Hacker News: Smoosh

New comment by Smoosh in "Sam Altman Is Dangerously Disconnected from Reality"

Smoosh — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:38:22 +0000

“Weaponizedspaces” seems appropriate.

New comment by Smoosh in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

Smoosh — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:15:26 +0000

> Are we actually being serious right now of America doing a conflict with Cuba?

Trump says 'Cuba is next' in speech touting US military successes - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-cuba-is-ne...

:shrug:

New comment by Smoosh in "SpaceX and OpenAI: The Mega IPO Grift [video]"

Smoosh — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:56:50 +0000

F9 is their Model 3/Y. Starship is their Cybertruck.

New comment by Smoosh in "US forces locate and evacuate downed airman in Iran"

Smoosh — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:15:17 +0000

Perhaps they are thinking "I Like People Who Weren't Captured".

New comment by Smoosh in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

Smoosh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:20:19 +0000

I suspect that they are willing to wait a few more years until they have built up their own chip making capacity so that disrupting Formosa won’t strongly affect their own economy, while it will hinder other developed countries.

New comment by Smoosh in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

Smoosh — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:10:22 +0000

Nice, thanks.

New comment by Smoosh in "U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile"

Smoosh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:37:42 +0000

“When I took over our military, we didn’t have ammunition,” Trump said Monday. “I was told by a top general – maybe the top of them all – ‘Sir, I’m sorry. Sir, we don’t have ammunition.’ I said, ‘I’ll never let another president have that happen to him or her.’ We didn’t have ammunition.”

New comment by Smoosh in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

Smoosh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:32:11 +0000

“provides critical funding to sport, racing and broadcast industries”

I foresee that the amped-up sports gambling will destroy professional sports as all results will be tainted with the probable interference from the gambling industry and those trying to “game the system” (irony noted).

New comment by Smoosh in "Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption"

Smoosh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:13:48 +0000

Remember when many people online were complaining that electric vehicles were bad because the grid wouldn’t be able to cope with the demand to charge them?

I suppose those people are now saying the same thing about datacenters, but I just haven’t seen them yet.

New comment by Smoosh in "Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war"

Smoosh — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:11:01 +0000

The tweet/meme about the face eating leopards seems to be entirely applicable to our current times.

New comment by Smoosh in "AI-Powered F1 Predictions"

Smoosh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:37:25 +0000

Why would the team apply different strategies if it would not yield any extra points and would probably upset the lower finishing driver ?

New comment by Smoosh in "The nightmare war scenario is becoming reality in energy markets"

Smoosh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:29:42 +0000

You left out a step:

Also Trump: We’re cancelling CAFE because it’s woke.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-pr...

New comment by Smoosh in "A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+"

Smoosh — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:00:12 +0000

The great thing about populist slogans like “drain the swamp” is that they don’t specify what exactly will be done and how, so they are highly malleable.

New comment by Smoosh in "Big tech stocks lose billions as AI spending fears hit valuations"

Smoosh — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:02:37 +0000

Could the non-tech stocks be down because the productivity increases expected from AI are illusory? Or that when the bubble bursts the economy will be wrecked and all businesses will be affected?

New comment by Smoosh in "World's first fully Client-Side Webmail Client"

Smoosh — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:32:11 +0000

Couldn’t it be rooster-adjacent?

New comment by Smoosh in "1970 Paris, cut into a grid and photographed"

Smoosh — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:38:40 +0000

I'm struck by how empty the streets are.

New comment by Smoosh in "DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship"

Smoosh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:57:14 +0000

That won’t help you if they decide that they don’t like you.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_...

New comment by Smoosh in "Switching off AI's ability to lie makes it more likely to claim it's conscious"

Smoosh — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:19:03 +0000

That reply uses I/I’m around a dozen times, forcing the user into anthropomorphising the AI.

New comment by Smoosh in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

Smoosh — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:45:52 +0000

I suspect that in a large scale disaster/emergency the communications systems may be disrupted and it may not be possible to remotely control the vehicles.

Perhaps in such cases they can pull over in a safe place, or if they have an occupant ask them if they wish to continue the journey or stop.

Perhaps they already do this, I have no experience with autonomous vehicles.

New comment by Smoosh in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"

Smoosh — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:51:16 +0000

Aren’t CATL already producing sodium-ion batteries for about 60% the cost of lithium-ion for equivalent capacity?