Hacker News: racecar789

New comment by racecar789 in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

racecar789 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:01:27 +0000

If switching to oatmeal, go with the unflavored raw oats. It's not bad once a person gets used to it. Substituting milk with water is also perfectly fine.

Eating a low sugar breakfast does feel pretty healthy.

New comment by racecar789 in "Maze Algorithms (2017)"

racecar789 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:08:12 +0000

Pretty good! It would be nice to have a little icon showing at the preferred ending location.

New comment by racecar789 in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

racecar789 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:09:41 +0000

It’s likely that Google has tested how many ads it can place in search results before users lose patience and turn elsewhere.

On paper, the approach makes sense: push profitability as far as possible. But in practice, it can leave customers feeling squeezed and resentful, much like the increasingly nickel‑and‑dimed atmosphere visitors now complain about in Las Vegas, and the proliferation of tip screens.

New comment by racecar789 in "Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction"

racecar789 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 02:21:31 +0000

It's a fitting title to describe life today for most people.

New comment by racecar789 in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

racecar789 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:26:11 +0000

> you'd end up paying $9 a year per developer for the license

Correction: Docker Desktop is $9/month (not $9/year).

New comment by racecar789 in "Money mistakes you didn't know you're making"

racecar789 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:46:02 +0000

The article makes valid points. However, many of its recommendations are not practical for the 60% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Even merely contributing to a 401(k) or HSA can be difficult for these families.

New comment by racecar789 in "Acronis True Image costs performance when not used"

racecar789 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:37:45 +0000

Hasleo Backup is completely free and is a pretty decent alternative to Macrium. I switched to Hasleo after Macrium went to subscription mode.

https://www.easyuefi.com/backup-software/backup-suite-free.h...

New comment by racecar789 in "How I code with AI on a budget/free"

racecar789 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 05:37:20 +0000

Small recommendation: The diagrams on [https://wuu73.org/aicp] are helpful, but clicking them does not display the full‑resolution images; they appear blurry. This occurs in both Firefox and Chrome. In the GitHub repository, the same images appear sharp at full resolution, so the issue may be caused by the JavaScript rendering library.

New comment by racecar789 in "GPT-5"

racecar789 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:37:35 +0000

And a semicolon, AI really likes semicolons.

New comment by racecar789 in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

racecar789 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 17:29:33 +0000

What does TFA stand for?

New comment by racecar789 in "Chatterbox TTS"

racecar789 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 04:51:17 +0000

I’d sign up for a service that calls a pharmacy on my behalf to refill prescriptions. In certain situations, pharmacies will not list prescriptions on their websites, even though they have the prescriptions on file, which forces the customer to call by phone — a frustrating process.

I do feel bad for pharmacists, their job is challenging in so many ways.

New comment by racecar789 in "The correct amount of ads is zero"

racecar789 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 09:18:04 +0000

I would pay for YouTube premium if you can afford it. The cost is pretty reasonable and 55% of the subscription goes to content creators. It's not a huge amount but probably similar to what a creator would make if ads were shown.

New comment by racecar789 in "Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice"

racecar789 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:48:29 +0000

Imagine being able to tell an app to call the IRS during the day, endure the on-hold wait times, then ask the question to the IRS rep and log the answer. Then deliver the answer when you get home.

Or, have the app call a pharmacy every month to refill prescriptions. For some drugs, the pharmacy requires a manual phone call to refill which gets very annoying.

So many use cases for this.

New comment by racecar789 in "Pipe Syntax in SQL"

racecar789 — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:14:28 +0000

In that example, "s" has two meanings: 1. A table being joined. 2. A column being summed.

For clarity, they should have assigned #2 to a different variable letter.

New comment by racecar789 in "Sandboxing all the things with Flatpak and BubbleBox"

racecar789 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 02:21:56 +0000

Sandboxie works pretty well.

New comment by racecar789 in "Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO [video]"

racecar789 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:39:28 +0000

Especially since a portion of the minnows will eventually grow-up to become whales.

New comment by racecar789 in "Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing"

racecar789 — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:47:17 +0000

That's too bad. State tax return forms are the worst. A lot of states don't have the resources to fine-tune their form design, and the instructions are often poorly written.

New comment by racecar789 in "Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing"

racecar789 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 19:01:06 +0000

I filed 2022 taxes with FreeTaxUSA. Pricing was very reasonable ($15 total for fed and state combined). The interface was better than I expected for such a low cost service.

Prior to FreeTaxUSA, I used TaxSlayer, H&R Block, and Intuit. Intuit does surprise me by charging roughly the same as a CPA firm but for a "do it yourself" service.

Hacker News: racecar789

New comment by racecar789 in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

New comment by racecar789 in "Maze Algorithms (2017)"

New comment by racecar789 in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

New comment by racecar789 in "Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction"

New comment by racecar789 in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

New comment by racecar789 in "Money mistakes you didn't know you're making"

New comment by racecar789 in "Acronis True Image costs performance when not used"

New comment by racecar789 in "How I code with AI on a budget/free"

New comment by racecar789 in "GPT-5"

New comment by racecar789 in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

New comment by racecar789 in "Chatterbox TTS"

New comment by racecar789 in "The correct amount of ads is zero"

New comment by racecar789 in "Show HN: Open source framework OpenAI uses for Advanced Voice"

New comment by racecar789 in "Pipe Syntax in SQL"

New comment by racecar789 in "Sandboxing all the things with Flatpak and BubbleBox"

New comment by racecar789 in "Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO [video]"

New comment by racecar789 in "Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing"

New comment by racecar789 in "Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing"

New comment by racecar789 in "The Humanist Report was demonitized by YouTube"

The Humanist Report was demonitized by YouTube