Theranos.world(www.theranos.world)
168 pointsby kbyatnal5 hours ago33 comments
  • baggachipz2 hours ago
    In the "Notes" app on the iphone, there is a note which says "msg me on X". Back then, it was Twitter. Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
    • Sheeny96an hour ago
      What are we to believe this is some sort of, snort heh* magic iPhone or something?
    • ibejoeban hour ago
      She was truly ahead of her time.
    • bolau2 hours ago
      good catch, i may need to find a new job soon
    • pazimzadehan hour ago
      I'd love to agree with you but that look like the site designer asking for feedback on his site
    • yawnxyzan hour ago
      its still called twitter

      (for some of us)

      • icantevenholda minute ago
        I will never call it X and die violently on this hill
    • RobRivera2 hours ago
      [Scoff, Scoff]
  • neom2 hours ago
    Content marketing for a startup that does "Document infrastructure for agents". They want you to sign up for an event they're hosting in SF.
    • binlog2 hours ago
      Feels like they are unintentionally marketing the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary rather than themselves.
      • setsewerdan hour ago
        Maybe creating the documentary was the most ambitious Nathan For You episode yet, and all simply to build publicity for this company.
      • stavros26 minutes ago
        Wait, this isn't marketing for the documentary?
      • Traubenfuchs41 minutes ago
        Reddit is full of EH content lately, now this.

        All of this must be a marketing campaign for the movie.

      • RobRiveraan hour ago
        Llllllllllllol?
    • Recoil4220 minutes ago
      The event they're hosting is a free watch party for the movie. You didn't exactly crack the case.
    • yakkomajurian hour ago
      I mean, fair play? I appreciate marketing that has effort involved, especially these days.

      You do have to get your word out somehow

  • regus2 hours ago
    This is great, it reminds me of promotional websites from the Adobe Flash era. Ads were a lot more fun back then.
  • l0c0b0x2 hours ago
    Why do I have Nathan Fielder's look in my face (same when he was staring at as EH on the pilot), as I'm going through all the features on this site?
    • fakedangan hour ago
      Hope you're lounging on somebody else's bed too, while you're doing that. :D
  • kokanee2 hours ago
    Whoa. With a lidar scan of my house, a drone-captured point cloud of my neighborhood, and a backup of my icloud, I could create an immersive 3D snapshot of my life. And then what if other people did the same and we networked them together, so that we can actually interact in the snapshot. It'd be like second life except actually cloned from real lives. weird
    • chihuahuaan hour ago
      You could pitch the idea to Zuck, see if he wants to burn $100b to try it out.
    • lumost2 hours ago
      I had a thought the other day that you could probably divide up the world into cubic miles and with a few thousand codex subscriptions make a high fidelity blender model of the entire world based on google maps, street view, and tagged location photos.

      What would you do with a whole model of the world? I don't know, but it would be fun to walk a national park while I'm on the treadmill or basejump off of a realistic el capitan.

      • cavemandavemanan hour ago
        Microsoft has done that to some extent with Flight Simulator using older machine learning techniques. Wouldn't call most of the world high fidelity yet but I'm sure they could get there with generative AI models. I'm also sure the anti-AI screeching in the gaming community would be heard for miles.

        Would also make a great Zwift competitor (cycling app where you can hook up your stationary bike and race or ride on certain routes).

      • ethersteedsan hour ago
        Bro just go outside
        • freecodeioan hour ago
          no sorry have to keep in touch with agents
    • TrackerFF2 hours ago
      If only google could use their AI to generate a wiremesh model out of their google maps streetview data, and make it public. And then another model to generate texture.
  • binarymax2 hours ago
    Burying the api key in notes on the laptop is a nice touch.
    • IncRndan hour ago
      I need to delete that key again. I keep recreating it with the same value, but nothing seems to work. I want to use this key with the value but in a way that nobody else knows the value. Sigh. Security is difficult.
  • dijit2 hours ago
    All I feel is that UI of MacOS and iOS is so inferior now than it was then... :\
    • Mizza39 minutes ago
      Same, but for that generation of MacBook Air. Insane quality and value for the price. And you didn't have to wait 6 weeks to get them!

      Although I bet Lizzie used a Pro..

    • ivanjermakov2 hours ago
      If only apps were opening in an instant, odd feeling of having it on random website but not have it natively.
    • Keyframe2 hours ago
      only because it was. We peaked with skeuomorphism at the turn of millenium.
  • lukasschwab2 hours ago
    Super slick buried Extend marketing
    • kbyatnal2 hours ago
      we parsed all the theranos PDF filings with Extend (https://extend.ai/) and wanted a fun interactive way of visualizing them!
      • captn3m0an hour ago
        Took me a while to figure out why, till I opened Safari read "document processing" and it clicked. Good job.
    • daemonologist2 hours ago
      there's even an extend api key in there (invalid though, would've been cool if it did something special)
    • bolau2 hours ago
      thank you!!
  • ivraatiems17 minutes ago
    This is remarkably well-made, I love these little simulator dealies.
  • lisp22402 hours ago
    It's so strange to see this here. I remember when this site was nothing but foaming-at-the-mouth fawning adoration of Elizabeth Holmes long after her scams were exposed.
    • andybakan hour ago
      My first memory of her being mentioned on this site was the dawning skepticism followed by the big expose. But it's possible I missed the fawning because it didn't sound as interesting
  • henrymerrilees15 minutes ago
    Bo you are a legend!!!
  • ksd4822 hours ago
    The reminders section is the second most entertaining bit after the messages. Look it up. It's hilarious!!!
    • bolau2 hours ago
      yay i'm glad people are finding all the easter eggs!
  • flockonusan hour ago
    It is a bit hilarious that most of the "apps" open faster in a fake desktop simulated inside the browser than it actually does natively on my Macbook Pro

