Hacker News: johng

New comment by johng in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

johng — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:39:54 +0000

Clearly AI hasn't read enough BOFH or it would have known it would not get sympathy from old school sysadmins.

New comment by johng in "NY and NJ subpoena FIFA over 'manipulated' World Cup ticketing"

johng — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:12:31 +0000

They are breaking the contract they signed with FIFA saying they wouldn't increase transportation costs. So, contract law would be my guess.

New comment by johng in "Elon Musk's Age of Impunity"

johng — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:08:32 +0000

He says stupid stuff and lies all the time. I know many people on both sides that do this. I know many on both sides that spread hate speech, if you want to call it that. Some stuff he says might even be illegal.... I think lying about self driving and many other schemes to drive up the stock were illegal and he should have been punished.

I'm not so sure I feel that way about his other free speech that's just opinions... whether you agree or disagree with them is another matter entirely.

New comment by johng in "Elon Musk's Age of Impunity"

johng — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:06:52 +0000

https://archive.is/uVGcY

New comment by johng in "The SAT Was Necessary After All"

johng — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:52:42 +0000

Yeah, this seems pretty obvious to me.

New comment by johng in "What it takes to be the fastest bike messenger in NYC (1985) [video]"

johng — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:23:49 +0000

Wow. What a bad ass news piece. They don't do news like this anymore... today it would be political one way or the other. Back then, they just reported the news and the facts and let you make your own conclusions.

New comment by johng in "US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants"

johng — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:10:15 +0000

I should add that I grew up in New Mexico near Holloman AFB. They imported Ibex animals there long ago and you can draw a license to hunt them. They don't grant many per year so they are very rare to pull... but there are Ibex hunts every year. They do it to keep the population at a level to support long term stability. Since they have no natural predators they would get out of control. The hunting fees go to conservation in New Mexico. You can read a bit more about it here: https://wildlife.dgf.nm.gov/department-reduces-number-of-per...

These are considered exotic hunts. As I said, I'm not a hunter. I don't have it in me.... I guess I could do it in a survival situation but I can understand that sometimes the hunts can be beneficial long term.

Hope this helps make it a bit more understandable and palatable for some.

New comment by johng in "US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants"

johng — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:02:45 +0000

Well, one of the best examples is the case of a male Lion in Africa. Old, large, but too old to have offspring but still too large to be taken over by a younger male Lion. They allowed it to be hunted so that a younger male could take over the pride and create offspring which was better for the pride. There are other examples.

I can't find the story on it but I read it a long time ago.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/trophy-hu...

New comment by johng in "US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants"

johng — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:27:45 +0000

I'm not a hunter, never have. But, these big game hunts are actually good for conservation. They hunt only animals that NEED to be culled and they pay big bucks to do so which go towards keeping the animals alive and protected.

Big game hunts fund so much conservation.... so, if you truly and really care about trying to save rare species and such in Africa and other places -- these help fund those things.

New comment by johng in "Petrichor"

johng — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:24:55 +0000

To this day, this is one of my favorite smells. Growing up in New Mexico you would get this smell quite often after fresh rain. This and brand new swamp cooler pads and a working A/C on the first hot day of summer.

2 core memories and smells you'll never forget.

New comment by johng in "Ireland paid artists a basic income and it was a boost for the economy"

johng — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:22:58 +0000

As would I... and ultimately who decides who gets it. I see this being ripe for corruption as well. I mean, anyone can be an artist... so do you just use a lottery type system?

New comment by johng in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

johng — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:37:49 +0000

Depends on what you grew up on/learned I think. CLI was the only thing around when I learned so that's still what I prefer. It's one of those things where I think you use the tool that you are proficient with. No right or wrong, just different strokes for different folks.

New comment by johng in "Razor 1911 and the Amiga Demoscene"

johng — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:08:16 +0000

I wish I could get some good Razor 1911 merch somewhere. I found some stuff on red bubble but I'd rather support the group directly.

I also miss THG, always thought "The Humble Guys" was one of the coolest warez names.

Also, RotSB... Riders of the Short Bus.

New comment by johng in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

johng — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:50:08 +0000

Here's a forum dedicated to the new Surface Laptop Ultra as well: https://www.surfaceforums.net/forums/microsoft-surface-lapto...

New comment by johng in "Show HN: Community Ninja – Find customers searching for your product"

johng — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:25:35 +0000

Site looks great. Very well done, explains what it does well. I signed up to test out one of our websites.

Edit: There seems to be no way to remove a subreddit from the radar. I can add, but I can't find a way to remove.

New comment by johng in "Puppetmaster crushes token costs, increases speed, and context"

johng — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:14:48 +0000

This looks interesting.

New comment by johng in "US strike campaign against drug boats tops 200 deaths"

johng — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:01:18 +0000

If any of this is fentanyl then it is very accurate to say that it leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths. And we've seen a very good decrease in fentanyl deaths -- though that could also be attributed to the higher availability of Narcan.

Fentanyl remains a primary driver of overdose deaths, with synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, accounting for 60% of all overdose deaths in the United States last year, totaling about 48,000 people. While opioid overdose deaths remain high, there has been a decrease in fentanyl-involved deaths from 2023 to 2024. More National Fentanyl Overdose Data The CDC reports a 35.6% decrease in synthetic opioid overdose deaths from 2023 to 2024.

New comment by johng in "CNN sues Perplexity over 'verbatim' copycat articles"

johng — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:12:47 +0000

Yup, as a forum owner, we've seen our traffic crash at least 60% since the AI just gives them a summary of our forum posts and the user never clicks through.

New comment by johng in "NY and NJ subpoena FIFA over 'manipulated' World Cup ticketing"

johng — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:11:42 +0000

What about the manipulated train pricing? It's price gouging for sure.... that's what NY/NJ are doing.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48514008/world-cup-fa...

New comment by johng in "CNN sues Perplexity over alleged AI copyright theft"

johng — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:32:38 +0000

We own forums. I wonder if we should do the same thing. They trained their models off of our data.