Hacker News: joncrane

New comment by joncrane in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

joncrane — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:54:09 +0000

Is CapOne unique among banks and sells data that e.g. Chase and Citi don't?

New comment by joncrane in "The turbulent AI era is here"

joncrane — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:50:05 +0000

Unfortunately, this is essentially high level clickbait. At the beginning he immediately portrays the issue as black and white:

>AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice.

In all likelihood it will probably fall in the middle, with the likelihood that it will tilt power and money towards the already ultra wealthy (to the surprise of no one). But it will enable ordinary people and small businesses to do cool shit and make their lives better.

New comment by joncrane in "FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels"

joncrane — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:52:08 +0000

Thanks! His mom is a badass.

New comment by joncrane in "I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases"

joncrane — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:37:37 +0000

Now THIS is what hacking is all about. Very cool.

New comment by joncrane in "Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk"

joncrane — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:51:12 +0000

It was common to give young children cigarettes? Source?

New comment by joncrane in "Pareto Front"

joncrane — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:42 +0000

Question: in auto racing, could one have a Pareto Front balancing single lap pace (qualifying optimization) and race pace (pace over an entire stint of e.g. 20+ laps)?

New comment by joncrane in "Pareto Front"

joncrane — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:58:26 +0000

This is a cool way to gamify weightlifting. Cheers!

New comment by joncrane in "Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You"

joncrane — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:06:24 +0000

>hired by an eastern european country as an anti-counterfeiting advisor and then he disappeared

Oh man the stories write themselves

New comment by joncrane in "Do we need billionaires?"

joncrane — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:55:27 +0000

We need intensely ambitious and competitive people. We shouldn't use money to keep score.

New comment by joncrane in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

joncrane — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:16:49 +0000

Nice saying. Another one I just remembered is "We don't have enough money to do it right, but we have enough to do it twice."

New comment by joncrane in "Grok 4.3"

joncrane — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:52:32 +0000

>Elon has been pretty vocal about trying to stop them for ages

You know people lie, right? Especially when the lie casts them in a better light and/or makes them more money.

New comment by joncrane in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

joncrane — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:09:41 +0000

I think the point they are trying to make is the golden retriever vibe/energy you get from Claude gives "after work yoga."

New comment by joncrane in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

joncrane — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:50:13 +0000

There are Chinooks with no bids as of yet....as well as a Bombardier Challenger

New comment by joncrane in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

joncrane — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:16:41 +0000

The controller was talking to Frontier plane when he first said stop, then said stopstopTruck1stopstopstop and it would be easy for there to be a gap in processing for the driver of truck 1 because the verbiage all flowed in the same stanza that was started when addressing the Frontier flight.

New comment by joncrane in "No Terms. No Conditions"

joncrane — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:14:41 +0000

My mind when to the same thing. Great song.

New comment by joncrane in "What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog)"

joncrane — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:22:59 +0000

We get it! They have 22,477 tests with a 99.98% pass rate, ship 65 commits to main daily, and keep 98 engineers productive on a single monorepo.

I thought the repetition of these statitics was a little tired, but overall that's an impressive solution. Also totally get that the hardest part is log ingestion and indexing.

New comment by joncrane in "AirPods Max 2"

joncrane — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:04:14 +0000

>They are a luxury item, you are paying for the privilege of signaling you can afford $550 headphones.

Plus they give juuuust enough features to cover for the true purpose and give you plausible deniability. Same as most luxury items. None truly give the value of the cost (Is a Ferrari 10x as fast as a GR86? Carry 10x as much stuff? Go 10x as far on the same gas load? Etc etc etc)

"Oh but there's nothing like the experience of driving a Ferrari!"

New comment by joncrane in "Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025"

joncrane — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:26:06 +0000

OP literally said that users add their domains, meaning they are explicitly ASKING OP to scrape their websites.

New comment by joncrane in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

joncrane — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:55:19 +0000

I think there's another dimension to this, which is the toxic home life which led to these behaviors. Good luck unpacking this all and getting healthier.

New comment by joncrane in "Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir"

joncrane — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:29:17 +0000

1) To get ahead of any transition drama 2) Because he's sick