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New comment by throwaway1492 in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

throwaway1492 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:05:00 +0000

It’s trivial to use a cellular connection to control a fpv drone, near real time. I’m really surprised there hasn’t been occurrences of extortion (ie protection rackets) and targeted assassinations via air droppable explosives like we see in Ukraine war. Burner phones enable this.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters"

throwaway1492 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:23:26 +0000

Do you always make things about yourself? Have you written a parser or interpreter? You should, it’s an interesting exercise. The idea is to add meta tracing to the interpreter (the c code) that allows hot paths to be compiled to machine code and be then executed instead of being interpreted.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

throwaway1492 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:07:35 +0000

Doesn’t affect me. I personally stopped in 2023, plus I can retire anytime thanks to the money I made then and Taco.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

throwaway1492 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:33:51 +0000

It doesn’t, I have one of these jobs on my resume and I simply don’t mention the others. Who would know if I don’t tell them? The IRS knows I had 3 w2s but they don’t know the dates of employment. It does so happen all three companies used the same large payroll management provider, so that company knows, but it would be pretty bad to share customer data wouldn’t it?

New comment by throwaway1492 in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

throwaway1492 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:19:04 +0000

Glad I was over working three full time jobs (remote w2) during that period. I stacked A LOT of cash during that those years that has appreciated nicely.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

throwaway1492 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:32:13 +0000

This is a big turn off for me too. I don’t want to “figure it out for myself”. That’s why I became catholic as an adult.

With the fediverse I have an overwhelming fear of missing out if I pick the wrong communities. I feel like it needs aggregation which defeats the purpose.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "The happiest I've ever been"

throwaway1492 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:10:39 +0000

At the very least these ai threads where we argue this ai topic will be of great historical interest as our profession either dies or mutates to something else!

New comment by throwaway1492 in "The happiest I've ever been"

throwaway1492 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:04:24 +0000

This, I got married at 40 to a 36 year old. We both wanted kids and a family but for reasons it hadn’t worked out for either of us. This wasn’t a Disney romance by any means but we get along and we put in the work to make it work. We had two kids back to back and I can say without a doubt what we have built is greater than any one of us.

Trust there are some really great women in their thirties, they may not have been your first choice, you probably wouldn’t have been theirs either, but from where I sit it was worth it.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks"

throwaway1492 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:29:59 +0000

It’s my personal belief that btc has been the currency of foreign influence operations ie for paying media figures to influence popular opinion and sentiments. I believe this can be most readily seen in the US right and maga. The messaging is all very consistent across YouTube, x, fox, news nation etc across weeks, months and years.

Brexit was a proof of concept, certainly it has spread.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Observation of neutron emission acoustic cavitation deuterated titanium powder"

throwaway1492 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:15:49 +0000

A video [1] was posted about his, but here is the paper.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39400179

Observation of neutron emission acoustic cavitation deuterated titanium powder

throwaway1492 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:15:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-62055-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103419

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

throwaway1492 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:12:14 +0000

Quitting caffeine helped me with anxiety and some mental health stuff. Ymmv

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

throwaway1492 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:58:58 +0000

When I was moonlighting LinkedIn didn’t affect me. Every time I applied/interviewed and got hired for a w2 job, I just left my last non moonlighting employer on there, and checked the “please don’t contact current employer” checkbox. I hadn’t worked there in over a year.

Didn’t my new employer want me to update my LinkedIn? That never came up, but if it would have I would have delayed. Why should I support their business model.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi"

throwaway1492 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 01:36:39 +0000

Nice effort but this isn’t interesting at all. You skipped the most interesting part; parsing http. This is beejs networking tutorial with writing a file to a socket.

Harsh? Maybe, but you’re posting this to a site with some of the most talented developers on planet. Real talk, sorry.

FOSDEM 2025 open source Kite for Wind Power Generation [video]

throwaway1492 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:36:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktXufcmy8Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973850

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?"

throwaway1492 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:02:08 +0000

Until science can offer an explanation of "why am I here? what is meaning?" other than random chance, there will always be religion. Some may find random chance comforting and meaningful, but most don't. Belief in God can never be proven or disproven, it's a question of faith. Faith is not logical. Nor is the reality that terrible things happen to random people; good or bad. The challenge for any of us individually is to not participate in tribalism and hate. But to act in the best spirit of whatever faith (or belief system) we do hold, for the benefit of all, and ourselves.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?"

throwaway1492 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:22:53 +0000

This is why I became catholic as an adult. I was raised baptist, and became agnostic. Then started attending mass with my now wife. Imo Protestants border on bible (the physical book) worship over all else, and ignore the reality of Jesus sacrifice. Plus the Catholic Church doesn’t require that I lobotomize myself to be a believer.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "SpaceX update regarding Starship FAA flight approval"

throwaway1492 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:16:52 +0000

Let him go build his rockets in Russia or China. If he wants to support anti democratic folks he’ll be right at home somewhere else. Musk and his troll farm can piss right off imo.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "GPUs Go Brrr"

throwaway1492 — Mon, 13 May 2024 14:00:56 +0000

As someone who witnessed A-10 CAS fuck some stuff up in a combat zone ie the real “brrrrt” I’ve been mystified by the meme and current useage. No one knows where it comes from nor the slaughter it represents.

New comment by throwaway1492 in "'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death"

throwaway1492 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:06:00 +0000

Whenever people say about someone “they would never kill themselves” it reminds me of a deeply disturbing depression episode I had, thankfully only once, that lasted about 8 hours. It was the blackest morass of misery, I couldn’t bear to be in my own skin. After experiencing that I came to understand how people can do it, and the sudden onset also made me understand how inexplicable it can be.