Hacker News: switchers

New comment by switchers in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

switchers — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:10:27 +0000

Ruffle doing ruffle stuff, I'd be surprised if the original didn't work.

New comment by switchers in "Having Kids (2019)"

switchers — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:00:24 +0000

Consider how bad it would have been for you/would be for you right now had they not even tried though. Impossible to "what if" the situation now but I'm sure the effort will have made at least some difference.

New comment by switchers in "I stopped following the news"

switchers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:09:51 +0000

If you already have a prepared list then fair enough, but what are you personally doing to take part in the healing of society that consuming mainstream news media helps with? The person you're replying to hasn't said they live as a hermit and don't engage in any part of their local society.

I fully agree that it all seems fucked and there is no point in following anything other than specific tech stuff I'm interested in. Anything else actually important someone else in my life will probably mention it to me. Or the explosion will vaporise me and knowing it's coming won't have helped much.

New comment by switchers in "As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification?"

switchers — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:13:55 +0000

This is always going to be the simplest answer until VPNs start being regulated or blocked, or there's some mandatory BS age gate in every country worldwide. Which hopefully will be never.

New comment by switchers in "I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played"

switchers — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:00:24 +0000

The camelcamelcamel site is always my go to for "is this actually a deal" on Amazon. There's also an extension called keepa that will draw the graph on the Amazon website for you.

New comment by switchers in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

switchers — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:41:15 +0000

Get your head out of the proverbial, a bullshitting machine that lets some developers do things faster if they modify how they develop isn't even close to the most valuable thing we've ever created.

New comment by switchers in "Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application"

switchers — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:07:20 +0000

I was about to recommend fitnotes but if you've swapped then I've got something to check out...

New comment by switchers in "Brexit has failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll"

switchers — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:42:26 +0000

There are basically no benefits unless you are very very rich and knew what was coming far enough in advance for some convoluted disaster capitalism.

Most reasonable non thick people were either against it to start with, or have since realised they've been misled.

New comment by switchers in "Google CEO tells employees not to ‘equate fun with money’ in heated meeting"

switchers — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:29:31 +0000

I feel like that choice is at least more relatable, no matter what industry you're from.

New comment by switchers in "GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge"

switchers — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:13:47 +0000

12gb 3060 if you can find one. That extra memory over 8gb will try help for that kind of thing.

New comment by switchers in "GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge"

switchers — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:12:15 +0000

Running cards at full pelt 24/7 vs at most a few hours a day? Doubtful.

New comment by switchers in "Ask HN: Is there any “PBS Kids” alternatives these days?"

switchers — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 07:32:36 +0000

Cbeebies is good for a mix of very safe content, mix of education and entertainment stuff. There's some annoying stuff in the schedule (teletubbies, ugh) but most of it is decent enough for square nanny content that doesn't need input from an adult.

New comment by switchers in "Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM"

switchers — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:21:44 +0000

Slightly off tangent, has anyone got it running on an AMD card? Sad 6600xt Windows user reporting in :(

New comment by switchers in "Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU"

switchers — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:37:33 +0000

6600XT reporting in. Spent a few hours on Windows and WSL2 setup attempts, got no where. I don't run Ubuntu at home and don't want to dual boot just for this. From looking around I think I'd have a better chance on native Ubuntu.

New comment by switchers in "Ask HN: Who else can only fall asleep listening to audio content?"

switchers — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:44:26 +0000

Various ASMR stuff on YouTube does it for me, vast majority is designed for sleeping to. Ephemeral Rift and Goodnight Moon are favourites.

New comment by switchers in "Ask HN: What's your strategy to handle your phone being stolen?"

switchers — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:10:41 +0000

Authy and keepass file stored remotely, pictures backed up to cloud. It'd be really inconvenient, but I try and have nothing I care about only local to my phone.

New comment by switchers in "The obsessive pleasures of mechanical-keyboard tinkerers"

switchers — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 07:39:20 +0000

I think it depends on how deep you want to go initially. It's very easy to buy a pretty good mechanical keyboard off the shelf, and that's as far as many people need to go. Determine the switches you want, find some decently reviewed keyboards you like the look of, buy it (from a reputable online store).

If you immediately want to spend hundreds on a custom setup and are paying someone you've never met to do it for you, before receiving any kind of product, that's where it can get dicey.