Hacker News: r721

New comment by r721 in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

r721 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:34:58 +0000

The term for that is "Mixed Mode CD": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Mode_CD

New comment by r721 in "Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?"

r721 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:53:07 +0000

One possibility:

>Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200689

New comment by r721 in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

r721 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:42:07 +0000

Better quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyaaszg6jc

New comment by r721 in "Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth"

r721 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:47:17 +0000

Relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Credentials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Authenticity_Initiativ...

New comment by r721 in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

r721 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:38:08 +0000

>Relative to the size of the economy, interest costs would reach 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year — eclipsing the previous high set in 1991.

>As a share of federal revenues, federal interest payments rose to 18.5 percent by the end of last year, exceeding the previous high set in 1991.

https://www.pgpf.org/programs-and-projects/fiscal-policy/mon...

New comment by r721 in "Billionaire Shopify CEO thinks poor Canadians shouldn't be able to vote"

r721 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:54:59 +0000

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084031 (362 comments)

New comment by r721 in "Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Companies During Tests"

r721 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:48:38 +0000

Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116922

New comment by r721 in "Ask HN: Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit?"

r721 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:48:23 +0000

Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005747

New comment by r721 in "France Approves Automated, Real-Tim"

r721 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:43:07 +0000

Original title:

>France Approves Automated, Real-Time Blocking of Pirate Sports Streams

New comment by r721 in "RU AF jamming Sentinel-1 satellites over certain parts of Russia"

r721 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:31:56 +0000

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANNA_News

New comment by r721 in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

r721 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:44:39 +0000

Jimothy Easter Egg: https://www.google.com/search?q=jimothy (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024840)

New comment by r721 in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

r721 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:52:17 +0000

I think they meant "sockpuppet".

New comment by r721 in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

r721 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:40:21 +0000

Euronews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995033

CNBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49004096

This one got more upvoted for some reason though.

New comment by r721 in "Industrial Society and Its Future (Text of Unabomber Manifesto)"

r721 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:46:40 +0000

Also on washingtonpost.com:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...

New comment by r721 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

r721 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:00:01 +0000

I wonder how new Reddit users manage to post nowadays, given that many default subreddits have karma restrictions. You need esoteric knowledge, like knowing that /r/askreddit allows you to build initial karma via comments, to be able to do that.

New comment by r721 in "Back to Kagi"

r721 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:35:43 +0000

>Is this a thing now?

Here's a thread where it's being discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005747

New comment by r721 in "DeBasification a Fancy Word for Booting the US Out of the Middle East"

r721 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:50:03 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_C._Johnson

New comment by r721 in "Richard Medhurst mobile phone seized. Did using a secure phone protect his data?"

r721 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:31:33 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Medhurst

New comment by r721 in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

r721 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:25:38 +0000

Comment from dev in previous submission:

>This project is in early stages and the information is brought by wikipedia. The goal of this project is to make castle viewing a bit more fun.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861309

Iran's IRGC claims attack on Amazon's main data hub in Bahrain

r721 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:00:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/21/irans-irgc-claims-attack-on-amazons-main-data-hub-in-bahrain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995033

Points: 16

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