Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Weinstein_(technologist..., he has been commentating on the Internet for about as long as it has existed.
And?
the article you linked only has primary sources.
Readit Newsbibinou commented on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/ColinWright
bibinou commented on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app techcrunch.com/2025/05/28... · Posted by u/freetonik
@grok: is this true?
bibinou commented on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg
I use it to collect articles for my newsletter. Any alternatives? (Free, Browser extension, API)
Raindrop: https://raindrop.io/
bibinou commented on The vocal effects of Daft Punk bjango.com/articles/daftp... · Posted by u/qzervaas
Ah, the Sennheiser VSM201. Just a $30K vocoder. Seems like it was $25K when it released in 1977, but also didn't get to sell even 50 units, so quite rare.
I guess you can get similar results with cheaper hardware, but if you have money and you have it around... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thomas Bangalter's father was a French disco producer and songwriter who helped them a lot in their early career.
Sure helps.
That's hardly the full story. The UK prescribes a limited right to free expression just like other similar countries, although it is weirdly limited in several ways. Notably it's relatively easy to use the courts to prevent the dissemination of information harmful to a person or business, or even more vaguely harmful, like "incitement to hatred".
For example, take Article 10 here, https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/schedule/1
Libel laws in the UK are way more problematic / idiosyncratic than law about "incitement to hatred", which are common (at least in Europe) and made to repress dog whistles.
edit: SLAPP suits are basically legal there, and often used to suppress speech or journalism which would be legitimate and even encouraged elsewhere.
see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
Sorry, I don't understand the point you're making here. Are you saying that karma farming on HN leads to successful IPOs? Or are you saying that karma farming in general can be profitable? Because both of those are what I was trying to speak to when I said that I feel like there are much softer targets than HN: it seems much easier to me to profit from karma farming on other platforms than it would be here. Maybe I'm just not engaged enough and/or naive, but I don't think of even high-karma users on HN as being Influencers. Like, I don't see myself spending money on something specifically because tptacek endorsed it.
On Instagram, it makes sense to me:
1. I farm for likes and karma
2. I start endorsing low value crap from whatever fad is trending this hour
3. Profit
On HN, I have no idea what step 2 is: what is the middle step between farming and profit that doesn't involve, like, founding a startup? What's the specific tactic on this platform?
Sorry, I didn't see the "much softer targets" remark but I disagree anyway.
Marketing on HN can be very powerful. The mindshare gain can be enormous. Niches in general are very rewarding if the underlying platform (Google/Facebook/Amazon/Ebay) doesn't deplatform you.
I don't have time to look it up but I'm sure minimaxir (Certified HN Influencer) has made a study on it.
PG remarked on it in What I've Learned from Hacker News[1]:
"But what happened to Reddit won't inevitably happen to HN. There are several local maxima. There can be places that are free for alls and places that are more thoughtful, just as there are in the real world; and people will behave differently depending on which they're in, just as they do in the real world.
I've observed this in the wild. I've seen people cross-posting on Reddit and Hacker News who actually took the trouble to write two versions, a flame for Reddit and a more subdued version for HN."
Anecdata: just today I reactivated an account on a startup I learned about from a Show HN[2]
[1] https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990238
Ok, but to what end? Is there some karma-to-dollars pipeline that I don't know about? There a bunch of other platforms that superficially seem like much softer targets with more obvious payoffs.
Like, if we put it in the classic context of
1. Farm Karma
2. ?
3. Profit!
I'm not clear on step 2. What's step 2
And of course that pre-supposes malice (or at least greed), which is in violation of Hanlon's Razor.
Coincidentally, Reddit (YC05) IPO'ed in March so I'm sure you'll find plenty of analysis on that.
Gallowboob reportedly got paid <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/gallowboob>.
It used to be called Curation, Marketing, or Expert Advice but it's been algorithmified to death.
I'm confused why this is being posted now? This thread appears to have taken place in the days immediately following the original XZ discovery, with no new activity since very early April. It was discussed heavily at the time that Jia Tan had made contributions to other projects and that those were being investigated as well.
Is there something new here I missed, or some additional context that makes this specific commit relevant right now?
Karma farming.
Honestly, I'm not surprised. The corruption shows in the quality of their reviews, which has decreased significantly. The Atlantic has a story on it: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/wirec...
OP is from ~2015.
bibinou commented on GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 twitter.com/karrisaarinen... · Posted by u/gslin
What's the problem with "4 yr old laptops"? My colleagues and I use Teams on computers 1-5 years old and haven't heard about any issues.
it's a reference to the previous para:
> Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years.