Hacker News: newaccount670https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=newaccount670Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:35:58 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by newaccount670 in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"]]>Hormuz being closed hurts Iran way more than it does the US. It's shocking that they're persisting on this strategy. That's the problem with authoritarians though: they'd rather rule over rubble than be an average citizen in a prosperous society.

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:01:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405844newaccount670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405844https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405844<![CDATA[New comment by newaccount670 in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"]]>They don't need to because he has already been arrested in New York.

There should be some sort of basic literacy requirement for people to post of this forum.

]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 12:37:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308065newaccount670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308065https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308065<![CDATA[New comment by newaccount670 in "FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive"]]>Biden got literally 0% of the vote despite 538 predicting him to win.

They chose to pretend Biden's mental decline wasn't happening because that was the Democrat party line at the time. How can you trust predictions from someone who is willing to manipulate his results to prop up his political party?

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:48:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207748newaccount670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207748https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207748<![CDATA[New comment by newaccount670 in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"]]>Good is relative. If somebody struggles with getting their hand-written code to compile, the LLM coding agents will look like geniuses to them.

An idiosyncrasy of humanity is that the dumbest individuals tend to also be the loudest.

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 13:47:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193255newaccount670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193255https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193255<![CDATA[New comment by newaccount670 in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"]]>This is a website where anybody can trivially create multiple accounts in minutes. It has minimal protections against abuse. The strength of the community relies entirely on its obscurity and it's no longer obscure.

It died as a home for intellectuals the moment it became big enough to be a viable platform for political propaganda (many years ago).

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