Hacker News: crotoblostehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=crotoblosteHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 01 May 2026 10:11:52 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by crotobloste in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"]]>> Ukraine is "receiving money from others"?

Factually correct.

> We are benefactors of the Ukrainians' bravery and sacrifices.

Who's we?

> How much money could we have not spent if Hitler had been stopped in Czechoslovakia?

Very different situation, in all aspects.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:29:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908192crotoblostehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908192https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908192<![CDATA[New comment by crotobloste in "Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps"]]>Awesome resources, thank you for linking them!

]]>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:07:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440776crotoblostehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440776https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440776<![CDATA[New comment by crotobloste in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"]]>But people check shell scripts before running them... right?

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:02:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633489crotoblostehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633489https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633489<![CDATA[New comment by crotobloste in "Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History"]]>Regarding the "year 0" issue: it doesn't exist in that calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

]]>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:24:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450238crotoblostehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450238https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450238<![CDATA[New comment by crotobloste in "Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History"]]>The historical criteria for Spain seems dubious. It posits the ahistorical existence of a "Kingdom of Spain" from 1479 on, when this political entity didn't come to be until several centuries later (despite some monarchs using the title "King of Spain". For that matter, the current Spanish King holds the title of "King of Jerusalem", but to my awareness no Kingdom of Jerusalem actually exists today).

]]>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:42:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407494crotoblostehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407494https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407494<![CDATA[New comment by crotobloste in "Misperception of the facial appearance that the opposite-sex desires"]]>This is an interesting take. When I taught low-income Muslim students from North Africa I was told that having a beard (which I already had) would help to establish myself as a figure of authority, as they would associate it with their conception of what a "scholarly figure" looks like. Similarly, women in both Academia and the corporate world have told me that they had chosen not to dye their graying hair in order to consolidate their image as a "serious, professional woman".

]]>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:16:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42406322crotoblostehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42406322https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42406322