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New comment by _menelaus in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

_menelaus — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:31:40 +0000

Using AI to mass scrape the internet for family accounts of Hitler's escape, to prove he made it to Argentina. I started off very skeptical but now I think its 60-70%.

New comment by _menelaus in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

_menelaus — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:34:18 +0000

This is good for Anduril. The future of war is cheap, massed, intelligent drones. Its strategically fortunate for us to burn through all of this expensive, obsolete crap.

New comment by _menelaus in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

_menelaus — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:31:53 +0000

What are we even talking about here? Controlling the strait? This actually means controlling so much land around the strait that Iran can't launch missiles or drones at ships. Essentially conquering all of Iran by ground invasion. The USA could do this, sure, but we don't want to because its too stupid even for us.

New comment by _menelaus in "Show HN: A collection of firsthand WW2 stories passed down through families"

_menelaus — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:11:52 +0000

I'm tickled you enjoyed it too. Thanks for the advice! Just implemented it. I'm a lot better at scraping than front-end.

Show HN: A collection of firsthand WW2 stories passed down through families

_menelaus — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:30:02 +0000

I scrape the internet for family stories about WW2. It's fascinating, and I curate a collection on this site. I don't make any money for it whatsoever and don't plan to, its a digital museum to satisfy my autistic passion for WW2. Hopefully you find this as interesting as I do.

Some things I've learned from this project I've never learned in countless books:

- It was extremely common for kids to lie about their age to enlist, much more than talked about.

- Taking prisoners was much less common than talked about, even with the Allies.

- The Japanese had a viral habit in which they threw babies in the air to stab them. It comes up in stories all over the Pacific.

- Patton was hilarious

The overall impression is like the film Come and See. These stories show how dark war is. If everyone read all of these stories nobody would have an appetite for war anymore. Even the countless veteran memoirs I've read don't convey this as well as all of these anecdotes do, that war is hell.

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New comment by _menelaus in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

_menelaus — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:03:30 +0000

I think the why has more to do with capture of our media and politicians through collusion, bribery and blackmail. Epstein, etc.

New comment by _menelaus in "Groq Raises Another $650M"

_menelaus — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:56:49 +0000

Idk, they got all of Cursor's data, they could be finally cooking up a good coding model. They can poach or acquire talent, and they have plenty of hardware and data now.

New comment by _menelaus in "Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata"

_menelaus — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:00:02 +0000

Fascinating. A glimpse into the mathematics of life and living tissue. A toy example like this might herald self-healing machines, in the same way that the first perceptrons heralded Fable and nude deepfakes.

New comment by _menelaus in "Widespread attacks on Iran have begun [video][50 mins]"

_menelaus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:56:05 +0000

Is there a single person on this forum who thinks this is a good idea?

New comment by _menelaus in "Japan Lost 3M People in Five Years"

_menelaus — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:22:25 +0000

If nothing is done they will go extinct.

New comment by _menelaus in "Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds"

_menelaus — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:41:25 +0000

As someone trying to hire juniors the danger is this: they all just depend on AI now and don't think for themselves or add anything to it. And I have to tell them, if you just pass through my instructions to an AI you're worth $20/month. You're not even checking the responses. Some take this to heart, some don't. In other words it takes more maturity to realize how to be valuable in the AI world, since education trains people to complete rote tasks and they have to break that mindset to be valuable now.

New comment by _menelaus in "No new trial for Sam Bankman-Fried"

_menelaus — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:14:08 +0000

Isn't it the opposite? He gambled with other people's money and lost big. This is criminal because he won, he kept everything, if he failed, everyone else loses.

New comment by _menelaus in "Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious"

_menelaus — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:20:03 +0000

If we had enough patience to implement one of these with pencil and paper, I don't think we would ever talk about it being conscious. Its just tempting to anthropomorphize what we can't see.

New comment by _menelaus in "What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture"

_menelaus — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:28:23 +0000

Have you found any cheaper models to work well with OpenCode? Like any of the Chinese models?

New comment by _menelaus in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

_menelaus — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:45:58 +0000

His approval rating is at a historical low for any president at this point in their term, I think. People don't like ICE, pedophiles, or wars in the Middle East.

New comment by _menelaus in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

_menelaus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:40:12 +0000

Have you ever been to inner city America? Honestly curious. I couldn't imagine policing it without using a gun sometime.

New comment by _menelaus in "Iran attack wipes out 17% of Qatar's LNG capacity for up to five years"

_menelaus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:35:56 +0000

There are two foundational events that set this conflict in motion:

1). The violent establishment of a settler ethnostate in a Muslim region in 1947 2). The deposition of the Shah in 1953

If you're going to talk about causes you might as well start there.

New comment by _menelaus in "Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster"

_menelaus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:51:06 +0000

lolololol

New comment by _menelaus in "Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship"

_menelaus — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:15:54 +0000

Israel, because they compromised him through the Epstein operation

New comment by _menelaus in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

_menelaus — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:02:57 +0000

This administration seems especially compromised, servile and obsequious. But you're right, both sides of the aisle have been successfully targeted for years. Both sides really don't want the unredacted files to come to light, but Trump least of all.