Hacker News: blast

New comment by blast in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

blast — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:38:47 +0000

> exams are designed so that cheating is not a viable strategy to obtain high grades

That's interesting. How do they do that?

New comment by blast in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

blast — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:57:59 +0000

mlinsey wasn't anthropomorphizing technology, and your GP comment seems extreme to me.

New comment by blast in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

blast — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:42:03 +0000

Whatever its other merits or demerits, reinstating the draft would cut back on needless wars. Abandoning the draft is what ended the anti-war movement, and to reinstate it would be to revive those protests. For this reason, if nothing else, it probably won't be reinstated.

What this has to do with the argument Palantir is apparently making, I have no idea. I can't make any sense of it.

New comment by blast in "Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review"

blast — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:46:23 +0000

That leaves no solution when the quantity becomes more than any human can review.

New comment by blast in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

blast — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:08:30 +0000

A 'psyop' psyop!

New comment by blast in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

blast — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:08:21 +0000

He also went to OpenAI's office and threatened to burn it down.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/tech/suspect-arrest-openai-ce...

New comment by blast in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

blast — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:41:31 +0000

"Violence like this is not the answer. However,"

New comment by blast in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

blast — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:06:43 +0000

Humans are social animals, so any mystery about another person is interesting, and wealth and fame multiply this.

New comment by blast in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

blast — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:28:23 +0000

friday news dump tho

New comment by blast in "The open web isn't dying, we're killing it"

blast — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:31:37 +0000

Fuck boosting engagement.

New comment by blast in "The open web isn't dying, we're killing it"

blast — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:30:49 +0000

"The lesson is not just to resist. It is to grow up."

Barf.

New comment by blast in "The open web isn't dying, we're killing it"

blast — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:28:34 +0000

Well said and I agree completely...but did Robert Plant play guitar?

New comment by blast in "We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How"

blast — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:30:29 +0000

Gptzero and Pangram both say this article was AI-generated. Seems we've forgotten how to do other things as well.

New comment by blast in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

blast — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:24:03 +0000

> the cheapest bridge that just barely won't fail

That can't be right? What about safety factors

New comment by blast in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

blast — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:11:35 +0000

The joke has been old for a while already.

New comment by blast in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

blast — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:10:10 +0000

This trend predates LLMs though.

New comment by blast in "Tony Hoare has died"

blast — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:46:04 +0000

That's a great point which never occurred to me about Dijkstra, even though I knew where he came from. My father in law used to like this joke: "He was Dutch and behaved as such."

New comment by blast in "Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?"

blast — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:57:19 +0000

When did Woz post here? I'd love to see that.

New comment by blast in "Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)"

blast — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:25:56 +0000

This doggerel is every bit as propagandistic as what it opposes, and has nothing in common with Owen's poem of unbearably real experience.

New comment by blast in "Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)"

blast — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:22:11 +0000

The gas victim scene is harrowing. But what haunts me even more is the men without boots, marching with bloody feet.