Hacker News: mcfunley

New comment by mcfunley in "XOXO Festival Archive"

mcfunley — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:10:30 +0000

This was the best conference there ever was and I miss it a lot

New comment by mcfunley in "ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face"

mcfunley — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:41:54 +0000

By the time this is all said and done we’re going to wind down the DHS in its entirety, bogus lists of political enemies included

New comment by mcfunley in "The pivot"

mcfunley — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:20:54 +0000

Did HN start automatically translating posts from their original German?

New comment by mcfunley in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

mcfunley — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:01:48 +0000

To your point, the thing that jumped out at me reading this book is how familiar the German characters are. People have loved to imagine that the Nazi era in Germany was so anomalous it could never happen again. But no, the Germans were just like us.

Fell in a Hole, Got Out

mcfunley — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:57:32 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543320

Points: 35

# Comments: 3

New comment by mcfunley in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

mcfunley — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:33:06 +0000

Category error to think there's a strategy. Trump doesn't even know what a tariff is. People try to project a strategy because it's probably too discomfiting to believe that the greatest superpower the world has ever known elected a complete nimrod king.

The Omniscience Expectation and the Mardenfeld

mcfunley — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:50:10 +0000

Article URL: https://kellanem.com/notes/omniscence-and-the-mardenfeld

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261366

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

On Misery

mcfunley — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:00:01 +0000

Article URL: https://mcfunley.com/on-misery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675376

Points: 15

# Comments: 3

We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong

mcfunley — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667260

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

The Guerilla's Guide to Influencing Leadership

mcfunley — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:24:47 +0000

Article URL: https://mcfunley.com/the-guerillas-guide-to-influencing-leadership

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42472422

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Guerilla's Guide to Influencing Leadership

mcfunley — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:30:00 +0000

Article URL: https://mcfunley.com/the-guerillas-guide-to-influencing-leadership

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42463724

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mcfunley in "Egoless Engineering"

mcfunley — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:00:10 +0000

Yeah you are right about this, psychological safety is a key ingredient in what “good” looks like. Blameless culture stuff is a bit of another ball of wax, so I didn’t get into it too much.