Hacker News: ciconia

Israeli military conducts operation near Iran's border

ciconia — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:21:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/21/israel-military-training-sortie-iran-border

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187077

Points: 39

# Comments: 6

The CO2-absorbing building made of old sinks, windscreens and toilets

ciconia — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:25:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/20/ghent-design-museum-co2-absorbing-recycling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166948

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

SPA vs. Hypermedia: A Collaborative Kanban Board Measured Against Planka

ciconia — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:12:18 +0000

Article URL: https://zweiundeins.gmbh/en/blog/spa-vs-hypermedia-a-collaborative-kanban-board-measured-against-planka

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142356

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ciconia in "800k involved in nationwide protests in France over rising cost of living"

ciconia — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:19:11 +0000

This is not only about the rising cost of living. The protests are lead by high school and university students demanding better school infrastructure, more teachers and shorter days (French high-schoolers regularly spend 10 hours per day at school, 4.5 days per week).

New comment by ciconia in "Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor"

ciconia — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:16:10 +0000

It is important to note that this is not an isolated incident, and this story has only reached the news because the victims are European dignitaries. Those pogroms (there's no better word to describe those incidents) are happening on a daily basis, and the scale (multiple attacks per day) makes it apparent that this not just random violence, but a coordinated campaign to ethnically cleanse the rural Palestinian population of the West bank.

Edit: language.

New comment by ciconia in "Why Is Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen So Mad?"

ciconia — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:11:54 +0000

https://archive.ph/PTUOE

New comment by ciconia in "Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff"

ciconia — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:13:55 +0000

I'd say you're projecting. Reading the parent comment I understood it to simply mean "reactionaries", nothing more.

New comment by ciconia in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

ciconia — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:25:00 +0000

I find the accelerationist mindset utterly ridiculous. All that busywork and for what exactly? What effect has all this overproduction of LOC had on the physical world and on our existence (beyond the externality of erecting huge data centers in every corner of the globe and the consequent ecological impact)? Is software getting better (in terms of quality, security, efficiency)? Are we getting better government services? Are we getting better food? A better environment (silly question)? Are we working less, as tech titans keep promising us? Are we getting anything better? Not to mention all the negative aspects of this technology and the financial apparatus driving it.

New comment by ciconia in "Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him?"

ciconia — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:15:06 +0000

> “It just kind of hit me,” Bell said. “We’re the blue-collar guys cooking this food, hustling to make this work for these young kids making like six figures, and this entity that has a trillion dollars, can’t pay us?”

Welcome to tech bro utopia, where humanity in its entirety must grovel and worship and lick the boots of those who in their magnanimity allow us merit-less wretches to work for them for pennies, or, as in this case, for free. Oh what a wonderful future these guys have in store for us!

Unrolled Code

ciconia — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:33:18 +0000

Article URL: https://noteflakes.com/articles/2026-10-07-unrolled-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992631

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ciconia in "Israel: More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation"

ciconia — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:16:18 +0000

Misses 2024 in the title

New comment by ciconia in "Coltrane's Tone Circle"

ciconia — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:10:18 +0000

> they aren't substantially more difficult than other Jazz changes

IMO it's not only the tempo. It's also the fact those changes kind of subvert any feeling of tonality, so you can't really rely on tonal formulas (i.e. cadences) when improvising, so you need to come up with other ways to structure your improv, while constantly shifting between modes/scales/patterns. Becoming fluent in this kind of context is a huge challenge, even in slow tempos.

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

ciconia — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:37:37 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/09/29/tesla-takes-on-30-billion-in-credit-as-it-approaches-unprofitability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904408

Points: 161

# Comments: 222

-2000 Lines of Code (2004)

ciconia — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:14:09 +0000

Article URL: https://folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html?sort=date

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892697

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Design and Evolution of Io_uring by Jens Axboe [video]

ciconia — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:43:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4cb39pBp0I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875597

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ciconia in "Inside the AI "Kill Chain" That Destroyed an Iranian School"

ciconia — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:04:02 +0000

https://archive.ph/0V37g

New comment by ciconia in "US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report"

ciconia — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:08:30 +0000

I've been saying it for quite a while now: any sufficiently advanced AI technology is indistinguishable from bullshit.

New comment by ciconia in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

ciconia — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:39:56 +0000

Why spend money on healthcare when you can spend it on being able to annihilate any country on earth?

New comment by ciconia in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

ciconia — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:35:34 +0000

> terrifying how violent they are compared to modern standards.

Oh you mean October 7th Hamas standards or the Israeli Gaza genocide standards, or maybe the US in Vietnam standards?

New comment by ciconia in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

ciconia — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:20:00 +0000

It's not clear that Western armies are better either, as we've seen time and again in Iran, Afghanistan and Syria.