<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: esalman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=esalman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:12:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=esalman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you asked yourself why someone went as far as hurling a molotov at his place in the first place?<p>I would never, but you have to understand that serious pain and harm is being inflicted on people, AT SCALE, by the advent of AI. I'm not even talking about Israeli, Palestinian, or Iranian kids. People in America with terminal illness are losing healthcare.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735631</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have lived in the Middle east (Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia) for ~10 years. I have also lived in the US for 10 years. Infrastructure in the Middle East (roads and bridges, public transportation) is actually better than USA. Poverty is lower because the government has oil money and everybody (citizens) is on welfare. Some countries like Iran are more educated than the USA. Saudi Arabia has the biggest supercomputer in the world and my college friends who went there for grad studies got duplex villas to live in whereas I toiled on 20k annual salary in the US. Of course there are issues- human rights, minorities, cultural issues and racism- but it's not like those problems don't exist in the US.<p>The data centers are there because customers are there. If you stumble on to a twitch streamer or tiktoker from Dubai, you'll find there's are thousands more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:33:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651775</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kind of ongoing theme in tech industry and beyond. "Investors" will punish every stock unless company announces mass layoffs. My company is posting 10% year over year growth yet stocks keep falling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:09:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560056</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why should they? Has there been any investigation or accountability into the (livestreamed) death of US citizens in the hand of DHS?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:40:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483021</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Our commitment to Windows quality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Around new years my company had to replace my windows laptop because windows update has been broken for a few months on my machine. They had a replacement windows laptop ready but I asked them to provide a MacBook instead. This is first time in my two decades of career that I specifically asked for a MacBook.<p>Funnily enough, there's a bug that's affecting all MacBook users in my company (does not wake after lid down overnight). Apparently the culprit is windows defender installed in the MacBooks. Corporate, you know...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:39:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460983</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What I'm hearing is that if you are dealing with something that matters to you a lot, you should avoid relying on LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:44:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441385</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But a redeeming quality is that we can ask the same LLM to fact check its own answer step by step in real time with little effort. They often identify their own hallucinations and reduce the probability of retaining that mistake in the rest of the conversation.<p>It is not really a redeeming quality of LLM. It falls apart because if you want to properly fact check an LLM, you have to make yourself aquinted on human-generated contents- facts, arguments, and biases from "both sides" when it comes to complex topics. What's the point of relying on LLM if you are having to do that anyways to reach objective truth?<p>Case in point- someone in a tweet used LOTR reference to the US/Israel vs Iran conflict, equating Iran to Sauron and US/Israel to the good guys. I asked Grok if that is a valid parallel. In the beginning, Grok agreed with the tweet. Then I had to point out how Iran has been weakened by decades of sanctions by US, it started to agree that US might be more like Sauron's army. Grok time and again used Islamic regime's treatment of it's own people as an evidence that Iran might be the evil force, but when I cited Israel's treatment of other Arab civilians, or the Shah regime's treatment of it's own people back in the day and it's allegience to US, it changed it's stance again. When I cited it's influence on US policies, Grok even admitted that Israel might be the Wormtongue here.<p>This also shows how LLM totally falls apart as a way to reach objective truth, because you can manipulate it to say anything that you want. I could easily present evidence from my own research and make Grok reach completely opposite conclusions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:43:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439326</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47439326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Good Work channel on YouTube did a really good video on this topic recently- <a href="https://youtu.be/mOptJl8Xkx0?si=4jyNnXweXp7V9VkM" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/mOptJl8Xkx0?si=4jyNnXweXp7V9VkM</a><p>In a nutshell, these platforms operate by classifying their bets as 'futures contracts' with 'meaningful real world economic consequences' rather than traditional gambling, allowing them to be regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rather than stricter state gambling laws.<p>It's going to take strong push from lawmakers to close the loophole, and even stronger push from the platforms to stop anything meaningful being done.</p>
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<p>Yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:25:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354272</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "GPT-5.4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While low quality, it is extremely important, potentially historically significant too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:50:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267094</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This interpretation is a conspiracy theory driven by 9/11. If it was not, Saudis would be America's biggest enemy, not the most trusted ally after Israel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:33:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255508</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth<p>I lived in Texas for 5 years and I have heard people saying this kind of things first and second hand during his first term and also after his defeat.</p>
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<p>I don't know. Have Congress and Senate always been this ineffective? I don't remember Obama, Biden or even Trump 45 act with this much impunity. I obviously can't go further back because I have been here since Obama's second term.</p>
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<p>The first one is crippled by US sanctions, second one propped up by US taxpayers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:44:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206629</link><dc:creator>esalman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by esalman in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am Sunni and I condemn the attack.<p>Having said that, I also condemn Iranian regime killing (reportedly) 30000 protesters. So he probably had it coming.<p>I'm more concerned about what happens to US now, because I think the attack indicates a complete failure and collapse of the legislative branch of the US government.</p>
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<p>In general Muslims are not out to exterminate Jews. Jews are "people of the book". They are followers of Moses who is one of the most revered prophets in Islam. Jews are brothers and sisters and it is even permitted to marry them.<p>The issue is Israel state is far removed from the teachings of Moses and out to exterminate Muslims in the middle east. So naturally you can expect violent resistance.</p>
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<p>I recently switched my work laptop from a Dell to a MacBook. I found out that windows 11 has so much corporate bloat, than even MS apps like outlook, office and OneDrive functions better on a Mac than on Windows 11.</p>
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<p>I guess I don't have to renew my Ring subscription then. If things go awry I can just ask FBI to ask Amazon for the footage.</p>
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<p>I think there's a grand tour segment specifically addressing people who complain about a car show being staged.<p>Edit: it's S2E4 "Unscripted".</p>
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<p>Exactly.. it's like claiming the whole US should adopt far left ideology because that's what prevails in New York and Los Angeles.</p>
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