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hornbaker

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About hornbaker

I'm a serial tech entrepreneur. Have done a couple EIR stints at Sequoia and co-founded a YC company. Spent 9 years in the Valley and currently live in Austin, where I work from home on various projects.

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    Anyone know if the Pi will work with a Chameleon3 USB3 camera from flir.com? If anyone has computer vision coding experience with a setup like this, pls email me (profile), contrac…

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    Comment #22418303

    Waymofos would be better.

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    Comment #22416503

    Google Trends shows a marked increase in searches for hiccups from 2004-present, also.

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    Comment #22295812

    Love the edginess and design, but taking the user off-site (to the oflows.net domain, whatever that is) for sensitive application forms doesn't build a lot of trust imo.

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    Comment #22266450

    botornot.com was registered in 2006. Someone was forward-thinking.

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    Comment #22092424

    I use Google Alerts for this sort of thing, and was surprised to not see it mentioned on your site when discussing alternatives. What makes BrandChirps better than GA?

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    Comment #21942614

    CRISPR / designer babies

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    Comment #21639746

    Also ethylene glycol poisoning (antifreeze).

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    Comment #20196111

    I wonder how many companies Google has wounded/killed with their search infopanels. For example, yesterday I searched for “speedtest” expecting Ookla’s speedtest.net to be the top …

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    Comment #19706699

    Not just you. I input $3,500 rent, and it used nearly double that for the calculations. Hugely misleading.

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    Comment #19700707

    So true. Be aware that you may have no symptoms in your legs at all, and still develop pulmonary embolisms. As an otherwise healthy and fit adult male, my first symptom of my PE wa…

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    Comment #19517015

    "You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died" - Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion

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    Comment #19441657

    Sure they do, depends on your ear size. Happens to me if I simply bend over. (Still love my AirPods, but am forced to use silicone wraps on them if doing anything active with them.…

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    Comment #19157041

    Very cool, Tyler. Just applied. :)

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    Comment #19108045

    Sahil, thanks for sharing your story to date. I remember meeting with you in 2011 in Palo Alto shortly after your launch, and I could tell then you had the “right stuff.” Proud of …

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    Ask HN: Anyone else seeing an influx of Nigerian scammers in Facebook groups?

    I admin a niche FB group for golfers, more specifically for owners of a particular brand of launch monitor / golf sim software that runs around $3-5K to install in your home. A nor…

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    Comment #18871265

    That’s surprising, given the CDC’s view on the matter: “[Small rodents] are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans. In a…

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    Comment #18869414

    Squirrels (and others rodents) virtually never get or transmit rabies, so that’s not really a concern. Source: am DVM.

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    Comment #18786997

    Calling https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says

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    Comment #18691151

    Neat coin! I just launched a coin project[1], but by carrying them in your pocket they’re meant to remind you to look for opportunities to help someone and then give it to them to …

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    Comment #18666368

    Surprised he didn’t ask for $420M.

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    Comment #18551267

    Great, jonesing for a thousand dollar device now. Is there an iOS app that does something akin to the OP-1?

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    Comment #16598097

    Tour pros routinely swing driver at 120-125 mph, and produce ball speeds of 180-190 mph. I’ve seen numbers in the range of 2,000 - 4,000 pounds of force applied to the ball.