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New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:58:59 +0000

The Nature of Tyranny, by El Kawakibi (a Syrian scholar). The book is 100 years old, and originally in Arabic, but there are some very good translations.

Great read on tyranny and it's adverse effects. Very relevant to what's happening in the world day.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:56:35 +0000

Unfortunately unavailable on Kindle.

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

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:31:54 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/18/run-get-away-w...

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

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:50:24 +0000

It's sad that so much of this conversation has devolved into technicalities of whether this is a genocide.

You can't look at this, at reports coming out of Gaza and the West Bank, at Israel's own government officials' statements, and not, at minimum, believe that brutal war crimes were committed on a massive basis here. Whether it's "Holocaust level" or "genocide" is a red herring. It needs universal condemnation, it needs to stop, and the people who did it need to be held accountable.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:03:55 +0000

  > The US is morally superior in every way that counts.

This in a thread about how the US bombed a school.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:38:53 +0000

This is quite the paradigm shift. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:51:12 +0000

No one should have nuclear weapons except for me. Oh you already have them too? OK, just us then.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster"

Ozzie_osman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:15:02 +0000

One sequence here could be the Board fired him (as CEO), then he removed/replaced the Board (as main preferred shareholder).

Either that or he somehow has control over IT and is just shit posting and controlling Slack.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad)"

Ozzie_osman — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:03:46 +0000

In systems thinking, this would be called "intrinsic responsibility" (or lack thereof).

  > Intrinsic responsibility” means that the system is designed to send feedback about the consequences of decision making directly and quickly and compellingly to the decision makers. Because the pilot of a plane rides in the front of the plane, that pilot is intrinsically responsible. He or she will experience directly the consequences of his or her decisions.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12139955-intrinsic-responsi...

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:02:36 +0000

I love postgres and use it heavily, but I still don't fully understand how it overlook MySQL. Maybe because of Heroku adopting it.

MySQL was generally faster, and while MyISAM was a bit limited Innodb was pretty powerful, and you had the choice. It was also simpler (imo) and avoided a lot of the xid/vacuum issues.

That said, still love Postgres. But at the time it started eclipsing MySQL, MySQL felt better positioned.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:34:46 +0000

> While undoubtedly tragic, most displaced people at some point move on with their lives, and stop terrorising their neighbours and the world.

The irony is that this statement (which I disagree with) could be applied equally well to both Israel and the Palestinians.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:33:37 +0000

Yes, but statistically Israel (IDF + settlers) commits crimes like that on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Incentives are for losers"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:37:26 +0000

I loved this. Unfortunately, I don't know how realistic it is at this point. The entire modern Western system is built on incentives, and it would require dramatically changing the social order and economic system.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

Ozzie_osman — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:10:25 +0000

Yes, writing code that (appears to) work was not the hard part. Even before LLMs you could find very cheap contractors on Upwork or through offshoring companies to write "code".

Well-engineered code is hard. It still is. Code that is reliable, extensible, maintainable, scalable, legible, understandable is hard. Code where the specs and the "why" behind it were pressure-tested via thought and good intuition.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:26:24 +0000

There are people rich enough to do that in our current world. They don't because either they have a moral compass or because they fear the law.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The Cold Email"

Ozzie_osman — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:33:46 +0000

  > but my dad kept saying it wouldn’t hurt to really make it clear I wanted to get into the school.

My mother convinced me to do the same after I was also wait-listed at my top choice university. I sent them an email updating them on things I had done since applying (in May, two weeks before graduating), and two days later, I got my acceptance letter.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

Ozzie_osman — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:06:44 +0000

This looks awesome. I'm very excited about how learning will evolve harnessing AI. I'm also a huge fan of Andrew Ng.

I wish they hadn't raised so much money. I'm not sure "large funding round" sets up the right dynamic for what he's trying to do.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

Ozzie_osman — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:54:26 +0000

This is how it has always been throughout history (and still is in most parts of the world).

Individual is part of nuclear family, nuclear family is part of extended family, extended family is part of tribe, etc. When one part is in need, the others jump in to help.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:21:42 +0000

I wonder whether this applies more to coding agents, or whether it'll apply as well to other types of agents.

It feels like coding agents get better at a faster rate and are easier to train.

New comment by Ozzie_osman in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

Ozzie_osman — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:08:59 +0000

I would personally love to see an end to the universally existing bait-and-switch of brokers listing unavailable units just to get you on the phone, then when you contact them, saying "Oh sorry that unit just got rented (or sold), but, I have another one that might suit you"