Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — donkey_brains

donkey_brains

HN member
Joined
Sat, Apr 26, 2025, 12:18 PM UTC
HN karma
150
Public activity
81 items

About donkey_brains

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49205662

    “ we're limited by Christian taboos to only ever mentioning abstinence until marriage, so porn becomes the only way men learn about sex and intimacy, and they learn to see their ow…

  2. comment
    Comment #49149536

    [flagged]

  3. comment
    Comment #49143177

    I think it’s more useful to apply OP’s question to about real, established businesses that already price products at the market rate. Not companies riding an unsustainable speculat…

  4. comment
    Comment #49143127

    That’s why that’s not the standard advice. It’s index stocks hedged with bonds. If you manage to buy at the “top” of your entire country’s economy, you’ve got bigger problems at th…

  5. comment
    Comment #49053262

    I assume you mean, “or it did and didn’t”, in which case, hats off to you.

  6. comment
    Comment #49035191

    It’s a patient privacy law that applies to hippos.

  7. comment
    Comment #49030577

    Yeah, and then they’ll give everyone a pony

  8. comment
    Comment #49000471

    Oh, that’ll go well. Another 4-D chess very stable genius move by the US.

  9. comment
    Comment #49000463

    No kidding. Except we won’t even have to do that; we can just run open-source frontier models. These companies are hosed.

  10. comment
    Comment #48770509

    Zach I love your games! Thank you! Keep em coming!

  11. comment
    Comment #48770311

    That’s a very hard line

  12. comment
    Comment #48742243

    Weed wackers too

  13. comment
    Comment #48740084

    [flagged]

  14. comment
    Comment #48714970

    Wow. I love being reminded of stuff like this. Those cars were so cool. Edit: I took one of these cars apart as a kid to see how it worked. This site brought back a lot of memories…

  15. comment
    Comment #48714914

    Preposterous. Clearly the goose is full of golden eggs

  16. comment
    Comment #48703747

    This explains a lot about that mouse who got a cookie and subsequently wanted a lot of other food

  17. comment
    Comment #48703729

    Ah, sadly it doesn’t work that way for me. I guess for some people it does but not for me. I can either be abstinent or constantly high.

  18. comment
    Comment #48686805

    I’m so lucky to have had a copy of this as a kid. Loved that book. It really let you understand how all kinds of things worked, with beautiful illustrations you could pore over for…

  19. comment
    Comment #48686743

    Did Polymarket employees place bets on this before they announced it?

  20. comment
    Comment #48523197

    Hell yeah. And disregard anyone who says you’re “wasting your vote” or “splitting the vote”; they’re part of the problem and their defeatist thinking will get us nowhere.

  21. comment
    Comment #48434044

    I completely agree with what you are saying, but I have grown too cynical to believe it will ever happen. American capitalism has been very effective at ensuring 2 outcomes: - The …

  22. comment
    Comment #48433981

    “I’m not crazy, everyone else is crazy! That’s why they’re all out to get me.”

  23. comment
    Comment #48433977

    None of that happened here.

  24. comment
    Comment #48419256

    Just as bad as the technical debt is the cognitive debt in your codebase. When something breaks, your only recourse is to ask the AI how to fix it, since it wrote it and you did no…

  25. comment
    Comment #48406539

    Well, sometimes we have to subtract 1 from something, too.