Hacker News: anonymous_user9

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years"

anonymous_user9 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:48:33 +0000

If anyone were to share a link, you'd doubtless say it isn't thorough enough.

Can you give any thorough scientific evidence as to why we should consider this unprecedentedly fast change normal?

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

anonymous_user9 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:25:23 +0000

> Imagine being against the American Revolution because some innocent civilians will get killed?

What was so great about the American revolution anyway? It's not like it gave any average people the right to vote, and it arguably preserved slavery for an extra 30 years.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality"

anonymous_user9 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:36:09 +0000

> letting states use piracy as a bargaining chip doesn't set a good precedent.

If piracy is bad, what precedent due the US and Israel's conduct set?

Instead of tolling the strait, Iran should arrest leaders of their neighboring states, and try them for their crimes under Iranian law.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear – Bernie Sanders OpEd"

anonymous_user9 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:07:22 +0000

China already has tougher AI regulations than the US does, you're just fearmongering.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here"

anonymous_user9 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:39:56 +0000

> Are they being subsidized too?

Yes, because they didn't pay the cost to train those models in the first place.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

anonymous_user9 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:27:57 +0000

The problem is the amount of aluminum. Government non-profit spacecraft do not use very much aluminum, because they don't launch thousands of LEO satellites per year. By building the first megaconstellation and kicking off competition, SpaceX is exposing humanity to different risks, namely ozone depletion and new mechanisms of climate change:

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL10...

[2] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JD04...

> DOGE is a non-profit entity

You seem to be saying that non-profit entities are incapable of killing people? Or that it's fine if non-profit entities do kill people?

> Besides, why can't other non-profit governments pick up the aid?

I think you're being obtuse. An analogy: "Sure I turned off the circuit breaker that was powering the life support machines, but why couldn't someone else bring in a UPS and plug them in to that?"

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

anonymous_user9 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:23:03 +0000

> Are SpaceX rockets a loser for society?

That remains to be seen. By giving Musk the prominence to set up DOGE and destroy USAID, they've indirectly led to the deaths of almost a million people.

By launching starlink, they're also increasing the amount of aluminum in the upper atmosphere, which may have catastrophic effects on the ozone layer.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

anonymous_user9 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:15:30 +0000

> Apart from it in the era of OSINT satellite imagery, it is no issue to publicize such damage, I don't know of any such imagery

Not sure about other providers, but Planet Labs has applied a 14-day delay to satellite images of the middle east.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/satellite...

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

anonymous_user9 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:07:19 +0000

In that case, we should definitely reserve judgement on the weird payment stipulations then. The oil industry probably hates that the government is doing this, and we shouldn't cast aspersions on them.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

anonymous_user9 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:55:53 +0000

>It's great to see the AI reflect on how it failed. But it's also kind of painful...

Keep in mind that the AI is not reflecting, and it has no idea it made a mistake. It's just generating statistically-likely text for "apology" * "ai did not find results".

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

anonymous_user9 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:51:37 +0000

I misinterpreted you; I was arguing that he's already succeeded completely, so it doesn't matter if anyone gives him more money.

But, IMO the reason they're still giving him more money is that they're stupid and greedy. They know WeWork was a disaster, but it was a huge disaster. That shows them he's good at running a con, and they want to get in on the next one.

Class solidarity doesn't hurt either. Being a billionaire makes him an actual person in the eyes of other rich people.

EDIT: Also, it's funny you used a16z as an example:

> Not saying you are wrong, but if I am a "capital allocator" at a16z, he would be no-go.

because Andreesen Horowitz are the ones investing in his new WeWork 2.0 startup Flow.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

anonymous_user9 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:47:05 +0000

IMO you're being unfair; he talked his way into getting paid half a billion dollars for wework, and he's now a billionaire. That's a massive success at capital extraction.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware"

anonymous_user9 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:59:25 +0000

AI slop. Most of the things on this list are not open hardware, and some of the items are completely proprietary. For example, the SLAMTEC RPLiDAR A1 [1]. This part doesn't even have user-upgradeable firmware.

[1] https://openhardware.directory/devices/slamtec-rplidar-a1

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

anonymous_user9 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:16:42 +0000

Type 1 fonts are PostScript programs, while OTF and TTF fonts use a turing-complete virtual machine to control hinting, ligatures, etc.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "In space, no one can hear you kernel panic (2020)"

anonymous_user9 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:39:01 +0000

The command module and lunar module each had one AGC. (The lunar module did include a simpler backup computer called the Abort Guidance System.)

I think this is because an AGC failure is recoverable in most phases of flight, while an LVDC failure is not.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

anonymous_user9 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:04:33 +0000

America has already failed to defend them. Our deranged president has threatened to invade them, and yet he's still in power.

Has China ever threatened to invade Canada?

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "US Job Market Visualizer"

anonymous_user9 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:46:42 +0000

The problem is that the data it's visualizing is fake. The color grading is just an AI guessing how susceptible jobs are.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "The Isolation Trap: Erlang"

anonymous_user9 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:08:44 +0000

This seems interesting, but the sheer density of LLM-isms make it hard to get through.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "CT Scans of Health Wearables"

anonymous_user9 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:38:29 +0000

It's AI slop. The descriptions are all meaninglessly specific like that, saying things that are technically true but don't make sense to point out.

New comment by anonymous_user9 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

anonymous_user9 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:10:01 +0000

> So Europeans need a nuclear arsenal, but european politicians are totally lame

Are France's 240 submarines-launched thermonuclear ballistic missiles not adequate? Despite the need for security, nuclear proliferation is extremely bad. It seems ideal for France continue to maintain their nuclear weapons while the rest of Europe keeps their hands clean.