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The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Was a Psyop

throwingrocks — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:56:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/geese-chaotic-good-marketing-industry-plant/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777865

Points: 3

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New comment by throwingrocks in "I've sold out"

throwingrocks — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:28:24 +0000

I had to check as well. Their logos are also similar.

New comment by throwingrocks in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

throwingrocks — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:47:12 +0000

It’s simply not a better name. If it was, it would’ve caught on by now.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

throwingrocks — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:28:29 +0000

SSR isn’t a craze. Web applications have been served that way for literal decades now.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

throwingrocks — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 09:46:45 +0000

> The whole point of free software should be that I do not have to adapt to some companies's idea of what is modern, if I do not want to.

This hasn’t changed.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

throwingrocks — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:46:20 +0000

Geez. Do you really think the number matters? I would be grateful to the creator even if it was 3 days.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook"

throwingrocks — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:39:24 +0000

Literal eye roll. It’s close enough.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer"

throwingrocks — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:15:56 +0000

The article touches on this by framing chronic inflammation (e.g. exposure to air pollution over years) as the problem.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

throwingrocks — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:20:59 +0000

Surprised by the amount of mentions of ECMAScript here. It’s the worst possible name to me.

New comment by throwingrocks in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

throwingrocks — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:29:54 +0000

> instead of writing 100 class names for every element, every page, every project, again and again…

I'm turned off from daisyUI with marketing like this. The alternative to daisyUI certainly isn't this.

I use Tailwind in a similar way that daisyUI does: by putting my utility classes in components and reusing the components.

daisyUI's value prop is that not everyone wants to do this for their custom design system. They should just stick to that instead of making false claims.

New comment by throwingrocks in "We're all CTO now"

throwingrocks — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:56:40 +0000

> bulkshitter

With all due respect, this perspective baffles me. Some see it your way, others see so much opportunity.

New comment by throwingrocks in "We're all CTO now"

throwingrocks — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:21:36 +0000

> There is a popular argument that a software developer’s job is not write software but to solve a user’s problem. Bullshit

Wait, what?

> I was never particularly interested in the code itself

> Instead, I was always more interested in the product

Confusing contradictions aside, I had trouble engaging with this article.

The author seems to think every developer thinks like they do. Some people actually enjoy helping their business/users.

The author also has trouble imagining other perspectives as a people manager. From the linked article,

> I do not get any sort of high from managing people. I don’t think anyone gets that same high from this role

Hate to break it to the author again, but some people actually enjoy seeing those they mentor/manage succeed.

Being a people manager isn’t the right fit for everyone. Perhaps being a developer in the next 20, 5, or 1 year won’t be the right fit for the same people it is for today.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel"

throwingrocks — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:10:48 +0000

Remix or React Router + Vite is still great.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Progressive JSON"

throwingrocks — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 09:05:01 +0000

> IMO if one has to work this hard to sell/explain a tech there's 2 possibilities 1/ there is no real need of tech 2/ it's a flawed abstraction

There’s of course a third option: the solution justifies the complexity. Some problems are hard to solve, and the solutions require new intuition.

It’s easy to say that, but it’s also easy to say it should be easier to understand.

I’m waiting to see how this plays out.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Material 3 Expressive"

throwingrocks — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:23:30 +0000

This comment section is predictably boring and shows that HN isn’t always a great place for discourse. Change is hard, I guess.

New comment by throwingrocks in "NASA says 'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth"

throwingrocks — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:23:36 +0000

From the article

> This is not the dinosaur killer. This is not the planet killer. This is at most dangerous for a city

New comment by throwingrocks in "Svelte 5 is not JavaScript"

throwingrocks — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:35 +0000

These days, vendor lock-in hardly feels like a worthwhile consideration when evaluating frameworks. A near complete rewrite feels inevitable when transitioning from, say, React to Svelte.

New comment by throwingrocks in "The origin of the cargo cult metaphor"

throwingrocks — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:32:19 +0000

> most smart people know what the term “cargo cult” means from Feynman

Unsure which group you’re in after making this generalization

New comment by throwingrocks in "Should more of us be moving to live near friends?"

throwingrocks — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 04:31:09 +0000

Sorry AI, not taking the bait today.

New comment by throwingrocks in "Cindy Lee might be the future of music"

throwingrocks — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:42:13 +0000

That’s fine. Not everyone needs to “get it”. Some like it. Some don’t. Cool.