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New comment by cyclecount in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

cyclecount — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:42:56 +0000

Probably sometime around the early 1800s

Malcolm Harris wrote a book “Palo Alto” about how this culture took root in SV long before it was called Silicon Valley: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/palo-alto-book...

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop

cyclecount — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:25:36 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062504

Points: 597

# Comments: 311

New comment by cyclecount in "Global Sumud Flotilla Tracker"

cyclecount — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:24:13 +0000

The Spanish naval ship that is supposed to be escorting the flotilla is not shown in the list on this tracker.

On MarineTraffic it hasn’t updated its position in 6 days: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:56...

New comment by cyclecount in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

cyclecount — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:31:19 +0000

These planes are huge pieces of shit. No country should be spending money buying these from the US / Lockheed Martin.

New comment by cyclecount in "Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts"

cyclecount — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:01:33 +0000

If it’s critical infrastructure it should be nationalized

Crypto investor allegedly tortured businessman in scheme to gain password

cyclecount — Mon, 26 May 2025 12:57:10 +0000

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/kentucky-crypto-investor-allegedly-tortured-captive-italian-tourist-for-weeks-in-luxury-nyc-apartment-sources/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097039

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by cyclecount in "[dead]"

cyclecount — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:14:51 +0000

Apparently we’re going to bury our heads in the sand and prevent any discussion of the topic!

Censored Hacker News

cyclecount — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:31:53 +0000

Article URL: https://mosermichael.github.io/flagged-hn/page_1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386915

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by cyclecount in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

cyclecount — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:04:56 +0000

This is like paying doctors to say only evil foreign cigarettes cause cancer. Buy American!

New comment by cyclecount in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

cyclecount — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:03:03 +0000

This is laughable, even with your depiction of the events. The candidate in question (Georgescu) had a very popular platform, and was supported by a large bases or Romanians on the left and right.

He was, however, opposed to further expansion of NATO.

If these ideas are too scary to let general public even consider, then democracies have to step in and censor the media. And that begins by banning TikTok, the largest platform where a narrative like this can bypass the existing power structures.

New comment by cyclecount in "Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers"

cyclecount — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:24:53 +0000

The US has one of the largest contributions of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

New comment by cyclecount in "Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe"

cyclecount — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:27:05 +0000

This was mentioned in "The Brothers" about Allan and John Foster Dulles who directed the CIA to collude with right-wing French officers hoping to overthrow Charles de Gaulle.

New comment by cyclecount in "South Korea declares martial law"

cyclecount — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:08:39 +0000

That would be Dwight D. Eisenhower and his secretary of state John Foster Dulles.

New comment by cyclecount in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

cyclecount — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:05:57 +0000

They could have turned to the second place contestants from their sham primary election which was held this Spring and largely ignored by the media.

New comment by cyclecount in "As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)"

cyclecount — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:34:18 +0000

haha I think people aren't getting the humour here

New comment by cyclecount in "U.S. Voters Value Safe AI Development over Racing Against China, Poll Shows"

cyclecount — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:31:01 +0000

This would be relevant if the US were a functioning democracy. But the defence contractors have already seen the trillions to be made in boosting fears of Chinese AI and will, as usual, have 100x more say in policy than the electorate.

Even the employees of Google, Amazon, OpenAI don't realise yet that they are working for military contractors suckling off the teat of the US gov.

New comment by cyclecount in "From prison to trenches: Inside Ukraine's attempt to turn inmates into soldiers"

cyclecount — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:50:43 +0000

Russia doesn't want war with Europe, it wants to sell natural gas.

New comment by cyclecount in "Apple to 'Pay' OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash"

cyclecount — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:34:21 +0000

OpenAI has an early lead in the AI battle, and their ChatGPT brand is already a household name synonymous with LLMs for most people. This is the first time there’s been a real threat to Google’s monopoly in a decade.

Never mind they don’t have a profitable business model yet. OpenAI will pay a premium to Apple to keep their lead and remain the dominant brand in this new space in hopes they can someday supplant internet search. OpenAI seems to be at the point where they’ll burn billions in cash trying to join the ranks of the big tech monopolies. If they can reach Google’s status, they’ll be able to change ChatGPT from its “ten blue links” stage into something worse (but monetizable), but only if they can achieve dominant and defensive market share. Nobody seems to know how to pull off this last trick yet.

But in the meantime, a little competition in search (Google) is hugely beneficial to the largest gatekeeper of mobile users (Apple).

iOS 18 Will Let You Activate Third-Party Camera from iPhone's Lock Screen

cyclecount — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:20:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/12/ios-18-activate-camera-app-lock-screen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40664954

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by cyclecount in "Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a trend"

cyclecount — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:59:26 +0000

>> Texas’ oilfield regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, has yet to offer…

can anyone explain why the Railroad Commission regulates oilfeilds? is it because there aren’t many railroads in Texas?