Hacker News: wozer

New comment by wozer in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

wozer — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:17:45 +0000

A country that elected Trump twice in spite of his obvious character flaws.

Also using the term "virtue signal" marks you as an idiot.

New comment by wozer in "US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover"

wozer — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:02:32 +0000

The Danish government takes the threat seriously:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o

New comment by wozer in "US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat"

wozer — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:53:43 +0000

The US doesn't have any partners anymore, except for some small countries like Hungary and Israel.

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

wozer — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:33:40 +0000

What if those were exactly his goals?

New comment by wozer in "Grok Code Fast 1"

wozer — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:26:58 +0000

Calling the Nazis socialist is insidious and ahistorical.

The Nazis murdered any socialists they could get their hands on.

New comment by wozer in "Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)"

wozer — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:44:27 +0000

> He's connected with liberation theology, which is what the KGB was promoting in Catholic countries to recruit for militant groups. [...] I think the Soviets actually claim to have invented liberation theology, but who knows.

Any reputable sources for these claims? Sounds like American Cold War propaganda.

New comment by wozer in "Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)"

wozer — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:12:55 +0000

"The Congress" (2013) probably?

New comment by wozer in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

wozer — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:25:51 +0000

Might cause a global recession, though. And that might be less funny.

New comment by wozer in "Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope"

wozer — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:25:36 +0000

> Migraine can even drive full-blown visual hallucinations similar to the ‘reflections of the living light’ painted by Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century abbess who was thought to have experienced a condition that is now called migraine with aura.

I don't think the aura effects are usually considered hallucinations?

I get mild migraines sometimes, with hardly noticeable headache, but with aura. In a way, it's pretty cool. You can directly perceive the abnormal brain activity and how it develops in real time. (I get the classic zigzag lines wandering across the field of vision.)

New comment by wozer in "Why Is Elon Musk Invited to Speak at AI Startup School?"

wozer — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:40:30 +0000

Y Combinator is mostly ideologically aligned with Musk and the Trump administration. If you don't believe me, look through the tweets of Garry Tan, for example.

New comment by wozer in "Elon Musk's DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts"

wozer — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:46:35 +0000

Probably "Grok", trained on typical Twitter content.

New comment by wozer in "X deleted all posts of the Magdeburg attacker's support for Musk and far right"

wozer — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:03:22 +0000

And many people in tech still refuse to see Musk's true character, using motivated reasoning to convince themselves that he's not like Trump.

New comment by wozer in "NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown"

wozer — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:40:06 +0000

Reminds me of the Apple TV show "Constellation".

New comment by wozer in "Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees"

wozer — Sat, 25 May 2024 12:17:12 +0000

Really? I never thought of pg as naive.

New comment by wozer in "Drug offers 'breakthrough' in treatment of asbestos-linked cancer"

wozer — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:38:22 +0000

It may not be much, but it's an improvement that hasn't been seen for this type of cancer in a long time.

But the headline is indeed quite misleading.

New comment by wozer in "Niklaus Wirth has died"

wozer — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:57:43 +0000

No better source yet, I think.

But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.

New comment by wozer in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

wozer — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:44:28 +0000

If they really build AGI (I doubt it), the AGI might be able to bring Microsoft under its control. This could be bad news for a lot of businesses.

New comment by wozer in "Tell HN: Reddit Removes Multiple Moderator Teams of Large Subreddits"

wozer — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:59:44 +0000

They could have.

But by now they have probably irrecoverably destroyed their relationship to the existing community. Maybe they can build a new community.

New comment by wozer in "Tarkovsky's films online for free"

wozer — Sun, 28 May 2023 08:57:02 +0000

It was filmed in Tokyo, but is possibly supposed to depict a futuristic Moscow.

New comment by wozer in "Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, AI and their impact on humanity"

wozer — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:56:03 +0000

I think his answer is driven by a preference for the status quo and a reluctance to face difficult changes.

ChatGPT, and especially GPT-4, seem to do much more than just play games with words. You can’t overlook the “emergent” phenomena that manifest themselves when using them.