Hacker News: SanjayMehta

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

SanjayMehta — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:55:53 +0000

Can you use "hey everyone" or does that offend schizophrenics?

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

SanjayMehta — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:43:27 +0000

Lula was the incumbent. What does Russia have to do with anything?

Bolsanaro (the fellow in jail/house arrest) is the one favoured by Trump.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "The Fall of Scientific American"

SanjayMehta — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:10:10 +0000

I'm told this is due to 3 of 4 generations of academics using the techniques from the Frankfurt School. Their grand-students would never have seen unbiased reporting as they've been taught to look at things through "lenses," and worse: "intersectional lenses."

Manufactured outrage.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "The Fall of Scientific American"

SanjayMehta — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:08:16 +0000

There are some people who just follow you around and downvote.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "The Fall of Scientific American"

SanjayMehta — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:06:06 +0000

It's visible right there in their vocabulary:

"Reporting" is replaced with "story," so journalists no longer journal - i.e. keep a record of what events took place, but turn it into a "story." A story has to have interesting elements, so now the creative writing has to be demonstrated, with a "hook" and a "narrative."

And instead of number of subscribers, they count "eyeballs" and "clicks" and "clickthroughs."

New comment by SanjayMehta in "The Fall of Scientific American"

SanjayMehta — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:52:24 +0000

These things are highly subjective, but when I used to subscribe to the physical magazine, the tone of even the political articles was neutral.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "The Fall of Scientific American"

SanjayMehta — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:44:01 +0000

I used to subscribe to SciAm, just looked at their website after around 3 years, and the lead article is "Why partisan politics may be changing people's accents."

The Atlantic went the same way, but as more mainstream magazine, that's kind of okay. Not acceptable for SciAm.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones"

SanjayMehta — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:44:21 +0000

A decent human being doesn't pray for "glassing" a country.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Finland Buying a Million Landmines"

SanjayMehta — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:41:07 +0000

Their language chauvinism is a sign of insecurity and indeed caused their current predicament: The Ukraine is the only country in the world which has banned a language: Russian.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones"

SanjayMehta — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:39:25 +0000

Neutral country? They were collaborating with NATO.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

SanjayMehta — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:38:39 +0000

Vote banks. Look it up.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Finland Buying a Million Landmines"

SanjayMehta — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:20:21 +0000

Trump is motivated by money, he's seen there's nothing left in The Ukraine for him.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

SanjayMehta — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:50:40 +0000

We have a "minority" which votes en masse and can sway the results of an election.

Is that still a minority? I invite you to introspect more. It's not complicated either.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

SanjayMehta — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:29:47 +0000

10% is all you need as a vote bank to flip an election.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

SanjayMehta — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:25:44 +0000

mailinator works.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

SanjayMehta — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:10:34 +0000

At what point does a minority become a majority? Is that defined?

What the Loss of Starshield Revealed

SanjayMehta — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:59:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/10/starshield-ukraine-military-technology-vulnerability/689035/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119198

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones"

SanjayMehta — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:52:52 +0000

Especially the 1971 war, where they won so well that East Pakistan became a new country.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones"

SanjayMehta — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:27:02 +0000

You probably think The Ukraine is winning as well.

New comment by SanjayMehta in "Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones"

SanjayMehta — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:35:03 +0000

Well they're more powerful than all the Baltic statelets and Scandinavian "countries" combined, so I'll give you that.

https://www.globalhungerindex.org/Pakistan.html