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New comment by N_Lens in "TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election"

N_Lens — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:49:04 +0000

It's more that right wing voters engage with and believe more misinformation and lies as long as it accords with their biases. Foreign state sponsored actors have long been using social media to divide the masses and it works way better on Republican voters, though they'll take any suckers they can get. Also the reason why there's so many Right wing political commentators and pundits, because there's a lot more money on the Right wing side of the grift. Right wing serves capital after all.

New comment by N_Lens in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

N_Lens — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:55:53 +0000

Just recently read 'Making Money' and it was a blast!

New comment by N_Lens in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

N_Lens — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:48:46 +0000

My mother was treated with ECT for treating clinical depression and right afterwards she developed parkinsons. ECT was traumatic for her.

New comment by N_Lens in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

N_Lens — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:46:26 +0000

Ah the old “The bombing of brown/asian people is to PROTECT us” chestnut!

New comment by N_Lens in "Accelerando (2005)"

N_Lens — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:40:04 +0000

'Torment Nexus' moment.

New comment by N_Lens in "I rebuilt the Million Dollar Homepage 20 years later"

N_Lens — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:22:53 +0000

I admire the shamelessness!

New comment by N_Lens in "Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents"

N_Lens — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:59:01 +0000

Catnip for the HN crowd

New comment by N_Lens in "Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of iLearningEngines charged with fraud"

N_Lens — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:58:45 +0000

When Armstrong's Tour de France doping was finally caught, the top 22 placed racers were all doping. It was the 23rd placed racer that was reportedly clean, and got the eventual first place.

New comment by N_Lens in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

N_Lens — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:30:02 +0000

"Suspicions" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

New comment by N_Lens in "Is math big or small?"

N_Lens — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:40:34 +0000

Good article.

Math is smaller than the smallest and bigger than the biggest.

New comment by N_Lens in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"

N_Lens — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:32:08 +0000

I suspect Anthropic flags accounts in their backend and different people are getting different limits. What criteria they flag with, I am not sure.

New comment by N_Lens in "Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?"

N_Lens — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:31:07 +0000

What a weird article that's microanalysing language in Heroku's blog posts. I mean times are such that pivot-churn is becoming business as usual for most outfits these days so I wouldn't put any stock on C-Suite verbiage.

New comment by N_Lens in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

N_Lens — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:07:07 +0000

Followed closely by malice

New comment by N_Lens in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

N_Lens — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:10:37 +0000

Yes they certainly do. Either leadership attracts people with these traits, or the position leads to cultivation of these traits, or both.

New comment by N_Lens in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

N_Lens — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:04:35 +0000

The noble truth of 'Dukha' doesn't translate to 'life is full of suffering', but rather that life contains suffering, which may sound obvious but there is a subtler meaning here.

The subtler meaning is that nothing in existence will truly and permanently satisfy you, because that is the nature of the mind. Many people obviously don't realize this as they run around chasing their first million, billion or trillion.

New comment by N_Lens in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

N_Lens — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

New comment by N_Lens in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

N_Lens — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:41:06 +0000

Most leaders in the Western/developed world have similar paranoid thought processes.

New comment by N_Lens in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

N_Lens — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:24:13 +0000

Do you have a recommendation for a service? I'd like to try it out.

New comment by N_Lens in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

N_Lens — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:40:07 +0000

Because it would have been an act of aggression to close off the strait. Iran did not want to invite war, the US and Israel have entirely been the aggressors in this recent conflict.

New comment by N_Lens in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

N_Lens — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:55:19 +0000

Good work! Sorry to hear you're in this situation, good luck and godspeed!