Hacker News: throwaway743

New comment by throwaway743 in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

throwaway743 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:39:16 +0000

The footer rules

New comment by throwaway743 in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

throwaway743 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:52:52 +0000

Just tried No_4mat's 1992... unfortunately it didn't work :(

New comment by throwaway743 in "Harold and George Destroy the World"

throwaway743 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:52:52 +0000

I see your take but I took it as "don't limit yourself to the confines of tradition and culture, open yourself up to others, go your own path, do the right thing, and make friends along the way to enrichen your life and meaning".

Weak Signal Propagation Reporter

throwaway743 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:47:47 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296899

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Amazon bugging out for anyone else?

throwaway743 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:08:16 +0000

Trying to get some airbrush supplies and each page shows "Sorry this page is unavailable" and in the results the "Prime" filter is showing on and and off. Noticing other weird behaviors as well. Wasn't sure if it's a system wide thing or not

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265849

Points: 9

# Comments: 4

New comment by throwaway743 in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

throwaway743 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:05:46 +0000

This is all inevitable with the trajectory of technology, and has been apparent for a long time. The issue isn't AI, it's that our leaders haven't bothered to think or care about what happens to us when our labor loses value en masse due to such advances.

Maybe it requires fundamentally changing or economic systems? Who knows what the solution is, but the problem is most definitely rooted in lack of initiative by our representatives and an economic system that doesn't accommodate us for when shit inevitably hits the fan with labor markets.

New comment by throwaway743 in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

throwaway743 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:58:09 +0000

What's not given as much coverage is how she didn't have a subscription, yet the footage was still recorded pulled from servers. That's concerning.

New comment by throwaway743 in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

throwaway743 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:22:56 +0000

Idk where you're at, but it's been the complete opposite in my experience

New comment by throwaway743 in "First, make me care"

throwaway743 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:41:10 +0000

Part of the hook is asking a question. It immediately gets people investing in thinking of an answer

New comment by throwaway743 in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

throwaway743 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:25:14 +0000

I took the "perhaps" as a decision to be considered by the applicant, considering they'd be competent enough to get in at a place of their choice, not just anthropic.

New comment by throwaway743 in "Maggots, an efficient source of protein"

throwaway743 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:23:56 +0000

No.

New comment by throwaway743 in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

throwaway743 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:50:56 +0000

This might be a little conspiracy thinking, but I think it's possible that the recent drive from NVIDIA to move toward defense contracting and shift to B2B is part of a larger strategy. When you combine that with the rapid increases in hardware pricing and the push toward renting cloud compute, it looks like a form of collusion between the private sector and the government in the name of "national security".

The goal seems to be to squash the proliferation of open source LLMs and prevent individuals from running private, uncensored models at home. It is an effective way to kill any possible underdog or startup competition by making the "barrier to entry" (the compute) a rented privilege rather than a private resource. The partnership with Palantir seems to point directly to this, especially considering the ideologies of Thiel and Karp.

They are building a world where intelligence is centralized and monitored, and local sovereignty over AI is treated as a liability to be phased out

New comment by throwaway743 in "Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults"

throwaway743 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:29:18 +0000

I'd assume Katamari has the same effect. Felt a sense of joy I haven't felt in a while, when playing the latest one after having not played a Katamari game since around 08.

New comment by throwaway743 in "The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out"

throwaway743 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:07:10 +0000

A lot of this AI backlash feels less about the tech itself and more about people feeling economically exposed. When you think your job or livelihood is on thin ice, it is easier to direct that fear at AI than at the fact that our elected reps have not offered any real plan for how workers are supposed to survive the transition.

AI becomes a stand-in for a bigger problem. We keep arguing about models and chatbots, but the real issue is that the economic safety net has not been updated in decades. Until that changes, people will keep treating AI as the thing to be angry at instead of the system that leaves them vulnerable.

New comment by throwaway743 in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

throwaway743 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:44:07 +0000

This is the problem.

IME it's especially bad with Admob. They've purposefully kept their email contact option broken for years and the only "help" you can access is from their forum, which is the absolute worst and never provides any meaningful resolutions. It's awful.

The Trump IRS has decided to end Direct File

throwaway743 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:49:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/business/taxes-irs-direct-file.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844109

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by throwaway743 in "Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK"

throwaway743 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:16:19 +0000

Kinda related/unrelated, but I'm dying for something that solves the problem of fog of war for tabletop games, while still allowing for physical minis

New comment by throwaway743 in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

throwaway743 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:48:08 +0000

Imo DEI should have always been based on socioeconomic status over anything else. It'd likely address the other forms of diversity, and would provide way less homogeneity in thought while at the same time providing a sense of inclusion/belonging.

New comment by throwaway743 in "Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models"

throwaway743 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:02:19 +0000

This is great! I've been using mixamo and really sion, but would just love something open source that does both the body rigging as well as the facial rigging and lip syncing. It'd make life so much easier

New comment by throwaway743 in "Shut the Fuck Up"

throwaway743 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:50:33 +0000

Nope.