    *yes i know, not apples to apples.

  • karahimean hour ago
    You know, for a single pretty rare case of fraud in tech, as opposed to the industries where fraud is common, this gets brought up an excessive amount a decade later.
    • lazyasciiartan hour ago
      Tech? Not the health sector?
      • andy813 minutes ago
        The "tech" sector label is a fraud in its own right.

        It makes sense to have a separate label for companies that develop software. They have a unique investment appeal because their cost of production doesn't increase with units sold, so higher PE ratio if growing.

        For "some reason" Netflix isn't priced as a media company. Tesla isn't priced as manufacturing.

      • karahimea minute ago
        That's fair, I guess it depends on how you divide it.
  • FLeXMurphy2 hours ago
    I love how incredibly vapid the emails and text messages are.

    And by love I of course mean: I love, LOVE, LOVE, [repeat ad nauseam]

    Nails on a chalkboard.

  • crossroadsguy2 hours ago
    In my genearl observations of office desks/cubicles around me I have noticed that the only people with carefully stacked books, often more than one or two, were the ones who didn't really read.
  • robertlane0an hour ago
    Might be the most tasteful ad I've seen in a hot minute, not bad at all.
  • grimgrinan hour ago
    This is inspired by jmail.world, which may have been inspired itself.

    It is obviously not as interesting as jmail.world, but, give her time

  • skrrtww2 hours ago
    The page crashes instantly in Safari on iOS on an iPhone 13.
    • sgustard2 hours ago
      Works great on my iPhone 13.
    • 2 hours ago
      undefined
    • bolau2 hours ago
      looking into it!
  • episode0x012 hours ago
    Love the camera jump scare. Genius
    • bolau2 hours ago
      i'm glad someone found it!!
  • ksd4822 hours ago
    I finished the juice. Now what ?

    LOL

    Excellent work! All the best for the documentary launch!

    • bolau2 hours ago
      thank you for the kind words!!
      • DonHopkinsan hour ago
        The juice was great. Now I have to pee. Where do I click? Can the machine analyze it?
  • 0xferruccio2 hours ago
    this site is so slick great job! love how the email in the iphone works
    • kbyatnal2 hours ago
      there's too many easter eggs to count, I didn't even realize that one existed
    • bolau2 hours ago
      thank you :))
  • bbor2 hours ago
    Ok I'm a pretty passionate anti-advertising advocate, but if advertising is gonna look like anything, it might as well be this!
  • perarneng2 hours ago
    I spent way to much time with that :-D
  • freecodeioan hour ago
    you can click on the drink to take a sip btw
  • annoyingnoob2 hours ago
    There is no way to run for the door.
  • DonHopkinsan hour ago
    I took a photo on the iPhone of Elizabeth Holmes and myself hanging out smoking a joint together!

    The share button let me download it.

  • kogasa240pan hour ago
    As someone who only knows Theranos by the creepy lady and that they did some scam this is very interesting. Only critique is that it calls Twitter X, which isn't historically accurate.

    EDIT: uhh I thought the movie signup thing was a gag, didn't know it was real. Sorry I guess.

  • next_xibalbaan hour ago
    Kinda cool, but also annoying that it's just backdoor marketing for a b2b SaaS company.
  • iamleppert19 minutes ago
    Why are people giving her anymore attention and time? Yawn. I don't get it. The story has been told, there is nothing new here besides some weird shots of her wide eyed like she always has been. Am I the only person who isn't impressed?
  • DonHopkinsan hour ago
    Now do Epstein's Laptop!
  • jingrey2 hours ago
    woah this is such a throwback, made me oddly nostalgic. great fucking work
    • bolau2 hours ago
      thank you!!
  • ksd4822 hours ago
    Not that it matters or anyone cares, but it's so obvious Balwani was manipulating her emotionally. There are so many instances where he says "Love you", or "love" or "I am in love with your beauty", while she is more direct like "I love you", "I am in love with you" etc.
    • ambicapter2 hours ago
      I don't see how either of your examples are necessarily more direct than the other?
      • ksd4822 hours ago
        hmm..perhaps I was biased because I watched a couple of documentaries, a tv film and read the book by John Carreyrou "Bad Blood", so my eyes were primed to look for this pattern.

        But he was definitely manipulative in this regard.