Hacker News: Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TeeverHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:42:14 +0000<![CDATA[Canada's defence industry steps into Europe's spotlight]]>Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-defence-industry-europe-9.7336763

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650721

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:02:26 +0000https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-defence-industry-europe-9.7336763Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49650721<![CDATA['Lake America' makes one thing clear: We can't trust U.S. tech companies]]>Article URL: https://www.tvo.org/article/analysis-lake-america-makes-one-thing-clear-we-cant-trust-us-tech-companies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616696

Points: 73

# Comments: 56

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:40:09 +0000https://www.tvo.org/article/analysis-lake-america-makes-one-thing-clear-we-cant-trust-us-tech-companiesTeeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616696https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616696<![CDATA[Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Doc Met with Shock and Awe at Secret Screening]]>Article URL: https://www.vanityfair.com/story/nathan-fielder-elizabeth-holmes-doc-secret-screening-telluride

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613598

Points: 36

# Comments: 27

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:33:31 +0000https://www.vanityfair.com/story/nathan-fielder-elizabeth-holmes-doc-secret-screening-tellurideTeeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613598https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613598<![CDATA[Can AI Replace a Nevada Brothel Sex Worker?]]>Article URL: https://brothelnevada.com/2026/09/05/ai-replace-sex-workers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600438

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:59:18 +0000https://brothelnevada.com/2026/09/05/ai-replace-sex-workers/Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600438<![CDATA[Developers eye Native nations, tribal communities for new data center projects]]>Article URL: https://alabamareflector.com/2026/09/06/repub/developers-eye-native-nations-tribal-communities-for-new-data-center-projects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599378

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:17:22 +0000https://alabamareflector.com/2026/09/06/repub/developers-eye-native-nations-tribal-communities-for-new-data-center-projects/Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599378https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599378<![CDATA[Europe would not be able to sustain war of attrition with Russia]]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/05/europe-unable-sustain-war-of-attrition-russia-defence-officials-say

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583507

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

]]>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:11:08 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/05/europe-unable-sustain-war-of-attrition-russia-defence-officials-sayTeeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583507<![CDATA[New comment by Teever in "The moral panic over data centres is foolish"]]>What do you think is the biggest blocker to governments successfully regulating these kinds of things?

]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:15:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580257Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580257https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580257<![CDATA[What did she see? The intelligence scramble to trace an accused spy's footsteps]]>Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-china-spy-nato-intelligence-9.7331493

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577659

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:45:20 +0000https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-china-spy-nato-intelligence-9.7331493Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577659https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577659<![CDATA[Record baby boom brings heaviest parrot back from the brink]]>Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/kakapo-parrot-baby-boom-worlds-heaviest-bird-rise-new-zealand-rcna595479

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556019

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:03:01 +0000https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/kakapo-parrot-baby-boom-worlds-heaviest-bird-rise-new-zealand-rcna595479Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556019https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556019<![CDATA[Meet the Antinatalists, Who Hope Humans Go Extinct]]>Article URL: https://www.playboy.com/read/politics/meet-the-antinatalists-who-hope-humans-go-extinct

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541418

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:45:58 +0000https://www.playboy.com/read/politics/meet-the-antinatalists-who-hope-humans-go-extinctTeeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541418https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541418<![CDATA[Global heating will hit at least 1.8C UN warns, and there are 'no good outcomes']]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/global-heating-warming-1-8c-best-case-scenario-un-united-nations-environment-programme-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536875

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

]]>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:31:59 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/02/global-heating-warming-1-8c-best-case-scenario-un-united-nations-environment-programme-reportTeeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536875https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536875<![CDATA[Bootleggers and Baptists]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526637

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:14:19 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_BaptistsTeeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526637https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526637<![CDATA[Head of Defence Investment Agency to step down after one year in job]]>Article URL: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-doug-guzman-to-step-down-defence-investment-agency-sources-say/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523035

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:09:59 +0000https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-doug-guzman-to-step-down-defence-investment-agency-sources-say/Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523035<![CDATA[New comment by Teever in "Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding"]]>Konrad Zuse also seems to have been a pioneer in the concept of self-replication and self assembly.

Check out this cool crank-powered self-assembling tower thing that he made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odwgpKRnWM8&t=1s

And his work on self replication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxv4vDMOFCo

I know very little about Zuse or his work and I lament that this museum is closing down as I am moving to Europe next year and had intended to use the opportunity to research his work.

Neil Gershenfeld has a quip that "computer science is the worst thing to happen to both computers and science because it prematurely froze the model of computation around 1950s designs' and I think there's some truth to this. The resource limitations that Zuse experienced in Germany during the depression and war that forced him down a design path of mechanical design over electromechanical and exposed him to the more fundamental idea that computation is ultimately a physical process -- 'there's no such thing as software just different states of hardware'. I have a feeling that the next big technological revolution will be based around self-replicating machines that more fully unify computation with matter.

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:05:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512768Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512768https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512768<![CDATA[Emperor Norton]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512256

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:18:45 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_NortonTeeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512256https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512256<![CDATA[TX Politicians Realize Billions in Taxpayer Broadband Grants Have Been Hijacked]]>Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/31/texas-politicians-slowly-realize-elon-musk-hijacked-billions-in-taxpayer-broadband-grants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511421

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:09:37 +0000https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/31/texas-politicians-slowly-realize-elon-musk-hijacked-billions-in-taxpayer-broadband-grants/Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511421https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511421<![CDATA[New comment by Teever in "METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack"]]>Human shaped things that emit cellphone signals is a cheap and effective target profile for this kind of attack.

]]>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:36:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504339Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504339https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504339<![CDATA[South Korea leans toward military conscription for women]]>Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/south-korea-leans-toward-military-conscription-for-women/a-78547426

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481503

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:03:58 +0000https://www.dw.com/en/south-korea-leans-toward-military-conscription-for-women/a-78547426Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481503https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481503<![CDATA[Dragonbox: A New Floating-Point Binary-to-Decimal Conversion Algorithm [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://fmt.dev/papers/Dragonbox.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468054

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:15:52 +0000https://fmt.dev/papers/Dragonbox.pdfTeeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468054https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468054<![CDATA[US Says CN Hackers Broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate]]>Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-sponsored-hacking-platforms-seized-by-us-justice-department-says-2026-08-26/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467232

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:16:11 +0000https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-sponsored-hacking-platforms-seized-by-us-justice-department-says-2026-08-26/Teeverhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467232https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467232