Hacker News: throwaway0665

New comment by throwaway0665 in "I'm Not Consulting an LLM"

throwaway0665 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:31:37 +0000

This tech isn't going away anytime soon. It might become prohibitively expensive for individuals but it's here to stay. It's worth trying to find a use for it while it's cheap.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Put the Zipcode First"

throwaway0665 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:48:07 +0000

It doesn't take long to type your address. Plus password managers or keyboards often auto fill it. It's not that deep.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Be wary of Bluesky"

throwaway0665 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:49:44 +0000

I can't imagine a world where a p2p social network is practical. Not when each node is an unreliable mobile phone that's maybe on cellular. Even with something like ipfs you have pinning services, bittorrent has seed boxes, because pure p2p is impractical.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

throwaway0665 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:25:44 +0000

Browsers break backwards compatibility for security all the time. Most recently Chrome made accessing devices on a local network require a permission. They completely changed the behavior of cookies. They break loads of things for cross origin isolation.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

throwaway0665 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:27:38 +0000

They moved the tents.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s"

throwaway0665 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:27:26 +0000

How do you collaborate with the other meeting participants? You all ssh into the one machine?

New comment by throwaway0665 in "I'm Archiving Picocrypt"

throwaway0665 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:30:58 +0000

bing it

New comment by throwaway0665 in "I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself"

throwaway0665 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 01:18:37 +0000

The sever should cancel the request handler when the client drops. Otherwise you're just opening up to accidental DOS.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA"

throwaway0665 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:04:35 +0000

The article talks about browsers that use Linux in the user agent. This includes Alpine Linux - which is not GNU/Linux. It also splits out Chrome OS which is pretty much GNU/Linux.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI"

throwaway0665 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 07:56:20 +0000

I think learning how to unlearn is part of it. You'll often encounter music that is fingered unintuitively when learning increasingly difficult pieces. Plus if you're able to play legato at 100% speed guitar hero style you've probably discovered a mostly correct fingering anyway.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels"

throwaway0665 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 01:50:12 +0000

It's the rejection of pseudoscience.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

throwaway0665 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:40:17 +0000

Wow this is amazing.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel"

throwaway0665 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:40:39 +0000

There's always another log that could have been key to getting to the bottom of an incident. It's impossible to know completely what will be useful in advance.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything"

throwaway0665 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:21:53 +0000

Since most authors are probably 40+ your link seems to corroborate the above comment.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Reverse engineering Claude Code"

throwaway0665 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:47:10 +0000

Cursor has basically run into this exact thing. It figured out it can read .env files by running other tools despite the file being "blocked": https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2546

New comment by throwaway0665 in "parrot.live"

throwaway0665 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:38:27 +0000

Curl just downloads the http response and prints it to the terminal. The sever streams the response and yields a frame of the video every 70ms or so. It sends control characters in the response to clear the terminal and change the color.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Hotspot: Linux `perf` GUI for performance analysis"

throwaway0665 — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:04:17 +0000

I just assumed they used the same gui toolkit. Awesome to hear they're from the same author.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Instagram Addiction"

throwaway0665 — Wed, 21 May 2025 02:55:05 +0000

Do you believe in gambling addiction? Behavioral addictions are medically recognized. No need to be so pedantic.

New comment by throwaway0665 in "I Tried Windows Gaming on a Mac and It's Amazing"

throwaway0665 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:57:14 +0000

> 95% of the Wine code base we develop for CrossOver gets released back into the Wine project for the open source community

nice

New comment by throwaway0665 in "Find the Odd Disk"

throwaway0665 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:25:58 +0000

Towards the end the disk I was looking at would change color and become brighter than the others. I didn't notice until I focused on each one at a time and the "different" one became the one I was looking at.