Hacker News: thanatos519

New comment by thanatos519 in "The autism spectrum isn't a sliding scale; 39 traits show the complexity"

thanatos519 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:41:53 +0000

So can we orthonormalize it into OKaut space?

New comment by thanatos519 in "Book Recommendations: Discworld"

thanatos519 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:21:14 +0000

YMMV. My first reading of Discworld was in publication order and I loved it!

Anyways, yes, everyone should read this series, one way or another.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor)"

thanatos519 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:41:49 +0000

That's pretty cool. Works great in my 320x90 kitty!

New comment by thanatos519 in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

thanatos519 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:28:18 +0000

I used to use the Sawfish window manager ... before it fell out of maintenance, oh and before I switched to DEs with the window manager bolted on.

The thing I miss the most from Sawfish is that it let me resize any window. There are a lot of fixed-sized modal dialogs with scrollbars that wouldn't need them if they were taller, and there's a lot of room on my portrait monitor!

New comment by thanatos519 in "Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server"

thanatos519 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:13:08 +0000

The canonical source for that is https://www.hvsc.c64.org/ and it's awesome.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Show HN: Mortgage Payment Calculator (fast, no signup)"

thanatos519 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:19:14 +0000

I appreciate the lack of "talk to a lender" wall.

Compare https://whathemortgage.com/ ← similar, for Dutch mortgages. It supports both annuity and linear interest structures. Also open source which might help you!

New comment by thanatos519 in "Epstein Notes Suggested Bill Gates Engaged in Extramarital Sex"

thanatos519 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:52:02 +0000

... and got an STD, gave it to his wife, and wanted to slip antibiotics to her so she wouldn't find out ...

New comment by thanatos519 in "88x31 badge for gen-AI free, 100% human-made works"

thanatos519 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:04:29 +0000

88x31 is the size for such badges established in the early 1990s. These days it might need to be pixel doubled to look vintage.

New comment by thanatos519 in "I tricked my partner into caring about finances"

thanatos519 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:35:20 +0000

I am in your target audience! I can live from payday to payday on any salary. My only savings are mandatory pensions and my only asset is home equity.

It's not recklessness or stress avoidance. I would not have to work anymore if I had ever taken it seriously. Many people have sat me down and explained budgets and expense tracking to me. Now I download my transactions and categorize them every month, and I look at spending trends... but this information does not influence my behavior.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Board Votes to Dissolve Corporation for Public Broadcasting"

thanatos519 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:58:46 +0000

This is catastrophic. I can't count the number of science and documentary programs they produced over the years.

Revolution is overdue.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

thanatos519 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:47:07 +0000

I have essential workflows using x2x, xev, and xdotool. Apparently this kind of stuff is contrary to Wayland's security model, so I'm stuck on Xorg, and I'm ok with that.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

thanatos519 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:45:10 +0000

Backups should be far away, too. Apparently some companies lost everything on 9/11 because their backups were in the other tower.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops"

thanatos519 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:20:28 +0000

Works for me - those are the first things I turn off!

New comment by thanatos519 in "Thank you for your interest in Astronomer [video]"

thanatos519 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 09:28:26 +0000

I have no interest in Astronomer and I am happy to say that I have no idea what they do.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Ask HN: Is it true that early humans were more 'gatherers' than 'hunters'?"

thanatos519 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:26:58 +0000

100% hunters. It's just easier to hunt plants because they don't move around.

New comment by thanatos519 in "US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel"

thanatos519 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:14:38 +0000

Here in the Netherlands, via my bank I can list all of my pre-approved transfers and block them. I'm pretty sure every bank here is required to support this. PayPal also has this feature.

I recently had to cut down on expenses starting with extraneous subscriptions and charitable donations, of which I had dozens. Many ad a click-to-cancel or at least fill-out-a-form-to-cancel process, but some of them said 'call us'. Then I discovered that I could cut them all off from my side!

I got a few 'hey your donation stopped' messages, and answered the first ones, but they all eventually went away.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Political belief clusters"

thanatos519 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:59:12 +0000

I gave different answers to these questions but you predicted the same answer ... does that mean most people give the same answer for these? :)

> In general, I believe government spending should be decreased to reduce the burden on taxpayers.

> In general, I believe government spending should be increased to fund more public services.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos you haven’t yet shared"

thanatos519 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:27:36 +0000

I like how the headline is truncated. I was thinking of 'seen' or 'taken' but turns out it ended with 'shared'.

New comment by thanatos519 in "New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC"

thanatos519 — Mon, 19 May 2025 05:21:01 +0000

I tried nose strips but I don't like disposables. I now use silicone nostril openers - two little tubes attached at the base that you stick up your nose. It came as a set of 4 sizes so a bit of waste there, but one size fit me and one size fit my wife.

New comment by thanatos519 in "Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes"

thanatos519 — Sun, 18 May 2025 07:16:48 +0000

There's a way to walhalla. Infrastructure, training, and liability laws prime the pump. When almost everyone is a cyclist, every driver knows that any cyclist could be a friend or family member. Or themselves.

Also... The Dutch reach. Open the driver's side door with the other hand to make sure you look for cyclists. In 12 years in Amsterdam I have never won the 'door prize'.