Hacker News: arctics

New comment by arctics in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

arctics — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:46:04 +0000

hobbyist server turned commercial enterprise, according to court documents Blizzard claims AFKCraft Ltd. (Turtle WoW) made millions of dollars over 2018–2026 period.

New comment by arctics in "Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA"

arctics — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:46:22 +0000

as stated many times before, rare earth mining isn't a major issue, capacity to process into something useful which requires tons of water and toxic chemicals is the real issue for the US since China controls lion's share of the market.

New comment by arctics in "“No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too"

arctics — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:22:14 +0000

Generally correct, low income digital creators will benefit the most since "No Tax on Tips" will reduce their taxable income by 50% or more in comparison to someone who earns close to 150k which isn't a low income according to BLS as you pointed out.

New comment by arctics in "“No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too"

arctics — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:53:07 +0000

"No Tax on Tips" meant for low income taxpayers so most of the major digital creators won't qualify.

Low income digital creators can deduct upto 25k in tips, so if their income from tips and other sources is below $150k a year, their taxable income will be 25k less.

New comment by arctics in "Digg.com is back"

arctics — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:12:34 +0000

Download on the AppStore, get it on Google Play.

Conversation should be over here.

New comment by arctics in "How to rig elections [video]"

arctics — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:48:55 +0000

So to summarize, people did vote for Putin, major opposition was blocked, local elections are rigged.

New comment by arctics in "AI is already replacing thousands of jobs per month, report finds"

arctics — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:07:26 +0000

"Over the past two years, there has been a 400% increase in employers using AI in job descriptions, the firm found."

How is that replacing?

New comment by arctics in "Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap""

arctics — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:25:20 +0000

I think he is wrong, in a short run AI will create more jobs. We need more things to run AI and to make more things like power generation, connectivity, sensors, silicone, datacenters, monitoring, security, construction and so on. All of these things and more require massive workforce skilled or not skilled.

New comment by arctics in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

arctics — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:27:29 +0000

Throttle control module (TCM) was replaced twice in the past 2019 and 2023 which is not very usual.

Now pure speculation, both pilots have long record of flying, you have to literally pull up and move each fuel control switches to cut off. Either one of the pilots did this intentionally or control unit was faulty. Considering past history and pilot experience, my bet is on faulty controls but we will never know.

New comment by arctics in "OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome"

arctics — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:02:44 +0000

so basically the logic is gather your analytic data directly and tailor AI for your needs to sell you things, basically remove middle man Google, no?

New comment by arctics in "American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history"

arctics — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 02:36:10 +0000

Yes, just pointing out that this article implies that Nazi Germany was the reason many scientists moved to the US which isn't the case, many moved when the war was over and they lost.

New comment by arctics in "American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history"

arctics — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:59:49 +0000

All the scientists who came to the US in 1930s were mostly Jewish for obvious reasons. After victory in WW2, we had Operation Paperclip when we brought thousands of Nazi affiliated scientists to work for us, the whole premise that scientists fled Nazi Germany is very shaky. I just don't believe so many people don't know the history...

New comment by arctics in "The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger"

arctics — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 17:15:36 +0000

This article doesn't talk much about mass hiring during COVID period due to high demand, what we see now is unwinding of that trend, feels like people behind this type of narrative are interested in regulating what goes into these models.

New comment by arctics in "One million and counting: Russian casualties hit milestone in Ukraine war"

arctics — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:50:13 +0000

ugly truth is so much better than a beautiful lie.

New comment by arctics in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order"

arctics — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:31:43 +0000

I find the whole discussion here that Trump is Hitler propagated by our government is quite amusing, yet again reaffirming 1960s, 1980s, 2000s were inconsequential. Asch paradigm still dominates our reasoning after so many years of grinding for liberal values.

New comment by arctics in "Elon Musk is wrong about GDP"

arctics — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:45:59 +0000

This is done to curb the inflation caused by military spendings and low unemployment rate. Yes, this is net negative for projected economic growth but considering historic record of oligarchs in Russia who would invest in foreign economies instead of Russia during peace time, I would argue for Russia it is net positive development assuming massive western sanctions stay in place.

New comment by arctics in "Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study"

arctics — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:04:14 +0000

as someone who started from few puffs a day to several blunts a day... wouldn't be surprised to see prolonged marijuana use/abuse linked to not so great outcomes, glad I managed to quite a while back.

New comment by arctics in "Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in their country"

arctics — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:24:25 +0000

If you consider 1st and 2nd generation immigrants since most 2nd generation immigrants can speak their parent language and share some culture, these numbers usually get close to 30% in the US. People are not far off.

New comment by arctics in "Dead Internet (2023)"

arctics — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:20:33 +0000

I remember back in the day these ad companies would pay you directly to run an ad bar on your screen.

New comment by arctics in "X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier"

arctics — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:48:20 +0000

I scrolled over the dossier and there nothing significant there, most of it is bunch of things he said, his investments, property, donations, tickets, taxes and so on.

Most of the information can be found online, this is just complied into one PDF file.