Hacker News: yobfountain

New comment by yobfountain in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

yobfountain — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:24:35 +0000

I am working on an agentic-driven news aggregator focused on AI Filmmaking and generative media. https://genbuzz.news

Show HN: Genbuzz – An agent-driven news aggregator for AI filmmaking

yobfountain — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:57:14 +0000

This is a site for anyone interested in keeping track of what's happening in AI Filmmaking and other forms of generative production. You can sign up for the weekly newsletter if you like or just visit the site.

The site is managed agenticly: discovering news sources, classifying articles and all editorial decisions. Hope you like it. If you have ideas to improve it, let me know.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835966

Points: 2

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WellDeserved: A Marketplace for Privilege

yobfountain — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:09:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.fastcompany.com/3043486/the-recommender/feeling-your-privilege-share-the-wealth-with-the-welldeserved-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9186176

Points: 1

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Tech's High Barrier to Entry for the Underprivileged

yobfountain — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:54:15 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/backchannel/techs-high-barrier-to-entry-for-the-underprivileged-da254356547d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9119480

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

New comment by yobfountain in "Bacn is the New Spam"

yobfountain — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:21:36 +0000

Perhaps it's because the name brand is spelled in all caps.

New comment by yobfountain in "Making $1 million from affiliate links on "Ad-Free" blog"

yobfountain — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:09:59 +0000

That is very noble of you.

New comment by yobfountain in "Show HN: CouchCachet, a Social Media Tool for Lazy People"

yobfountain — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:49:37 +0000

Sorry, I mentioned in my initial submission that it was for this last weekend's Foursqaure hackathon but I guess it does not show the initial text if you include a link.

So, yeah... you have to have an account to use it. In another comment, I included a link to a simple video we made to explain how it works.

New comment by yobfountain in "Show HN: CouchCachet, a Social Media Tool for Lazy People"

yobfountain — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:45:11 +0000

This was created at last weekend's Foursquare hackathon. I hope you enjoy it. We had a lot of fun making it.

Here's a link to a youtube video that explains what the app does for those who don't want to login: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCnazRbqGY

Built by Brian Fountain, Justin Isaf, Christopher Kennedy and Harlie Levine.

Show HN: CouchCachet, a Social Media Tool for Lazy People

yobfountain — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:32:08 +0000

This was created at last weekend's Foursquare hackathon. I hope you enjoy it. We had a lot of fun making it.

Built by Brian Fountain, Justin Isaf, Christopher Kennedy and Harlie Levine.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5032624

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by yobfountain in "Is Sugar the Next Tobacco?"

yobfountain — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:41:21 +0000

That article does not really disagree with Lustig's central thesis. That pull quote in particular is actually in accordance with what Lustig is advocating. The lecture focuses on the recent trend in the food industry of separating the fructose from the fiber in ways not found in nature.

New comment by yobfountain in "Is Sugar the Next Tobacco?"

yobfountain — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:06:26 +0000

Technically, the only ingredients required to make bread are flour, yeast, salt and water.

Active dry yeast will proof just fine without sugar, just a little more slowly. But sugar does increase the yeast's activity. This can be useful when you are trying to revive common active dry yeast from its freeze-dried stupor.

New comment by yobfountain in "Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard"

yobfountain — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:03:24 +0000

What I love about this concept is that it's a simple way to share what you have been working on without the appearance of overstating it's importance. It also allows you to update your status quickly while you find the time to write up one of those blog posts that never seem to get written.

New comment by yobfountain in "Why time appears to speed up with age"

yobfountain — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:56:44 +0000

The 'film camera' metaphor is how I have always imagined it works as well. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. It's critical that you are able to retain knowledge in your 'formative' years. But after a certain point it less important to record new information. I have always wondered if the amount of info we store drops off proportionally or exponentially.

Consequently, when someone has a bunch of adrenaline dumped into their body, they often say that time 'slowed down.' I believe this is further evidence that our brain boosts the bit rate on our memories at critical moments.

New comment by yobfountain in "What Is 'The Zone' Anyway?"

yobfountain — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:05:20 +0000

Just in case it's not on your radar, there's a very compelling book called Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi that delves deeply into the subject of 'being in the zone.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29)

New comment by yobfountain in "Tesla investor Steve Jurvetson drives off in the first Model S"

yobfountain — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:42:49 +0000

It sounds like this car would not be a good fit for you. I would recommend that you not purchase one.

New comment by yobfountain in "In which Eben Moglen calls out a reporter for having Facebook"

yobfountain — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:16:02 +0000

The author is referring to another article in her N.B. It's linked in the first paragraph: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/13/as-banks-start-nosing-aro...

New comment by yobfountain in "Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?"

yobfountain — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:28:07 +0000

For a game hackathon I built an engine/CMS for creating phone-based choose your own adventure stories (http://uchoos.com). It's not actually a commercial product yet but I won $250 from twilio, so it's technically profitable.

New comment by yobfountain in "Ask HN: Are you developing a game? Tell me more"

yobfountain — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:45:12 +0000

Right now you just call and it puts you into my demo story. I have an sms menu (and some other features) on my current work branch but I have not pushed it yet.

I'm toying with the idea of creating a web view for the stories as well. As of now, the 'story builder' is not open to the public but my next release may allow for that.

New comment by yobfountain in "Ask HN: Are you developing a game? Tell me more"

yobfountain — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:24:04 +0000

I have a couple of games I am working on now.

The first one is called uchoos (http://uchoos.com). It's a choose your own adventure game for your phone. It's live right now with a demo story. I put it together for GameHackDay. It has a CMS for for creating and uploading content. I'm not sure how much time I'm going to spend on it.

I'm also working on another game called zown that is a real-world capture the flag variation. I've built some custom hardware for it and I'm currently in the process of completing the web server that will support gameplay. Details for the custom hardware are here: http://bit.ly/pvWZHv

I'm not currently looking for help but I'm always interested in feedback.