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New comment by jacobsimon in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

jacobsimon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:04:11 +0000

The number is wrong / the citation is misleading. It’s closer to 20-30% according to that study, the 79% is referring specifically to cases involving social media, of which Meta platforms are obviously going to make up a large percentage.

There’s also a reporting bias here I’m sure - if Meta is better at reporting these cases then they will become a larger percentage, etc.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

jacobsimon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:32:45 +0000

1. Parental control features on phones and computers

2. Grassroots marketing about potential risks of social media

3. Maybe better parental consent via existing regulations like COPPA

New comment by jacobsimon in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

jacobsimon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:58:00 +0000

It’s just an incredibly different statement. It’s like saying 79% of Americans voted for Trump vs 79% of registered Republicans voted for Trump, they lead to very different conclusions.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

jacobsimon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:52:29 +0000

I’m not saying it’s easy for teens to stop using social media, I’m just saying it doesn’t seem like it should require intervention by the US government to do so. There are many other ways to go about social change.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

jacobsimon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:42:37 +0000

Yeah that’s a good counterpoint. I guess it hinges on whether you can define a clear boundary around what is harmful or unharmful social media.

Like to me “online shopping addiction” is probably a more realistic and analogous problem to gambling, so maybe online advertising to teens could be regulated, but the jump to child abuse is so far outside Meta’s actual business model that it feels over-reaching to go there.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

jacobsimon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:13:45 +0000

I should say market share of social media* updated lol

New comment by jacobsimon in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

jacobsimon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:10:28 +0000

Not trying to defend Meta at all here, but this report is also lying.

For example, it says "79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms." But the source it cites actually says 79% of online social media cases occurred on Facebook and Instagram. So this stat is probably just a reflection of Meta's market share of social media.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

jacobsimon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:40:01 +0000

> Facebook causes harm, disproportionately so for younger people

I think I disagree with this step. Facebook causes a kind of indirect harm here, and is used willingly by teens and parents, who could simply choose not to use it. That's different from, say, a factory polluting a river with toxic chemicals, which needs government regulation. Basically "negative externalities".

New comment by jacobsimon in "Axial twist theory"

jacobsimon — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:45:03 +0000

Curious, let me know if you find anything about it! That does sort of explain why the brain areas would be locally flipped, but maybe doesn’t explain the global flip (right body -> left brain) that the original article is talking about.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

jacobsimon — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:55:26 +0000

Fair enough - so in reality they _are_ being pressured directly to remove the content and it has nothing to do with selling the products. A slippery slope indeed!

New comment by jacobsimon in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

jacobsimon — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:10:18 +0000

Maybe a silly idea, but here’s a solution to prevent financial censorship: make the game free. Or monetize via another way—ads, subscriptions, credits. There’s actually a lot of options for Steam if they aren’t being pressured directly to remove the content.

New comment by jacobsimon in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

jacobsimon — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:02:24 +0000

Had the same initial reaction - have we come full circle to Bootstrap 20 years later?

But after playing around with their theme builder[1], I think there's real value here - you can quickly spin up a custom-ish set of Tailwind components. I'd rather it output an actual component library though more like shadcn.

[1] https://daisyui.com/theme-generator

New comment by jacobsimon in "Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio"

jacobsimon — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:20:57 +0000

Nice work! I really like how simple it was to get started. I know this would make it a bit harder to signup, but I think you should consider creating a Chrome Extension that allows you to get the real mouse coordinates, if possible. I think the animations feel a bit rougher compared to ScreenStudio, so maybe having the real coordinates would help. But maybe that's fixable with more smoothing or easing.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers"

jacobsimon — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:16:26 +0000

Quality has improved so much too, I tried it a few months ago at Demo Day and I’m blown away by how good it is now.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Customizable HTML Select"

jacobsimon — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:24 +0000

Seems to work fine on iOS Safari and Chrome

New comment by jacobsimon in "Apple squandered the Holy Grail"

jacobsimon — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:28:19 +0000

Honestly, I think Apple played their cards perfectly. They didn’t try to be first to market with R&D, but they’ve launched just enough features to excite customers about new phones, while appeasing investors and subduing potential competitors like OpenAI who are rumored to be working on hardware devices, too.

New comment by jacobsimon in "Apple squandered the Holy Grail"

jacobsimon — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:17:35 +0000

Hah I’ve been having the same issue as the author with those scammy “package delay” texts getting summarized in my notifications.

Didn’t realize how widespread that type of spam was until now. Why hasn’t someone implemented better spam detection at Apple like we have for email? It would be nice if they could classify texts as spam, promotions, etc and organize them the way Gmail does.

New comment by jacobsimon in "GPT-5 is behind schedule"

jacobsimon — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:25:38 +0000

There’s nothing grammatically offensive about this. It’s like saying, “Cars come in all colors. Mine is red.”

New comment by jacobsimon in "AI Does NYT Connections"

jacobsimon — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:18:01 +0000

I’d be surprised if they’re not using AI or some sort of rule-based generator at this point.

New comment by jacobsimon in "ChatGPT Pro"

jacobsimon — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:32:23 +0000

Well one key difference is that Google and Amazon are cloud operators, they will still benefit from selling the compute that open source models run on.