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New comment by ndiddy in "US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached"

ndiddy — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:27:53 +0000

Ali Gholhaki, an Iranian journalist who often publishes first-hand news about impending developments with the IRGC, has reported that the US's demands were the removal of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium, no nuclear enrichment whatsoever, and US management of the Strait of Hormuz. In exchange they were not offering any commitment regarding Lebanon. https://x.com/aghplt/status/2043092254416605522 Given that the US failed to seize Iran's uranium stockpile and failed to open the Strait of Hormuz militarily, I find it bizarre that they thought they would have any sort of leverage at the negotiating table regarding these demands. All the peace talks did was lower oil prices a bit for a few days.

New comment by ndiddy in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

ndiddy — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:20:16 +0000

> "NEVER EVER PAY RANSOM MONEY. Please. Even if your business will suffer it will suffer a lot more if you do pay since now it is known you'll cave. Also: you are making the problem larger for others."

These days, companies try to mitigate the reputational harm associated with paying the ransom by instead paying security firms that "specialize in ransomware recovery" and claim to have "proprietary trade secret means of decrypting their clients' files". These firms always just happen to charge more than the cost of the ransom for their services. They then provide a non-itemized receipt, and both parties walk away happy and without having to admit to anything. Here's a good article on this practice if you're interested. https://features.propublica.org/ransomware/ransomware-attack...

New comment by ndiddy in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

ndiddy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:48:05 +0000

It's not removed, but they changed the title to "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable". The actual bill text explicitly mentions that it excludes liability for "the death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1,000,000,000 of damages to rights in property caused or materially enabled by a frontier model" (https://legiscan.com/IL/text/SB3444/2025) so I am not sure why the title was changed. The original title of "OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters" seems like it accurately describes the bill.

New comment by ndiddy in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

ndiddy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:35:47 +0000

Wow, that's really neat! Looking forward to your writeup.

New comment by ndiddy in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

ndiddy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:06:09 +0000

Another thing I've noticed is how when you go on the website for a VC funded B2B startup and look at the customers or testimonies they have listed, most of them will be other B2B startups funded by the same VC. It makes me wonder how much of that market is essentially a few friends standing in a circle and passing a $100 bill around, but on a larger scale.

New comment by ndiddy in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

ndiddy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:52:09 +0000

Did you port PalmOS 5 to MIPS somehow?

New comment by ndiddy in "Iran Tightens Its Grip on Hormuz Despite Cease-Fire"

ndiddy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:52:51 +0000

From CBS reporting today (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lebanon-israel-ceasefire-talks-...):

> Multiple diplomatic sources told CBS News that President Trump had been told that the ceasefire announced Thursday would apply to the Middle East region, and he agreed that included Lebanon. Mediators believed the ceasefire to include Lebanon, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that it did. Araghchi also said it was included.

> On the day of the ceasefire, a White House official told CBS News that Israel had also agreed with the terms of the deal that Pakistan had helped to broker.

> However, the U.S. position shifted following a phone call between Netanyahu and Mr. Trump. Two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News that the changing U.S. positions, and the disjointed remnant of the regime in Iran, are making the diplomacy highly complex.

> Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Wednesday that there was a "legitimate misunderstanding" about the terms of the ceasefire, but he placed blame on the Iranians for misunderstanding that it included their proxy forces in Lebanon.

It's great to see that Israel has veto power over US foreign policy.

New comment by ndiddy in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

ndiddy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:45:13 +0000

From CBS reporting today (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lebanon-israel-ceasefire-talks-...):

> On the day of the ceasefire, a White House official told CBS News that Israel had also agreed with the terms of the deal that Pakistan had helped to broker.

It's great to see that Israel has veto power over US foreign policy.

New comment by ndiddy in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

ndiddy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:21:53 +0000

The main problem with 230 is that the courts have decided to treat it as if it removes all legal liability from online platforms, rather than just publisher liability. The way the text was written seems to be intended to protect platform operators from publisher liability but still have them under distributor liability. For example, if you own a bookstore and carry a book that says something defamatory, you can be held liable if you don't remove the book after being informed about its contents. However, a court case soon after 230 passed created the precedent that it absolves online platforms of all forms of liability. This means that if a platform knows it hosts illegal or defamatory content and doesn't take it down, they aren't liable and any legal cases against them will get thrown out due to 230. One of the authors of section 230 later said that "the judge-made law has drifted away from the original purpose of the statute."

New comment by ndiddy in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

ndiddy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:03:22 +0000

You're right that Netanyahu's statement contradicts Sharif's statement, which says that "the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies" agreed to the immediate ceasefire. It makes me wonder what was going on behind the scenes.

New comment by ndiddy in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

ndiddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:48:16 +0000

I think that's unfair. There are some people with sane politics there, although it's definitely a small minority. For example: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/taylor-swift-fan-account-twi...

New comment by ndiddy in "Iran Tightens Its Grip on Hormuz Despite Cease-Fire"

ndiddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:41:14 +0000

Trump stated "We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated." [1] He also posted an official statement from Iran's minister of foreign affairs saying that Trump had "[accepted] the general framework of Iran's 10-point proposal as a basis for negotiations". [2] The specific version of the proposal they are negotiating with does not seem to be public, but Ghalibaf's statement mentions three of the specific points he views the US as breaking.

[1] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163657967133...

[2] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163660721369...

