<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thaack</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thaack</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:34:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thaack" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was in similar situation. For me, what worked was filling up my time with productive fulfilling hobbies/tasks. This kept my mind off the drastic change. Think of all the things that you wanted to, but didn't get to do because you didn't have time in your previous routine.<p>What worked for me was going to the gym during the weekday nights, then I picked up volunteering at a museum that I love on the weekends. Also spending a lot more time on a side project that got put on the backburner when my relationship was taking up a large amount of my time. Find what works for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:37:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310464</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "Payphone Go"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This works because California requires licensing for payphones and Riley was able to FOIA state payphone database. I'm not sure if other states require licenses for payphones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:05:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275771</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>William Onyeabor got me into African fusion. He's definitely one of the most interesting characters on the scene and the synthesizers in his music were some of the best. RIP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:52:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906559</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Afrobeat (of which Fela Kuti pioneered) and Afro-rock are genuinely some of the coolest fusion genres to ever exist.<p>If you need an introduction, the Nigeria 70 compilation is a great place to start:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upN0WEbFmUY&list=OLAK5uy_nQZBBWRCVB4V8IH9wF6GZ4p4kmn0mEcok" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upN0WEbFmUY&list=OLAK5uy_nQZ...</a></p>
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<p>This is essentiality the concept of LDAP/Active Directory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:49:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46900977</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46900977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46900977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Matt Lakeman's recent "Notes on Afghanistan" actually covers this as he first-hand experienced a similar situation in Afghanistan where the Taliban had shut off the internet:<p>"The internet was out. Everywhere. Across the entire country. No cell data, no wifi, no phone service, and as far as I could tell, there are no landlines in Afghanistan [...] But now the blackout was total. Our waiter was complaining to my guide that he couldn’t contact his mother in a western province. I saw other people in the crowded restaurant fiddling with their phones and looking annoyed. I asked my guide what he thought was going on. He shrugged."<p>"Without internet and phones, people can’t talk to loved ones, businesses can’t function, trade can’t function, and even government offices can’t function. Only the Taliban with their well-established network of short-wave radios can function. But still, if the internet remains off long enough in Afghanistan, the country’s economy and society may very well collapse. Afghans couldn’t get money from banks. Soon enough, would food stop being delivered to cities?"<p><a href="https://mattlakeman.org/2026/01/05/notes-on-afghanistan/#" rel="nofollow">https://mattlakeman.org/2026/01/05/notes-on-afghanistan/#</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:27:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544577</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "How did TVs get so cheap?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's also understated that competition in the consumer TV market is very strong. South Korean, Chinese and Japanese manufacturers are all fighting each other and it's a market where the average consumer wants the lowest price/size. No one player controls over 30% of the market. [1] Competition is good.<p>[1]<a href="https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1740046963#:~:text=Hisense%2C%20TCL%20and%20Sony%20round,of%20the%20global%20OLED%20market." rel="nofollow">https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:16:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541212</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "Most parked domains now serving malicious content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Facebook[1], Google, etc all use (or used to use) MarkMonitor that offers domain squatting monitoring as a service[2] that utilizes the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy to remove offending domains violating their trademark. These services are quite expensive from my understanding.<p>[1] It appears Facebook now utilizes their own internal registry.<p>[2] <a href="https://www.markmonitor.com/domain-dispute-recovery-solutions/" rel="nofollow">https://www.markmonitor.com/domain-dispute-recovery-solution...</a></p>
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<p>The floor on refurbished laser printers is about $100 on Amazon and remanufactured toner cartridges are dirt cheap often times less than $15 for 2000-6000 pages.<p>This is the way. There is no reason to buy ink based anymore.</p>
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<p>That's a lot of broadcast traffic at scale.<p>How would you handle the ack of the broadcast? UDP can be unreliable. If you do send an ack from the destination, that singular endpoint that sent the message is going to get a number of responses equal to the number of devices on the network, which would nuke it at large scale.</p>
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<p>I have no involvement with the plant directly. My understanding is the best luck they had was getting in good graces with local probation officers & craigslist classifieds. Job portals were pretty useless from my understanding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:48:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571259</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's all full time 4x10 work with the employer covering 100% of health insurance premiums.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571203</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Most people in Western world also cannot imagine staying at conveyor belt or table doing the same assembly task whole week. I work in a factory and see this daily.<p>My family owns a small plastic manufacturing plant in the US. This is the biggest problem they face. The western worker's appetite for a low skill monotonous manufacturing job is very small. The business loses employees to Walmart etc. despite the factory having higher pay and significantly better benefits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:22:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45570946</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45570946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45570946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "California passes law to reduce volume of commercials on streaming services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Umberg’s bill faced resistance from Hollywood giants this summer. The Motion Picture Association and Streaming Innovators Alliance, which together represent entertainment conglomerates including Disney, Paramount, Amazon and Netflix, initially opposed the law, arguing that streaming ads come from multiple different sources and are hard to control.
The MPA claimed in-house audio engineers were already working on a fix and needed time to solve the issue without facing legal threats.
However, the group dropped its opposition after Umberg added legal provisions shielding streamers from lawsuits brought by private parties, leaving enforcement up to the state attorney general’s office. The amended bill passed California’s state Legislature with overwhelming support from Democrats and Republicans."[1]<p>Wouldn't be shocked if it was a huge nothingburger enforcement wise.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/dial-it-down-california-forces-netflix-hulu-to-lower-ad-volume-00595663" rel="nofollow">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/dial-it-down-califo...</a></p>
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<p>I think streaming is part of why I DON'T watch baseball. The DTC streaming package for my local team is $20/month. Baseball is something that I would flip on the local team and watch after work passively. The value just isn't there for $20!/month.<p>I also think it has a huge negative impact on youth interest in baseball. I personally got into baseball as a kid because my father would do the same - get home from work and turn on the game because it was on OTA TV. How are you getting kids interested in the sport if they can't even watch because the parents don't want to fork over that cost? Huge ripple effect. The RSN's which typically carry a vast majority of local baseball games (mlb.tv is blacked out for local markets) bet big on streaming and lost a ton of money[1]. They, in turn, attempted to gouge the remaining dedicated fans at an inflated cost. I already pay $82/month for YoutubeTv. If it's not on there, I just won't watch - in turn, I also go to the ballpark less and really don't keep up with the local team at all.<p>[1] Bally Sports (Diamond Sports Group) 2023 Bankruptcy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:52:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456055</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>EquipmentShare is located in Columbia, MO not Columbia, SC.</p>
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<p>Related: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44978815">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44978815</a></p>
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<p>Same with University of Iowa (American College Football)<p><a href="https://www.ncaa.com/video/football/2014-09-12/traditions-iowa-pink-visiting-locker-room" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncaa.com/video/football/2014-09-12/traditions-io...</a></p>
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<p>Sure if you commit to a 500 user minimum.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:01:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44652949</link><dc:creator>thaack</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44652949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44652949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thaack in "They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You would think it would be that black and white, and under normal circumstances I would tend to agree, however pay is well above average for the location and skill especially when you factor in the benefit package.<p>I really think it comes down to the fact that people have no interest in working in low skill manufacturing. The business loses people to Walmart etc. where they get lower pay and no benefits all the time. There is more variety of work and potential for advancement at a company like Walmart. Even at a larger scale low skill manufacturing plant advancement is sparse.</p>
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