Hacker News: pooyan2https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pooyan2Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:45:31 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by pooyan2 in "After the AI boom: what might we be left with?"]]>I live in the U.S. and would like to support our businesses, however the U.S. is neither the leader in semiconductor/electronics manufacturing nor in power production and availability, and without those, they will not end up being the world leader in AI- China will.

]]>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:05:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562874pooyan2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562874https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562874<![CDATA[New comment by pooyan2 in "HP1345A (and wargames) (2017)"]]>I’m a big fan of WarGames.

It would be great to have something that could speak like Joshua.

I had a Votrax back in the 80s, similar to the following, which was awesome:

https://youtu.be/t27e3-6yBWw

Joshua was actually voiced by actor Jim Wood (Falken), though. Jim read the lines backwards and then they chopped it up and did some audio processing on it:

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/128319/how-did-th...

]]>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:47:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562754pooyan2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562754https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562754<![CDATA[New comment by pooyan2 in "Free software hasn't won"]]>I hate to complain about styling, but when I can’t read it, I have to say something about it.

This has a strange CSS styling problem on my phone. There’s no left margin in portrait, so it’s basically unreadable, but if I go landscape it’s fine.

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