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New comment by nmeofthestate in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:04:05 +0000

No I agree with that, but if it's "activists" I would expect them to claim credit otherwise it's all pointless. The same doesn't follow for Russian fuckery, IMO.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:54:18 +0000

Russia spends a huge amount on manipulating western citizens via the internet, let's not play dumb about that. You may not think that it has any effect, but apparently Russian intelligence does.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:52:04 +0000

>Might be related to today's yearly 'Prinsjesdag' in the Netherlands:

Russia may have heard about that annual event as well, of course.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:48:31 +0000

We should see some claim of responsibility if it was indeed anyone other than the usual suspects.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:45:29 +0000

Explosive-equipped drone attack on airport - Russia! Numerous arson attacks on businesses supplying Ukraine - Russia! Country invaded, cities destroyed, tens of thousands of civilians killed, raped, tortured - Russia.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:56:10 +0000

Mountainous jungle terrain?

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

nmeofthestate — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:39:00 +0000

You should just ask AI, since you used AI to make the encoder and write your HN post.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

nmeofthestate — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:05:07 +0000

ChatGPT 5.6-Sol via CoPilot is absolutely fine in my experience - no weird LLM-ese.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:10:05 +0000

It's remarkable how much it hasn't worked: Google "the Hanover institute" and you get an AI summary that references various Palestinian activist websites, with no actual link to 'the Hanover institute'. Google "the Hanover institute website" and you'll drag a URL out of Google AI, but it isn't clickable!

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum"

nmeofthestate — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:29:44 +0000

Contemptible cookie dialog.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

nmeofthestate — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:06:22 +0000

Some Conservative activists were campaigning for the joke candidate in the constituency. Although none of the parties officially endorsed him obviously, they have all been gushing about him on social media.

I'm not sure the traditional parties standing aside in favour of a joke candidate, even if none of them stood a chance in this constituency individually, paid off. It probably just pissed off Farage voters hence his increased vote count with a reduced turnout.

The whole thing was cringeworthy, insulting to the voters, and just played into Farage's hands.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "The Water Footprint of AI"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:08:03 +0000

0.16% (high estimate) of global water usage by the way.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

nmeofthestate — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:12:41 +0000

> It is clear from the article that what eats up so much RAM is not the weather app itself but the framework it runs on. There is a "Renderer", a "GPU Process",... eating most of it.

Got a bit confused by this, because nowhere in the article are the words "Renderer" or "GPU". Regardless - all processes that comprise the app are the app, not just the parent process.

When I run it locally and check in procexp it has 8 webview subprocesses and all together it's using similar if not higher levels of memory than claimed in the article. Private Bytes is over a GB in total. I expect the webview processes are sharing memory for DLLs though.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers"

nmeofthestate — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:48:00 +0000

>It’s rare to see political attitudes change this fast

On the contrary - these mass political crazes are like flash-floods these days.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

nmeofthestate — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:51:01 +0000

Weird 'discussion'. Almost entirely single messages with no threads, all with the same anti-Anthropic/AI position.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

nmeofthestate — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:17:58 +0000

This would be better as a drunken rant in a pub, where you could at least get to roll your eyes at your friends while George wasn't looking.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock"

nmeofthestate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:26:27 +0000

Oh no. I quite liked this until you said it was art that Represented something.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

nmeofthestate — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:13:04 +0000

The apotheosis of Reddit vexillology where all flag symbolism maps to geographical features.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"

nmeofthestate — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:02:57 +0000

True, but I think most people get addicted to smoking when young, and are less likely to just decide to start smoking at 40, especially when vaping is an option.

New comment by nmeofthestate in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"

nmeofthestate — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:53:31 +0000

There are less harmful ways to get addicted to nicotine that will continue to be legal for people affected by this legislation.