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New comment by theonething in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

theonething — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:45:15 +0000

Slava Ukraini!

New comment by theonething in "Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge"

theonething — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:51:56 +0000

Stop washing your hands and showering and see how that goes. I'm not advocating for fab level cleanliness, just a certain level of it.

New comment by theonething in "Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge"

theonething — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:46:52 +0000

tangential, but I don't understand why keeping your shoes on in your house is a thing. It's so unsanitary. The bottom of your shoes are in contact with things like the floor of public bathrooms, animal feces (when walking on grass), dirt, mud, etc.

And it's so much more comfortable to be in your house barefoot, with socks or with slippers.

So much cleaner. I'm disgusted when people try to walk in my house with their shoes on.

New comment by theonething in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"

theonething — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:40:36 +0000

+1!

New comment by theonething in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

theonething — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:46:44 +0000

Don't forget the specialty resume paper.

New comment by theonething in "A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all"

theonething — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:28:57 +0000

for existing codebases, isn't doing /init in the project root good enough? I just like to keep things simple.

New comment by theonething in "Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie"

theonething — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:20:23 +0000

My experience as well and this was at public school. I really thought that was the only way to write a good essay.

New comment by theonething in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

theonething — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:04:41 +0000

I'd even argue LLMs can speed up this iterative process.

New comment by theonething in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

theonething — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:13:30 +0000

> Iran has been respecting that principle for decades

May 2022: two Greek Tankers seized by IRGC commandos

2023: Tankers Advnatage Sweet and Niovi seized by IRGC commandos

Jan 2024: St. Nikolas seized by Iranian Navy

Apr 2024: MSC Aries seized by IRGC commandos

During the Tanker War 1981 - 1988: Iran was responsible for approximately 168 attacks on merchant ships

July 1987: Kuwait tanker MV Bridgeton struck by Iranian mine April

1988: USS SAmuel B. Roberts nearly sunk by Iranian mine.

2019 Limpet Mine Attacks

July 2021: Iranian drone strike on MT Mercer Street

Nov 2022: Pacific Zircon struck by Iranian drone

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:08:52 +0000

> Israelis can either learn to live like human beings in peace

Again, the Jews agreed to the two state solution outline by the UN in 1947. It was the Arabs who rejected it. It is the Arabs who need to learn to live in peace.

The two state solution is the fairest solution because historically, both Arabs and Jews were in the land. In fact, if you go back far enough, Arabs and Jews share the same ancestry. The Jews were not "invaders"

New comment by theonething in "The beginning of programming as we'll know it?"

theonething — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:32:21 +0000

> I'll lose understanding of the code, because I didn't write it.

What about code that other (human) engineers write? Do you not understand that code too because you didn't write it?

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:34:14 +0000

What a dumb argument.

New comment by theonething in "I quit. The clankers won"

theonething — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:58:25 +0000

> But the traffic will be there regardless

Isn't the point to use the GPS to avoid the traffic? In my experience, it's pretty effective a lot of times for that.

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:44:04 +0000

huh, no response to this point donkeybeer?

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:41:49 +0000

The problem with your logic (or lack thereof) is Hamas attacked first and Israel responded. And if Israel really wanted to "genocide" the Palestinians, they could have easily bombed the whole place to hell. But they didn't. They warned civilians beforehand and directed them to southern areas where they wouldn't be bombed.

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:38:19 +0000

No. So far you've just supplied an article about some bad IDF reservists who beat a Palestinian prisoner. If they did that, they should be punished. But the article says the trial couldn't continue because the alleged victim was released to Gaza and therefore could not stand trial against the accused.

You haven't shown me any evidence to your assertion that Israeli's cheer for rapist, not even close.

But we do know 75% of Palestinians support the murder, rape and kidnapping of young people enjoying a music festival and the killing of children with their families in their homes. So any sane government must take steps so it doesn't happen again.

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:29:41 +0000

Israel has a righ to defend itself against people who support the invasion, murder, rape and kidnapping of its citizens.

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:27:51 +0000

Your original assertion was Jews "started this shit". They didn't. Arabs did.

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:12:54 +0000

Whether the government is far right or not depends on who you ask. However you want to label Israel, it has a right to defend itself against people who want to invade Israeli territory and kill, rape and kidnap its citizens.

New comment by theonething in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

theonething — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:02:44 +0000

> Hamas killed a few Israelis

1200 is not a few. They also raped, tortured, kidnapped Israeli civilians including children.

The words you use to downplay this atrocity shows me what kind of person you are.