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New comment by run414 in "GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher"

run414 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:29:56 +0000

To save everyone a click, the message, translated to English, is "AN ENGLISH CRUISER ARRIVED AT SEVASTOPOL ON THE ?4TH AN ALLIED SQUADRON FOLLOWS ON THE 26TH"

I was surprised to see that the message was sent on November 27, 1918. That's a few weeks after the war ended, and I won't have expected the German military to still be monitoring military activity in the Black Sea, given how far that is from Germany.

White House posts Wii Sports video mixed with Iran War footage

run414 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:34:29 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/2032115039985881556

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362625

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The DNC Ordered Workers Back to the Office. Its Union Isn't Pleased

run414 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:08:02 +0000

Article URL: https://atlanticinsider.com/journals/the-d-n-c-ordered-workers-back-to-the-office-its-union-isnt-pleased

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921928

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness Case

run414 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:35:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/us/politics/supreme-court-homelessness.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820994

Points: 30

# Comments: 27

New comment by run414 in "Google lays off its Python team"

run414 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:16:58 +0000

Just curious, have you ever lived or spent a significant amount of time in Nordics (or anywhere in Europe)? Generally speaking, I find that people who haven't lived outside the their birth-country often romanticize life in other countries.

I immigrated from the US to another country a while back, and it's not unusual for me to meet newcomers with unrealistic expectations about life in their new home. Often, they go back to their birth-country after a few years, disappointed with the mundane reality of living in a foreign country.

I'm not trying to say that your wrong, necessarily. For some people, life can be better in other countries, but I caution against unrealistic expectations.

New comment by run414 in "How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain"

run414 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 02:04:16 +0000

Didn't Germany have 3 dictatorships in the 20th century?

East Germany (ended in 1990), Third Reich (ended in 1945), German Monarchy (ended in 1918)

Eight countries join U.S. in pausing funding to UN aid agency in Gaza

run414 — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 07:28:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/unrwa-gaza-hamas-israel-attack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163303

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by run414 in "What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023"

run414 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:16:14 +0000

Yeah, the author's numbers are off by a "0". It should be "1,700,000" and "8,000,000".

Almost all ethnic Armenians have left Nagorno-Karabakh

run414 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:59:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/30/almost-all-ethnic-armenians-have-left-nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37720772

Points: 18

# Comments: 0

New comment by run414 in "Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement"

run414 — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 22:21:09 +0000

The union is less than a month old. It seems like a bad sign if it's already breaking away from its parent organization (CWA).

New comment by run414 in "Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement"

run414 — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 05:54:03 +0000

The union is less than a month old. It seems like a bad sign if it's already breaking away from its parent organization (CWA).

New comment by run414 in "Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data"

run414 — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 06:21:32 +0000

Sorry. I didn't mean to imply a moral judgement on the issue. I was just trying to provide an example that furthers the parent's point on Amazon being very protective of their data.

New comment by run414 in "Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data"

run414 — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 01:58:15 +0000

When I worked at Amazon, I personally knew someone who put in their two-weeks notice, and the next day they found out they were fired when their badge didn't work. From anecdotes I've heard, this happens if Amazon suspects a person is leaving to join a competitor. Amazon is very serious about protecting their data.

New comment by run414 in "Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers"

run414 — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 02:28:05 +0000

I don't understand how a union would function in the video game industry. I don't work at a video game company myself, but I have some friends that do. The typical life-cycle of a video game is:

- A small group of developers work on the core physics engine, graphics engine, and high-level game design.

- When the core game engine is sufficiently developed, the number of artists and game designs greatly increases to generate the art, sound, and level designs for the game.

- As the game reaches an alpha stage, the number of QA testers is dramatically increased.

- After the game is released, almost all of the QA and art people are let go, with a small number retained to work on DLC. A core group of software developers will be kept to be begin work on the next game, and the cycle repeats.

How does a union function when much of the workforce is only going to work for the company for less than 2 years? Many QA testers work for less than year.

New comment by run414 in "The Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar U.S. Fighter-Jet Program"

run414 — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:53:39 +0000

This is a not a new problem. There is a classic comedy scene of the Bradley fighting vehicle's problematic design process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

New comment by run414 in "San Francisco proposal would ban government facial recognition use in the city"

run414 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:05:00 +0000

Some of comments here are suggesting that facial recognition wouldn't be necessary if San Francisco would just fix the root cause of its crime problem.

There is a common pattern I've noticed in discussions about San Francisco. Person A: San Francisco should implement . Person B: That's just a bandaid over the problem. It's better to just fix .

Usually, the solution to requires large changes to our economic system or society that would take decades, if not lifetimes. I'm not opposed to such changes, but it seems naive to me to not do quality-of-life improvements because they would be unnecessary if our society was massively different.

If this is how the city is managed, it's no surprise that it's a mess.