Hacker News: timbowhite

New comment by timbowhite in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

timbowhite — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 21:57:00 +0000

I've seen those videos. I thought the CT held up to the abuse pretty well.

His experiments were fun to watch, but few people treat their vehicles like that, so kind of irrelevant.

Show HN: Browser extension shows where to buy current domain name

timbowhite — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 21:54:16 +0000

Domain Hunter finds if and where you can buy the current domain name loaded in the browser.

Or if you're searching for a domain name on a registrar/aftermarket, it auto-detects the searched domain and finds the best prices.

It uses the domain inventory data aggregated by DomDB.com. And shows other info like registered extensions, keywords, DNS records, etc.

No domain lookups are ever logged - only IP addresses are logged to prevent abuse, which are deleted after 2 weeks.

Website: https://domdb.com/tools/browser-extension

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/domain-hunter/hhpdn...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/domain-hunter...

MS Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/domain-hun...

Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/y2kWP2oEl2k

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50408392

Points: 1

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New comment by timbowhite in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

timbowhite — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:27:41 +0000

I think a more apt comparison might be a fully optioned silverado trubomax, which can range $60-$75k.

AWD CT can haul 7500 lbs, air suspension, tonneau cover, premium sound, 240v out, FSD, etc.

New comment by timbowhite in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

timbowhite — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:01:47 +0000

> Towing with an EV is terrible.

If you have to charge, it can be a pain. It's fine for towing short distance. It can tow up to 11k lbs.

> The truck bed isn't practical for anything but a lawn mower.

Hard disagree. I've hauled gravel, lumber, furniture, appliances. It can fit a 4x8 sheet of sheetrock with the tailgate down.

> When I ride in one it rides like a car.

It drives like a sports car. Literally the most fun vehicle I've ever driven.

> It doesn't look good dirty.

Disagree, I think it looks better dirty. More dystopian.

> It's also super expensive

The price for the AWD dual motor is comparable to other pickups.

It's also the safest pickup truck you can buy, according to the IIHS and NHTSA.

New comment by timbowhite in "What Is a Harness?"

timbowhite — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:14:20 +0000

Pi's most popular extensions, by download count:

https://pi.dev/packages?type=extension

New comment by timbowhite in "Does Postgres Scale?"

timbowhite — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:25:16 +0000

I like this strategy a lot, but the performance of read queries suffer if they span partitions, correct?

The issue I'm facing is a very large table, that is both write and read heavy, and the reads do not fall into a specific range of values for any particular column, so I don't think partitioning is an option.

New comment by timbowhite in "Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools"

timbowhite — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:18:01 +0000

In Bitcoin's case, public keys are only revealed during a transaction.

And every transaction completely spends the source keypairs' funds.

So the only attack vector a quantum computer could use is:

1. Observing newly broadcast/unconfirmed transactions

2. Deriving the private key(s) from the public key(s)

3. Creating and broadcasting its own transaction using the stolen keypairs before the original transaction confirms (presumably with a higher fee to win the confirmation race).

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: correction: every transaction completely spends any selected UTXO of an associated keypair, not all of the "source keypairs' funds". Thus the attack vector also includes being able to steal from any keypair that has ever made a transaction and also has UTXOs.

EPA Plans to Start Diluting Gasoline This May

timbowhite — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:09:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-feds-plan-to-start-diluting-gasoline-this-may-explained

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554261

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M

timbowhite — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:01:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/lessons-from-the-resolv-hack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495719

Points: 117

# Comments: 163

New comment by timbowhite in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

timbowhite — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:15:31 +0000

> I maintain Express.js and Lodash

Thank you!

> In 2025 I made $10 from open source

Slightly off-topic, but I wish more OSS projects and maintainers would advertise cryptocurrency donation addresses. It's probably the easiest way for end users to donate.

New comment by timbowhite in "Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet"

timbowhite — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:14:42 +0000

Is this the same collision theorized to have created the moon?

New comment by timbowhite in "How I block all 26M of your curl requests"

timbowhite — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:21:35 +0000

I run independent websites and I'm not broke yet.

New comment by timbowhite in "A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive"

timbowhite — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:30:57 +0000

The pg_ivm plugin adds incremental updates to Postgresql materialized views:

https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm

Though I don't know how well it works on a write-heavy production db.

Show HN: Monitor Aftermarket Domain Listings

timbowhite — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:04:37 +0000

Domain Watch emails you when a domain name is listed for sale on an aftermarket or its price drops.

It's like camelcamelcamel.com for domain names.

Currently supports the following "Buy It Now" aftermarkets: Afternic, Sedo, Spaceship SellerHub, Atom, Namecheap Market, Porkbun Marketplace, Gname.

You can watch up to 3 domains for 60 days with the free plan.

Support for auctions is coming soon.

Why I made this:

1. To know where and when I could buy the domains that I wanted to buy, ASAP.

2. Empower other domain name buyers with marketplace awareness, data, and an improved shopping experience.

3. To make money one day.

Feedback welcome and appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347216

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by timbowhite in "Show HN: I built a Bitcoin DCA bot – here's why"

timbowhite — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:31:01 +0000

Pretty neat.

How would the multiplier DCA act during a multi-month "crypto winter"?

New comment by timbowhite in "Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024)"

timbowhite — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:36:00 +0000

> never understood why we don't have decentralized/globally neutral payments/transactions systems

BTCPay Server[0] seems to be the most popular way to accept crypto payments on self-hosted hardware with no third party processors.

[0] https://btcpayserver.org/

New comment by timbowhite in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

timbowhite — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:26:30 +0000

Is this essentially the same data CZDS [0] offers + ccTLDs zonefiles?

[0] https://czds.icann.org/home

EDIT: is your site a clone or resell of zonefiles.io? Even the favicon is the same

New comment by timbowhite in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

timbowhite — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:52:53 +0000

https://domdb.com - aftermarket domain name aggregator and search engine.

It has integrated BIN inventories from Afternic, Sedo, Namecheap, Porkbun, and Gname.

Currently working on custom price alerts and an API.

New comment by timbowhite in "Cybertruck's Many Recalls"

timbowhite — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:18:57 +0000

I'm honestly ignorant - what political statement is it making?

It seems that liberals dislike Teslas because they dislike Elon Musk.

And conservatives dislike Teslas because they dislike new and different things.

New comment by timbowhite in "uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address"

timbowhite — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 02:22:23 +0000

Source?