Hacker News: r721https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=r721Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:12:22 +0000<![CDATA[UK to fight Russian disinformation and push new global AI standards Burnham says]]>Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6rerlq99w30o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819920

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:51:58 +0000https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6rerlq99w30or721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819920https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819920<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "The softness of metal"]]>Example recent video (from my Youtube recommendations): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ6WtkEbXiM

]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:56:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814742r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814742https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814742<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "The human brain is two separate organs, study finds"]]>Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755533

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:49:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807126r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807126https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807126<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "Trump Orders US to Rename AI to SI – "Super Intelligence""]]>>.si is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Slovenia.

]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:08:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806542r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806542https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806542<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "Human brain is two separate organs"]]>Other discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755533

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697

]]>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:22:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765169r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765169https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765169<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds"]]>>NYT did a great analysis essentially concluding it was plausibly a mistake, not an intentional or indiscriminate civilian attack.

See also somewhat overlooked Bloomberg story from June:

>An Analyst’s Missed Remark Surfaced in Deadly Iran School Strike Probe

>An analyst's missed remarks and US intelligence systems that weren’t connected to one another are among the missteps that investigators have surfaced while probing the cause of a missile strike on an Iranian school that killed an estimated 120 children, people familiar with the matter said.

>Years before the US attacked Iran at the end of February, an intelligence analyst examining information about potential future strike targets in Iran noticed changes at a site the US had previously characterized as a naval facility belonging to the elite wing of the Iranian military in Minab city in the southeast of the country. It was, in fact, now an elementary school.

>The analyst remarked on changes at the site in a digital intelligence tool, but that tool wasn’t linked up to the official intelligence database that the US uses to develop strike targets and the information was never conveyed to military commanders, according to people familiar with the matter who declined to be named discussing sensitive matters.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-26/an-analys...

https://archive.is/LNMMf

]]>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:30:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752840r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752840https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752840<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe"]]>>The US is now more concerned about China.

Ah, that's why "U.S. pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia" :)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-pulls-last-aircraft-c...

]]>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:18:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751909r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751909https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751909<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "LLMs are real, AI is fake"]]>Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672281 (42 comments, [flagged])

]]>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:09:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687528r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687528https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687528<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "I Just Joined Bros"]]>https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:17:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676122r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676122<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "The Harvard Expert on Dishonesty Who Is Accused of Lying"]]>(2023)

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:24:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622576r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622576<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "Cinema lessons from a trash-movie auteur"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Breen

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:15:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615368r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615368https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615368<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "The White House pulls its racist Tetris clone"]]>Archived: https://archive.is/8Siz8

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:53:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612977r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612977https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612977<![CDATA[The White House pulls its racist Tetris clone]]>Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/991451/white-house-pulls-racist-tetris-clone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612917

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:50:14 +0000https://www.theverge.com/games/991451/white-house-pulls-racist-tetris-cloner721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612917https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612917<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "US Army secretary resigns after months of tension"]]>>He's also a close ally and friend of Vice-President JD Vance, whom he met at Yale Law School.

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:09:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519339r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519339https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519339<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "Ask HN: Why are onionv3 services not more popular?"]]>Tor itself is not that popular - just 500k users in US:

https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?...

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:10:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484852r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484852https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484852<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"]]>>The attack on Iranian school was to the best of my knowledge a mistake stemming from old intel.

Bloomberg piece on this topic:

>An Analyst’s Missed Remark Surfaced in Deadly Iran School Strike Probe

>An analyst's missed remarks and US intelligence systems that weren’t connected to one another are among the missteps that investigators have surfaced while probing the cause of a missile strike on an Iranian school that killed an estimated 120 children, people familiar with the matter said.

>Years before the US attacked Iran at the end of February, an intelligence analyst examining information about potential future strike targets in Iran noticed changes at a site the US had previously characterized as a naval facility belonging to the elite wing of the Iranian military in Minab city in the southeast of the country. It was, in fact, now an elementary school.

>The analyst remarked on changes at the site in a digital intelligence tool, but that tool wasn’t linked up to the official intelligence database that the US uses to develop strike targets and the information was never conveyed to military commanders, according to people familiar with the matter who declined to be named discussing sensitive matters.

https://archive.is/LNMMf

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:29:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480913r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480913https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480913<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation"]]>Also

>Rubio Uses Terrorism Law to Ban Secure Email Service

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474621

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:29:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480007r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480007https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480007<![CDATA[Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns]]>Article URL: https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/28/barrier-lake-continues-to-pose-flood-risk-china-warns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479898

Points: 90

# Comments: 23

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:21:26 +0000https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/28/barrier-lake-continues-to-pose-flood-risk-china-warnsr721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479898<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch "Twitter," says Musk abandoned the name"]]>(2025)

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:22:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475893r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475893https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475893<![CDATA[New comment by r721 in "The turbulent AI era is here"]]>Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:04:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469677r721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469677https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469677