Hacker News: pinewurst

Biker gangs and hired hands: how Iran is increasingly outsourcing its terrorism

pinewurst — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:54:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/27/golders-green-ambulances-firebomb-iran-involvement-terror-campaigns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596972

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Telecheck and Tyms Past

pinewurst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://computer.rip/2026-03-29-telecheck-and-tyms-past.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569008

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by pinewurst in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

pinewurst — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:36:18 +0000

So does North Korea's. This is Goodhart's law in action - the metastasis of PM culture rewarding "engagement".

New comment by pinewurst in "Revisiting a 1958 Map of Space Mysteries"

pinewurst — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:30:11 +0000

(2018)

New comment by pinewurst in "The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation"

pinewurst — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:14:56 +0000

Not the Nimrod AEW though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_Nimrod_AEW3

New comment by pinewurst in "Neanderthals lost their Y chromosome (2020)"

pinewurst — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:39:01 +0000

(2020)

Tehran meeting struck by Israel likely tied to Iran's atomic bomb plans

pinewurst — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:10:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603173093

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460605

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by pinewurst in "How death came to haunt my desert island"

pinewurst — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:26:01 +0000

(2000)

New comment by pinewurst in "`Mr AI' Peter Thiel Lectures about Antichrist in Rome"

pinewurst — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:48:19 +0000

https://archive.is/PDqa8

New comment by pinewurst in "Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World with 'The Population Bomb,' Dies at 93"

pinewurst — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:30:57 +0000

https://archive.ph/2qzRf

New comment by pinewurst in "IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019)"

pinewurst — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:21:39 +0000

https://annas-archive.gl/scidb/10.1109/mc.2011.163/

New comment by pinewurst in "Iran names Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba as new supreme leader"

pinewurst — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:03:56 +0000

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-28/how-iran-...

https://fpa.org/building-an-empire-on-property-seizures/

New comment by pinewurst in "Iran names Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba as new supreme leader"

pinewurst — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:50:02 +0000

Why hasn’t his European real estate empire (the kind all middle ranked clergy seem to have :) been frozen?

New comment by pinewurst in "She called 911 for an ambulance. She got a nightmare instead"

pinewurst — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:03:16 +0000

https://archive.ph/oD0pz

New comment by pinewurst in "Jack Dorsey's 4k Job Cuts at Block Arouse Suspicions of AI-Washing"

pinewurst — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:08:55 +0000

https://archive.ph/iJpFK

Jack Dorsey's 4k Job Cuts at Block Arouse Suspicions of AI-Washing

pinewurst — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:08:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-01/jack-dorsey-s-4-000-job-cuts-at-block-arouse-suspicions-of-ai-washing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208545

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by pinewurst in "Brain Tumor Survivors Are Forcing a Rethink of Cancer Care"

pinewurst — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:07:23 +0000

https://archive.ph/NUqkS

Brain Tumor Survivors Are Forcing a Rethink of Cancer Care

pinewurst — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:07:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/the-science-of-cancer-care-is-being-changed-by-brain-tumor-survivors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208523

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by pinewurst in "Khamenei Dead"

pinewurst — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:43:07 +0000

That's actually not true: Khamenei was a political ayatollah, hardly respected for religious judgment by average Shia.

New comment by pinewurst in "Khamenei Dead"

pinewurst — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:12:25 +0000

Excellent question - my understanding is that previous decapitation attacks were avoided due to the probability that the IRGC would take over as a simple dictatorship. Unclear what's changed now though.