Hacker News: thewarpaint

Agentic Commerce Protocol

thewarpaint — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:26:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.agenticcommerce.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431452

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by thewarpaint in "Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones"

thewarpaint — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:02:29 +0000

The source of that comment is provably not someone with deep technical expertise so take that with a grain of salt.

Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data on Its New Website

thewarpaint — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:52:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063711

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by thewarpaint in "The Startup Trap (2013)"

thewarpaint — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:08:33 +0000

Yes, he has: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2021/11/28/Spacewar.ht...

New comment by thewarpaint in "Five or ten new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem"

thewarpaint — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 04:00:17 +0000

> a job at McDonalds

> far less time and effort

Pick one

New comment by thewarpaint in "The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change"

thewarpaint — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:36:02 +0000

> So is there really dark matter and dark energy, or is our understanding of the laws of the universe incomplete?

These propositions are not mutually exclusive, the former implies the latter, right?

Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves

thewarpaint — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:26:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/24209196/instagram-ai-characters-meta-ai-studio-release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115097

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by thewarpaint in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"

thewarpaint — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:30:23 +0000

> they weren't stupid technically, just stupid from a business sense

I wouldn’t call them “stupid technically”, but assuming that there was a hard limit to codec efficiency and to internet bandwidth would at least make them technically naive in my opinion.

New comment by thewarpaint in "Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale"

thewarpaint — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 02:20:57 +0000

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPgWhG0XAAAboFB?format=jpg&name=...

Thomas Midgley Jr

thewarpaint — Sat, 25 May 2024 21:03:37 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40477853

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by thewarpaint in "Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow""

thewarpaint — Thu, 16 May 2024 22:54:41 +0000

Care to explain how trains being delayed or canceled is related to a new technology reducing sound pollution?

Stripe Valuation Jumps to $65B in Employee Share-Sale Deal

thewarpaint — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:35:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stripe-valuation-jumps-to-65-billion-in-employee-share-sale-deal-65255c94

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39541953

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

The only viable alternatives [to Big Tech AI] are Elon, startups and open source

thewarpaint — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:23:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1762532979317043515

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39540067

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

List of best-selling mobile phones

thewarpaint — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:23:12 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_phones

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329849

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by thewarpaint in "Days Since Incident (2022)"

thewarpaint — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:30:59 +0000

Implicitly what it’s saying is: “Hurricane reaching a maximum category of X”

List of best-selling mobile phones

thewarpaint — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:55:12 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_phones

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39264226

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by thewarpaint in "How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)"

thewarpaint — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 05:40:11 +0000

What’s your theory/understanding then?

Catatumbo Lightning

thewarpaint — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:52:48 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatumbo_lightning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39002926

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Twitch is cutting one-third of its staff

thewarpaint — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:57:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24032187/twitch-layoffs-video-game-industry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38940635

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Carta to exit secondary trading business

thewarpaint — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://henrysward.medium.com/should-carta-facilitate-secondary-trading-c319e0c9f080

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38921343

Points: 225

# Comments: 114