Hacker News: thrownaway561

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

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

thrownaway561 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:24:44 +0000

I just use DeepSeekV4 Fast... It's cheap as hell. Currently my monthly usage has been

67M Ouput 51M Input

Total $0.83 dollar.

I honestly don't understand why people just don't use DeepSeek.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

thrownaway561 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:26:51 +0000

I get all the hate with the requirements for Microsoft account, but I have to admit, they have made life easier.

Case in point, moving to a new computer is absolutely painless now with a Microsoft Account because of OneDrive and Winget.

Make sure that Onedrive is setup to backup all folder (desktop, documents, pictures. you can do this by clicking the gear icon and selecting Manage Backups)

Next have this simple batch file run whenever the user logs in. It basically uses winget to update all packages to the latest version and export a list of all those packages and save it onedrive

winget update --all --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements --silent winget export -o "C:\Users\\OneDrive\WingetPrograms.txt"

Now if you move computers, you just log in with your Microsoft account so that you will have your desktop and everything because onedrive will come over.

Now just do an import with Winget and you will have 95% of your programs installed. Yes I know there might be some programs that aren't available for installation through Winget, but almost ALL popular programs are available.

winget import -i "C:\Users\\OneDrive\WingetPrograms.txt"

It's that simple. Something that use to take days now takes minutes and 3 commands. Plus the fact that everything is backed up to the cloud, you just can't beat it.

Yes I get the same stuff can be done with Google Drive, Dropbox replacing Onedrive. Chocolatey, ninite as a package manager instead of winget. Using Onedrive and winget are native and available on ANY Windows 11 machine and they WORK.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:39:29 +0000

well said. my wife's company has been having layoffs particularly from the overhiring during COVID. They went from 10 billion down to 1 billion thus far.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:36:09 +0000

this thing looks slopped together in day. I don't even know what I'm looking at when I go to the home page. Good luck with it, but I think you have a VERY long road ahead of you.

Personally if I wanted to leave Github, I would just move over to Gitlab.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

thrownaway561 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:34:44 +0000

For anyone pissing on this, you have to remember one thing... time equals money and, as someone who spent 7 years building an open source project, you make almost ZERO from doing it. At the end, if you want to continue the project, you have to sell your soul somehow, either by doing a paid tier, consulting or getting corporate sponsorship. Unless you are one of the VERY lucky ones that does the coding on the side while having a full time job (which I was in the VERY fortunate position to be in at the time).

It's going to come down to "can I afford to keep doing this for nothing"?

So for all you high and mighty people calling them sell outs and what not, I would love to see how much you've been contributing to the project in order for it to keep going.

I think what CloudFlare is doing is a good thing. They get a tremendous team that they can have help work on their infrastructure while keeping the open source projects alive.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

thrownaway561 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:35:38 +0000

If you want to tax the ultra-wealthy, prevent Securities-Based Loan (SBL) or a Securities-Based Line of Credit (SBLOC). Honestly this is how EVERY SINGLE wealthy person gets around paying taxes.

Stocks should be bought and sold, period the end. That is how the market is supported to work.

If you closed this simple loophole, you would see a massive amount of tax revenue.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

thrownaway561 — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:58:10 +0000

This is what YouTube needs to start doing:

1. Allow us to filter any and all content based on category or tag, this would include AI tagged videos 2. Demonetize any and all videos that incentivize antagonizing people (Looking at you prank videos) 3. Allow the reporting of video for "Criminal Activities" 4. Bring back the number of dislikes 5. Put the "not interested" option on video playback page (currently only on the video thumbnail) 6. Put the "do no recommend this channel" option on the video playback page (currently only on the video thumbnail)

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

thrownaway561 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:52:53 +0000

You're not the only one... Heck, I hear Flash and I say Macromedia in my head :/

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

thrownaway561 — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:14:15 +0000

where's desqview? I ran my first BBS on that back in the 90s before switching over to OS/2 Warp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

thrownaway561 — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:51:02 +0000

Everyone hates on Microsoft, but their platform is 50x better than Google. Personally nowadays I would be looking at Proton if I was going to setup a workspace for my company.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Ted Turner has died"

thrownaway561 — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:53:08 +0000

cnn email alert was how I learned that 9/11 was happening. love or hate the man and the news outlet, but you have to admit that they ushered in the news era of the internet.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

thrownaway561 — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:47:10 +0000

Is this just for mobile devices or does this impact desktops as well?

New comment by thrownaway561 in "California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate"

thrownaway561 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:10:24 +0000

They need to just accept their lost and cancel the project. I think the people of CA have given this enough money and time. It's become a joke and nothing more than a giant way for they governor to launder money. Looking at you NEWSCUM.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

thrownaway561 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:39:08 +0000

i wish the guy could have made a paid version so he could have continued it. Unfortunately, most people do not want to financially contribute to open source and especially when that open source project becomes a paid product.

New comment by thrownaway561 in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

thrownaway561 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:26:44 +0000

The dude openly admits that he posted the image "for fun", so there was clearly nefarious behavior and purposely wanted to confuse police and the investigation. I don't see why people are trying to defend this dude as him simply "posting a picture of a wolf". I guess people will defend any sort of bad behavior in this day and age.