Hacker News: ksclarke

New comment by ksclarke in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

ksclarke — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:59:39 +0000

I'd buy that in a second.

New comment by ksclarke in "Rivian Will Add Lidar in 2026, Says Tesla's Cameras Aren't Enough"

ksclarke — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:05:09 +0000

The corporation's risk assessment department has calculated it's more cost effective to deny and then fight the consequences in court vs. spend the extra money up front?

New comment by ksclarke in "Apex: Universal Markdown Processor"

ksclarke — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:24:33 +0000

That first sentence I believe. The second not so much.

New comment by ksclarke in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

ksclarke — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:56:59 +0000

Some become President of the United States. Others probably grow out of it?

New comment by ksclarke in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

ksclarke — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:16:02 +0000

The whole time I was reading this, as someone from the U.S., I was wondering what country the writer was from, because it sure as #$@! wasn't written by someone in the U.S. When I got to that part, I was, "Oh. Okay. That makes sense."

New comment by ksclarke in "Show HN: JSON Query"

ksclarke — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:07:22 +0000

https://www.jsoniq.org -- jq is ubiquitous, but I still prefer the jsoniq syntax.

New comment by ksclarke in "2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit"

ksclarke — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:41:32 +0000

Looking at the number of points and comments on each (including this one), I remember something my mom (an elementary school teacher) always said: "You have to repeat something three times before people hear it."

New comment by ksclarke in "W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine"

ksclarke — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:19:59 +0000

Yes, but they're the smaller of the two groups.

New comment by ksclarke in "Beeper Mini is back"

ksclarke — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:49:53 +0000

Ha, "wallet garden" gave me a good chuckle. I usually hear it expressed as a "walled garden", but this might be the perfect typo (or clever twist / word play).

I'm guessing it was a typo, but well done nonetheless.

New comment by ksclarke in "W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine"

ksclarke — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:45:13 +0000

Because people (i.e., users) aren't the same thing as developers. Most people just want to use a tool, rather than develop it.

New comment by ksclarke in "Browse over one million newly digitized images from Yale’s Beinecke Library"

ksclarke — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 16:07:44 +0000

And, of potential interest to the HN crowd, those one million newly digitized images are also available for programmatic access from Yale's IIIF (https://iiif.io/api/image/3.0/) API endpoint. So, for instance, if you happen to like peanuts (unlike Comstock) you may want to zoom in on them in their full glory:

https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1197356/2520,169...

New comment by ksclarke in "The internet is an SEO landfill"

ksclarke — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:58:16 +0000

> “Good spam” is just real content.

Harvested and put on somebody else's site that is covered with ads.

New comment by ksclarke in "Why Google+ Failed"

ksclarke — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:25:42 +0000

That's not where all its success came from. That's the one downfall the article got right. It was successful before that. Trying to shoehorn a bunch of people who didn't want to use it into using it was the mistake. It was doing just fine before that and it would have continued to grow organically. It was never going to be a Facebook replacement though. It was better than that.