HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

jhthenerd

3 karma · joined July 25, 2018

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jhthenerd; my proof: https://keybase.io/jhthenerd/sigs/eiluKgtCJ0IM3oEjqVqgxRYXa9vclvg6pzjC5Xl1Uxc ]
submissionscomments
jhthenerd··on Show HN: Alarmism.watch – I made a website that tracks alarmist predictions
Similarly

> Coronavirus pandemic could cause 40 million deaths if left unchecked

What data can we base this on? Humanity has taken measures to ensure that the pandemic doesn't get to those levels, so any real-world data is obviously going to be much less than 40 million.

jhthenerd··on Show HN: Scaling corporate anti-racism donations to the average household
The big donations that some corporations have made to combat racism have made many people feel that their donations can't make an impact.

We've scaled these donations from corporate profits to household incomes, putting into perspective how much of an impact companies have made. We also made it easy to see how your contribution will stack up against these well-known brands.

We've open sourced the project as well, check it out here: https://github.com/jamrants/donations

jhthenerd··on Slack Is Down Again
> Some workspaces might be experiencing issues with messages sending and loading.

Problem is not known as of yet (Jul 29, 10:59 AM EDT)

jhthenerd··on Apple lightning to HDMI adapter is a computer
Don't they already do that? Apple used a chip in official and licensed lightning cables, and ones that didn't have the chip would prompt iDevices to say that the cable isn't Mfi certified.
jhthenerd··on GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea
Looks like it's time to switch to decentralized git repositories