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> And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw. It's a recurring headline on the rolling news channel

> And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw. It's a recurring headline on the rolling news channels on broadcast TV right now - and it's on the front-page of Reddit for me as well.

dingdingdang 5mo ago
Gotta admit this was the first thing I thought of as well. Hard to focus on the code implementation with that in mind!
Almondsetat 5mo ago
So a project should change its name because when it will be production ready 6 years from now the 1% of the 1% of the 1% will think for 1 microsecond about a piece of news from today?
- Lerc 5mo ago
  Just that remember that there were people that said calling the second LOTR movie The Two Towers was disrespectful.
  - DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
    Hollywood retitles movies based on books all the time[1], for the silliest of reasons ("Sorcerer's Stone" was contemporaneous to LOTR too); so given there's precedent, it follows that those wanting to retain the original title from the books should defend their position. [1] https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/book-movie-titles-changing/ https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/book-movie-titl...
- DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
  > So a project should change its nam Potentially... supposing the criminal investigation into this uncovers a hitherto unknown organ harvesting scheme operating within the global music records industry; the subsequent police dragnet implicates significant proportion of the world's music stars and record labels and generates continual major headlines and criminal convictions - with all their lurid details - all for multiple decades from now on. It's quite ridiculous when I put it that way, but this is basically the same thing as Epstein's network, just with a different crime; and Epstein was already in the news almost 20 years ago from his first conviction. ...so back in 2009, back when everyone was building their own social-network websites and online dating services, and supposing your real-name was also Epstein, so you called it "EpsteinLoveIsland.com" - would you have changed the name back then?
encom 5mo ago
>news channels on broadcast TV So no one below the age of 60 is aware of this.
- zimpenfish 5mo ago
  It was above-fold on the BBC news website[0][1] several times over the past couple of months. [0] highest reaching uk language news site in March 2026 - https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-world-monthly-2/ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/... [1] >400M visits weekly - https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/bbc-response-to-global-news-events-drives-audience-growth https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/bbc-response-to-globa...

dingdingdang 5mo ago

Gotta admit this was the first thing I thought of as well. Hard to focus on the code implementation with that in mind!

Almondsetat 5mo ago

So a project should change its name because when it will be production ready 6 years from now the 1% of the 1% of the 1% will think for 1 microsecond about a piece of news from today?

Lerc 5mo ago
Just that remember that there were people that said calling the second LOTR movie The Two Towers was disrespectful.
- DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
  Hollywood retitles movies based on books all the time[1], for the silliest of reasons ("Sorcerer's Stone" was contemporaneous to LOTR too); so given there's precedent, it follows that those wanting to retain the original title from the books should defend their position. [1] https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/book-movie-titles-changing/ https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/book-movie-titl...
DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> So a project should change its nam Potentially... supposing the criminal investigation into this uncovers a hitherto unknown organ harvesting scheme operating within the global music records industry; the subsequent police dragnet implicates significant proportion of the world's music stars and record labels and generates continual major headlines and criminal convictions - with all their lurid details - all for multiple decades from now on. It's quite ridiculous when I put it that way, but this is basically the same thing as Epstein's network, just with a different crime; and Epstein was already in the news almost 20 years ago from his first conviction. ...so back in 2009, back when everyone was building their own social-network websites and online dating services, and supposing your real-name was also Epstein, so you called it "EpsteinLoveIsland.com" - would you have changed the name back then?

encom 5mo ago

>news channels on broadcast TV So no one below the age of 60 is aware of this.

zimpenfish 5mo ago
It was above-fold on the BBC news website[0][1] several times over the past couple of months. [0] highest reaching uk language news site in March 2026 - https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-world-monthly-2/ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/... [1] >400M visits weekly - https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/bbc-response-to-global-news-events-drives-audience-growth https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/bbc-response-to-globa...