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New comment by hashim in "Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row"

hashim — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:53:53 +0000

The word for this structure is apparently a menhir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir. The article calls it the tallest in the UK but its Wikipedia page calls it the second-tallest. This is the actual tallest, interestingly also in Yorkshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudston_Monolith.

New comment by hashim in "Claude Is Down"

hashim — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:28:35 +0000

Used the opportunity to go down and talk to my family. They seem like okay people.

New comment by hashim in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

hashim — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:27:44 +0000

You say Claude, I too would prefer not to read reams of comments or an essay everytime I revise the plan in plan mode, but do you know if any other tools are better than it? I've never used Codex, but I remember Claude Web's natural conversational approach being a welcome sight compared to ChatGPT's overly-formatted listicles.

New comment by hashim in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"

hashim — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:23:46 +0000

4.8 for me. I can't afford the usage cost of switching to 5, but I never really noticed a difference to 4.7 when I tried it anyway.

New comment by hashim in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

hashim — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:21:23 +0000

Probably just as well with how terrible Opus 4.8 has been for me lately. I'm sure it's a common thing to complain about the latest model being nerfed, but I've legitimately never experienced such a drastic cliff in Claude's quality and a rise in its hallucinations and basic comprehension errors since upgrading. The few days I experimented with Fable also weren't much more promising. Has anyone coined a term yet for the likelihood of newer models getting worse as the AI-generated content they get trained on starts to approach critical mass? If Anthropic isn't already thinking hard about a solution, they probably should be.

New comment by hashim in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

hashim — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:09:26 +0000

Came for this, thanks. I try everything I can not to read the Daily Heil, whose politics haven't really shifted that much since Harold Harmsworth used it to push his propaganda for Hitler.

Footgun (Wiktionary)

hashim — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:08:34 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736424

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Gang rape and sexual slavery widely employed by government and rebels in the DRC

hashim — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:58:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/congo-security-rapes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46233884

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Mar-a-Lago face

hashim — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:31:25 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163556

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by hashim in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

hashim — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:52:23 +0000

That's a weirdly flippant response to what's a serious issue, but I'll give it the courtesy of a reply anyway - maybe not, but a business not making enough profit might go under, or they might only have to fire someone to prevent that from happening.

New comment by hashim in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

hashim — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:47:00 +0000

For businesses whose profit margins are already slim, which is most traditional businesses trading online, making less money than they usually would will put them into the red, and even for those that are still in profit, making less money than you usually would means you have less money to pay the expenses that you usually do, expenses that are predicated on you making a certain amount of revenue.

New comment by hashim in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

hashim — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:07:22 +0000

I'm guessing you're employed and your salary is guaranteed regardless. Would you have the same outlook if you were the self-employed founder of an online business and every minute of outage was costing you money?

New comment by hashim in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hashim — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:53:11 +0000

Genuine question, are you an LLM bot or are typical Western liberals just this bad at reading comprehension? Everything I've written has already addressed your NPC-like "response" to it. Yes, they support Hamas and want a one-state solution, for the reasons spelled out to you in several paragraphs at length, to which your ultimate response was essentially "whatever idc Hamas does hostages that's aLl I nEeD tO KnoW". Since you've already decided that the little you already know is everything you'll ever need to know on the history of Palestine, and consider Oct 7 "beyond comprehension" but the countless examples of the same atrocities committed by Israelis since the 19th century elicited no such response, you are therefore both proudly ignorant and proudly racist, and should simply drop the act of pretending to care about Palestinians. But then I suppose that's the part of the liberal conceit that sets you apart from conservatives, that you have to at least feign sympathy so you can spend the next few decades behaving in the exact same way as they do. Because when it comes to Israel, the only real difference between right-left is in how much you need to pretend to care about occupied/dead brown people. I suggest you go back to doing what you know best, virtue-signalling about Ukrainian occupation and how much the Ukrainian people need to be saved from Russia.

New comment by hashim in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hashim — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:05:28 +0000

Sure it is, the people that had been living there - Muslim, Jew and Christian - for almost a thousand years in relative harmony never actually existed and had no name or identidy whatsoever until Israel arrived in 1948 to give them one.

New comment by hashim in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hashim — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:51:15 +0000

Is that what you see happening? Because I see most Western powers continuing to fund and enable Israel to act with impunity while reserving their harshest criticism for Hamas - the resistance movement set up in 1984, 40 years after Israel invaded Palestine, by the children who had grown up knowing nothing else. An occupier does not get to set the terms of how a desperate occupied people resist, least of all after 80 years, which was a lot longer than Vietnam lasted, and is much worse than South African apartheid. There's a reason Mandela was vehemently pro-Palestine. We can talk about how Hamas and the Palestinian people chose to resist their occupiers and hold them accountable for their relatively benign crimes once the occupation is ended. Right now, Westerners can't even admit that occupation exists, so we're nowhere near that, and virtually any criticism of Hamas is actually an attempt at deflection and maintaining the status quo of the last 80 years.

New comment by hashim in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hashim — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:43:33 +0000

No, what it comes down to is whether you can admit that Palestine and Gaza are being occupied by a colonial power that doesn't have the right to be there, has consistently engaged in ethnic cleansing, genocide of entire villages and war crimes since its foundation, and that resistance to it will continue until that fact changes considerably. No-one living in a Western bubble, least of all Israel, gets to set the terms by which a people who Westerners have helped occupy for the last 70 years resist - just ask the Viet Cong. Whataboutism is the fallacy of pointing to irrelevant examples, so no, pointing out hypocrisy is not that. As for asymmetry, I assume you're talking about the fact that one is a heavily armed Western-funded superpower and the other is a handful of militias using the few arms they can get hold of from the only real ally they have in Iran, and not much stronger than they were in 1948 and 1967 when they were villagers being waged "war" on by said superpower.

New comment by hashim in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hashim — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:32:53 +0000

You're right, that historical event of WWII involving at most 20,000 Arabs absolutely gave Europeans the right to occupy a land they have no link to and conduct a genocide killing hundreds of thousands and ethnically cleansing millions more. Wait, were the Irgun and Haganah time travellers who predicted this historical event? Is that why they started moving towards their goals of Zionist occupation, colonialism and terrorism in the 19th century?

What about this, does this make the Zionists anti-semitic too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement It's almost like Zionists are closer in ideology to the Nazis than they want to admit.

New comment by hashim in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hashim — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:32:04 +0000

You think Russia is a Western power and ally?

New comment by hashim in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hashim — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:11:12 +0000

Yes, that can only have been the Arabs, as long as we ignore this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Plan and all subsequent Zionist programmes to fulfil the stated goal of Zionism since the 19th century, to import as many Jews as possible into Palestine to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population (Muslim, Jew, and Christian) living there for almost a thousand years.

New comment by hashim in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

hashim — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:42:13 +0000

Europeans are people, then and now, whose families have lived in European lands for hundreds of years, but believe they have the biblical right to "return" to a land they have no connection to and "settle on" (steal) the land and houses of Palestinians whose families have lived in those lands for almost a thousand years. This is common sense, and you know full well you would never entertain such a claim from a holy book of any other religion. No amount of semantic games and moving the goalposts changes this fact, or the fact that most "returning" Israelis were European Jews who changed their names to conceal that fact.