Hacker News: jkeat

New comment by jkeat in "OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment"

jkeat — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:51:45 +0000

Agreed. This is a good time to revisit an Intercept investigation from last year that explored another suspicious suicide by a tech titan whistleblower:

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

New comment by jkeat in "Tom Hanks on the rewards and reality of making movies"

jkeat — Mon, 29 May 2023 09:08:21 +0000

that’s a nice way to never feel guilty about stomping on peas and roses

New comment by jkeat in "A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress"

jkeat — Wed, 24 May 2023 19:03:30 +0000

not books but related: last year PayPal shut down the accounts of Consortium News and MintPress News

https://jacobin.com/2022/05/paypal-independent-media-journal...

New comment by jkeat in "Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning"

jkeat — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:25:51 +0000

“We fucking fund the people who did 9/11—still, to this day. Donald Trump literally went on national television and said, ‘They bought $10 billion worth of weapons,’ so if they chop-chop-chop an American legal permanent resident, it’s OK.”

New comment by jkeat in "Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning"

jkeat — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:39:23 +0000

yeah extremely reasonable

New comment by jkeat in "TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging"

jkeat — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:57:10 +0000

Adding to the spectacle, we have westerners displeased with a Chinese platform siphoning off too much of their direct aid, which is being sent to displaced Syrians who likely wouldn't be in this situation were it not for the US.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore

New comment by jkeat in "The Penguin Random House trial"

jkeat — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 05:35:35 +0000

Being unconventional means value for sure https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/wzjewu/taibbi_rem...

New comment by jkeat in "Snap launches its first drone"

jkeat — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:28:28 +0000

Link doesn't work, here's another reference: https://alter.com/trademarks/pixy-88492464

> Camera containing a linear image sensor; Cameras; Motion-activated cameras; Optical sensors

https://pixycam.com/

New comment by jkeat in "Elizabeth Holmes found guilty"

jkeat — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 07:11:11 +0000

Whoa nice, how’d you get that?

New comment by jkeat in "Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?"

jkeat — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 17:34:21 +0000

TrueAnon's trilogy on Tesla

https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/lamest-show-1

> how a nerdy dot-com gold chaser hacked the self-satisfied neoliberal green political regime and orchestrated a cacophonous symphony of thirsty social media marketeers, auto industry executives, captured and bought off media, and the bull market ride of the century. At the center of all of this is the pied piper of the redditmen, our very own epic bacon PT Barnum — Elon Musk — who rightly understands that branding really is everything and that so long as you can keep the music going the party doesn’t have to end.

New comment by jkeat in "Show HN: I made a drag and drop website builder that works on mobile"

jkeat — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:38:20 +0000

I think it’s kitschy in a cool way! Kind of like mmm.page

New comment by jkeat in "Borges: The Library of Babel [pdf]"

jkeat — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:56:33 +0000

https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?azlsfcsuzjcobmbsdow...

New comment by jkeat in "Instagram Has Become SkyMall"

jkeat — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 03:59:20 +0000

Different context but in 2012 eBay stopped buying keyword search ads and nothing happened

https://hbr.org/2013/03/did-ebay-just-prove-that-paid

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi...

New comment by jkeat in "Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation"

jkeat — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 04:29:39 +0000

I think you can see it in this thread, too, where many people are aghast at the maintainers' decision to remove the piece and citing it as evidence that jokes aren't allowed on the internet anymore.

New comment by jkeat in "I spent eleven years working on this Line Rider track"

jkeat — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 03:33:23 +0000

This brings back memories of playing Free Rider 2 on TrackMill. It’s amazing how these simple games were elevated to art forms by their communities.

New comment by jkeat in "Git is too hard"

jkeat — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:27:15 +0000

If anyone is looking for a git GUI, Fork is great https://git-fork.com/

New comment by jkeat in "Show HN: My GitHub Readme Is Interactive"

jkeat — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:41:18 +0000

With so many people entering characters right now, it’s only a matter of time til we get some Shakespeare

New comment by jkeat in "Bouncing DVD Logo"

jkeat — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:09:49 +0000

Even though it's gross, it's kind of cool that you can do this with nested marquees:

DVD

New comment by jkeat in "Freeman Dyson Has Died"

jkeat — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:49:49 +0000

Here's another article that introduces the idea of panpsychism:

https://aeon.co/ideas/panpsychism-is-crazy-but-its-also-most...

History and philosophy should make us feel baffled and strange

jkeat — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/history-and-philosophy-should-make-us-feel-baffled-and-strange

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21400171

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