Hacker News: Archelaos

New comment by Archelaos in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

Archelaos — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:56:53 +0000

German citizen here. I find this attitude horrible and threatening. You are working on sacrificing yet another part of our digital sovereignty to a US company. There are trillions of better things to do with your life.

A visual guide to the Gulf fertiliser blockade

Archelaos — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/visual-guide-gulf-fertiliser-blockade

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635166

Points: 4

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Launch day has arrived for NASA's Artemis II mission–here's what to expect

Archelaos — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:09:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/launch-day-has-arrived-for-nasas-artemis-ii-mission-heres-what-to-expect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601957

Points: 5

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On Discovering the chestnut mining bee in New York after a gap of 119 yrs

Archelaos — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:25:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/30/i-discovered-chestnut-mining-bee-new-york-molly-jacobson-aoe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573999

Points: 3

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Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk

Archelaos — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:23:27 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/final-analysis-of-2025-iberian-blackout-policies-left-spain-at-risk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528689

Points: 3

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Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d'Artagnan may have been found

Archelaos — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:49:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/skeleton-three-musketeers-dartagnan-alexandre-dumas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520798

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds

Archelaos — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:47:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/25/bond-dogs-humans-dates-back-15000-years-study-finds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520779

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Jürgen Habermas Has Died

Archelaos — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:43:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/juergen-habermas-philosopher-dies-age-96-publisher-says-2026-03-14/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377807

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Obituary for António Lobo Antunes

Archelaos — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/06/antonio-lobo-antunes-portuguese-novelist-dies-aged-83

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281839

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Archelaos in "Contra "Grandmaster-level chess without search" (2024)"

Archelaos — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:59:07 +0000

Can the experiment be summerised by saying that training the model is a kind of probabilistic pre-calculation that converts the Stockfish expert system into a different, rather distinct representation that is worse than Stockfish, but still quite good?

New comment by Archelaos in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

Archelaos — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:53:45 +0000

It is a very visible indicator of the quality of the whole. If the spelling is frequently not correct, which a reader can detect relatively easily, how many more mistakes are hidden in the content, which a reader can not detect easily? Are these completely independent variables? I do not think so. Therefore, I also assess the reliability of an article based on the frequency of careless mistakes.

What is an even larger warning sign, are cliches used to spice up an article. Ars Technica is hardly to blame here, but the Smithsonian magazine is full of it.

Obituary for Jesse Jackson

Archelaos — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/jesse-jackson-civil-rights-icon-dies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045764

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Obituary for Robert Duvall

Archelaos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:00:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/16/robert-duvall-actor-passion-conviction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040278

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Developers speak out about bigotry on Steam

Archelaos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:28:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/16/bigotry-steam-pc-moderation-developers-speak-out

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034699

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

Archelaos — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988020

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Cees Nooteboom, Dutch author, dies aged 92

Archelaos — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:47:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/11/cees-nooteboom-dutch-author-dies-aged-92

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982882

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Archelaos in "Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants"

Archelaos — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:10:25 +0000

Quite unlikely. For an army on the move, especially one that had to cover such a long distance, a considerable portion of the troops was assigned to procure provisions anyway.

Bret C. Devereaux has written a series of three blog posts on the topic of pre-modern army logistics that explains that in detail. See: https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...

New comment by Archelaos in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

Archelaos — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:00:33 +0000

Is it legal in the USA to point them on public ground?

New comment by Archelaos in "Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants"

Archelaos — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:35:11 +0000

Why should the army leave a dead elephant on the road? They would butcher it themselves and take the meat with them (and the tusks). The locals may have found some large bones for their living room decorations (and may be some skin, if they were lucky).

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

Archelaos — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:25:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322%2825%2900391-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979562

Points: 345

# Comments: 406