevent shows like those that were successful in the 1990's from being successful today?

New comment by kitcar in "Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection"

kitcar — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:55:27 +0000

The link I provided from the FDA says:

"There seems to be a growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals.

The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses."

New comment by kitcar in "Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of Covid-19 Infection"

kitcar — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:46:41 +0000

The FDA has a page on Invermectin for Covid treatment, which provides a reminder that veterinary drugs are not designed for human consumption.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...

"For one thing, animal drugs are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows, which can weigh a lot more than we do—a ton or more. Such high doses can be highly toxic in humans.

Moreover, FDA reviews drugs not just for safety and effectiveness of the active ingredients, but also for the inactive ingredients. Many inactive ingredients found in animal products aren’t evaluated for use in people. Or they are included in much greater quantity than those used in people. In some cases, we don’t know how those inactive ingredients will affect how ivermectin is absorbed in the human body."

New comment by kitcar in "Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision"

kitcar — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 19:08:16 +0000

The math is $1,000,000 is the average price of a house in Toronto[1]. You usually need 20% down for a house at $1M or more[2]. Therefore you need $200,000 downpayment, which at $11K / year is about 18 years, assuming no compounding (which at least today is basically the case currently in Canada with interest rates where they are).

It should be noted though that it is pretty rare to reach $175K salary in the GTA before turning 30 (Average household income in Toronto is sub $100K[3]). Therefore for the majority of people it will take more than 18 years to build up that down-payment, which could be where the number in the article came from.

[1] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/average-gta-home-price-to-top-1-m.... [2] https://www.moneysense.ca/spend/real-estate/cmhc-tightens-mo... [3] https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/data-research-maps/to...

New comment by kitcar in "Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision"

kitcar — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:47:44 +0000

If you're saving using after-tax dollars, savings 10% of 170K top line is therefore not $17K.

For interest, according to https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tax-resources/canada-income-tax-c... net on $170K is $111,547, meaning closer to $11K / year

New comment by kitcar in "Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet"

kitcar — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:19:23 +0000

Bitcoin is an almost perfect exploitation of humanities fatal flaws (greed, unwillingness to acknowledge externalities - i.e. selfishness). It's that old SF-trope that the cause of many of humanity's biggest problems is humans.

New comment by kitcar in "I Bought a Business for $0"

kitcar — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:02:30 +0000

"I bought a business using time instead of money"

New comment by kitcar in "Launch HN: Procoto (YC W21) – Procurement SaaS for SMB"

kitcar — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:24:46 +0000

FYI there seems to be something wrong with your registration flow. I entered my email on the homepage, was brought to a login page (https://app.procoto.com/Identity/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2F) Click "Sign Up" under don't have an account, created an account, clicked the verification link, brought back to login page, when I try to login nothing happens - page just refreshes, no error message of any kind.

New comment by kitcar in "Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living"

kitcar — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:51:23 +0000

Congrats!

Just a heads up, as a semi-happy webflow customer: your customer service chat bot / the way you hide methods to contact customer service is very frustrating. The first time I ran into a technical issue I almost considered just cancelling my account and moving elsewhere because I couldn't figure out how to speak/chat with a human. There are many services I spend less money on monthly that have infinitely better customer service. Ultimately a friend provided me with your support email and I got a response there, but was shocked that wasn't listed anywhere on your website that I could easily find..

Scientists Discover Short-Legged Corgi Giraffes

kitcar — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:42:30 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-discover-short-legged-corgi-giraffes-1846016405

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25703149

Points: 1

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