Hacker News: thrownaway561

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:53:44 +0000

I don't see anywhere in the post or the repo how much it cost him to do this in tokens.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

thrownaway561 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:37:06 +0000

Alternatives to Google Photos and self hosting:

If you pay for an Amazon Prime account, Amazon Photos is included. You get unlimited photos storage

If you pay for a M365 license, you get 1TB of photo space on OneDrive

I get these aren't free, however if you are already paying for a service which give you photo storage, why pay Google. Also, let's face it, most people have an Amazon Prime account or pay for a M365 account to use Office.

Show HN: WindStrap – Bootstrap 5.3.8 to Tailwind CSS Using DeepSeek V4 Flash

thrownaway561 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:08:39 +0000

bootstrap to tailwinds using DeepSeek V4 Flash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279813

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by thrownaway561 in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

thrownaway561 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:42:56 +0000

ads are like billboards. the company doesn't make money by making sure your buy the product, it make money by getting the product in front of you. You might not buy the product today, but there is a chance that since you've seen the product, you might buy it in the future.

many of times, i have looked to purchase a product or service and remember an ad that i saw that has alter my decision.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

thrownaway561 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:51:56 +0000

I don't understand how you are actually going to be able to enforce this when Linux is not "owned" by a single company.

Also how is that fine going to work if you don't have any children?

DeepSeek Plans 'Significant' Price Increase for Its AI Services

thrownaway561 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:49:05 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/deepseek-plans-significant-price-increase-025333567.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200707

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

thrownaway561 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:24:27 +0000

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os#cloudflare-os-an...

This is not a traditional computer operating system. We use the term "operating system" in two senses:

An operating system for the company to be productive with AI, in a way that is safe, so that the security team can sleep at night. An operating system for AI workloads, analogous to the sense in which a traditional operating system manages compute workloads.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:02:34 +0000

This is exactly what I came to say. The price of Flash is so cheap that trying to run it locally or with your own hardware is pointless. I was using it about a month ago to program some stuff and ran it for 4 days non-stop and it cost me about $2.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?"

thrownaway561 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:29:36 +0000

I ask the hard question then... what separates this person's fetish/mental illness from a trans person who wants to cut off their genitals than? It's weird that one is viewed as a fetish/mental illness while the other is viewed as an identity issue. Also in this article the person is a medical professional and an adult while most trans are children who are allowed (and encouraged) to make this decision.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?"

thrownaway561 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:26:54 +0000

" We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes"

What evidence do you have to back that up? I think you're trying to pull facts out of your a* to rationalize something.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?"

thrownaway561 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:21:25 +0000

Where is the line between fetish and mental illness??? Why is it that if someone wants to cut off their own healthy limbs, we are calling this a fetish rather than saying what it is, a mental illness. No rationale human being would want this done. And before people state that there are many fetishes and that people have the right to have them, if any of you had a friend that wanted this done, you would take them to a professional to get them help, you wouldn't be encouraging them to cut off their legs.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10"

thrownaway561 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:19:20 +0000

What about just linking their Google Business instead of filling out a submission and uploading photos? That actually helps the business rank more.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

thrownaway561 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:54:38 +0000

This happened 3 years ago... wondering what makes it news worthy today?

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

thrownaway561 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:32:47 +0000

this is too impressive. honestly, excellent work.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

thrownaway561 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:54:53 +0000

the fact that you are open sourcing it is just awesome. i really commend you for it. bowling is such a fun time for all and it just keep getting more and more expensive as centers age. having them save money by replacing a key component with open source will allow them to profit more to keep the light on.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"

thrownaway561 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:50:47 +0000

how do they compare to cloudflare? It would be nice to see a comparison chart

New comment by thrownaway561 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:11:14 +0000

"Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century"

They're making loud noise about nothing. 200-400 people in a country of 200+ million is nothing.

Yes... big trucks and SUVs might have something to do with it. Could also be that people are not paying attention more because of their phones. Could also be that the people in these vehicles suck at driving them.

The data doesn't account for particular instances, it's just a guess at what is the cause.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:43:18 +0000

No... I just use the github copilot chat

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:09:33 +0000

that thing has been in development for the past 10 years. At this point, I doubt we ever see it.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:54:35 +0000

Brave already does this. Built in ad Blocking