Hacker News: throw7

New comment by throw7 in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

throw7 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:52:12 +0000

NIV is what I grew up with and I kind of tired of it because of that... I have a soft spot for the KJV/NKJV.

USB sticks missing results from the Milwaukee primary election

throw7 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:58:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wisn.com/article/human-error-forces-delay-in-milwaukee-primary-election-results/73409614

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277765

Points: 2

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New comment by throw7 in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

throw7 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:13:58 +0000

Good article. It's a sober look at where we are at.

We lost a lot of strong privacy rights we had with landlines when we shifted to cell phones.

We're actually slowly creeping into pre-crime territory. You could have AI searching for possible pre-crime candidates based on unknown identity in the area, disparate pattern to usually movements, etc.

New comment by throw7 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

throw7 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:21:00 +0000

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

New comment by throw7 in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

throw7 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:07:06 +0000

"an employee simply forgot to remove it."

And? That's all? This is why no one wants the gov't. to run things.

New comment by throw7 in "It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]"

throw7 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:55:48 +0000

So the subcontractor is "avoiding regulations" (which are what btw?) by being a "subcontractor" and NYC can do nothing about the "subcontractors" but get rid of "subcontractors"?

New comment by throw7 in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good if you ask the right questions"

throw7 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:13:20 +0000

"...the model may give different advice even when the underlying question is the same."

Isn't this the point of LLMs? If not it would be deterministic and that's not "new" and/or "exciting".

New comment by throw7 in "John C. Dvorak has died"

throw7 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:26:08 +0000

It seems a lot of people that read about their bio on wikipedia feel the same way. In fact, it's hard not to be suspicious of those that don't.

New comment by throw7 in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

throw7 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:47:58 +0000

I heard about one in northern virginia which seems to be the front lines in this debate. It has onsite power generation which seems to be going 24/7 which is positively awful if you have to live next to that.

New comment by throw7 in "How to Read a Painting"

throw7 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:30:16 +0000

Labels don't help? The Smithsonian begs to differ.

New comment by throw7 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

throw7 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:19:31 +0000

old reddit is broken... the message/mail notifications don't work/go away.

New comment by throw7 in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

throw7 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:43:09 +0000

Utah was the one I remember... have more states passed laws?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulati...

New comment by throw7 in "Bonnie Tyler has died"

throw7 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:46:35 +0000

This isn't hacker news... but whatever i guess.

New comment by throw7 in "A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]"

throw7 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:24:49 +0000

I just go under and over one more time in the initial step of tying a traditional "shoelace" knot. That gives a little more friction on the initial tightening draw to keep it in place, then just finish it as normal.

I've tried alternatives, but in the end keeping it simple is what I prefer.

New comment by throw7 in "The CAPTCHA arms race: from distorted text to browser identity"

throw7 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:07:03 +0000

Just today a website presented me a qrcode captcha. I threw up.

New comment by throw7 in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

throw7 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:48:53 +0000

It's not if nothing works, it's what works when nothing works, i.e. the safe thing must always work. period. (i'm not trying to be pedantic or an ass)

New comment by throw7 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

throw7 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:02:43 +0000

Just tried it. Still broken. Maps doesn't respond at all now. I get the beep that maps hears my "hey google", but that's it now.

> I see. So you intentionally broke the feature, now you complain about it being broken.

nope. that was a recent thing when they forced gemini on the phone. woke up one day hearing a different voice and then went searching how to disable that. maps has always been borked.

New comment by throw7 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

throw7 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:24:34 +0000

They've regressed for a long time and there's no signal to consumers that "AI" is anything that "fixes" or brings back what was working.

The example I always give is when google maps got speech recognition, I could ask it "Hey google, what's the E.T.A." and it would magically respond with how long till I arrive. Somewhere along the line it broke and for years now it doesn't work... the last time I tried my phone actually brought up the web browser and did a web search. smh.

The first thing I did when they forced gemini was I went to look how to disable it. Why? It override the old voice I chose to read calender events in the morning... in fact it would start reading like normal, then that stupid gemini voice would cut in and be entirely unhelpful.

its all enshitification.

Paris Hilton is Android's first icon in residence

throw7 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:04:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/paris-hilton/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475706

Points: 5

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New comment by throw7 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

throw7 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:17:29 +0000

I've always favoured Tessier-Ashpool S.A. as comparable. The creation of AI's and Freeside and Musk's pronatalism slots in nicely.