Hacker News: madcow2011

New comment by madcow2011 in "One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking"

madcow2011 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:18:27 +0000

That is an awesome web site. I've always been tempted to look into buying one of those giant rhino beetles.

New comment by madcow2011 in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

madcow2011 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:34:05 +0000

I've actually been trying to look into something similar? I have a pile of old vapes from friends/family I want to re-purpose, but don't really know where to start.

New comment by madcow2011 in "Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat"

madcow2011 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:25:18 +0000

and these dirty deeds weren't even done dirt cheap!

New comment by madcow2011 in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

madcow2011 — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:19:39 +0000

Aww, <3 I love this. Keep up the great work, naya!!

New comment by madcow2011 in "Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago"

madcow2011 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 21:23:26 +0000

Wait, do you live in my city? Holy cow, I thought it was just us noticing this bizarre trend of carwashes popping up on every street corner...

New comment by madcow2011 in "Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?"

madcow2011 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:08:22 +0000

I laughed pretty hard when I noticed the same issues and clicked the 'discuss' link and found that your post had been inundated with the comments you are referring to XD

New comment by madcow2011 in "FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers"

madcow2011 — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:46:47 +0000

I've used FreeTaxUSA for the past two years as well, and have been very happy with it. I'll put all my info into turboTax, and let it calculate my refund, then put the same data into FreeTax and verify it's the same. It's saved me a LOT of money.

New comment by madcow2011 in "Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom"

madcow2011 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:44:34 +0000

That's exactly what I was thinking. Either the judge who issued the order or something like that.

New comment by madcow2011 in "The curse of the corporate headshot"

madcow2011 — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:11:57 +0000

aaaand now I have this image of our C-suite doing a Pewdiepie pose stuck in my head. Thanks lol

New comment by madcow2011 in "Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?"

madcow2011 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:32:55 +0000

do we get snacks and naps? I'm in.

New comment by madcow2011 in "Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid"

madcow2011 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:50:04 +0000

I like these! They're tough, but fair. Great job!

New comment by madcow2011 in "Show HN: What dogs can eat? (Web App)"

madcow2011 — Mon, 16 May 2022 18:13:36 +0000

I got a chuckle when I tried to enter 'cat food' and all it would let me enter is 'cat', then it informed me that I should not feed my cat to my dog. A+ advice.

New comment by madcow2011 in "Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution"

madcow2011 — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:51:09 +0000

This is genius. I love it.

New comment by madcow2011 in "Mario Paint Masterpiece"

madcow2011 — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 01:36:32 +0000

It's been a while since I've messed with it, but the last time I played this on ZNES I seem to recall it working fine.

New comment by madcow2011 in "Mario Paint Masterpiece"

madcow2011 — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 01:35:41 +0000

My favorite part of Mario Paint was always the music generator. I'd sit and play with it for hours... To this day I still enjoy listening to MPC (Mario Paint Composer) tunes on YouTube.

New comment by madcow2011 in "FAA releases TRUST: Free online training required to fly drones recreationally"

madcow2011 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:48:40 +0000

I didn't know about the shark fishing one. That's neat. Does that include tourists that hire a charter, or is it for the charter captains themselves?

New comment by madcow2011 in "Toonify Yourself"

madcow2011 — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 03:28:14 +0000

Good grief! I know I'm not Prince Charming but I was hoping for slightly less Shrek in mine. I think I'll be going back on that diet...

New comment by madcow2011 in "Robot wraps fiber optic cables around existing power lines"

madcow2011 — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:50:50 +0000

This is interesting, I've never heard of this. How much stretching/sagging are we talking about? (I.e. a couple of inches difference, or is it a large amount)

New comment by madcow2011 in "Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004"

madcow2011 — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:58:23 +0000

Some of this is necessary, I think. When you get an auto insurance quote, companies like ChoicePoint (LexisNexis) are what provide driver history (accidents, violations, insurance fraud info, etc).

So it's not like they're Google/FB/Amazon using this data for ad purposes.

Obviously, not all of the money comes from carriers like this, but I wanted to point out that some of it is legit.

New comment by madcow2011 in "Teen Vogue published and then deleted an uncritical story about Facebook"

madcow2011 — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:20:11 +0000

"Literally IDK" snicker I got a kick out of that response.