Hacker News: jprd

New comment by jprd in "Felony Bench"

jprd — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:54:43 +0000

Aaron Swartz, for one.

New comment by jprd in "How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]"

jprd — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:17:41 +0000

This is great. The amount I've learned from threads like this is wonderful. Fountain pens AND chalk. We are so spoiled by the ubiquity of paper and writing tools that we tried to eliminate them with typing on glass.

New comment by jprd in "Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been"

jprd — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:05:37 +0000

https://archive.is/PSE0i

New comment by jprd in "Stolen Buttons"

jprd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:08:41 +0000

Oh wow, that was so cathartic. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by jprd in "Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina"

jprd — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:36:17 +0000

Good.

New comment by jprd in "Putin's $26B Quest for Longevity"

jprd — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:41:00 +0000

https://archive.ph/qtMjh

New comment by jprd in "Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to Argentina"

jprd — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:01:24 +0000

Not sure I understand, but all I know is this dude has been an unhinged actor for a long time - and now he's on an Anti-Christ tour?

I take him even less seriously than Andreessen, Karp and Musk. Unfortunately they have more money than God, so they get attention and acolytes.

New comment by jprd in "Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to Argentina"

jprd — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:56:44 +0000

https://archive.ph/SsM81

New comment by jprd in "Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen"

jprd — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:36:29 +0000

Prefer Grok for what exactly?

New comment by jprd in "SpaceX S-1"

jprd — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:40:36 +0000

Right. This compute still being powered by an illegal amount of gas turbines in a residential neighborhood?

Claude is eating so much compute, the threat of that power being tuned down by lawsuit (rightfully) is worth the risk to Anthropic in the short-term. Instead of declaring "bubble", I'm just going to say that's so crazy.

New comment by jprd in "We Traced U.S. Government Gold to a Drug Cartel"

jprd — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:56:54 +0000

https://archive.ph/ZWWDX

New comment by jprd in "Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East"

jprd — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:44:43 +0000

Yes. Both me-south-1 and me-central-1 have been _heavily_ impacted/disrupted for nearly a month now due to drone strikes on infra.

New comment by jprd in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

jprd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:48:46 +0000

Nice. Do you just use your 5 as a stationary iPod, or do you dual-carry with a modern device as well? Curious on if you also use it to wi-fi the web on your local LAN periodically too, of it that was just a periodic test to check if HN worked.

New comment by jprd in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

jprd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:55:10 +0000

Glorious. This must be what is like when old people long for the hot car they lusted for in their youth.

New comment by jprd in "Why does the Hacker News UI never get updated?"

jprd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:34:58 +0000

It is already complete.

New comment by jprd in "Private equity's big bet on software was derailed by AI"

jprd — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:03:33 +0000

https://archive.ph/TQnPn

New comment by jprd in "Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk"

jprd — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:13:20 +0000

Super glad to hear this. I absolutely do not want to be a member of any private club these people are a part of.

New comment by jprd in "xAI joins SpaceX"

jprd — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:28:11 +0000

I have so many conflicting thoughts that I cannot properly articulate yet. I can say though, this is not going to end well for most, it is clumsily premeditated and starting to feel like dude is just trying to be a Neal Stephenson character.

New comment by jprd in "Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now"

jprd — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:36:52 +0000

lol what? Can you please cite some sources for this claim?

New comment by jprd in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

jprd — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:07:27 +0000

There is always going to be an intersection between tech and politics. This convo is no different than talking about Section 230, H1B visas or using vision models to sexualize people or distort the truth.