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Palmer Luckey
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Palmer Luckey's personal blog at palmerluckey.com covers hardware and startups. Since 2018, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links Palmer Luckey's posts on VR and AR hardware: a critical review of Magic Leap ("Tragic Heap"), a modded Oculus headset, and pieces on Oculus pricing. Commenters cite them as the original source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The #1 Palmer Luckey Blog on the Internet
Most-linked posts?
- Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-08-27
- Turning Soldiers into Superheroes3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
- Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-17
- I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you. Virtual Reality issues3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-25
- Free Isn’t Cheap Enough – The Blog of Palmer Luckey3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-09
- /magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-28
- /oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-oculus-go-better/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-30
- Free isn’t Cheap Enough (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-21
What Hacker News says?
Not sure why he got rid of the picture of it, but he actually put a computer inside his HHKB. I was waiting for him to do a write up. https://palmerluckey.com/oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-ocu... You can see that on wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20190325121641/http://palmerluck...
Comment linking /oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-oculus-go-better/
on “What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week”Submitted Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better as a story · 145 points
HN discussionhttp://palmerluckey.com/oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-ocul...
Comment linking /oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-oculus-go-better/
on “Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory”Submitted If you die in the game, you die in real life as a story · 115 points
HN discussionNo. Palmer Luckey even said so: https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-price-... http://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/
Comment linking /free-isnt-cheap-enough/
on “Oculus Rift S”Submitted Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap as a story · 114 points
HN discussionTragic Heap* See: https://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
Comment linking /magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
on “Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement”Submitted China made the best drones, now Anduril does as a story · 37 points
HN discussionhttp://palmerluckey.com/oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-ocul... > I built myself a custom PC inside one of my favorite mechanical keyboards, a dampened Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional Type 2 S
Comment linking /oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-oculus-go-better/
on “1980 Atari 800 ad: “It will never become obsolete””Submitted Free Isn’t Cheap Enough – The Blog of Palmer Luckey as a story · 17 points
HN discussionIt was a dig at Palmer Luckey, who wrote a scathing review of the MLP. https://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
Comment linking /magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
on “Magic Leap One now available for $2295”Submitted Augmented Reality – Turning Soldiers into Superheroes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPalmer Luckey's review said it was just a wrapper over Android. http://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
Comment linking /magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
on “Magic Leap One now available for $2295”Submitted Turning Soldiers into Superheroes as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Magic Leap says they have “built a whole new operating system” called LuminOS to take advantage of their “spatial computing system“. It is actually just Android with custom stuff on top, the same approach most people take when they want to claim they have built a whole operating system... I hope Magic Leap does cool stuff in the future, but the current UI is basically an Android Wear watch menu that floats in front…
Comment linking /magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
on “Magic Leap One now available for $2295”Submitted 10 Years of Oculus as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUh-huh. http://palmerluckey.com/i-cant-use-rift-s-and-neither-can-yo...
Comment linking /i-cant-use-rift-s-and-neither-can-you/
on “Oculus Quest and Rift S Pre-Orders Are Live”Submitted Anduril / Palmer Taking over US Army IVAS Program as a story · 2 points
HN discussion99% of this article is quoting or rehashing what Palmer said in his blog post here: http://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/ and 1% of explaining that the claimed "fiber-scanning display" was not EL-wire, but some lasers to a DLP. Just read the original blog post, its more organized and clearer than this rehashed news article.
Comment linking /magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
on “Is Palmer Luckey right about Magic Leap being a tragic heap?”Submitted I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you. Virtual Reality issues as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> My biggest issue with Oculus Quest is its weight and fit. They should move more stuff off the front of the headset, it would help relieve the pressure on the face and make it more balanced. Like in this mod from Palmer Luckey where he removed the battery and attaches a bigger one to the strap https://palmerluckey.com/oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-ocu...
Comment linking /oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-oculus-go-better/
on “Oculus Quest Review”Submitted I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPalmer's article "Free isn't cheap enough" seems relevant: https://palmerluckey.com/free-isnt-cheap-enough/ Quest headsets are indeed cheap but but perhaps sacrifice too much on the experience quality. People gotta want something before it can get cheap (not my words).
Comment linking /free-isnt-cheap-enough/
on “Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro now availabl”Submitted Free isn’t Cheap Enough (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAlso see this blog post by Palmer Luckey: http://palmerluckey.com/america-is-back-on-top-baby/
Comment linking /america-is-back-on-top-baby/
on “Ghost 4 SUAS”Submitted Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you. – Palmer Luckey as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free isn’t Cheap Enough as a story · 1 points
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