Hacker News: ukblewis

New comment by ukblewis in "Warp is now open-source"

ukblewis — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:54:51 +0000

This should be banned on this platform. If you are against Altman or his values or morals, that is fine, but calling others who do feel aligned with him immoral… well that kind of hate leads to attempts on Altman’s life of which we have already seen one. You better stop with this behaviour before you encourage others to do actions that you will regret

Iran internet blackout now longest nation-scale shutdown on record

ukblewis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:11:05 +0000

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116350984373909468

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650859

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

It is now day 34 of Iran's Internet blackout

ukblewis — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:12:11 +0000

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116333973783282768

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613365

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ukblewis in "Iran internet offline for 25 days and"

ukblewis — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:24:22 +0000

The evil Islamic regime has kept 90 million Iranians offline for more than 25 days now

Iran internet offline for 25 days and

ukblewis — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:24:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/2036343014277165512

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502235

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users

ukblewis — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:47:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603157402

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387353

Points: 43

# Comments: 18

300 Hours into the Iran Internet Blackout

ukblewis — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:29:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVzxEXtjbt9/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382439

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ukblewis in "Trump: U.S. hit military sites on Iranian Kharg island"

ukblewis — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:46:32 +0000

The Iranians may lose the capability to export oil by losing their island which is main port of export for Iranian oil

Trump: U.S. hit military sites on Iranian Kharg island

ukblewis — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:46:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603137666

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371566

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by ukblewis in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

ukblewis — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:58:39 +0000

Not sure how this got flagged. It is clearly pertinent and accurate… I’m starting to doubt that this platform really enables objective discussion

New comment by ukblewis in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

ukblewis — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:57:41 +0000

I wouldn’t say that Trump cares about Ukraine or is moral… but to call him a Russian asset while he has chosen to go on all out war with one of Putin’s allies (the Islamic regime of Iran)… that just doesn’t make sense

New comment by ukblewis in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

ukblewis — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:55:58 +0000

You clearly haven’t seen their militaries… the U.S. developed a bunker buster bomb that they didn’t need for anywhere else just to target the Iranian nuclear programme, which is what was used last June and it is believed that Israel hacked the Tehran traffic camera network… I would say this looks like preparation. As an Israeli too, I can tell you that the only thing that the military establishment was developing for in the last couple decades has been Iran… it is why Israel wasn’t prepared for the October 7th attacks from Iran and why in contrast the beeper attacks on Hezbollah (the Shia Iranian-run proxy in Lebanon) were so successful. But just discount the worlds largest and most successful military in history and the 7th largest military exporter… it is good for us when you underestimate us

New comment by ukblewis in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

ukblewis — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:51:51 +0000

I’m honestly shocked by the support for the Islamic regime of Iran (I refuse to call it Iran since it and the IRGC and the Basij does not represent the Iranian people who showed us this January in their millions that they don’t support it) on this platform. Honestly, any sick human being who supports them, well they are either deeply ignorant or deeply evil and inhumane. I am awaiting the response comments from tens of Iranian bots and hundreds of idiots who ignored the Iranians demanding help in this January

New comment by ukblewis in "U.S. Navy Turns Down Hormuz Escort Requests Because of High Risk"

ukblewis — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:46:45 +0000

Not necessarily: Money isn’t everything. Russia cannot produce electronics on its own, so only because American companies sell to shell companies that sell to Russia is Russia able to launch missiles and similar high tech weapons on Ukraine and, no, Russia has no chance in hell of winning in Ukraine with the so called (sadly but truly deeply dehumanising) “meat wave” attacks sending in soldiers with little training and just a riffle… So really oil revenues are a way to hurt Russia but not a way to cause them to lose the war, but depriving them of American technology that they need to develop the kinds of weapons that they use to attack Ukrainian cities and power stations and infrastructure probably would

New comment by ukblewis in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

ukblewis — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:40:36 +0000

This is such BS… Google also bought YouTube for a bargain price early on… and that is far from the only successful purchase that Google has had

New comment by ukblewis in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

ukblewis — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:07:40 +0000

I wonder if instead of shaking their fist at the sky in anger with billionaires, we could run influence campaigns to:

Collect enough money to run marketing campaigns for billionaires to give more money to charity. (I don’t super trust politicians to tax them more and I am not sure that taxing them would even be effective given that there are always tax havens and loopholes, but persuasion should be possible, not extraordinarily expensive and have a high cost-benefit IMHO)

New comment by ukblewis in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

ukblewis — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:26:53 +0000

That is utter BS. If you stop negotiating in order to attack, then you are giving the enemy the advantage of knowing exactly when you will attack. This is one of the most incompetent takes I have ever heard - so much that I have to wonder if you are an Iranian agent

New comment by ukblewis in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

ukblewis — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:26:11 +0000

This is utter BS. You’re entitled not agree with a company… but using Hacker News to shout that at the world. Just shitty behaviour

New comment by ukblewis in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

ukblewis — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:55:22 +0000

AFAIK, the U.S. government is fully entitled to serve them under the U.S. Department of War’s terms as per the Defense Production Act. The government has yet to do this, but a company acting in a way that the Department of War perceives as benefiting enemy states could certainly be a justification for declaring a supply chain risk. Anthropic’s decision timing as the U.S. has launched a war in the Middle East to save millions of Iranian lives (tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iranians have already been killed by the Islamic Regime) definitely seems to be unjustifiable and the U.S. Department of War (so weird for me to type that instead of DOD) was smart, in my opinion, not to force Anthropic to work with them but to drop all work with them and move to providers who will meet the military’s needs while at war.

(Just in case anyone was wondering, I live in Israel)

New comment by ukblewis in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

ukblewis — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:44:34 +0000

Thank you Sam Altman for being a man with a good sense of ethics and empowering the US Military while it fights evil in Iran and empowering the US government and ignoring the idiotic haters