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New comment by brandnewlow in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

brandnewlow — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:48:15 +0000

It's like all those scenes on Breaking Bad where a character pulls off something amazing by just brute forcing the problem in a methodical fashion until it's solved.

New comment by brandnewlow in "One Battle After Another: PTA and the Death of Revolutionary Cinema"

brandnewlow — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:31:40 +0000

This movie was great. If you liked thoughtful almost-action movies No Country for Old Men or even something like The Fugitive, you’ll enjoy this. There are cinematic set pieces as beautiful as anything I’ve seen in years (the rooftop sequence!) the acting is stellar throughout, and the finale gives an original take on one of the most common film plot devices of all time.

The film’s politics are very progressive/liberal so I can imagine that deterring some viewers but PTA adds a lot of nuance and subversion throughout that make it more of an examination of radicalism than a straight trumpeting of it. As mentioned in another comment the radical characters often disagree and are shown taking very different strategies that then produce very different outcomes.

New comment by brandnewlow in "Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone"

brandnewlow — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:03:50 +0000

Amen, brother.

New comment by brandnewlow in "YC: Requests for Startups"

brandnewlow — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:23:16 +0000

Fixed. Thanks!

New comment by brandnewlow in "YC: Requests for Startups"

brandnewlow — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:02:37 +0000

Thanks for the note. Did not know about SDR.

New comment by brandnewlow in "Ask vs. Guess Culture"

brandnewlow — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:28:23 +0000

A true friend stabs you in the chest. - Oscar Wilde

New comment by brandnewlow in "A bejeweled prayer book has been identified as belonging to Thomas Cromwell"

brandnewlow — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 05:06:43 +0000

The SF Bay Area

New comment by brandnewlow in "A novel about video games became a surprise best seller"

brandnewlow — Sun, 28 May 2023 12:19:41 +0000

It's a coded way to say they don't have children.

New comment by brandnewlow in "Jazz Is Freedom"

brandnewlow — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 05:15:57 +0000

This is one of my favorite HN comments. Thank you for writing about music in an interesting way.

New comment by brandnewlow in "Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?"

brandnewlow — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:53:30 +0000

I'm sorry for your loss.

New comment by brandnewlow in "What's it like to star in a flop?"

brandnewlow — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 03:36:06 +0000

Every song on Feeling Strangely Fine is terrific. The other albums have great songs but uninteresting ones too.

New comment by brandnewlow in "The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits (2014)"

brandnewlow — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:37:08 +0000

Fun book. I’ve said this before on here but it purports to lionize the Sega of America folks but can’t help but present them as non-technical marketers without much depth to them. Meanwhile the Nintendo crew, ostensibly the bad guys in the story’s narrative, seem passionate, principled and serious about shipping great games people love.

OpenSea: The Reasonable Revolutionary

brandnewlow — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:35:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/opensea

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28878893

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by brandnewlow in "Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)"

brandnewlow — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 15:38:29 +0000

Advertisers of note strongly prefer to put their ads next to the second type of content, not the first.

New comment by brandnewlow in "This beach does not exist"

brandnewlow — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:41:39 +0000

Can you share links to some others of these?

New comment by brandnewlow in "Great books on classic video games"

brandnewlow — Sun, 16 May 2021 23:37:14 +0000

And perhaps unintentionally the Nintendo folks come out looking cool, authentic and passionate about making great games while the Sega folks seem like a bunch of cargo cult marketers who happen to be trying to sell games.

New comment by brandnewlow in "SPAC Wipeout Is Punishing Followers of Chamath Palihapitiya"

brandnewlow — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:34:26 +0000

“To be fair, all of his SPACS are up since IPO”

New comment by brandnewlow in "Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving for Texas"

brandnewlow — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:42:08 +0000

Many of the brightest on the East Coast get sucked into finance.

New comment by brandnewlow in "Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B"

brandnewlow — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:05:08 +0000

Intercom

New comment by brandnewlow in "Launch HN: Plum Mail (YC S20) – Email alternative for group conversations"

brandnewlow — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 01:16:39 +0000

There’s a million tools like this out there but brokers just want to get deals closed so they fall back to whatever is preferred by the borrower which is always email.