Hacker News: georgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=georgecmuHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:02:14 +0000<![CDATA[We Traced U.S. Government Gold to a Drug Cartel]]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/insider/gold-us-mint-drug-cartel.html

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]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:01:51 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/insider/gold-us-mint-drug-cartel.htmlgeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911345https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911345<![CDATA[Grok plays along with researchers pretending to be delusional]]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/24/musk-grok-x-ai-researchers-delusional-advice-inputs

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]]>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:43:03 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/24/musk-grok-x-ai-researchers-delusional-advice-inputsgeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890189https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890189<![CDATA[How Are Calories in Foods Measured?]]>Article URL: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/multimedia/table/how-are-calories-in-foods-measured

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]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:45:15 +0000https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/multimedia/table/how-are-calories-in-foods-measuredgeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818374https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818374<![CDATA[The Kyonghung Cover: The Rarest Item of the Joseon Postal Administration]]>Article URL: https://koreastampsociety.org/2025/11/01/the-kyonghung-cover-the-rarest-item-of-the-joseon-postal-administration-and-the-lives-of-its-former-owners/

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]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:58:12 +0000https://koreastampsociety.org/2025/11/01/the-kyonghung-cover-the-rarest-item-of-the-joseon-postal-administration-and-the-lives-of-its-former-owners/georgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797875https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797875<![CDATA[Core Rope Memory]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

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]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:50:16 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memorygeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786348https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786348<![CDATA[US plans to automatically register young men for military draft]]>Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6lx2lpl9xo

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]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:19:56 +0000https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6lx2lpl9xogeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715489https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715489<![CDATA[RSVP to the FBI]]>Article URL: http://www.terrybisson.com/rsvp-to-the-fbi/

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]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:38:44 +0000http://www.terrybisson.com/rsvp-to-the-fbi/georgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690076https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690076<![CDATA[Italian Americans moved to Italy. Then Italy said they couldn't stay]]>Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/28/travel/italian-citizenship-stuck-in-italy

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]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:27:41 +0000https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/28/travel/italian-citizenship-stuck-in-italygeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553956https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553956<![CDATA[Connecticut law lets lenders go after small businesses nationwide]]>Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5745122/small-business-cash-advance-loans-connecticut

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]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:44:13 +0000https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5745122/small-business-cash-advance-loans-connecticutgeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517273https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517273<![CDATA[Change Blindness]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness

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]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:37:29 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindnessgeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414177https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414177<![CDATA[He wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. It took over his life]]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health

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]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:43:45 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-healthgeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227742https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227742<![CDATA[Private Motion Pictures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun]]>Article URL: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/43461

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]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:35:12 +0000https://catalog.archives.gov/id/43461georgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171671<![CDATA[Russian mathematician finds new approach to 190-year-old 'eternal' math problem]]>Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/science/mathematics/russian-mathematician-finds-new-approach-to-190-year-old-impossible-math-problem/ar-AA1VGEUG

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]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:23:41 +0000https://www.msn.com/en-xl/science/mathematics/russian-mathematician-finds-new-approach-to-190-year-old-impossible-math-problem/ar-AA1VGEUGgeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161415https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161415<![CDATA[New comment by georgecmu in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"]]>The translations of the title (Finnish, Greek, others?) referencing Rita Hayworth make more sense if you know the title of Stephen King's novella the movie was based on (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption).

]]>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:31:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935133georgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935133<![CDATA[Hanafuda]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda

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]]>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:17:27 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafudageorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873854https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873854<![CDATA[Great Kantō Earthquake]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Kant%C5%8D_Earthquake

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]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:13:20 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Kant%C5%8D_Earthquakegeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861616https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861616<![CDATA[Michael Beck, 65, Dies; First to Report Symptoms of 'Havana Syndrome']]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/michael-beck-dead.html

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]]>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:06:14 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/michael-beck-dead.htmlgeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846678https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846678<![CDATA[Observation of Strong Nonreciprocal Thermal Emission]]>Article URL: https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10626678-observation-strong-nonreciprocal-thermal-emission

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]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:54:51 +0000https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10626678-observation-strong-nonreciprocal-thermal-emissiongeorgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812800https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812800<![CDATA[The unreasonable effectiveness of pattern matching]]>Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432

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]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:37:32 +0000https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11432georgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733760https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733760<![CDATA[New comment by georgecmu in "The Godfather – Vogue Movie Review – May 1972"]]>Full text: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/the-godfather-arthur-sc...

The movie casts a spell far beyond its merits. Warner Brothers would have made it thirty-five years ago as a hundred-minute feature, lively, brilliantly paced, and economical. Now, in the reverent hands of Francis Ford Coppola, it has swelled into an overblown, pretentious, slow, and ultimately tedious three-hour quasi-epic. Gangsters at last have their Greatest Story Ever Told, but minus George Stevens. Inflation does not always assure survival. My guess is that three years from now we will still remember scenes from Raoul Walsh’s The Roaring Twenties (1939) while The Godfather will have become a vague memory.

]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:47:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549159georgecmuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549159https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549159