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kingnothingon US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button

How about legislation that makes it so I have to explicitly subscribe in the first place? I do not want your sales emails just because I bought one thing from your store one time.

kingnothingon Cloudflare has made it too easy to access your homelab on the internet

I'm pretty happy with Tailscale for private access.

kingnothingon Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal

There's no grounds on which to file suit. The 9th circuit court found web scraping is legal.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/

kingnothingon Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal

What use do you get out of a search engine if not searching for reddit and other forums? The rest of the internet has become a cesspool of useless AI generated crap.

kingnothingon Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems

Regardless of all of that, your phone provider is selling your location data derived from triangulated cell tower positioning.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/fcc-fines-major-u-s-wire...

kingnothingon Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

I’m struggling to understand how something along the lines of ripping out the existing drywall, rebuilding a few walls worth of framing with offset studs, and filling them with rockwool would remotely approach $70k for maybe 40 feet of wall in an apartment / condo. $10k, sure, that’s easy. What is the contractor proposing?

kingnothingon An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data

What problems are you seeing with your water heater? I’ve had one for about a year and have been pretty happy with it after learning I needed to schedule high demand times of day. It is a bit louder than I’d like but it’s not horrible.

kingnothingon Authy Desktop EOL moved from August 2024 to March 19 2024

Maybe there's a critical flaw in it that's being actively exploited

kingnothingon Ask HN: Alternative to Mint.com?

For anyone reading the parent comment, you should avoid YNAB if you use an American Express card. YNAB uses Plaid and the overall integration from YNAB through to Amex and back does not work.

kingnothingon Ask HN: Alternative to Mint.com?

I'm quite happy with Monarch.

kingnothingon Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely

How does your product differentiate from Yotascale?

kingnothingon Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7

Raytracing is the most relevant thing I can think of off the top of my head. It fits the rest of your description. For that matter, though, I don't know what a lot of the graphical options are in games these days or if they really add anything. Back in the day it was easy to choose your resolution, texture resolution, and level of AA. Now the menus have 40 options, often with no descriptions.

kingnothingon Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules

Also power + volume down

kingnothingon Why do maps apps have essentially no caching?

So does Apple Maps.

kingnothingon Australia to ban engineered stone

Lead was banned in a few specific products like paint.

You can still find it all over the place in things like cabinet pulls, door handles, and even ceramic tile.

kingnothingon Google Fiber - 20 Gig + Wi-Fi 7 will be available to select customers

American taxpayers already paid $400B for fiber to the home and are just now starting to receive it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

kingnothingon New ways to find just what you need on Search

I've been using Kagi for a few months and agree it's a great product, especially the lenses.

kingnothingon USB-C head-to-head comparison

And commercially available for cheap.

https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable

This cable has a built in keylogger and Wifi among other things.

kingnothingon Ask HN: How do you get out of a rut?

It's hard to give advice without more info about your life situation.

Overall, I'd suggest talking with a psychiatrist and psychologist. Get screened for depression and other possible mental issues that may cause this.

If everything else in life is amazing, maybe you're starting to burnout. Can you take a few weeks off?

kingnothingon Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away

Same here and I completely agree. I'm somewhat surprised we also don't go the reusable route like Germany. Pick up a case of sodas or beers in glass bottles from the store to take home, then bring back a case of empties when you return. They get washed, refilled, and re-used. I feel like that should be overall cheaper than treating glass bottles as single use.

kingnothingon Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away

The article touts the recyclability of many of these items, but recycling them is a pain. Until consumers can simply toss electronics in a curbside bin or easily drop off a handful for free at the local big box electronics store, it won't happen in the States. Even glass, which we all recognize as recyclable, isn't feasibly recyclable in many municipalities. Sure, you can save it, sort it, and take it to a special facility, but most people won't because it's a time consuming hassle.

kingnothingon Ask HN: What is the most complex software that you have built/worked on?

A distributed event-based transaction processing system that handled around 400k requests per second peak traffic with many petabytes of data stored in a purpose-built DB.

kingnothingon Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted

RSS was basically this.

Usenet was good as well.

kingnothingon Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?

I did back in 2010 by a local startup. Saw a post here, attended a local user group to meet the hiring manager who posted it. Had a job offer about a week later after an interview.

kingnothingon Pinball is booming in America

Your 3rd Spot and My Parent's Basement are a couple of other decent options in Atlanta.

kingnothingon Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.

Process all of it in Europe.

kingnothingon Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings

The most practical reason for most people in the US to have some cash on hand are scenarios like:

1. A storm rolls through and a tree fell down in your driveway. The power is still out. A guy with a chainsaw shows up and offers to move it if you can pay on the spot.

2. Same situation, but a blizzard and a guy with a snowblower.

3. Small contractors often offer a significant cash discount for home improvements / repairs.

kingnothingon Emptying the dishwasher with systems theory

My Bosch is the best dishwasher I've ever had and likely the only brand I will ever use going forward.

kingnothingon PFAS can suppress white blood cells’ ability to destroy invaders

10 minutes? You don't need the pan to be 900 degrees! It's more like 1-2 minutes.