Hacker News: sporadicallyjoe

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

sporadicallyjoe — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:35:44 +0000

If politicians care so much about protecting children, then why aren't they going after the rich and powerful child abusers mentioned in the Epstein files?

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "No one buys books"

sporadicallyjoe — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:01:33 +0000

eBay is hands down the best place to buy books.

They're not new, but that's a feature not a bug. The books are more affordable, you're consuming sustainably, and who really cares if a book has been read before?

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Quantum computing's reality check"

sporadicallyjoe — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:43:39 +0000

That's correct. Comments become grey when they receive multiple downvotes.

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "The CEO and the Three Envelopes (2010)"

sporadicallyjoe — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:19:07 +0000

Add to the final envelope: "Take your golden parachute and do it all over again"

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Population.io"

sporadicallyjoe — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 01:30:44 +0000

I'm a 100yo man from Kyrgyzstan

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Disney invented two colors (2022)"

sporadicallyjoe — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:48:18 +0000

Looks like Disney's marketing team is hard at work!

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "How to Roman Republic 101"

sporadicallyjoe — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:16:00 +0000

You could use a free text to voice application e.g. https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/?s=V3715efd32dc2c47409...

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Microsoft's AI shopping announcement contains hallucinations in the demo"

sporadicallyjoe — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:40:11 +0000

Is anyone shipping AI products that DO NOT contain hallucinations? I thought that was pretty much a given.

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "WormGPT – The Generative AI Tool Cybercriminals Are Using"

sporadicallyjoe — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:17:56 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders#Copyca...

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Chiptune.app"

sporadicallyjoe — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:08:23 +0000

Great app. Though the files for 'The Elder Scrolls - Arena' seem to be missing.

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "‘I know about lying, I do it for a living’: Ben McKenzie as crypto critic"

sporadicallyjoe — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 14:57:37 +0000

Ben McKenzie claims the entire sector is a ponzi scheme. This is disingenuous at best.

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Docker Acquires Mutagen"

sporadicallyjoe — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:42:36 +0000

Oh no, they're curious about his salary. Who could think to ask such a heinous question?

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Power companies fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility"

sporadicallyjoe — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:56:16 +0000

All basic human necessities should be not for profit.

We all lose when corporate greed meets basic necessities.

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

sporadicallyjoe — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 20:36:15 +0000

I created a service you can text to get fun conversation starters based off a topic, or an observation. I used Twilio + ChatGPT to build this so I could come up with interesting questions anytime, anywhere.

Simply text 1 (434) 404 6822 with an observation.

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game"

sporadicallyjoe — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 21:21:19 +0000

Tons of fun aiming for the different types of high scores. Here are mine:

131 point crash - https://i.ibb.co/YdJ1c8B/131.png 426 max speed landing - https://i.ibb.co/5k5Csjt/Max-Speed426.png

New comment by sporadicallyjoe in "Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (2014)"

sporadicallyjoe — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:32:01 +0000

The Human Development Index is another good alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index