Hacker News: klipt

New comment by klipt in "I Became a Citizen of Japan"

klipt — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:58:12 +0000

> People with money like acquiring passports.

Japan doesn't allow dual citizenship, so not very attractive for people who want more than one passport.

New comment by klipt in "I Became a Citizen of Japan"

klipt — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:54:20 +0000

I thought Japan requires 10 years residence for PR, but only 5 years residence to naturalize, in which case it wouldn't be surprising if many people naturalize before getting PR!

New comment by klipt in "Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low"

klipt — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:16:11 +0000

The current admin definitely wants to look tough on immigration.

Opinions among actual Americans vary. Some blue states even issue driver licenses to unauthorized immigrants on the basis that it's better for them to pass the driving test than to drive without taking the test.

New comment by klipt in "An Apology"

klipt — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:08:23 +0000

With the side effect that the thief can easily find and remove the tag.

New comment by klipt in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

klipt — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:42:20 +0000

Plenty of people spoke out but none of the people with power to stop it (courts, Congress)

New comment by klipt in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

klipt — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:06:11 +0000

Pro-Palestinians generally argue that Hamas is entitled to constantly fire rockets at Israel because Israel took some Palestinian land 80 years ago. Following that same logic, why isn't Israel allowed to constantly fire rockets at Iraq for taking Jewish land even more recently?

New comment by klipt in "Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz surge to wartime high, Iran tries choking oil"

klipt — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:09:29 +0000

Expensive oil means more people buying Chinese EVs and Chinese solar panels. Good for the environment and good for China. Why would China want cheap oil?

New comment by klipt in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

klipt — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:57:17 +0000

Israel is largely populated by refugees from ethnic cleansing by Arab states. For example the French embassy in Baghdad stands on Jewish land that was stolen by the Iraqi government.

New comment by klipt in "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines"

klipt — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:11:16 +0000

> they should not proceed when access is blocked

But a lot of software engineering is figuring out who to ask to get access to the thing you need to change to fix some bug...

New comment by klipt in "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines"

klipt — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:08:24 +0000

The Big Short did a good job of this although not in a kid friendly way. Eg by explaining "subprime" as "sh*t"

New comment by klipt in "Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers"

klipt — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:56:46 +0000

Golang is also designed to compile very fast.

New comment by klipt in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

klipt — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:54:44 +0000

If your BASIC is compiled that's just a CPU!

New comment by klipt in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

klipt — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:58:47 +0000

> but then when we shifted resources that way, the money did absolutely no good here on Earth.

So things like curing AIDS don't count?

New comment by klipt in "Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?"

klipt — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:17:31 +0000

Sometimes constraints lead to new inventions. Like haikus.

The crockpot was allegedly inspired by sabbath stewing techniques.

New comment by klipt in "Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?"

klipt — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:15:20 +0000

"Sabbath" is just the anglicized version of the ancestral Hebrew word "Shabbat", meaning rest.

New comment by klipt in "Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)"

klipt — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:57:40 +0000

Citation needed that people are thinking "therefore we must commit genocide against others"

Attempted genocide better describes Hamas, who slaughtered a 1/4 of the civilians in the first villages they got their hands on, before being pushed back.

New comment by klipt in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

klipt — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:30:58 +0000

So the AI equivalent of the socially stunted but brilliant researcher?

New comment by klipt in "Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)"

klipt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:01:18 +0000

What is the obsession with equating the Holocaust with a war whose death toll is roughly 1/100th of the Holocaust (and that only if you include combatant deaths, which the Holocaust numbers do not?)

New comment by klipt in "Small Models Have Arrived"

klipt — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:17:50 +0000

But the harness still matters.

In the case of stockfish, the harness is a tree search around the neural network evaluations.

New comment by klipt in "Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'"

klipt — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:31:42 +0000

Malaria tropica (the disease) maps 1:1 to Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes this disease)