Hacker News: karmakurtisaani

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

karmakurtisaani — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:58:44 +0000

Yes to progress, no to cheap right-wing populism with no real solutions to any problem. How about that?

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

karmakurtisaani — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:09:54 +0000

Please don't post reddit style garbage comments like this.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

karmakurtisaani — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:53:36 +0000

Europe can't even get Israel out of Eurovision. Hell, only a few countries boycott the event because of Israel.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "America Has Lost the Arab World"

karmakurtisaani — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:16:33 +0000

Nah mate, you wasted everyone's time.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge"

karmakurtisaani — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:50:24 +0000

Batteries are the next frontier of the renewable explosion. It's already happening.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover'"

karmakurtisaani — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:40:23 +0000

> The excellent book, Clash of Civilizations predicted this move to regional powers versus the 50's simple East/West divide, along with many other current events we see now. It was written 30 years ago.

Did it get many predictions wrong? That's also pretty important, no?

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "When war crimes rhetoric becomes battlefield reality"

karmakurtisaani — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:38:18 +0000

A functional nuclear weapon would definitely have prevented the current war. Hard to blame them for trying.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

karmakurtisaani — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:40:50 +0000

> The Iran-Iraq war is one of the nastier parts of the 20th century post-WW2 era, with huge casualties, and has been somewhat tragically forgotten. Perhaps because it wasn't entirely the fault of the US

Nah, mate. We mainly remember the history that touches us. The Iran-Iraq war is surely not forgotten in their countries, but its impact on the West was limited, so we don't really talk about it.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "US forces locate and evacuate downed airman in Iran"

karmakurtisaani — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:59:29 +0000

Israel disagrees.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "US forces locate and evacuate downed airman in Iran"

karmakurtisaani — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:41:51 +0000

I think he would have liked to end the war a while ago, but Iran and Israel disagree, so he's stuck.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

karmakurtisaani — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:33:57 +0000

Yeah, I didn't mean it as a positive thing..

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

karmakurtisaani — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:40:37 +0000

In the US, the culture is to celebrate success and wealth. Not how you achieved them.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

karmakurtisaani — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:36:06 +0000

Invest in a company, collect dividends or capital gains.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

karmakurtisaani — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:14:53 +0000

> No one puts it under the mattress. It's invested, so it's basically given to other people in exchange for a promise of equity / future returns.

You make wealth concentration sound like a good thing somehow. This was publicly collected tax money, that will go on to enrich some already rich douchebag.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "SpaceX files to go public"

karmakurtisaani — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:53:03 +0000

> idk what SpaceX has to gain by going public

They will save Elons shitty AI investment by making the public bag holders.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

karmakurtisaani — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:35:41 +0000

No no no, you add new stuff that will totally fix those problems!

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

karmakurtisaani — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:20:44 +0000

Why change a working process?

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

karmakurtisaani — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:39:48 +0000

I find it really annoying that the first line of the AI response is always something like "Great question!", "That's a great insight!" or the like.

I don't need the patronizing, just give me the damn answer..

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "So where are all the AI apps?"

karmakurtisaani — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:46:27 +0000

As we haven't seen new operating systems or web browsers and the like, I'm guessing the reason is the same the corporation execs still have to find out: producing the code is just a small part of it. The big part is iterating bug fixes, compatibility, maintenance etc.

New comment by karmakurtisaani in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

karmakurtisaani — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:54:18 +0000

I missed it too, care to explain?