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Iran's supreme leader reportedly killed in air strikes

hulahoof — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:26:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-01/iran-missiles-shake-gulf-states-after-us-israel-strike-tehran/106401498

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200965

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by hulahoof in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

hulahoof — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:03:46 +0000

Looks like Maduro and his wife were captured https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1158304287678...

New comment by hulahoof in "Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD"

hulahoof — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:33:21 +0000

I think they recently said they aren’t looking for a refresh for at least 2 years https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/valve-says-a-next-gen-steam...

New comment by hulahoof in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

hulahoof — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:26:27 +0000

Local news (Australia) is reporting this as extra pressure on Denmark relating to the rhetoric around Greenland

https://aapnews.aap.com.au/a/XVWrainrX

IBM nears $11B confluent deal

hulahoof — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:21:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-nears-roughly-11-billion-deal-confluent-wsj-reports-2025-12-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189370

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by hulahoof in "Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants"

hulahoof — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:53:53 +0000

I’m not from the US so apologies if I miss something that seems obvious, but why should they have a higher standard instead of the same standard?

New comment by hulahoof in "Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control"

hulahoof — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:57:30 +0000

Sounds like what Hololens was designed to solve, more in the AR space than AI though

New comment by hulahoof in "LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab"

hulahoof — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:34:42 +0000

After you hit one of them, an 'undown' or 'unvote' button appears in front of the 'root' / 'parent' button

Databricks closes in on multibillion funding round at $55B to cash out employees

hulahoof — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/26/databricks-closes-in-on-multibillion-funding-round-at-55-billion-valuation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42249374

Points: 31

# Comments: 6

New comment by hulahoof in "Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator"

hulahoof — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:38:16 +0000

But when Airbnb created airflow, you could have said the same. It’s just later in its lifecycle.

New comment by hulahoof in "Puzzle made by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the university quest"

hulahoof — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:25:46 +0000

Thanks exactly what I was after!

New comment by hulahoof in "Puzzle made by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the university quest"

hulahoof — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:45:19 +0000

This article claims Assange is a likely organiser of Cicada 3301, this is not a theory I have heard before - does anyone have any resources that expand on this ?

New comment by hulahoof in "New minerals on the moon explaining the mystery of the lunar landscape"

hulahoof — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:18:54 +0000

https://archive.is/cMeHQ

New comment by hulahoof in "Should You Be Rinsing Your Plates Before Loading the Dishwasher?"

hulahoof — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 04:27:14 +0000

Always a point of contention between my partner and I, but I am firmly in the 'rinse-before-loading' camp.

Theres only so much the filter in a dishwasher can take before it clogs, and it is easier and a better clean to simply rinse the bulk off quickly then pop it in the dishwasher for a proper clean.

The article addresses this by saying just to scrape it off first, but I am convinced I get a better clean if the bulk of the sauce etc., is washed off too. Maybe I am imagining it.

New comment by hulahoof in "When a black hole and a neutron star merge"

hulahoof — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 04:18:22 +0000

This was a refreshingly good press release about the event

Netanyahu Pushes for Indefinite Military Control over Gaza

hulahoof — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:14:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/23/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39480158

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hulahoof in "CyberChef from GCHQ: Cyber Swiss Army Knife"

hulahoof — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:13:03 +0000

Love the callout to this in 'Other': https://xkcd.com/221/

New comment by hulahoof in "Child abduction case: Tom and Jerry cartoons helped police identify suspects"

hulahoof — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 12:13:52 +0000

YouTube search terms are query parameters in the url so wouldn’t need to break TLS

New comment by hulahoof in "Computer memory prototype ditches 1s and 0s for denser data storage"

hulahoof — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:42:56 +0000

I assume they mean absolute distance

abs(3-e) < abs(2-e)

New comment by hulahoof in "There is no data engineering roadmap"

hulahoof — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:55:02 +0000

I work in the aus data space, I’ve met a lot of intelligent PHD data scientists, but very rare is it to meet one who can scale their work efficiently across the org. The amount of time wasted on models that never make it to production is ridiculous.