Hacker News: cateblanchett

New comment by cateblanchett in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

cateblanchett — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:23:07 +0000

RIP to TV networks and other media entities having free online computer games. Clone-a-doodle-doo and code of the samarai were my games.

ESPN also used to have great flash games. they had one where you'd skate on the roofs of houses and one where you had a BMX game that I think had a racing version and a freestyle version.

Things are about to get zany in tech

cateblanchett — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:26:06 +0000

Article URL: https://malloryloar.substack.com/p/hotel-hallway-art-vs-starry-night

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495331

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

A personal theory of meaning in a frictionless world

cateblanchett — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:16:11 +0000

Article URL: https://katemonica.com/personal-theory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020778

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cateblanchett in "Companies Should Hold Offsites"

cateblanchett — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:34:17 +0000

i really want all remote companies to consider offsites a necessity

Companies Should Hold Offsites

cateblanchett — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:23:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tremendous.com/blog/how-offsites-boost-employee-retention-and-productivity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35814898

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by cateblanchett in "Stupid and Lazy"

cateblanchett — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:25:08 +0000

Ideal, ideal, ideal, Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom,

Stupid and Lazy

cateblanchett — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 21:25:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stupidandlazy.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34419432

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by cateblanchett in "Deep down things in a time of panic"

cateblanchett — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:19:56 +0000

the article is more nuanced than that. it's not saying liberalism is bad - it's saying it needs a refresh. specifically, a more progressive refresh.

New comment by cateblanchett in "It’s Time for ‘Maximum Viable Product’"

cateblanchett — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 15:26:05 +0000

I hate bloat and feature-soup as much as the next person. But market forces will always push companies to keep adding more and more to otherwise simple products.

Deep down things in a time of panic

cateblanchett — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 15:17:31 +0000

Article URL: https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/hope-itself/articles/deep-down-things-in-a-time-of-panic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854403

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by cateblanchett in "Ask HN: Best books read in 2022?"

cateblanchett — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:57:35 +0000

Anything by Douglas Rushkoff. I particularly enjoyed Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.

Another good one is Irrational Man by William Barrett. The only truly comprehensive look at existentialism I've read.

New comment by cateblanchett in "The impotence of being clever"

cateblanchett — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:14:51 +0000

love john berryman, shout out john berryman

New comment by cateblanchett in "Mistaken beliefs about how much to talk in conversations"

cateblanchett — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:12:58 +0000

well to want to be 'liked' is to put yourself at the mercy of someone else's opinion of you. and to seem 'interesting' without saying much is to elicit intrigue - or mystery, so you want to seem mysterious.

New comment by cateblanchett in "The impotence of being clever"

cateblanchett — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:10:07 +0000

i just dont entirely agree that cleverness should be classed as 'bad'. cleverness is entertaining. it's ok for things to just be fun.

New comment by cateblanchett in "Mistaken beliefs about how much to talk in conversations"

cateblanchett — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 16:05:31 +0000

i think there's an unconscious impulse to try to seem either servile or mysterious in conversations where you want to be liked or seem interesting. so it makes sense that people assume reticence to speak is a better tactic than talking a lot.

New comment by cateblanchett in "The impotence of being clever"

cateblanchett — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 16:00:52 +0000

the most unintentionally meta essay ever written

Ask HN: What's Your Favorite Quote?

cateblanchett — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:35:16 +0000

Mine is either Jim Jarmusch: "Nothing is original." Or Einstein's "no worthy problem is solved on the plane of its original conception."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823154

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by cateblanchett in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)"

cateblanchett — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:29:55 +0000

Tremendous | Full-time | Fully-remote |Senior Software Engineer | Job description here: https://www.tremendous.com/careers?gh_jid=4244578004

Tremendous is an org of 50+, fully-remote, bootstrapped. We're an incentives payment platform. We help businesses pay people. Great comp.

New comment by cateblanchett in "Ask HN: What music do you listen to while working?"

cateblanchett — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:14:52 +0000

jacqueline du pre: daniel barenboim - elgar cello concerto. it's a half hour long and it'll get you in the zone.

New comment by cateblanchett in "Life as a door-to-door salesman"

cateblanchett — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:08:26 +0000

it's based on the documentary 'the salesman', but you don't even need to see both. they did a perfect job of parodying.