Hacker News: tehwebguy

New comment by tehwebguy in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

tehwebguy — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:05:47 +0000

> Facial age estimation: Take a selfie and Yoti's technology estimates your age. No ID document needed.

I still have never done one of these, seems insane!

New comment by tehwebguy in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

tehwebguy — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:40:55 +0000

What an insane trade off. Seems like a few bait cars and a couple of trackers would be plenty to figure out where the converters are getting fenced. Obviously there is a small number of buyers driving the entire catalytic theft economy.

New comment by tehwebguy in "Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks"

tehwebguy — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:20:21 +0000

What are minimums?

New comment by tehwebguy in "How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock"

tehwebguy — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:39:02 +0000

This would pin all violations on judgement proof goons.

New comment by tehwebguy in "Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search"

tehwebguy — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:56:32 +0000

Facebook is the biggest offender (could say that a lot tbh)

"New listings were added that match your search: <$search>"

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New comment by tehwebguy in "Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search"

tehwebguy — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:54:14 +0000

Just confirmed! (Is this new? I could swear it didn't work a few months ago when I was looking for stories about Bright Data before all the news articles about the residential proxies.)

Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search

tehwebguy — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:25:00 +0000

Not just HN the site, everyone’s fuzzy search sucks. Let me do exact match search. Even if it’s an option I have to dig deep to find.

When I ran a site that had lots of search use I agonized over making search good and never nuked exact match for the sake of some fuzzy matching. I wish others would do the same.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136990

Points: 100

# Comments: 58

New comment by tehwebguy in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

tehwebguy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:34:03 +0000

Wow, who is subsidizing it?

New comment by tehwebguy in "US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system"

tehwebguy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:03:13 +0000

Evidence of what?

New comment by tehwebguy in "Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets"

tehwebguy — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:20:36 +0000

Evidence of what?

New comment by tehwebguy in "The room the economy can't see"

tehwebguy — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:26:54 +0000

All of those things you long for have been nuked by the economy too.

New comment by tehwebguy in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

tehwebguy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:08:12 +0000

> Determined sites could already easily do this

They already DO do it, I don't know how they're currently determining it

New comment by tehwebguy in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

tehwebguy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:20:21 +0000

update: linear rolled out fixes to these 5 days ago, pretty stoked

New comment by tehwebguy in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

tehwebguy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:32:58 +0000

Linear still has broken Back / Forward after literally years! Instead of fixing it they introduced a Pinned Tab feature that doesn’t actually do anything! Absolutely drives me nuts.

New comment by tehwebguy in "Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026"

tehwebguy — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:03:44 +0000

What’s the $22 for, a DVD drive? I thought this was solved since Handbrake

New comment by tehwebguy in "Three of our worst VC stories"

tehwebguy — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:52:26 +0000

omfg that’s the beach access guy

New comment by tehwebguy in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

tehwebguy — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:46:25 +0000

For now!

New comment by tehwebguy in "Samsung vs. MPEG LA appeals arguments [video]"

tehwebguy — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:51:41 +0000

The timestamp got stripped out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixVEsTbt9LU&t=8360s

Samsung vs. MPEG LA appeals arguments [video]

tehwebguy — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:51:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixVEsTbt9LU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214683

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tehwebguy in "The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You"

tehwebguy — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:56:13 +0000

Yeah the unpunished petty crime is the reason, not the entire economy and every politician existing solely to scam everyone.