Hacker News: JohnnyLarue

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.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "I captured my friend transiting the sun during a skydive"

JohnnyLarue — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:06:13 +0000

This is like saying long exposures don't count because they're composite images

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "The US reduced debt following World War II and what it would take to do so again"

JohnnyLarue — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:31:54 +0000

The debt is owed to themselves. They printed more money and issued more bonds. It's not a mystery.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

JohnnyLarue — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:22:46 +0000

abs(ofuckinglutely) you do not.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "The devastating memo that plunged the BBC into crisis"

JohnnyLarue — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:19:01 +0000

Looool this is such bullshit. All of these things are the exact opposite of what's been getting on the air.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "Satellite images, maps and records reveal surge in China's missile production"

JohnnyLarue — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:08:13 +0000

If my heavily-armed neighbour were screaming racist obscenities at me all day every day I might consider stockpiling something myself

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

JohnnyLarue — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:45:56 +0000

A dataset of one (1), eh? And epileptic to boot.

New comment by JohnnyLarue in "North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds"

JohnnyLarue — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:14:24 +0000

Suuuuuuure they are