Hacker News: mathandstuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mathandstuffHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:15:19 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mathandstuff in "When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army"]]>The issue isn't software developers working with the military. It is a matter of offensive U.S. military operations and the associated self-serving geopolitics being treated as countercultural.

]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:14:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888723mathandstuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888723https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888723<![CDATA[New comment by mathandstuff in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"]]>They didn't. Al Jazeera's headline was updated to read "Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers."

]]>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:10:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41569992mathandstuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41569992https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41569992<![CDATA[New comment by mathandstuff in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"]]>Actually, The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots fired its campaign manager Ousman Noor as a result of him advocating against the IDF's killings in Gaza. The Campaign initially denied that it was over his Gaza advocacy, but eventually admitted that it was because of him speaking to diplomats which he met through the Campaign. Many members of the campaign support the IDF's arguable genocide, despite how surprising that might be.

]]>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:00:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39921543mathandstuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39921543https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39921543<![CDATA['Trident Spectre', the Navy SEALs' yearly tech integration program]]>Article URL: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-inside-trident-spectre

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]]>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:44:38 +0000https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-inside-trident-spectremathandstuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502674https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37502674<![CDATA[Counterterrorism internet surveillance is being retargeted at sex workers]]>Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2023/07/29/skull-games-surveillance-sex-workers/

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]]>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:39:24 +0000https://theintercept.com/2023/07/29/skull-games-surveillance-sex-workers/mathandstuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36923154https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36923154<![CDATA[Tech companies are becoming increasingly responsive to wiretap demands]]>Article URL: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/leaked-video-claims-tech-companies

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]]>Tue, 23 May 2023 21:55:27 +0000https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/leaked-video-claims-tech-companiesmathandstuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36051339https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36051339<![CDATA[New comment by mathandstuff in "Aztec Diamond"]]>I wrote some open source code a few years ago that introduces a simple way to convert LU factorizations into a Determinantal Point Process sampler and used large Aztec diamonds as the example

https://gitlab.com/hodge_star/catamari

]]>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:09:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271151mathandstuffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271151https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271151