New comment by ndiddy in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

ndiddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:04:06 +0000

The ceasefire agreement was mediated by Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan. He announced yesterday that the US and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon. They agreed to base negotiations on Iran's 10-point proposal. [1] Trump released his own statement that the US was agreeing to the ceasefire, again using Iran's 10-point proposal as a basis. [2] Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would comply with the ceasefire. [3] Hours later, Israel carried out a brutal strike on dense commercial and residential areas in Southern Lebanon without warning, killing at least 254 people and injuring more than 1,000 others. [4] The IRGC announced that if Trump didn't rein in Israel, Iran would exit the ceasefire arrangement. [5] Trump then told a reporter that Lebanon was not in the deal, contradicting Sharif's statement. [6] In response, Iran's speaker of the parliament released a statement outlining how the US had violated three of Iran's 10 points and that he viewed a bilateral ceasefire as now being unreasonable. [7]

[1] https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2041665043423752651

[2] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163657967133...

[3] https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/2041714151374856232

[4] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/8/hundreds-of-casualti...

[5] https://x.com/Tasnimnews_EN/status/2041886432239788297

[6] https://x.com/ElizLanders/status/2041878299454955640

[7] https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2041943537386958858

New comment by ndiddy in "Iran Tightens Its Grip on Hormuz Despite Cease-Fire"

ndiddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:50:13 +0000

More information:

[1] https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2041665043423752651

[2] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163657967133...

[3] https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/2041714151374856232

[4] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/8/hundreds-of-casualti...

[5] https://x.com/Tasnimnews_EN/status/2041886432239788297

[6] https://x.com/ElizLanders/status/2041878299454955640

[7] https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2041943537386958858

New comment by ndiddy in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ndiddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:51:24 +0000

> Most importantly Iran can't afford to keep the strait closed to enforce this. If they block shipping their own will be blocked as well - which hasn't yet happened, they were still allowed to ship oil.

Why do you say this? During the war they set up a checkpoint system so their ships and ships they allowed to pass could still pass through.

New comment by ndiddy in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ndiddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:21:35 +0000

> There are no talks or anything. Iran has no incentive to negotiate with a party as unreliable as the US is under Trump. I would literally negotiate with a dead opossum before I would continue to negotiate with Witkoff and Kushner.

The Iranian Supreme National Security Council said in their victory statement that there would be talks starting on Friday: https://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/04/08/3560026/snsc-is...

> Iran, while rejecting all the plans presented by the enemy, formulated a 10-point plan and presented it to the US side through Pakistan, emphasizing the fundamental points such as controlled passage through the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with the Iranian armed forces, which would grant Iran a unique economic and geopolitical position, the necessity of ending the war against all elements of the axis of resistance, which would mean the historic defeat of the aggression of the child-killing Israeli regime, the withdrawal of US combat forces from all bases and deployment points in the region, the establishment of a safe transit protocol in the Strait of Hormuz in a way that guarantees Iran's dominance according to the agreed protocol, full payment for the damages inflicted of Iran according to estimates, the lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions and resolutions of the Board of Governors and the Security Council, the release of all of Iran's frozen assets abroad, and finally the ratification of all of these matters in a binding Security Council resolution. It should be noted that the ratification of this resolution would turn all of these agreements into binding international law and would create an important diplomatic victory for the Iranian nation.

> Now, the Honorable Prime Minister of Pakistan has informed Iran that the American side, despite all the apparent threats, has accepted these principles as the basis for negotiations and has surrendered to the will of the Iranian people.

> Accordingly, it was decided at the highest level that Iran will hold talks with the American side in Islamabad for two weeks and solely on the basis of these principles. It is emphasized that this does not mean an end to the war and Iran will accept an end to the war only when, in view of Iran's acceptance of the principles envisaged in the 10-point plan, its details are also finalized in the negotiations.

> These negotiations will begin in Islamabad on Friday, April 11, with complete distrust about the US side, and Iran will allocate two weeks for these negotiations. This period can be extended by agreement of the parties.

New comment by ndiddy in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

ndiddy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:42:49 +0000

He said "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." To me that sounds more like a threat to destroy a civilization than an announcement that the US will be targeting specific parts of Iranian infrastructure, but maybe you are better at reading between the lines than I am.

Shots Fired at Indianapolis Councilman's Home, After Vote Backing Data Center

ndiddy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:18:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/indianapolis-data-center-shooting.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674105

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New comment by ndiddy in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

ndiddy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:47:29 +0000

Trump said on Sunday that the US at least tried to arm the protestors.

> The U.S. sent guns to anti-regime protesters in Iran amid the wider war against Tehran, President Donald Trump confirmed to Fox News on Sunday.

> Trump made the comment during an interview with Fox News' Try Yingst, saying the U.S. delivered the weapons through the Kurds.

> "We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds. And I think the Kurds kept them," Trump said.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/us-iran-trump-israel-war-l...

New comment by ndiddy in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

ndiddy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:09:05 +0000

In case you're curious about US history and not just trying to make a point, "those people in the Apollo era" were the majority of Americans for most of the time the Apollo program was ongoing. Republicans argued that the large NASA budget was fiscally unwise and Democrats argued that the money would have been better used for social programs. The press referred to the program as the "Moondoggle". In 1962, the New York Times noted that the projected Apollo program budget could have instead been used to create over 100 universities of a similar size to Harvard, build millions of homes, replace hundreds of worn-out schools, build hundreds of hospitals, and fund disease research. The Apollo program's popularity hovered around 40% for most of the 1960s when it was underway. It peaked at 53% just after the moon landing, and by April 1970 it was back down to 40%. It wasn't until the mid-80s that the majority of Americans thought that the Apollo program was worth it.