Hacker News: tryptophan

New comment by tryptophan in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

tryptophan — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:33:38 +0000

I like kde connect, but find it randomly breaks every month or so and for the life of me cannot figure out why. A week or so later it starts working again.

New comment by tryptophan in "BYD's luxury EV with 5-min fast charging and 500 miles range is headed overseas"

tryptophan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:49:31 +0000

> The Denza Z9 GT is available in China, starting at 269,800 yuan ($39,300).

Oh my. EV war is over I suppose.

New comment by tryptophan in "Payment fees matter more than you think"

tryptophan — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:47:10 +0000

Its been interesting how much of a nothingburger fednow ended up being.

Lack of adoption probably because it seems to function just as a faster ACH, without any of the UX improvements systems like Pix, UPI, blik, etc have...

New comment by tryptophan in "Americans face biggest increase in health insurance costs in 15 years"

tryptophan — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:30:55 +0000

Because Obama rewrote the Healthcare laws to prioritize insurance companies above all else.

Their stocks have been doing great!

New comment by tryptophan in "Investors lose billions on US penny stocks as 'pump and dump' scams multiply"

tryptophan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:46:09 +0000

Scams are allowed but if you want to raise money for a new real company the stock markets are just not an option due to costly regulations.

What are we doing here now.

New comment by tryptophan in "LibreOffice says Microsoft Office exploits you, offers free ODF migration guide"

tryptophan — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 03:50:37 +0000

Its also slow and laggy compared to office products somehow. Has that classic open source jank.

New comment by tryptophan in "Arkansas moves to ban candy, soda from SNAP eligibility"

tryptophan — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:33:07 +0000

You cant buy alcohol with snap.

New comment by tryptophan in "IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs"

tryptophan — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:00:05 +0000

H1B has surely nothing to do with this.

New comment by tryptophan in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

tryptophan — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:01:50 +0000

I typically like Elon about 70% of the time, but I need to agree here. I don't quite understand how he suddenly got so much influence.

New comment by tryptophan in "Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt"

tryptophan — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:02:01 +0000

1% per day which is the number I found doesn't seem terrible for solar type systems.

New comment by tryptophan in "I2P Anonymous Network"

tryptophan — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:26:31 +0000

Its because I2P torrents are horrendously slow, like 10kbps.

New comment by tryptophan in "Rewrite it in Rails"

tryptophan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:07:16 +0000

Django honesty feels pretty outdated and behind these days.

The webdev race has sort of left python behind.

New comment by tryptophan in "Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak"

tryptophan — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 02:19:15 +0000

The ADL is a joke of an organization. Professional bullies.

New comment by tryptophan in "Samsung delivers solid-state battery for EVs with 600-mile range"

tryptophan — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:01:34 +0000

Yeah incredible. EVs are a bit questionable at the moment but I have no doubt that in 5 years they will just be straight up better than gas cars in every way.

Concerning part is that China has a massive lead in this industry, and the lone American company that can compete is being targeted by the petty regime we have in power.

New comment by tryptophan in "The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations"

tryptophan — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:08:50 +0000

Nope social security money is not invested, it's just put into general revenue and spent.

New comment by tryptophan in "Why Discover is no American Express"

tryptophan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:05:12 +0000

I find the mental overhead of tracking categories to be extremely irritating and I have just stopped using the discover card.

New comment by tryptophan in "Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions"

tryptophan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:02:55 +0000

Fun fact the US government subsidises mail spam. It's called media mail and for some inexplicable reason is 10x cheaper than normal mail.

New comment by tryptophan in "FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel"

tryptophan — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:17:21 +0000

Well the problem is that anti-"discrimination" laws will kill that startup if that "well defined subset of consumers" doesn't have enough black people.

Same reason IQ tests are banned and credit scores are only allowed to consider like 7 factors.

New comment by tryptophan in "Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11"

tryptophan — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:17:29 +0000

I had the opposite experience actually. Windows didn't include network drivers for my custom PC mobo+chipset, while linux had them included. Actually had to download the windows drivers on linux then boot into windows and install them...

New comment by tryptophan in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

tryptophan — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:08:31 +0000

Raiffeisen is european for credit union.