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The CTO of Barad-DûR: A Revisionist History of Mordor

wolfcola — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:19:00 +0000

Article URL: https://heyslick.substack.com/p/the-cto-of-barad-dur-revisionist-history-mordor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802127

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wolfcola in "AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks"

wolfcola — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:55:20 +0000

i guess tech workers should have unionized when they had the chance; too bad everyone thought they were too special.

New comment by wolfcola in "Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them"

wolfcola — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:51:01 +0000

one time i mentioned peter thiel and dang immediately responded scolding me for not engaging in constructive debate.

New comment by wolfcola in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

wolfcola — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:16:47 +0000

lol, lmao

New comment by wolfcola in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

wolfcola — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:08:56 +0000

What has been proven to increase bus speeds is bus-only lanes and congestion pricing. This article is some techno austerity slop.

New comment by wolfcola in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

wolfcola — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:07:48 +0000

does the author ride the bus as their primary (or secondary or tertiary) form of transit?

New comment by wolfcola in "Writing code is cheap now"

wolfcola — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:55:39 +0000

i’ve yet to see an agent that can take a figma design and produce high fidelity UI

New comment by wolfcola in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

wolfcola — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:19:05 +0000

apologies, comment withdrawn

New comment by wolfcola in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

wolfcola — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:16:01 +0000

because of a concerted effort to break labor power… you’re making my point.

New comment by wolfcola in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

wolfcola — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:49 +0000

Do you like working 8 hours a day instead of 12? 5 days a week instead of 7? You can thank organized labor.

New comment by wolfcola in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

wolfcola — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:52:16 +0000

edited: quote misattributed

New comment by wolfcola in "The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat"

wolfcola — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:23:44 +0000

Post 2022, tech CEOs decided that workers had too much power and needed to be brought down a peg, so they did layoffs and worked to get Trump elected to erode worker power even further. Just look at the leaked group chats with Andreesen.

New comment by wolfcola in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

wolfcola — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:21:50 +0000

And so the solution is… paying Anthropic $200/mo…

New comment by wolfcola in "Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter"

wolfcola — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:15:30 +0000

Except you blamed “entitlement spending” for the deficit, which the comment above clearly disproves.

New comment by wolfcola in "Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again"

wolfcola — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:42:43 +0000

I don’t think any silicon valley leaders believe themselves to be progressive at this point.

The Doge Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind

wolfcola — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:28:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/doge-elon-musk-succession-00641110

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46023813

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

The Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession

wolfcola — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:33:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-stakes-real-story-peter-thiels-antichrist-obsession/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532081

Points: 31

# Comments: 4

New comment by wolfcola in "Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students"

wolfcola — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 01:20:24 +0000

bad, ideologically-motivated idea when thiel did it, and bad, ideologically-motivated idea now

New comment by wolfcola in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

wolfcola — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:25:04 +0000

just a way to extract further concessions, rinse and repeat

New comment by wolfcola in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

wolfcola — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:31:26 +0000

Yeah, the supreme court will get right on that