Hacker News: candlemas

New comment by candlemas in "Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake"

candlemas — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:33:52 +0000

There's a story?

New comment by candlemas in "New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb"

candlemas — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:00:01 +0000

In the related articles sidebar there is an article from 2020:

  Is this Nefertiti’s tomb? Radar clues reignite debate over hidden chambers
  A new survey hints at a previously unknown space beyond Tutankhamun’s burial chamber.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00465-y

New comment by candlemas in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

candlemas — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:28:36 +0000

"However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal."

It seems like if the other side agrees to a deal too easily then Trump doesn't think the deal is good enough. He only likes deals where the other side is getting screwed and has to be coerced into signing.

New comment by candlemas in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

candlemas — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:10:01 +0000

Maybe Apple planted him at OpenAI.

New comment by candlemas in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

candlemas — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:17:28 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kqVM-5KaQ

New comment by candlemas in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

candlemas — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:24:28 +0000

Why wouldn't every computer be conscious?

New comment by candlemas in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

candlemas — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:31:15 +0000

And Iron Lung earlier this year.

New comment by candlemas in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

candlemas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:57:50 +0000

John Milton was 63 when Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were published.

New comment by candlemas in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

candlemas — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:23:13 +0000

Back in 2015 Twitter bragged that Periscope had been widely used the night before to pirate a pay-per-view boxing match. I thought that was odd.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/sports/periscope-a-stream...

New comment by candlemas in "Nine months later, is still the "Gulf of Mexico" to news outlets"

candlemas — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:37:31 +0000

I went to a minor national park over the summer (Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park) and there was a map of the United States showing all the national parks in the country with a "Gulf of America" sticker placed over "Gulf of Mexico".

New comment by candlemas in "A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe"

candlemas — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:44:27 +0000

Kind of looks like the Stonks guy meme.

New comment by candlemas in "Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon"

candlemas — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:13:46 +0000

"Milton, 42, and his wife donated more than $1.8 million to a Trump re-election campaign fund less than a month before the November election, according to the Federal Election Commission."

https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-...

New comment by candlemas in "Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon"

candlemas — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:06:59 +0000

He doesn't have a conscience.

New comment by candlemas in "AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger"

candlemas — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:44:26 +0000

My site has also recently been getting massively hit by Brazilian IPs. It lasts for a day or two, even if they are being blocked.

New comment by candlemas in "Bunker Busters probably failed to penetrate Iranian concrete"

candlemas — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:58:48 +0000

How do they deal with earthquakes?

New comment by candlemas in "How to Build Conscious Machines"

candlemas — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:28:42 +0000

Maybe he doesn't think consciousness is a computation.

New comment by candlemas in "The Gentle Singularity"

candlemas — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:52:10 +0000

Will the period between whole classes of jobs going away and a new social contract be short enough so that a Butlerian Jihad doesn't kick off?

New comment by candlemas in "Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq"

candlemas — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:22:25 +0000

There were a few reasons but an important one is that Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld were convinced by Laurie Mylroie that Iraq really had something to do with 9/11 and everybody in the administration was paranoid about another attack. Wolfowitz also felt guilty about the George H. W. Bush administration abandoning the Shiites. All of them (except maybe Powell and Armitage) already disliked Iraq, felt like the first war was unfinished business, and didn't need much prodding to go after Saddam but the 9/11 connection they thought existed gave it urgency. Ultimately it came down to Bush and he probably thought it sounded like a good idea and not for any particular reason.

New comment by candlemas in "Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet"

candlemas — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:53:18 +0000

They're game testers.

New comment by candlemas in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

candlemas — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:11:03 +0000

The biggest offenders for my website have always been from China.