Hacker News: phgn

New comment by phgn in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

phgn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:15:52 +0000

> I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

Was this written by the state department?

How can you think that a “department of war” does anything remotely good? And only object to domestic AI surveillance?

New comment by phgn in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

phgn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:34:11 +0000

Take an empty, open water bottle through security and then fill it up at the free water fountains!

New comment by phgn in "‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid"

phgn — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:44:28 +0000

Borders are an imaginary concept made-up by nation-states, which only serves the people in power.

Or how are people fleeing from prosecution, looking for a better life, or just feeling like living somewhere else exactly hurting you? It's really a human right to move to another place, without reason required.

If you're thinking about jobs, skilled workers immigrating will compete with you much more than less-privileged people. And "we cannot pay for them" is BS made up the system as well. It is possible to pay for social security for everyone, but not if all profits go to shareholders of course.

New comment by phgn in "“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran"

phgn — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:01:31 +0000

Also interested in a sample site where the request successfully resolves ;)

New comment by phgn in "The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled"

phgn — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:27:12 +0000

The interesting part about Cities 2 is that the simulation is much more in-depth: pops have a real job where they commute to (versus taking any available one in the first game), they don't just teleport around, companies have to import&export resources and make profit based on that, etc.

Also the graphics/lighting seems much improved with a more realistic art style.

Both things which you cannot really retrofit into Cities 1.

New comment by phgn in "Claude outage"

phgn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:02:13 +0000

Use another AI tool :D

New comment by phgn in "Claude outage"

phgn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:01:06 +0000

Related question: why does Claude Code need a new auth token very few days?? It's so annoying.

New comment by phgn in "A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps"

phgn — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:13:02 +0000

Nope. Their entire website shows up with a white screen for me in the latest Chrome.

There's this error in the console: Failed to load module script: Expected a JavaScript-or-Wasm module script but the server responded with a MIME type of "text/html". Strict MIME type checking is enforced for module scripts per HTML spec.

New comment by phgn in "The React Foundation"

phgn — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:43:33 +0000

Please read through the legal definition of a genocide, and then tell me that that's not what's happening right now:

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

New comment by phgn in "The React Foundation"

phgn — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:07:57 +0000

> Are you suggesting that vercels CEO is to be compared with Adolf Hitler

No, Netanyahu.

Who Vercel's CEO recently posted for a selfie with on X, wishing "greatness for Israel" without mentioning the genocide being committed by that person right now.

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:58:07 +0000

It would be a valid argument if you provide evidence for it, such as other commenters here have done. Whereas you just rejected my claim without any argumentation.

I have provided a source for the numbers cited in the original comment. Where those numbers are explained.

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:41:11 +0000

This is not how discussions work on Hacker News, and it's also very impolite.

We care about facts, and evidence for arguments here.

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:28:45 +0000

From the Wikipedia article you linked:

> Bernard Avishai states that the Gaza withdrawal was designed to obviate rather than facilitate peace negotiations [...]

> Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weissglass, explained the meaning of Sharon's statement further: The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state [...]

> Shimon Peres, then Vice Prime Minister, stated in an interview that: "We are disengaging from Gaza because of demography"

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:13:49 +0000

> Israel tries to avoid killing civilians

Did you read the article this discussion is about?

How could one cause a famine accidentally, without intent to murder civilians?

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:11:24 +0000

This is not how international law is supposed to work.

Nothing justifies a genocide.

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:05:29 +0000

Could you please link a source for that piece of information?

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:55:04 +0000

Where did you get that information from? :)

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:54:02 +0000

Because the linked article clearly states why the official numbers are not accurate in the authors opinions.

Also "These numbers are just false" is not a valid argument.

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:51:44 +0000

I was referencing numbers from the article which I linked, which clearly states the reasons for why those researchers don't believe official numbers.

The page you linked seems to only include deaths where the name of the person is known. Who is left in Gaza to count or report the dead?

New comment by phgn in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

phgn — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:50:08 +0000

Who is left in Gaza to count or report all the dead? The people who die of famine?

Official numbers have increased by less than 20.000 in the last year of genocide. Isn't that curious?