Hacker News: westmeal

New comment by westmeal in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

westmeal — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:16:58 +0000

I hope you're right but I think it won't be pretty in all cases. It's easy to forget the industrial revolution wasn't entirely positive for common people or for that matter the environment.

New comment by westmeal in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

westmeal — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:08:44 +0000

The closest stars are way too far to reach on any reasonable timescale. That's not even mentioning the fact that moving forwards is a vague goal. Moving forwards towards what exactly? And if the US government got off of it's ass to... Oh I don't know, maybe fix the bullshit healthcare system we have and help people with tax money instead of bombing people for Israel things would improve quite a bit in a very short time. That's assuming we don't bomb each other over terroritorial squabbles first. In any case I don't really understand your defeatism when it comes to inequality but when it's something as difficult as interstellar space travel you seem to be optimistic.

New comment by westmeal in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

westmeal — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:59:02 +0000

What about the workers that will be eventually replaced by said robots? You think they're just going to get free money to exist? Most likely they'll end up in the private prison system or in institutions while the corporations pocket all of the savings. Things are a lot more complicated than they seem I think...

New comment by westmeal in "A Nursing Home Owner Got a Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing"

westmeal — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:37:12 +0000

Ok IDF

New comment by westmeal in "Show HN: Termcraft – terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust"

westmeal — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:35:49 +0000

You really don't want to know. The results could be disastrous.

New comment by westmeal in "US national debt surges past $39 Trillion"

westmeal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:18:27 +0000

Guys this was sarcasm btw

New comment by westmeal in "US national debt surges past $39 Trillion"

westmeal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:30:36 +0000

In war you don't have immigrants lining up for FREE HAND OUTS etc etc

New comment by westmeal in "House Committee Passes Child "Safety" Bills That Push National Age Verification"

westmeal — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:07:27 +0000

Unfortunately no one gives a shit besides a lot of us.

New comment by westmeal in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

westmeal — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:53:46 +0000

When was America last invaded by a foreign adversary?

New comment by westmeal in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

westmeal — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:10:48 +0000

Which is used primarily for offense anyway

New comment by westmeal in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

westmeal — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:51:30 +0000

Dude so like, one time some guy did that and like the entire thing just blew up bro. Seriously knockered.

New comment by westmeal in "OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift"

westmeal — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:52:59 +0000

Do you have any suggestions?

New comment by westmeal in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

westmeal — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:31:09 +0000

76 is the worst

New comment by westmeal in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

westmeal — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:03:59 +0000

Protip for next time, cover the rad halfway with some cardboard and this will help a bit.

New comment by westmeal in "OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift"

westmeal — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:43:22 +0000

I'm not fine with it but when you have a bunch of people who listen to their Instagram feed what are you gonna do?

New comment by westmeal in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

westmeal — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:53:52 +0000

That's genuinely insane but you're entitled to your opinion.

New comment by westmeal in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

westmeal — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:38:37 +0000

How would you feel if an AI hallucinated and fired you from your job?

New comment by westmeal in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

westmeal — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:12:34 +0000

Lol I didn't even connect the dots together until this comment. For a dickhead rich memelord this one is at least somewhat clever.

New comment by westmeal in "Microsoft's AI Chief says we'll have intimate AI companions within 5 years"

westmeal — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:39:16 +0000

Megaman battle network was way ahead of itself. It even predicted that all of the IOT devices would be full of viruses!

New comment by westmeal in "UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning"

westmeal — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:20:32 +0000

They'd better make sure there are no conspicuously placed yellow vans a either, least they explode.