Hacker News: jklinger410

New comment by jklinger410 in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

jklinger410 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:59:44 +0000

If you want to write misleading articles to get clicks, it makes it a lot more interesting if it sounds like there's a lot of intentionality behind what META is doing.

In reality META has simply not banned or restricted these accounts from monetization. That's it! But that doesn't make for an exciting headline.

New comment by jklinger410 in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

jklinger410 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:58:27 +0000

The criteria does not make value judgements about the content of the creator. Unless they are banned or suspended by the entire platform.

New comment by jklinger410 in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

jklinger410 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:09:51 +0000

The invitation is automated

New comment by jklinger410 in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

jklinger410 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:09:20 +0000

They wrote that title specifically to mislead people.

New comment by jklinger410 in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

jklinger410 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:50:00 +0000

> it was never intended to create some vast ARR revenue stream or reframe the way people look at AI. If Meta wanted to exploit it for personal success then they had lots of opportunities to do so.

They release the base model as open source, everyone uses it. They make a paid version, no one uses it.

They make no money from the open source version, they get no social credit from it. Where is the benefit to having an open source model?

New comment by jklinger410 in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

jklinger410 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:28:50 +0000

It's so fun how corporations are protected from individual liability but also their money is treated a speech.

New comment by jklinger410 in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

jklinger410 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:38:19 +0000

I can't control other people. I believe in extreme accountability. If my arguments are not working on someone, then I need to make different arguments.

New comment by jklinger410 in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

jklinger410 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:48:28 +0000

This is just a fact. It's a ponzi scheme.

New comment by jklinger410 in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

jklinger410 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:47:16 +0000

This is like the guy at Techdirt writing another article about how dumb Elon is.

New comment by jklinger410 in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

jklinger410 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:51:54 +0000

Hey thanks for letting me spam BetaList and get a startup I worked for some decent exposure!

New comment by jklinger410 in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

jklinger410 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:49:32 +0000

More blood will be spilled of unsuspecting academics before the credulity of the science industrial complex can be restored.

New comment by jklinger410 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

jklinger410 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:34:07 +0000

There are truly an amazing amount of red flags in this otherwise well meaning and short post.

New comment by jklinger410 in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

jklinger410 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:42:57 +0000

> I think everyone is reading way too much into this. Sure there is some circular transactions that are sus, but this ain't it.

Let us pin this comment and see how it ages

New comment by jklinger410 in "I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station"

jklinger410 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:00:40 +0000

Shilling for an old employer. This is a neat super simple device that takes incoming headphone and converts to FM.

Whole House FM Transmitter (https://wholehousefmtransmitter.com/)

New comment by jklinger410 in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

jklinger410 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:41:36 +0000

Someone is having a case of the Mondays!

New comment by jklinger410 in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

jklinger410 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:33:09 +0000

Skill issue

New comment by jklinger410 in "We replaced Zendesk"

jklinger410 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:10:42 +0000

They got paid in crazy equity that will never be liquid!

New comment by jklinger410 in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

jklinger410 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:45:05 +0000

You don't think the concerns have any validity? Sounds kind of hand wavey to me.

New comment by jklinger410 in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

jklinger410 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:16:00 +0000

The HN crowd is going to hate this article, but I think it's an important discussion to have.

I'd like to challenge the crowd here to think about this from a different perspective. Let's assume you aren't interested in spreading propaganda to promote a certain piece of technology. Consider that you aren't in control of people's opinions.

This is like a UX issue. It doesn't matter if you think the login button should be in the bottom left, if the users want it to be in the top right, you put it there.

So consider this QA feedback for the technology. How do you make people not feel this way about it? Go do that.

New comment by jklinger410 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

jklinger410 — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:18:49 +0000

Only works in Chrome!