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midlander — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:29:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr428rxg57o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787150

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New comment by midlander in "Ask HN: What is no longer worth learning in programming due to AI?"

midlander — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:22:14 +0000

- You don’t need to learn debugging, just regenerate until it works.

- You don’t need to learn types, the model knows what you meant.

- You don’t need to learn security, just ask the LLM to make it secure.

- You don’t need to learn performance, you can always scale later.

New comment by midlander in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

midlander — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:13:39 +0000

Today, Jews are denied entry to many Muslim countries - not just Israelis, anyone who looks Jewish.

The excuse that “some other people of this religion did something bad” does not justify hating and ethnically cleansing everyone who shares that religion.

New comment by midlander in "Bad Claude's Constitution"

midlander — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:19:44 +0000

What we actually need is an LLM with critical thinking, that could just be honest when something doesn’t deserve compliments.

New comment by midlander in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

midlander — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:13:39 +0000

> The oppressors and the victim are clear in the Israel - Palestine conflict

Only if you zoom in and focus on one tiny sliver. If you look at the bigger picture, Israel is surrounded by dozens of countries 100s of times its size, that have all been ethnically cleansed of Jews, many of them in different stages of open or proxy war with Israel, militarily or politically.

New comment by midlander in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

midlander — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:27:16 +0000

I’m appalled at the lack of balanced comments in here. Acknowledging the humanity of the people on both sides. That both deserve to live in peace. That both have suffered deaths and injuries from the other side. That both can claim the other side has committed war crimes.

Demonizing one side is neither rational, moral, nor conducive to resolving the situation.

New comment by midlander in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

midlander — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:37:13 +0000

There are hundreds of videos of tower blocks being bombed, where people are standing a distance away with cameras set up, ready and waiting, because they’ve been warned and evacuated. These are not the actions of an army trying to target civilians.

New comment by midlander in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

midlander — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:25:04 +0000

These are 30,000 human lives. Their value doesn’t diminish because of a larger supply.

New comment by midlander in "Claude Code Is Locked in Your Laptop"

midlander — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:13:41 +0000

Well, there’s Claude Code Web.

New comment by midlander in "Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials"

midlander — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:54:20 +0000

The official government policy, which they have communicated many times, is that the goal was return of the hostages and dismantling of Hamas. Since the return of all the hostages, there has been a drastic drop in fighting - the figures have not changed much in recent months (although the condemnations haven’t subsided). The stalemate at the moment is waiting for Hamas to disarm and hand over control to a civilian Palestinian government.

New comment by midlander in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

midlander — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:05:51 +0000

You think that people who were not born in America cannot be trusted / are not moral?

New comment by midlander in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

midlander — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:44:43 +0000

The irony of a post about Palantir working with ICE devolving into xenophobia about the founders of Palantir.

New comment by midlander in "Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only"

midlander — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:36:03 +0000

You treating human life as less worthy if a population has more of them?

It’s 30k in a week - all civilians vs 60k in 2 years - in a mixture of civilians and combatants.

New comment by midlander in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

midlander — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:46:32 +0000

Not sure what point you were trying to make, but if it was about inconsistency on the Left, you could’ve picked better examples, like give all Americans citizenship to Greenland, or give all Russians citizenship in Ukraine.

New comment by midlander in "Yes, It's Fascism"

midlander — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:30:19 +0000

Well done on finding a way to link this story to your favorite scapegoat.

New comment by midlander in "Tell HN: I Have Won HN"

midlander — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:22:09 +0000

Congratulations! Does it roll over to negative when you reach the end?

New comment by midlander in "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)"

midlander — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:05:34 +0000

The rule doesn’t really make sense in a small country with proportional representation. The government can stay in power as long as a majority of the country wants it to stay in power.

New comment by midlander in "Show HN: I used my book generator to generate a catalog of books it can generate"

midlander — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:36:23 +0000

You can build something like Library of Babel – but for books that make sense.

New comment by midlander in "Show HN: Kreamsicle – Cmd+K command palette for Hacker News"

midlander — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:32:51 +0000

Really like this. Will have to try it when I’m on a desktop.

New comment by midlander in "Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials"

midlander — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:21:34 +0000

There’s no magic right to kill n people for n deaths. If 1 person killed a 1000 people, that doesn’t give you the right to kill 1000 people.

If an army of 100,000 attempts to kill as many people as they can but have only managed 1000 so far, you can kill as many as many of them as you need until they stop trying to kill you.