Hacker News: joeblau

New comment by joeblau in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

joeblau — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:42:21 +0000

We used this in 2011 at the startup I worked for. 20 positive and 20 negative words was good enough to sell Twitter "sentiment analysis" to companies like Apple, Bentley, etc...

Remote Soccer

joeblau — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:45:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.joeblau.com/remote-soccer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338698

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Graham: Analytical Startup Advice [ChatGPT]

joeblau — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:21:26 +0000

Article URL: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-A3VtkSBtz-graham

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212207

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by joeblau in "Meat and mental health: Meat eaters suffer less depression, anxiety"

joeblau — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 01:28:46 +0000

I’m just here for the confirmation bias, but seriously as others have noted this study was funded by an organization that benefits from this headline being true.

New comment by joeblau in "Statement from Mark Zuckerberg"

joeblau — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 04:20:37 +0000

Is there a non-Facebook link to this please?

New comment by joeblau in "Apple, US developers agree to App Store updates"

joeblau — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:48:49 +0000

I've been an iOS developer since 2009 and after reading this, it felt like Prime Day; A bunch of stuff, but nothing I wanted.

Show HN: $600M+ Poly Network Hacker Chat Feed

joeblau — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:13:38 +0000

Article URL: https://dehi.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28139774

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Tokenlaunch Story

joeblau — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:45:34 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tokenlaunch.com/p/tokenlaunch-story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28049815

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by joeblau in "Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?"

joeblau — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 11:58:00 +0000

Just a side note. I’m actually working on building a remote team and when I went to your profile, the link in there was dead. How do people casually browsing your profile discover what you’ve worked on and learn more about you?

New comment by joeblau in "Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees"

joeblau — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 02:17:41 +0000

You're a true 10x developer.

New comment by joeblau in "Sorry everybody, I failed with you"

joeblau — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:15:01 +0000

I sold the site to Toptal 2 years ago, but trust me I had donate buttons, crypto donate buttons, I messaged multiple big tech firms that used my project to ask for sponsorships, I ran ads using carbon. I tried a lot of things over the 7 years of running it and lots of the avenues failed or didn't generate enough revenue.

Now I understand that the project was not that valuable but it would have been nice if I could have run it as a lifestyle business.

New comment by joeblau in "Sorry everybody, I failed with you"

joeblau — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 11:40:39 +0000

I’ve seen few OSS burn out posts lately. I created gitignore.io and I’m thankful it wasn’t that successful because even the 5 hours a month I put in didn’t yield much financial compensation.

There should really be a more transparent way that projects like this, canihazip, gitignore, redis, and a bunch of other projects can be sustainably run.

New comment by joeblau in "Bitcoin is failing at becoming the future of money"

joeblau — Fri, 21 May 2021 15:34:35 +0000

Look at this batch of function handlers[1]. Why does it have functions named "Deal Hand" "Fold" "Call" "Leave Table" etc... ?

This thing was clearly a poker game that was co-opted by a ton of narrative changes into what it is now. I'm not saying that the co-opting and narrative changes are bad because I think the underlying function of trestles digital uniqueness is brilliant, but looking at the code tells a different story than what a lot of people would have you believe.

[1] - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/4405b78d6059e536c369...

New comment by joeblau in "Bitcoin is failing at becoming the future of money"

joeblau — Thu, 20 May 2021 17:43:24 +0000

Go to the git repo on GitHub, check out the code, go to the first commit, and see how many times the word “Poker” is in the code base.

Bitcoin was simply designed to be an in game currency for a poker game, but the narrative has been co-opted by so many people that it’s become something else.

New comment by joeblau in "A URL Lengthener"

joeblau — Fri, 14 May 2021 19:13:36 +0000

I don’t know why but just seeing this title made spontaneously start laughing.

Bloated MVP

joeblau — Thu, 13 May 2021 11:51:03 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/bloated-mvp/bloated-mvp-table-of-contents-1d7da72a3a66

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27141037

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by joeblau in "Show HN: Tokenlaunch – Find the best new tokens in Crypto"

joeblau — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:43:08 +0000

Op here. Our goal is to build the product hunt for Crypto. Our platform helps small cap tokens gain visibility both inside and outside of the crypto community.

Would love any feedback at tokenlaunch@gmail.com

Show HN: Tokenlaunch – Find the best new tokens in Crypto

joeblau — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://tokenlaun.ch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27117339

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by joeblau in "Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever"

joeblau — Tue, 04 May 2021 10:48:12 +0000

Random diamond story! As a freshman in college, I took a geology class and our teacher asked all of the women in our class to raise their hand if they would rather have natural or human-made diamonds. Most of the women (over 80%) raised their hands for natural. The reasons they gave all seemed to tie back to branding and natural diamonds being “real.”

Then our teacher gave another analogy. He asked if people would rather have natural ice or human-made ice in their water. He broke down that the human-made ice could be frozen in a freezer to a custom size/shape, be a lot cleaner, consistent in how you make it, and chemically no different than H20 than naturally occurring frozen water. As you looked around the lecture hall, you started to see people’s brains unlock. He went on to explain cost efficiencies, ethics, challenges with conflict diamonds, and how you could make a perfect diamond at a fraction of the coast.

After a 30 minute lecture, he asked the question again. Surprisingly, the majority of the women still wanted natural diamonds although the number was less than the original amount that raised their hand. That was the point where I realized the strength of diamonds product branding.

Show HN: Curated Cycling Experience

joeblau — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:25:33 +0000

Article URL: https://ridevelo.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968538

Points: 5

# Comments: 1