Hacker News: sjg1729

New comment by sjg1729 in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

sjg1729 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:07:57 +0000

I was also quite fond of Palimpsest by Stross. It’s a retelling of EoE but a more modern treatment (and the writing is quite a bit better, IMO)

New comment by sjg1729 in "SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI"

sjg1729 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:06:20 +0000

This could happen without a merger

New comment by sjg1729 in "Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user"

sjg1729 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:27:53 +0000

If the bug bounty program doesn’t pay out much, there will be plenty of less reputable actors happy to pay more

New comment by sjg1729 in "Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers"

sjg1729 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:01:18 +0000

Which standards are you referring to?

New comment by sjg1729 in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

sjg1729 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:22:52 +0000

Under $1000: A road bike. I live in LA (county) and the default is to drive everywhere, but here's the thing: driving sucks. We famously don't have great bike infra, but I thought, would I go more places if I didn't hate getting around? For trips up to a couple miles, biking is faster than driving, and I never have to worry about parking.

Ergo stuff. A kinesis keyboard, a logitech ergo mouse, a standing desk and mat. Between these, I've probably headed off carpal tunnel and back problems by years.

New comment by sjg1729 in "3D-Stacked CMOS Takes Moore's Law to New Heights"

sjg1729 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:36:44 +0000

http://kadin.sdf-us.org/weblog/technology/smoking-hairy-golf...

New comment by sjg1729 in "She Stole $54M from Her Town. Then Something Unexpected Happened"

sjg1729 — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:30:26 +0000

You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!!!

No chance we want to allow HN posters to cool down the article’s original title when it’s especially clickbaity?

New comment by sjg1729 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)"

sjg1729 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:41:37 +0000

Can you share any info about the project domain?

New comment by sjg1729 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

sjg1729 — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:11:21 +0000

I'll second this. Looks like y'all are starting something really interesting, and it'd be helpful to know what your location expectations look like

New comment by sjg1729 in "We’re all just temporarily abled"

sjg1729 — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 07:18:27 +0000

The main point of this article is to inspire a bit more empathy and consideration for those with disabilities. He knows he's privileged, and that the 4/5 people who aren't currently disabled (by Sarah's count) are too; he's trying to help the 4/5 see themselves in the 1/5, too. Doesn't feel constructive to call him out for it

New comment by sjg1729 in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

sjg1729 — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:26:36 +0000

Been traveling a lot this year - this would've saved me a ton of money. If you've still got the script lying around, I'd love to check it out

New comment by sjg1729 in "Falcon Heavy Launch [video]"

sjg1729 — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:51:21 +0000

WAG?

New comment by sjg1729 in "Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said"

sjg1729 — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 07:37:57 +0000

It’s not mandatory, spacex employees can keep their shares in hope of an eventual IPO

New comment by sjg1729 in "Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting pivot stories?"

sjg1729 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:06:51 +0000

And discord was split off from a LoL-like game when it turned out to be the best part about it

New comment by sjg1729 in "Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035"

sjg1729 — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:15:50 +0000

Is the novel religion you’re referring to the belief in climate change? Not sure I understand your comment

New comment by sjg1729 in "Player of Games"

sjg1729 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 07:49:50 +0000

Always sad to see these projects suffer from A Shortfall of Gravitas

New comment by sjg1729 in "AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps"

sjg1729 — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 21:59:18 +0000

Nope. I made the mistake of architecting my current project around Amplify. Deployment errors are thankfully rare these days, but things that should be easy are hard, and there are many seemingly obvious use cases that the Amplify CLI doesn't handle.

New comment by sjg1729 in "Helion"

sjg1729 — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:08:50 +0000

The isotope of helium they want to use doesn’t exist on earth in significant quantities. They want to make their own by running another fusion reaction between two deuterium nucleii. Deuterium is plentiful but this reaction will take energy and “activate” (make radioactive) some components of their feeder reactor.

New comment by sjg1729 in "TC Energy scraps Keystone XL pipeline project after Biden revokes key permit"

sjg1729 — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 06:45:26 +0000

From How To Save a Planet, a podcast I like:

Alex Blumberg: ...and, [pipeline company] Enbridge says, stopping the pipeline won't stop the development of tar-sands oil. The oil will just travel in less safe ways, like by rail.

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: But Tara says that argument is missing the entire point.

[Attorney and activist] Tara Houska: The idea is always like, you know, we're replacing old ones that are leaking. How about instead of replacing them and expanding them—which is what you're actually doing—you decommission the old one and pull it out of the ground and clean up the earth that you've contaminated?

Ayana: I like that option better.

Tara: And there's always, like, this premise of, well, it's gonna get shipped anyway. No, it's not. Like, that's the whole point. No, it's not. Your industry is on its way out. And that's the point. And we all know that. You can't sit there and say, "Oh, well, it's gonna go by rail or it's gonna go by ship anyway. No, it's not. The tar sands are on their way out. And that's the reality.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/76h4r25

New comment by sjg1729 in "The NFT market bubble has popped?"

sjg1729 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:26:26 +0000

I agree in a lot of cases, but a couple months ago I saw a pretty interesting idea on HN: https://sarcophagus.io . While I think there are some issues with this protocol, it convinced me there are some pretty interesting problems that can be solved with new and unintuitive social/technical means with dApps.

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