Hacker News: koops

New comment by koops in "Dude, where's my supersonic jet?"

koops — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:06:33 +0000

We're all of us speeding towards a cliff that ends in environmental disaster.

And if you point that out, you get downvoted to invisibility on Hacker News and elsewhere.

New comment by koops in "Try and"

koops — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:45:04 +0000

Randy Meisner was not trying "to" love again. Usage settled.

New comment by koops in "Bill Atkinson has died"

koops — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:55:58 +0000

Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld were my childhood heroes through their work. Inside Macintosh was a series that enlightened my teen years. Thanks, Bill.

New comment by koops in "Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order"

koops — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:00:29 +0000

Please don't spike this as political. If U.S. democracy breaks down, as this event portends, it will absolutely have an effect on startups.

New comment by koops in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

koops — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:46:18 +0000

Isn't that in fact true? Emotional or not.

New comment by koops in "We're about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time"

koops — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:35:14 +0000

You could also go with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juq0_2Oj5qw

New comment by koops in "Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B"

koops — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:35:08 +0000

Asserting that there is strong evidence against a claim is not "debunking" a claim.

New comment by koops in "How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days"

koops — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 17:52:05 +0000

Agreed. The best part is that you don't need to second-guess decisions wondering whether or not the course of action is better financially for the decision-maker.

New comment by koops in "EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany"

koops — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 16:46:25 +0000

They cheated on the ethics exam, THEN they lied about their cheating.

New comment by koops in "The End of the English Major"

koops — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:39:42 +0000

People who went to Harvard always manage to slyly communicate they went to Harvard. Including the author of this article. Good for you, dear!

New comment by koops in "Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company"

koops — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:41:32 +0000

This is true. If you are from a bad class background, as a Maoist would put it, you are at a significant disadvantage when applying to the UC system.

New comment by koops in "Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150"

koops — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:23:21 +0000

Namecheap is good. I've been using them for many years, no complaints.

New comment by koops in "Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records"

koops — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:21:08 +0000

There are many more record highs recorded since the 1980's than record lows. That's climate change.

Zuckerberg threatens “major lawsuit” if Warren tries to break up Facebook

koops — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:03:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/1/20893133/mark-zuckerberg-elizabeth-warren-facebook-sue-us-government-tech-breakup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21126955

Points: 56

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New comment by koops in "Geoff Ralston taking over as President of YC"

koops — Tue, 21 May 2019 14:52:57 +0000

Promise me, Geoff.

New comment by koops in "Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data"

koops — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:45:38 +0000

Lobbyists are not trying to bring expert information to elected officials. They are trying to influence public policy to the benefit of the people or organizations paying them.

New comment by koops in "Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor"

koops — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:19:16 +0000

Link: http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/docs/rising-seas-in-...

It's a few pages before it becomes California-specific.

New comment by koops in "Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor"

koops — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:57:28 +0000

I don't know about sea level rise prediction accuracy, but temperature "hindcasts" hold up pretty well:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...

New comment by koops in "Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor"

koops — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:36:36 +0000

Here the Woods Hole oceanographers talk about it without the couch analogy:

https://www.whoi.edu/news-release/why-is-sea-level-rising-hi...

New comment by koops in "Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor"

koops — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:18:24 +0000

Unfortunately no, not here. The metaphor I've heard is continent as couch cushion: the glacier was "sitting" on the upper part of North America, pushing up the edges. Now that weight is gone, the coasts are dropping slightly.