Hacker News: throwaway742

New comment by throwaway742 in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

throwaway742 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:12:46 +0000

RIP

New comment by throwaway742 in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

throwaway742 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:22:22 +0000

Oh hey it's my favorite Romanian stupidpol poster. Didn't think I would run into you here.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

throwaway742 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 08:27:33 +0000

https://archive.ph/qoimk

New comment by throwaway742 in "Cough or sneeze? How the brain knows what to unleash"

throwaway742 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 23:44:32 +0000

Then you get snot on your shirt sleeve.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Oakland's new school buses reduce pollution and double as giant batteries"

throwaway742 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:33:28 +0000

>All the while, fiercer heat waves will require more energy-hungry air conditioning to keep people healthy. (Though ideally, everyone would get a heat pump instead.)

Isn't an AC already a heat pump?

New comment by throwaway742 in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

throwaway742 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:08:01 +0000

Does AdGuard support regex matching?

New comment by throwaway742 in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

throwaway742 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:07:13 +0000

Just run it in a container. No need to use an actual Pi.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way"

throwaway742 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:20:12 +0000

Tasker

New comment by throwaway742 in "Microsoft announces purchase of 315k tonnes of CO2 removal"

throwaway742 — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 02:40:57 +0000

It really sounds like a perfect use of nuclear power. If you match the NPP with the carbon capture plant you have a nice consistent load.

New comment by throwaway742 in "x86 is dead, long live x86"

throwaway742 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:16:15 +0000

It's unironically one of the things I like about this site.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue"

throwaway742 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:13:22 +0000

PTP, BTN, HDB

New comment by throwaway742 in "Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue"

throwaway742 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:11:26 +0000

All my favorite shows download automatically to my server. I can stream them to any of my devices. There are no ads or viruses.

This infographic is a bit out of date, but you get the idea https://i.imgur.com/IrxoHI3.png

It's overall a vastly superior experience.

New comment by throwaway742 in "You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email"

throwaway742 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:32:00 +0000

Thank you. I didn't know nitter was working again.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Guam: The America that Americans forget"

throwaway742 — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 03:51:15 +0000

What if you had a medical emergency while on the tarmac in Guam?

New comment by throwaway742 in "Instant Messenger History: Lessons for the Threads Era of Social Media"

throwaway742 — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 03:44:32 +0000

IIRC it had skins and plugins so you could customize the UI.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Uber Eats Canada Ran Production in a MacBook Air"

throwaway742 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:24:07 +0000

SSDs are pretty fast.

New comment by throwaway742 in "'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of US tap water, federal study finds"

throwaway742 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:26:10 +0000

I grew up in an agricultural area and the water was completely untreated. It was literally a canal from the river that was then sprayed onto fields. It wasn't uncommon to have to clean out small fish from the irrigation pump's filter. Sometimes you'd lose water pressure completely and have to drive down to the irrigation ditch and clean a racoon carcass or something out of the intake grate.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro"

throwaway742 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:19:15 +0000

I just tell people that VR makes me feel sick, but really I just find not knowing what is going on around me disconcerting. It's nice to see someone express a similar sentiment.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data"

throwaway742 — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:05:04 +0000

I wish they had more granular permissions.

New comment by throwaway742 in "Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls"

throwaway742 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:45:37 +0000

Yes, but can it collect large amounts of personal data about you?