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jethronethro··on Musk said he needs $1T to stop corporate terrorists from controlling Tesla
All that ketamine and all those psychedelics have finally driven him over the edge.
jethronethro··on [dead]
Found this URL on the front page: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-raci...
jethronethro··on Elon Musk threatens to leave Tesla if he doesn't get his ridiculous pay
Let him leave. If the brand is built around him, rather than the product, then the company is doomed.
jethronethro··on Hey Zuck, Remember When You Said You'd Never Again Cave to Government Pressure?
The masculine energy coming from Meta is just so overwhelming ...
jethronethro··on Ask HN: LinkedIn Down?
If it is, let it be down forever.
jethronethro··on ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says
Guess Altman and co. need to find a way to pay Oracle that $60 billion a year ...
jethronethro··on Ask HN: How Do You Dress?
You mean, as in clothes? I don't ...
jethronethro··on First-ever guitar amp authenticated on the blockchain
A solution looking for a problem?
jethronethro··on [dead]
Why?
jethronethro··on When Sam Altman Predicts a 'Superintelligence' Might Arrive
Around the same time Musk says FSD is going to arrive in Tesla's cars ...
jethronethro··on Why is Elonmusk so obsessed with sex and genitalia?
> In commerce and engineering, yes.

Even then, it's more than a bit iffy ...

jethronethro··on Why is Elonmusk so obsessed with sex and genitalia?
So there are still a few Musk stans lurking around HN. At least ones who aren't afraid to occasionally show themselves ...
jethronethro··on Starship cargo flights to Mars start in 2030, at a rate of $100M per metric ton
Then it'll be 2031, 2032, 2033, 2034, and so on and so on ...
jethronethro··on 'Your Countries Are Going to Hell': Trump Airs His Grievances at the U.N
Projecting much?
jethronethro··on Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects
Wonder what they say about the code. Or do they bite their tongues and make it work?
jethronethro··on Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN?
Based on YC's reaction to the many, many other request like this I'm going to say No. The DIY options in responses are the best you're going to get.
jethronethro··on Ubuntu's plan to replace GNU CoreUtils with Rust is going as poorly as predicted
He's gotta get those click somehow.
jethronethro··on Show HN: I made an app to learn Japanese by speaking it
Only offering logins/registration via Google? No thanks.

Also, the site states "No Sign-in required" but when I click the Start Speaking Japanese button on the front page, an overlay telling me to sign in pops up and there's no way to get rid of it. So much for not needing to sign in ...

jethronethro··on Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus
I think the term for that is wishful thinking.
jethronethro··on Baba Yaga License
And here I thought that this was a license that lets you send John Wick after the people who violate it ...
jethronethro··on Vivaldi slams Google, Microsoft for shoving AI into browsers, vows to stay clear
Care to elaborate on that?
jethronethro··on Ask HN: Why isn't my ISP providing AI as a service?
Perhaps as your ISP rather than HN?
jethronethro··on DraftKings said it acted properly in voiding Iowa man's $14.2M payout
>“If he had lost the bet and said, ‘I want my money back because I didn’t think the weather was going to cancel things,’ DraftKings would have kept his money,” Lynch said. “The rules that DraftKings had in place at the time of the tournament did not allow them to void the bets. They changed the rules after this tournament.”

Interesting. If that's true, it's a scummy (though not unexpected) move on the part of DraftKings.

jethronethro··on Elon Musk's XAI Sues Apple over Claims It Favors OpenAI
So much for the free market. What a spoiled child!
jethronethro··on 'Work-Life Balance' Will Keep You Mediocre
I choose to be mediocre and healthy (both mentally and physically).

As some (sorry, I forget who) said, even if you win the rat race the sad fact is that you're still a rat.

jethronethro··on Trump's export deal with Nvidia and AMD: The Constitution says it's illegal
When has something being illegal or unethical ever been a blocker for this administration?
jethronethro··on Sam Altman is in damage-control mode after latest ChatGPT release
Ed Zitron's going to have a field day with this!
jethronethro··on Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
Reminds me of a voting machine company that tried to sue a state back in the early 2000s for going with a competitor. Then there's the attitude of entitlement that Musk and his companies seem to have. So much for the free market ...
jethronethro··on Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode
While an interesting idea, it's kind of niche. I somehow doubt that this will become mainstream, even among techies.
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Proof?
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