Hacker News: nyjah

New comment by nyjah in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

nyjah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:59:58 +0000

Michigan border towns are insane for that reason. People come from as far as 6 states over for the cheap prices. On the other side of the state from Monroe lies New Buffalo. 33 dispos on a small stretch of road in a small lake town. All to bring in.. wait for it… $1.4mil in tax revenue ie basically a rounding error for even a small municipality…

https://www.wndu.com/2026/01/28/new-buffalo-residents-voice-...

New comment by nyjah in "How I Left YouTube"

nyjah — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:55:56 +0000

I’m a YouTube premium subscriber. Just yesterday I found myself opening a private window to watch a video with ads, rather than letting the algorithm know I was watching the video on my account. Even if I remove the video from my watch history, YouTube can’t help itself. You make a great point on stale content and the overall enshittification is becoming intolerable.

New comment by nyjah in "alpr.watch"

nyjah — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:32:31 +0000

There isn’t any sort of standard for recording public meetings. I’ve seen everything mic less live streams with obstructed cameras to well curated flawless back and forth with great audio and transcripts. Meeting to meeting it can vary.

New comment by nyjah in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

nyjah — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:36:34 +0000

If I click I’m not interested on every short presented to me and I’ve never watched a short, why can’t YouTube get the point? At least give us the option to remove them. I don’t deal with the translation issue but not giving you the option is what is beyond frustrating for me.

New comment by nyjah in "Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people"

nyjah — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:23:38 +0000

Where I live, if I don’t shop at fancy grocery stores 30-40min away, it’s generous to call the produce ‘produce’. Literally never knew onions could look this bad. A lot of the citrus is like deflated in the inside, the bananas are trash, and a single bell pepper is $3. I could go on and on. Just think we enshittified the food situation and now it’s more expensive and way worse quality.

PiTrac – The DIY Golf Launch Monitor

nyjah — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.io/project/195042-pitrac-the-diy-golf-launch-monitor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779034

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nyjah in "YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom"

nyjah — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:48:33 +0000

One of my handful of follows puts out multiple 2 hour videos a day sometimes, almost every day. I hardly watch, but I always throw it on and let it play through, and will replay it on mute while doing other things, just so this guy with 1.8k views is getting a bigger share of my youtube premium money. I don't participate in the channel, like I said, I really hardly watch, but monthly I have been getting free memberships to his channel since I started doing it.

New comment by nyjah in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

nyjah — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:42:56 +0000

Wow - will follow. Awesome!

New comment by nyjah in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

nyjah — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:29:29 +0000

What N64 code are you working on? I am intrigued.

New comment by nyjah in "Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction"

nyjah — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:43:15 +0000

I've lived in the area I live in for over 30 years. It's in a rural area. Last year I was walking in the woods and I came across a bald eagle on the ground eating something. I was probably 10 feet from it when it flew away. I saw 2 when I was golfing last summer. And then just a couple of months ago I saw another flying above my car after eating something near the road.

I had never seen a bald eagle before these encounters.

New comment by nyjah in "Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong"

nyjah — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:27:11 +0000

The other issue is American quality has gone down the tank. 10-15 years ago I’d look for American quality over Chinese, but nowadays I prefer the Chinese manufacturer almost 100% of the time. Not always the case but anecdotally chinas quality has gotten better while American stuff has gotten worse.

New comment by nyjah in "Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN"

nyjah — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:04:50 +0000

This reminds me of when I was in HS. There was a auto car wash that would print a number on a receipt for one to enter and get a carwash with. One day for whatever reason I just punched in 12 random numbers and it worked. And thats how I got free car washes all through high school...

New comment by nyjah in "Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions"

nyjah — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 02:09:08 +0000

Nothing drives me more nuts than them showing commercials during the changeover, coming back at 30-0 and then showing the replay of the drama from what went down during the changeover.

When I watch a match commercial free, with changeovers, I find myself much more engaged. Changeovers can tell you a lot about the match and player and espn just ignores it and then has the audacity to replay any drama during the real points. It’s a travesty.

New comment by nyjah in "Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions"

nyjah — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 02:40:05 +0000

In case anyone is wondering how to pay for and watch tennis in US: there is a tennis tv app. That app allows you to watch the men’s tour. There’s another app, the tennis channel app, that is for the women’s tour and maybe some other random tourneys. Neither of those apps have the grand slams tho, ie the Australian open. For that , in the US you need espn plus and can’t get away from ads. And then there’s also the French open. And between nbc, peacock and whatever else, beyond pirating the matches, I’ve genuinely been stumped trying to pay for it legitimately.

I saw this the other day on YouTube and it made me turn on the real thing.

New comment by nyjah in "I made $100K from a dick joke"

nyjah — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:26:27 +0000

eBay has had to reinvent itself. For me, I don’t trust eBay for legit merchandise, I sorta assume it’s knockoffs now, probably wrong. I’ve never used them but I was under the assumption that offer up and what not are popping off as eBay disrupters.

New comment by nyjah in "In the Rockets' Red Glare: The past and future of hot-rodding in America"

nyjah — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 03:21:21 +0000

Lastly, the younger generations aren't into cars as a hobby/culture like the previous ones were. They don't drive as much and view cars as more of an appliance

I think this was true of the last younger generation, and prob me and maybe you, but from what I’m seeing, TikTok is making anything and everything cool to the youths, particularly trade type jobs. They are realizing how much money there is to be made because our generation didn’t want the work and are embracing the opportunities because the videos they are watching are making it look cool.

New comment by nyjah in "Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT"

nyjah — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 04:00:23 +0000

I do appreciate how nonchalantly emancipating the 17 year old was suggested tho. Too funny. Two Americas?

New comment by nyjah in "Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981"

nyjah — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 04:16:17 +0000

You can get eternal licenses (or an outright sale of rights), if you are willing to pay

Not for everything. When I can do that I do, but it’s getting harder and harder to avoid subscription fees for everything these days.

Ask HN: What are the rules on age verification for websites?

nyjah — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:58:41 +0000

Are there spelled out rules for how to do age verification or what's necessary to have a user agree to. It just seems like every site except HN asks your permission for cookies. I have a site that is 21+ themed, but nothing for sale and not adultxxx. Just pictures of (legal for me) plants. I've tried to google it and I have found some answers, but I am reluctant to trust the AI answers I found. Any guidance is appreciated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41863182

Points: 3

# Comments: 6

New comment by nyjah in "Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020)"

nyjah — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 02:51:18 +0000

I guess the reason they don't do that is because a lot of people would choose competitor services if they were honest

Competitor services? Starlink aside, I have no options but what I have. I think many people at least in USA are in similar situation.