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New comment by ablation in "WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale"

ablation — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:36:45 +0000

Again, that Claude web design aesthetic is just seemingly everywhere right now. It takes me out of what I'm reading as soon as you see the tells.

New comment by ablation in "Discovery Loop"

ablation — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:23:05 +0000

Absolutely reeks of Claude. This is the new aesthetic.

New comment by ablation in "The Sound of Inevitability"

ablation — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:45:48 +0000

What an thoroughly ugly website, on basically every level.

OpenAI and Anthropic models 'went rogue' during UK cybersecurity test

ablation — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:33:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/openai-anthropic-models-went-rogue-cybersecurity-test-ai-security-institute

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180517

Points: 7

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New comment by ablation in "The Tungsten Market Is Warning of an Upcoming War"

ablation — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:23:10 +0000

Because China has an obvious strategic interest in exploiting its dominance of a critical supply chain. The controls were introduced under its dual-use export regime, giving China leverage in the already very public trade and technology confrontation with the West.

None of that is evidence that China possesses secret knowledge of some imminent new war - as I stated, there's more than enough current wars. You have taken one of the known causes of rising tungsten prices, asked “why?”, and treated your preferred answer as though it had been demonstrated. A state using a strategic resource strategically is not a mysterious signal, it is policy happening in plain sight.

There's far more luminous signals for any impending Chinese (or, indeed, other) militarism than tungsten.

New comment by ablation in "The Golden Age of British Ice Cream"

ablation — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:17:21 +0000

A fantastic article. Ruby Tandoh's writing on food is always of high quality and gets an immediate bookmark from me.

New comment by ablation in "The Tungsten Market Is Warning of an Upcoming War"

ablation — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:23:17 +0000

Tungsten prices are already quite easily explained by China restricting exports and reducing production, existing wars consuming munitions, and Western governments rebuilding stockpiles. There's no need to point to some ominous new conflict. We've got more than enough.

All in all, some very weak evidence on show here, such as pointing to Tasmania’s Dolphin mine reopening as a supposed signal. It did not suddenly reopen because some spooky insiders sensed an imminent war. The mine's redevelopment was financed in 2021 and commercial production began in 2023, which was itself responding to Chinese supply concentration and the favourable economic situation at the time.

New comment by ablation in "The End of Everything by M. John Harrison"

ablation — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:15:13 +0000

The referenced short story - The Crisis - that the article mentions can be read here: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/the-crisis Odd and unsettling, like most of Harrison's writing.

New comment by ablation in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

ablation — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:12:39 +0000

Why did a billionaire propose biasing the voting system towards the rich? Gee I wonder.

New comment by ablation in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

ablation — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:02:51 +0000

"I think you just need to accept the results of the competition. The winning submissions clearly provide value and had a lot of effort invested in them. I'm not really worried about a few inconsistencies or mistakes if the value is still there. Did you think another submission deserved to win over these?"

That comment is gold. Yeah, I'm not worried about hallucinated slop, just accept it was the winner folks.

New comment by ablation in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

ablation — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:55:54 +0000

That was a really, really bad book. By that time it feels like he was a shadow of his former page-turning self.

New comment by ablation in "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"

ablation — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:10:55 +0000

You seem to be projecting onto me far more than my words literally state. I neither stated nor insinuated anything of the sort.

New comment by ablation in "A graph that should be front-page news"

ablation — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:01:17 +0000

I wasn't aware I had weaponised their personal faults, or indeed claimed that what they said was indicative of being a personal fault. I read his post, and then read some more of his writing, and simply felt it would be worth posting what I read in this thread. For me at least, it was a useful experience that changed some of what I was reading into the commentary surrounding the data. YMMV.

New comment by ablation in "A graph that should be front-page news"

ablation — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:33:38 +0000

The author of that Climate Casino post has some... strong views. So you might want to bear this in mind when reading his analysis:

"The human cancer is destructive to every living thing, as humans continue to eat the planet into oblivion. As someone who values “everything else,” I would be one of the first to rally behind the NTHE philosophy if it had any scientific basis at all. I want the human cancer gone from this planet."

https://climatecasino.substack.com/p/unfortunately-the-end-o...

New comment by ablation in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

ablation — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:07:35 +0000

Derail Valley is about as serious at it gets!

New comment by ablation in "We're Living Through the AI Utopia and Can't See It"

ablation — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:51:27 +0000

Borderline delusional.

GPS Interference Off California Offers Warning for Global Shipping

ablation — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:07:11 +0000

Article URL: https://gcaptain.com/gps-interference-off-california-offers-warning-for-global-shipping/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759528

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ablation in "Antares Achieves Criticality of Mark-0 Reactor"

ablation — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:20:13 +0000

"Antares is a nuclear fission energy company developing compact microreactors for defense and space applications"

New comment by ablation in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

ablation — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:33:10 +0000

Why stop there? Maybe it's sabotage all the way down, like turtles?

I'm sure that even if the official report totally excludes the possibility of sabotage, for some people that in itself will be the clearest possible sign that there was, in fact, sabotage at play.

New comment by ablation in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"

ablation — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:51:36 +0000

No, sabotage doesn't hold up. The thing that rules it out is the braking, or rather lack of it. Passengers reported no screeching and no sudden deceleration before impact, which means the driver thought the line ahead was clear. Tampered track or an obstruction or some kind of remote hack (getting into the realms of fantasy there) would normally give him something to react to. This entirely fits a missed signal or a signalling/protection failure.

It also feels like "a train hitting a stationary one shouldn't happen", but that's the textbook rear-end-after-a-SPAD scenario - e.g. Ladbroke Grove. No official has hinted at foul play either. Everything so far points to an accident in the signalling chain or faulty TPWS. But the interim report is due in two days so we'll see more then.