Hacker News: tomohawk

Usaid Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty

tomohawk — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:17:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/usaid-official-and-three-corporate-executives-plead-guilty-decade-long-bribery-scheme

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276280

Points: 2

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Russian Strategic Bombers Destroyed in Unprecedented Wide-Scale Drone Attack

tomohawk — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 21:00:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.twz.com/news-features/russian-strategic-bombers-destroyed-in-unprecedented-wide-scale-drone-attack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153728

Points: 28

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New comment by tomohawk in "US conservatives far more skeptical of science than previously thought"

tomohawk — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:26:49 +0000

Being skeptical of "science" authorities is not the same thing as being skeptical of science.

China Turned Off the Tap on the Mekong River

tomohawk — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:17:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stimson.org/2020/new-evidence-how-china-turned-off-the-mekong-tap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672602

Points: 1

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New comment by tomohawk in "A university president makes a case against cowardice"

tomohawk — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:32:26 +0000

This is rich. The Universities that caved to student activists engaged in antisemitism and other egregious activities should now fight for their rights to be cowards? Or the Universities that engaged in racist DEI programs are now going to stand on principal?

Give me a break.

Secret Service, Navy Tested Anti-Drone Tech Causing False Collision Alarms

tomohawk — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:12:01 +0000

Article URL: https://gcaptain.com/secret-service-navy-counter-drone-technology-testing-led-to-faulty-cockpit-alerts-officials-say/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498236

Points: 2

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New comment by tomohawk in "Ask HN: Would you fund Mozilla to become independent of Google?"

tomohawk — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:04:08 +0000

Not at all. Mozilla is now controlled by hyper partisan political operatives. There should be zero intersection between partisan politics and my web browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubtWZwtJCdw

New comment by tomohawk in "Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms"

tomohawk — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:51:27 +0000

In the mid 90s, I recall talking to some of the people working on the current scheme to modernize ATC. This was the 3rd or 4th attempt, and billions had already been spent.

Since then, there have been many efforts and many more billions spent. I'm sure all of these efforts went through the proper channels, etc, but all that has shown is that (a) FAA has no clue how to manage these contracts, and (b) the normal way of doing this absolutely doesn't work.

In contrast, this is how civil infrastructure used to get done in the US:

https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/antique-machines-yo...

Elon seems to be the only person really performing at this level anymore in this space.

FBI whistleblower discloses agents infiltrated Trump's campaign a decade ago

tomohawk — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:57:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/26/new-fbi-whistleblower-disclosures-reveal-agent-infiltrated-trumps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43193959

Points: 13

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New comment by tomohawk in "Trump Targets $128B California High-Speed Rail Project"

tomohawk — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:11:40 +0000

For political reasons, but that's the least expensive and least technically risky portion. The portion back into LA and the portion back into SF are going to make the prices they're paying for this easy section pale in comparison.

They're hoping the sunk cost fallacy will get them the money they will need on the hard parts.

U.S. evangelical ministry offers programs to improve prison systems worldwide

tomohawk — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:35:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/20/prison-fellowship-ministries-evangelical-ministry-aims-improve-prison-/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149975

Points: 2

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New comment by tomohawk in "One year after switching from Java to Go"

tomohawk — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:23:02 +0000

Having done a lot of Java and Go, Go has much better mechanical sympathy between the language, libraries, and vm than Java does. The JIT GC in Java are marvels of engineering, but they have to be.

As an example, in Java, everything is a pointer, so pointer chasing all the time, which is not good for cpu cache, etc. In Go, there is first class support for composition.

The other main adjustment, if coming from Java, is reduced cognitive overhead. It usually only takes a week or two for an experienced Java dev to be reasonably effective in Go, but it takes a few months to break the mental habits of overthinking everything.

Removing Federal Judges Without Impeachment

tomohawk — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:51:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/removing-federal-judges-without-impeachment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083642

Points: 3

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Whistleblowers Testify About Weaponized FBI

tomohawk — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:47:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/02/13/a_weaponized_fbi_its_real_testify_whistleblowers_boasting_scars_to_prove_it_1091034.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053438

Points: 2

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Four FEMA Employoees Fired for Unauthorized Spending of $59M

tomohawk — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-fires-four-after-alleged-payments-new-york-city-hotels-migrants-2025-02-11/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43019634

Points: 10

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How USAID and Its $50B Budget Became a Target for Reform

tomohawk — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:56:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-usaid-and-its-50-billion-budget-became-a-target-for-reform-5803984

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981850

Points: 2

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New comment by tomohawk in "NSA employees offered deferred resignation, early retirement"

tomohawk — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:14:25 +0000

After the Vietnam war, in the 1970s, there was a big RIF (reduction in force) at places like the NSA.

These agencies have not had a reduction since then and are oversized and wrongly sized.

The same issue faced the US Army prior to WWII. Roosevelt's solution was to find a young general (he found Marshal) and have him get rid of the dead wood because it was expected we'd be in a war in a couple of years.

Marshal created the "plucking commission" and got rid of a lot of dead wood. This put the US in a much better position to fight a war.

Politico Propped Up by Millions of Dollars from US Government

tomohawk — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:08:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politico-ny-times-propped-millions-dollars-us-government

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42954380

Points: 8

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New comment by tomohawk in "Zelenskyy: Ukraine only received $76B out of $177B approved by America"

tomohawk — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:43:48 +0000

The context of this was that Zelensky was being asked about corruption in Ukraine, and he was hinting that maybe USAID and State Dept might also have a problem.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-received-less-half-us-083...

Zelenskyy: Ukraine only received $76B out of $177B approved by America

tomohawk — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:39:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/zelenskyy-ukraine-received-us-76-billion-out-of-us-177-billion-approved-by-america/ar-AA1yhWvS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42924331

Points: 14

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