Hacker News: slantedview

New comment by slantedview in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

slantedview — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:53:09 +0000

No country can survive this level of waste and stupidity. Not even the US.

New comment by slantedview in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

slantedview — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:21:32 +0000

Keep in mind, Carmack heads an AI company now. His opinion should be viewed with that context.

New comment by slantedview in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

slantedview — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:55:14 +0000

This is absolutely backwards.

New comment by slantedview in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

slantedview — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:21:24 +0000

Let's not imply the world changed on its own. Trump changed it.

New comment by slantedview in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

slantedview — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:47:02 +0000

"or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads"

Right, because Node is the only package ecosystem.

New comment by slantedview in "Layoffs at Block"

slantedview — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:25:30 +0000

"owning" the decision doesn't mean anything. It's just words.

New comment by slantedview in "Layoffs at Block"

slantedview — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:19:48 +0000

The CEO's last visionary move was to go all in on crypto, even renaming the company. Now he's a visionary again, but firing half the company instead of himself.

New comment by slantedview in "Go 1.26 Interactive Tour"

slantedview — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:46:25 +0000

The recursive type constraints are excellent.

New comment by slantedview in "Are You YES AI or No AI?"

slantedview — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:53:35 +0000

The snap judgement is what makes it fun.

New comment by slantedview in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

slantedview — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:27:19 +0000

As always, she's preferred because she intends to welcome US oil companies. Winning a prize is a red herring.

New comment by slantedview in "PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract"

slantedview — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 03:16:10 +0000

It's no coincidence that at a time of eroding democracy, public journalism is being cut.

New comment by slantedview in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

slantedview — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:31:52 +0000

My understanding with SSRIs and other depression meds is that they are hit and miss for anyone. I have a family member who, as a teen, suffered from severe depression and didn't want to live. Therapy wasn't able to help - it was actually the therapist who recommended more drastic measures such as medication. And so they tried Prozac and that worked. Having seen the reversal myself, it's hard to understand how this is placebo.

New comment by slantedview in "Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting"

slantedview — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:23:32 +0000

As corporate media demonstrates, depending on ads and therefore, corporations, inevitably leads to compromises in your news coverage. NPR has tried to avoid this.

New comment by slantedview in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

slantedview — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:41:11 +0000

Last week a UN human rights commission found that Israel is carrying out a genocide. I think you're right that the winds have changed and now companies will shift their positions.

New comment by slantedview in "Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators"

slantedview — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:20:39 +0000

Profiting off of care provided to vulnerable or disabled people is, I'm going to say it, immoral. We should not be allowing this - for the simple fact that chasing profit inevitably means cutting the quality of care.

New comment by slantedview in "Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report"

slantedview — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:03:02 +0000

This is timely, coming the same week that Israel assassinated a prominent group of Al Jazeera journalists because they claimed one of them was Hamas.

New comment by slantedview in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

slantedview — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:39:53 +0000

Pro birth, not pro life.

New comment by slantedview in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

slantedview — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:20:40 +0000

Is it a coincidence that this was reported on the same day it was also reported that the FBI was storing the Epstein files on a Sharepoint server [1]?

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstein-cover-up-at-th...

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

slantedview — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:35:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-had-nearly-3-minutes-cut-out/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577056

Points: 28

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New comment by slantedview in "Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department"

slantedview — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:40:04 +0000

> Should government contracts not be granted on the merits of the receivers?

The merits? We just had, in the last _week_, a huge scaldal where Grok was spewing racist, pro hitler content, even calling itself MechaHitler.