Hacker News: throwitawayfam

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

throwitawayfam — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:10:02 +0000

With the software being open source I wonder if the quest 3 will get owned so that eventually we can run steam frame sw on it

New comment by throwitawayfam in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"

throwitawayfam — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:12:22 +0000

What do you do when these lookups return the company that owns the number but the company says that they are not in control of the number? E.g, I have one number that keeps harassing me that reports as Verizon but Verizon says they have not been with Verizon since 2024.

Also great tool, thank you

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience"

throwitawayfam — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:51:58 +0000

New manual miatas have transmissions that grenade themselves. miata.net has a whole forum dedicated to it: https://forum.miata.net/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=172

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young"

throwitawayfam — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:55:00 +0000

> Fish is the only source of EPA and DHA.

Algae oil [0] which is plant based is also a source of EPA and DHA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed_oil

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Docker Compose Isn't Enough"

throwitawayfam — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:44:57 +0000

For #2 I use https://kopia.io/ and upload to Backblaze b3 (S3 api)

New comment by throwitawayfam in "HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer"

throwitawayfam — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:16:23 +0000

There is some evidence that it can help against self inoculation and immune response to an existing infection

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10....

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00908...

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family"

throwitawayfam — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:29:47 +0000

You should try out the Infuse app. It’s a fantastic front end for jellyfin on Apple TV (and other Apple products)

It is a $1/month for some of the advanced encoding though

New comment by throwitawayfam in "AMD may get across the CUDA moat"

throwitawayfam — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 19:21:40 +0000

Yep, did exactly that. IMO he threw a fit, even though AMD was working with him squashing bugs. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/2198#issuec...

New comment by throwitawayfam in "First blood test for dozens of hereditary cancers approved by FDA"

throwitawayfam — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:35:23 +0000

The comment you've replied to is about the Galleri test by Grail. It tests for early _detection_ of cancer, not likelihood of cancer. Meaning, you _have_ cancer. Knowing you have cancer (hopefully early) is actionable...

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Ask HN: Have you seen this eBay scam? I am out $277"

throwitawayfam — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:02:07 +0000

pretty off topic --

Recently I have been getting acquainted with Aliexpress. For eBay, I look for significant history with over 99% positive feedback.

For Aliexpress, is there a positive feedback threshold you hold yourself to? Recently I bought some 3d printer parts from TriangleLab (which I know is reputable) but they had a ~98% positive feedback rate which gave me pause.

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Blood pressure should be measured lying down: study"

throwitawayfam — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:20:41 +0000

Do you have a favorite device you use? I've been considering getting something "smart" to auto log my BP.

New comment by throwitawayfam in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

throwitawayfam — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:44:49 +0000

Reddit does this and it's very frustrating

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?"

throwitawayfam — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 06:05:32 +0000

ChatGPT wrote my professional goals during my works mandated goal setting period.

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Websites selling abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google"

throwitawayfam — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:18:24 +0000

> Roughly half of US voters disagreed with Roe/Casey.

Citation needed.

2/3rds of US voters did not support overturning Roe. [1]

[1] https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/npr-pbs-newshour-marist-...

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Google’s Android Automotive OS is coming to BMW cars next year"

throwitawayfam — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 01:03:24 +0000

OTA-upgradable means automakers are siphoning your data and selling it off to who knows where. Speed, gps, brake, etc. Hundreds of pieces of data. I'm sure insurance companies are actively buying this data up.

Source: worked at the telematics/connectivity division of one of the big car companies

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Ask HN: How do you manage and consume movies etc.?"

throwitawayfam — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 22:33:01 +0000

I have not -- I like Jellyfin because it's docker based and it has inter-op with Infuse (apple tv) and VLC. All my other home services are running in a small k8s cluster. So if I ever want to move where jellyfin lives it'll be seamless.

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Ask HN: How do you manage and consume movies etc.?"

throwitawayfam — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:41:58 +0000

nas (synology) + jellyfin running on that nas

radarr auto downloads and organizes the movies (if you're into that kind of thing)

New comment by throwitawayfam in "Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search"

throwitawayfam — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:23:26 +0000

The killer feature for me would be time filter. Google doesn't work because the dates listed on the results never match the date of the original post. For example, something posted 7 years ago will be marked as posted recently on Google. I assume this is some SEO bullshit that Reddit is pulling.

I've posted about this a lot as I use site:reddit.com extensively.

Ask HN: Being bombarded by recruiter emails, all same pattern

throwitawayfam — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:48:51 +0000

I can't stand these emails and I get _a lot_ of them.

All the emails follow the same pattern:

- Tech startups

- One initial email with them being very impressed with my background

- two "gentle nudge" followups

- All the links are prefixed with "znsrc.com"

Looking at the original email, I can't seem to find what company is hosting my information on their platform so I can ask them to remove it.

Sometime ago I did ask getrocket.com to remove me from their list. They claimed to remove me. However they followed nearly the same pattern, so I have to wonder if they got better at hiding their tracks and didn't end up removing me.

Due to the spammy nature of these emails, I would never consider a job opportunity from any of them.

I was hoping some HN folks might have some insight on who this business is so I can opt out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461438

Points: 7

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New comment by throwitawayfam in "Subaru, Kia shut off some car features rather than adhere to 'right to repair'"

throwitawayfam — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:18:05 +0000

Not all CAN information flows to the OBD2 port