Hacker News: throwaway5465

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Copy Fail"

throwaway5465 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:45:33 +0000

The domain is canonical.

Then it's syndicate everywhere.

But all roads lead back to the domain.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook"

throwaway5465 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:01:00 +0000

The washing machine does. Either this conversation has come full circle or HN, circus of productivity hacks, is exceptionally ineffective at doing laundry.

Does it not smell and fester when left for days?

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook"

throwaway5465 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:55:24 +0000

A wash per day. In it, a couple of t-shirts, a shirt, a hoodie, a pair of trousers, socks, underwear. At max.

It really shouldn't take more than a handful of seconds to give a good flap and put any one of these on a hangar.

Likewise folding. A couple of seconds. Shirts don't need folding, they stay n the hangar.

I'm struggling to think why it would take longer. Are you new to clothes?

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook"

throwaway5465 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:27:05 +0000

I have a washing machine. That automates most of washing clothes, hanging and folding them takes seconds.

I expect robots in unexpected, previously unautomated areas. I don't expect them to look humanoid other than the ones that will look exceptionally humanoid perhaps changing form from time to time.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"

throwaway5465 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:38:29 +0000

Maybe a competitor is trying to FUD them?

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?"

throwaway5465 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:25:37 +0000

Delivery and porn are basically 95% of the new economy so good for him getting into position - so to speak.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different"

throwaway5465 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:14:46 +0000

It's like HTMX but with zoom as the transition. I'm curious what could be done with the inner target.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

throwaway5465 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:32:28 +0000

Forcing seasons into chunks of equal duration also feels wrong, to me but also anyone I recall having a conversation with so seeing every HN comment assuming all seasons are 3 months long is somewhat perplexing.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

throwaway5465 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:41:25 +0000

We can just all use rsync, no need for an app.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Ask HN: How Do You Relax?"

throwaway5465 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:11:25 +0000

My job is social and deadline driven. Here's what works for me:

Lifting some weights in a deserted gym - no music or people.

Stretching for 20 minutes before bed each day.

Getting a full night's sleep.

Going to a favourite restaurant once or twice a week. The rest of the time a simple, high fibre diet with lots of water, no alcohol, cigarettes or drugs.

Doing a part-time postgraduate course to boost some depth and variety to the often-times surface-level demands of work work.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

throwaway5465 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:45:52 +0000

It needed more than a flush.

/ducks

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

throwaway5465 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:32:17 +0000

Or a pickup from 2015 - 2021 which was 0% growth.

It's tricky to pick an end-of-decade year also - recessions tend to happen +/- 2 years of the end of each decade in the USA, or at least have done since records began in the 19th century. For example 2010 was recovery over 2008/2009's bust. It's not like comparing March to Ma4ch for a crude seasonal adjustment.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

throwaway5465 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:57:11 +0000

I view it as a change in philosophy that does allow more ads indeed and goes deeper into how microsoft view themselves and by extension their customers:

You have an account that exists on Microsoft - on being somewhere, multiple places at once, even in location and function, in a ocean of Microsoft but whose existence and ownership of existence is finely permissioned.

vs.

You own your device(s).

New comment by throwaway5465 in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

throwaway5465 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:37:20 +0000

Windows XP + Encarta.

The future is today!

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500"

throwaway5465 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:46:26 +0000

4729 three times in a row.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites"

throwaway5465 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:40:30 +0000

It's Friday night / Saturday morning. Who wants to be reading text?

Especially on night mode themes.

Besides, can we read anymore? In the age of 'GPT summarise it me' attention spans and glib commentary not about the content of the article being all many people have to add, perhaps liberal application of visualisations adds digestive value.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "I built AI agents that do the grunt work solo founders hate"

throwaway5465 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:07:12 +0000

I don't have time to check Stripe but do have time to figure out another crypto coin seems to be the wrong way around unless marketed to a very niche group.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?"

throwaway5465 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:33:18 +0000

Creates echo chambers, karma whoring 'power' accounts, rewards ego-posting and generally makes the experience about who says what not what is said. Worsens the problem.

New comment by throwaway5465 in "If you drive clock wise along the beach on an island"

throwaway5465 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:46:51 +0000

If you project from the centre, as if the observer is trapped in the middle of the earth like a Jules Verne prisoner with x-ray vision watching the world above them, it is to the right (anti-clockwise to the left).

But no one thinks like that.

After testing whis, what strikes me is how stubborn the LLMs are about being wrong. Is that a more important takeaway: that LLMs seem to back down less even when clearly wrong?

New comment by throwaway5465 in "Ask HN: Could you create a competitor to your company at 10% of the cost?"

throwaway5465 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:50:02 +0000

I AIed a new currency coin and am currently llmmaxxing an airline rooted around no assumption models.

Traditional moats have crumbled. New norms challenge established truths. What were barriers are now entry.

A phase shift across industry where entrepreneur becomes the incumbent. This time it is different. I say go for it!