Hacker News: JohnnyLarue

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Space Force Uniform Is Inspired by Quasi-Satirical Film 'Starship Troopers'"

JohnnyLarue — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:10:11 +0000

There's no such thing as quasi-satirical.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "China Planted 78 Billion New Trees—and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle"

JohnnyLarue — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:01:49 +0000

Uh huh.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda"

JohnnyLarue — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:32:05 +0000

Hopefully better than it deals with domestic propaganda, which is the most pervasive and insidious in the world.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "China's Super-Dam Is Becoming an Upstream Water Bomb"

JohnnyLarue — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:38:57 +0000

Ah, the sweet, sweet sound of sinophobia. There's a better chance of the CPC accepting the research and altering the design than there would be in a capitalist country, I can tell you that much.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold wor"

JohnnyLarue — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:01:36 +0000

If there's no oversight of tech companies, this is just what they do - they think they're adding features that will help them compete, but since they don't have a security focus, they rely on obscurity.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday's catastrophic glacier collapse"

JohnnyLarue — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:48:02 +0000

They very much are. More, perhaps, than any other country.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Did Meta's Big Settlement Actually Help It?"

JohnnyLarue — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:10:06 +0000

It's laundering even more support for the age certification system they already wanted. So, yes.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "US National Debt Surpasses GDP"

JohnnyLarue — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:28:52 +0000

In debt to... themselves. Oh no!

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

JohnnyLarue — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:16:31 +0000

Nice marmot

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz"

JohnnyLarue — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:39:13 +0000

Citations needed. I refuse to believe Pärt gets more airplay than Glass.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Ukraine's drone commander has Russian oil, troops and morale in his sights"

JohnnyLarue — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:26:48 +0000

They should have surrendered years ago, now they're going to wind up with the same territory losses and a few hundred thousand dead on top of it.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light"

JohnnyLarue — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:34:33 +0000

The pyramid exists on every latitude between 29.9782000 and 29.9801000, it's not that precise.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours"

JohnnyLarue — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:32:11 +0000

Bombing civilian infrastructure didn't turn the Internet back on? I don't believe that.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

JohnnyLarue — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:20:42 +0000

I have never been worse at a game than I am at this one

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "[dead]"

JohnnyLarue — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:53:14 +0000

Uhhhhhh you might want to look up the CATO Institute. They are many things, but leftist is not one of them. Gooood lord.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"

JohnnyLarue — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:45:16 +0000

Experts agree that this number is a vast, vast undercount.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials"

JohnnyLarue — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:48:48 +0000

They shouldn't be ignored, but they also should be taken with a massive grain of salt. This reporting has all the hallmarks of the US State Department manufacturing consent for yet another war.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters"

JohnnyLarue — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:32:14 +0000

Western media always gets Tiananmen wrong. Bro who help up the tanks, for example, was trying to convince them to stay and oppress the student movement. The tanks were leaving on the second day. It's just so very exhausting.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

JohnnyLarue — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:21:46 +0000

It takes a brave businessman to speak out about how government regulations are killing their business. Thank you for your service.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "The Brave1 Market: Ukraine soldiers earn points for kills, redeem for gear"

JohnnyLarue — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:14:34 +0000

Interesting that Ukrainian soldiers need this motivation.