Hacker News: KoftaBob

New comment by KoftaBob in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

KoftaBob — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:40:03 +0000

and it seems pretty likely that's exactly what was happening.

The idea that a nation-state was/is running a child sex trafficking ring, and we're *not* turning over heaven and earth to investigate that so that country faces unprecedented consequences...I don't even know what to say

New comment by KoftaBob in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

KoftaBob — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:32:16 +0000

> but how come the source post is always blatantly anti Israel?

Same reason blatantly anti Nazi sources have a higher chance of staying up compared to pro nazi sources. I'll let you process that one.

New comment by KoftaBob in "Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike"

KoftaBob — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:27:52 +0000

It's an insult to all of our intelligence that guys like Joe Lonsdale + Alex Karp think we won't make the connection that they say just happen to be Zionists and then say horseshit like this. We know they value the lives of their in-group at 1000x more than everyone else, they don't even try to hide it anymore.

New comment by KoftaBob in "OpenJev"

KoftaBob — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:12:59 +0000

This is probably why:

Jev was founded by TypeSafe AI, a San Francisco-based startup co-founded by Diogo Almeida, Erik Gafni, and Sasha Sheng.

Diogo Almeida (CEO) is a former OpenAI researcher and primary author of the InstructGPT paper, which laid the groundwork for ChatGPT and GPT-4; he is also credited as a co-inventor of RLHF.

New comment by KoftaBob in "US interest rates raised for first time in three years"

KoftaBob — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:43:32 +0000

A small price to pay to serve the interests of a certain Levantine country whose civilization is built on the [Dark Triad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad)

New comment by KoftaBob in "US interest rates raised for first time in three years"

KoftaBob — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:36:00 +0000

עבודה טובה, פעיל הסברה.

New comment by KoftaBob in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

KoftaBob — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:17:50 +0000

> downvoted to oblivion because of the hive mind

Not just the hivemind, Reddit has been thoroughly astroturfed for a long time now. The vast majority of large subreddits have at least 1-2 mods who stifle/amplify discourse in the service of companies, think tanks, and certain Levantine pariah nations.

New comment by KoftaBob in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

KoftaBob — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:19:32 +0000

> It isn't even a settled question that there is a genocide.

Israel themselves seem pretty settled on it:

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260902-israel-orga...

New comment by KoftaBob in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

KoftaBob — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:54:25 +0000

OpenCode IDE + Serena MCP (for the indexing part)

[1] https://opencode.ai/

[2] https://github.com/oraios/serena

New comment by KoftaBob in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

KoftaBob — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:23:06 +0000

That was me

New comment by KoftaBob in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

KoftaBob — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:56:49 +0000

> a mechanism to make that obvious.

Say they prove that foreign labs are distilling their models, then what?

Shooting and Crying

KoftaBob — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:15:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_and_crying

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657637

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

System prompt to defend against "Project 545" Generative Engine Optimization

KoftaBob — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:52:11 +0000

Article URL: https://pastebin.com/Z2cRVKXP

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653299

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Apple plans Hide My Email domain change that could make it easier to block

KoftaBob — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:55:22 +0000

Article URL: https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/apple-plans-hide-my-email-domain-change-that-could-make-anonymous-signups-easier-to-block/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583115

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by KoftaBob in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

KoftaBob — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:42:53 +0000

> we never had free unlimited texts. Internet was cheaper than calling/texting

I always found this peculiar, you would think it would be the other way around. I wonder why that is?

New comment by KoftaBob in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

KoftaBob — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:33:50 +0000

This is a huge detail that further complicates the picture, ASML's lithography technology heavily benefitted from United States DOE research:

> In 1997, ASML began studying a shift to using extreme ultraviolet. Two years later, it joined a consortium, which included Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) it operates under is funded by the US government, licensing must be approved by Congress.

The humiliation of finding secret Israeli bases in Iraq

KoftaBob — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:04:44 +0000

Article URL: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israeli-bases-iraq/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232899

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

The heartland's revenge: how AI is reindustrializing the American interior

KoftaBob — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:53:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-heartlands-revenge-how-ai-is-reindustrializing-the-american-interior

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014069

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations

KoftaBob — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:11:44 +0000

Article URL: https://spiritrestructuring.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984758

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by KoftaBob in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

KoftaBob — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:32:09 +0000

There have been several spywares developed in Israel and that have been used by them and other governments against civilians, below are just a few examples. Why wouldn't you lump Israel in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragon_Solutions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytrox#Predator