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New comment by jmeister in "Senior journalist claims to use AI for fact-checking"

jmeister — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:29:57 +0000

“ TL;DR: For a journalist, IMHO, think of your chatbot as a combination of an intern, a first-pass editor, and a fact-checker. It's job is to do grunt work and help you turn in cleaner copy”

Senior journalist claims to use AI for fact-checking

jmeister — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:29:57 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/2037506453846573225

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566372

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

"Half the dads at this 7am swim practice have Codex or Claude Code fired up."

jmeister — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/2027724808406831604

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202425

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster

jmeister — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:43:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kakistocracy-richard-hanania/1148470799

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193487

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Larry Page has moved to Florida

jmeister — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:35:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2026737030257062253

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159610

Points: 46

# Comments: 89

New comment by jmeister in "Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics"

jmeister — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:25:48 +0000

Flock helped catch the Boston/Brown shooter.

New comment by jmeister in "Socialist ends by market means: A history"

jmeister — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:16:58 +0000

Cosma Shalizi has a great article on these themes, arrives at similar conclusions https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...

New comment by jmeister in "OpenAI in Talks for Deal That Would Value Company at $80B"

jmeister — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:58:41 +0000

You can’t have the former without the latter unfortunately. Freaks make the world go round. Nice guys merely shuffle after them.

New comment by jmeister in "CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming (2004) [pdf]"

jmeister — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 17:31:31 +0000

You might find this interesting:

Metaobject Protocols for Julia https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16759/pdf/OASI...

New comment by jmeister in "The Wrath of Goodreads"

jmeister — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 09:19:47 +0000

Community Notes?

New comment by jmeister in "Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird"

jmeister — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:34:57 +0000

This is too insignificant for a “take”. It doesn’t change anything substantial for me or most existing Twitter users.

New comment by jmeister in "Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird"

jmeister — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:24:25 +0000

>fireworks

Usually this is too vacuous of a criterion for comments on any other topic on HN. For some reason any post on Twitter has pages and pages of “yikes” “derp”, people gossiping about “Elon” like he’s their wayward cousin. Pathetic.

New comment by jmeister in "Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird"

jmeister — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:22:09 +0000

Example? Who are these people forced to use Twitter?

New comment by jmeister in "Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird"

jmeister — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:56:40 +0000

Have you considered looking away?

New comment by jmeister in "Twitter unveils X logo to replace blue bird"

jmeister — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:56:24 +0000

Have you considered looking away?

New comment by jmeister in "The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X"

jmeister — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:29:00 +0000

>For example, if you’re looking at static inequality, Europe appears to be more egalitarian than the United States—their wealth is more evenly distributed across the population. But Taleb uses some statistics of dynamic inequality that propose America may be fairer than Europe. In Europe, more than a third of the five hundred wealthiest people inherited their wealth from family dynasties that have lasted for centuries. Compare this to the US, where 90% of the wealthiest five hundred people entered that list less than thirty years ago.

>Here’s another statistic on dynamic equality in America: 10% of Americans will spend at least one year in the top 1% of income earners, and more than half of all Americans will spend at least a year in the top 10% of income earners. Since what we’re trying to do is allow the market to reward those who contribute to society, greater turnover among the rich in the United States is a sign of fairness.

https://www.shortform.com/blog/types-of-inequality/

https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...

Nikola Snags $42M from California to Build Hydrogen Truck Stations

jmeister — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:47:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2023/07/05/nikola-snags-42-million-from-california-to-build-hydrogen-truck-stations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36620866

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jmeister in "Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio]"

jmeister — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 08:09:22 +0000

The problem is decline in elitism(in the arts, in politics, in the academy..) but nobody wants to hear that in these populist times. Democracy+markets are working extremely well for the masses, giving them exactly what they want.

Ted Gioia the music critic has made a lot of good observations on these issues. In particular, artists, intellectuals and politicians of old used to lead, persuade, and pull their audience along with them. Today, everyone simply panders.

New comment by jmeister in "Big VC, Tech Got Backstop for Billions in Uninsured SVB Deposits"

jmeister — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:18:33 +0000

"On the startup bailout. It is claimed that the startups who put all their cash in SVB will now be forced to close, so get going with the bailout now. It is not startups who lose money, it is their venture capital investors, and it is they who benefit from the bailout.

Let us presume they don't suffer sunk cost fallacy. You have a great company, worth investing $10 million. The company loses $5 million of your cash before they had a chance to spend it. That loss obviously has nothing to do with the company's prospects. What do you do? Obviously, pony up another $5 million and get it going again. And tell them to put their cash in a real bank this time."

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2023/03/silicon-valley-ba...

New comment by jmeister in "Is the US trying to kill crypto?"

jmeister — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:23:38 +0000

>Hilary Allen, a law professor at American University, thinks crypto is inherently susceptible to boom-and-boost cycles and manipulation by insiders, and thinks it should be banned.

I don’t know or care much for crypto, but man does it bring out Ayn Rand villains you thought only existed in books.