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New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris"

PeterHolzwarth — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:10:23 +0000

Good article by fiflre on the history of tetris:

https://www.filfre.net/2017/08/a-tale-of-the-mirror-world-pa...

The author similarly dives into the crazy and interesting series of events - such a snapshot of that era - that led to the game getting onto the Gameboy, and the impressive impact that had.

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

PeterHolzwarth — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:43:43 +0000

A compelling review of the authors work, but I think there would be benefit from dropping the early references to UBI: LVT is an interesting approach and line of reasoning. UBI is a political hotbed with deeply acrimonious feelings on all sides.

When you align one idea with an external one, you are adopting all that external baggage - it's a cheap way to get a few additional people to agree, but at the cost of a bunch of other people seeing what they perceive as warning signs of a class of ideas they are suspicious of.

It's important to have confidence in your idea, on its own merits.

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%"

PeterHolzwarth — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:23:13 +0000

"This area was getting about one deer hit a day"

Relative to how many didn't get hit, what's the percentage there?

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "OpenAI expects to burn $280B by 2030"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:01:04 +0000

A smidge more article:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-sees-compute-spend...

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:48:54 +0000

The current administration doesn't believe in climate change / global warming, so no. It's just the typical "blame foreigners for your problems" thing that every authoritarian regime all over the world indulges in, and uses to justify nasty stuff. In the last 20 years, for example, it's also been how China justifies stealing stuff from other countries to further their local industries and technological growth (not that there aren't fantastic engineers and scientists in China already).

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:47:16 +0000

Always been curious - what are some examples of trademarks being lost due to not being defended?

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Senior Russian banker fired after scathing speech on wartime economy"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:59:28 +0000

The man has not yet been defenestrated, but I get your point.

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:35:38 +0000

Yeah, you're right - I didn't think about that. Thanks!

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:35:15 +0000

That's a great point, thanks - I didn't think about that angle.

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "How to buy a good car for $1000"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:23:52 +0000

Wow! This didn't last long on the front page. Strange - I thought it was an honest and informative little article.

I noticed it on the front page. An hour later, it's on page 3.

Now I'm just curious to see how fast the downward trajectory is on this currently 70-post article is. Still in the 1-2 hour range and now it is on page 4 of HN.

Senior Russian banker fired after scathing speech on wartime economy

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:11:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/17/andrei-klepach-russian-banker-fired-warning-economy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667990

Points: 7

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New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)"

PeterHolzwarth — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:13:24 +0000

What's enlightening is how astonishingly little salt is used, by our standards.

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "GPT-6 Astra"

PeterHolzwarth — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:39:15 +0000

Oh please. They do closed betas - hardly makes you a "second class citizen".

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

PeterHolzwarth — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:53:03 +0000

Many LLMs down, discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

PeterHolzwarth — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:51:11 +0000

American modern life. Vast swathes of the rest of the planet doesn't suffer from our unfortunate pathology.

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

PeterHolzwarth — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:55:51 +0000

Yeah, that's always been my concern with the EU (I'm American, for context): the long worrying practice where the legal concept of the EU is assembled by a small group who very much want EU citizens to go back to sleep and only wake up once all the laws and regulation has been created.

A federation makes sense to me: I live in one. But how the EU has assembled itself in a way that seems to unrepresentative has been worrying to watch over the last couple decades.

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week"

PeterHolzwarth — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:42:24 +0000

Just want to be clear here: you appear to be saying that you support a regime putting people in prison that a regime doesn't like, on made-up charges, with the excuse of "harmed society or the economy" - have I got that right?

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "How Thailand Resisted Colonization"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:23:12 +0000

It very definitely patterned its behavior on colonizer to survive - even becoming a local-sphere colonizer itself, interestingly. Definitely a case of "if you can't beat 'em, (temporarily) join 'em."

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week"

PeterHolzwarth — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:19:48 +0000

In China, "harmed society or the economy" is very very often the excuse used to put political enemies into prison.

New comment by PeterHolzwarth in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

PeterHolzwarth — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:36:14 +0000

Sorry to see the down votes you are getting. I am an inveterate knuckle-cracker, but I very much understand that a subset of people find it unpleasant and irritating to hear.