Hacker News: wunderland

New comment by wunderland in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

wunderland — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:40:56 +0000

The scale of these terrorist attacks seems to be lost by some in the comments here.

Here’s a documentary showing the extent, including all of the undeniable civilians that were injured or killed: https://youtu.be/2mqqDTIs4vE

OpenAI calls on U.S. Government to let it freely use copyrighted material

wunderland — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:38:19 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-proposals-for-the-us-ai-action-plan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360653

Points: 40

# Comments: 5

New comment by wunderland in "President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden"

wunderland — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 01:19:49 +0000

What "lawfare"? How was Hunter unfairly targeted here?

New comment by wunderland in "macOS Sequoia is available today"

wunderland — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:37:21 +0000

iPhone Mirroring is insanely well-implemented and it's a testament to what only Apple can do. Seamless integration of their products and every just works as you expect.

Proton Pass Launches for macOS and Linux

wunderland — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:31:23 +0000

Article URL: https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-all-devices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40595776

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by wunderland in "AI regulations are crony capitalism"

wunderland — Sun, 19 May 2024 18:55:28 +0000

In a democracy, the government having this power ostensibly means the people have this power. If the corporations have power beyond the reach of the government, then it's not really a democracy.

New comment by wunderland in "Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again'"

wunderland — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:51:21 +0000

I know lots of googlers-- many hadn't heard about this as well.

I also think many googlers are opposed to Google's military contracts with Israel, but likely don't know this is happening.

New comment by wunderland in "Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again'"

wunderland — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:37:44 +0000

Wow. I left my parent comment 2 minutes ago and this thread has already been removed from the front page.

Story has 46 points and is 29 minutes old at the time I'm writing this comment.

Are we not allowed to discuss the actions of one of the largest tech companies?

New comment by wunderland in "Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again'"

wunderland — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:31:50 +0000

This happened two days ago, but I didn't hear anything about it until today. I am a heavy HN user. Why wasn't this on the front page?

Edit: it appears that every post about Israel is getting flagged (often after receiving tons of upvotes and often hundreds of comments): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

where is this censorship coming from? @dang?

New comment by wunderland in "Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals"

wunderland — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:15:32 +0000

A guy posted a video of his accelerator pedal getting stuck in the fully down position to all of the relevant subreddits (r/tesla, etc) and was banned from posting in all of them.

https://twitter.com/elaifresh/status/1779600432085819708?s=4...

These forums are all moderated by Tesla, or is it Elon fanboys who refuse to accept any criticism?

New comment by wunderland in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

wunderland — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:30:21 +0000

This is quite an outlandish take. The safety of the aviation industry is by and large directly due to strict safety regulations, many of which Boeing pioneered before being taken over and financialized into the mess it is today.

New entrants in this industry need a ton of capital, made only worse by the monopoly suppliers in every single airframe sector. If anything, there needs to be more regulation to breakup these behemoths (or, prevent mergers like McDonnell Douglas and Boeing) in the first place.

New comment by wunderland in "The NYC's MTA 20 year needs assessment reminds us they can't build"

wunderland — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:54:38 +0000

The US cares about none of those things and still pays insanely high prices for bad infrastructure. The US cares about businesses, and building good public utilities is fundamentally at odds with a for-profit model.

New comment by wunderland in "The NYC's MTA 20 year needs assessment reminds us they can't build"

wunderland — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:50:12 +0000

It’s sad but the US peaked sometime in the last 30-40 years. NY is the only semi-functioning metro system in the whole country and it will likely crumble in the next few decades unless something on the order of the New Deal is enacted.

New comment by wunderland in "Pixel 8 Pro"

wunderland — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:45:14 +0000

If you’re really set on Android, I would buy a year old phone (so probably a “Pixel 7 Pro” if that’s a thing? Not sure when Google last changed their naming scheme).

A year old iPhone goes for maybe €100-200 less than the new model, but last year’s Android phone is now basically half price.

Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous

wunderland — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:24:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/technology/microsoft-ceo-testifies-google-search.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37743931

Points: 204

# Comments: 227

New comment by wunderland in "Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency"

wunderland — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:29:48 +0000

Who is downvoting this? It’s objectively true

New comment by wunderland in "Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist"

wunderland — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:08:58 +0000

US has been responsible for similar and worse at a much larger scale, even just in my lifetime. All war is a crime, and the US is always at war.

New comment by wunderland in "Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist"

wunderland — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 21:23:09 +0000

Maybe this is because you are ignorant to the extent of American war crimes?

New comment by wunderland in "Amazon PillPack – Your medication, sorted and delivered"

wunderland — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 05:23:01 +0000

This packaging seems incredibly wasteful

New comment by wunderland in "Solar and batteries are going to win, and our thinking needs to adjust"

wunderland — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:04:15 +0000

Batteries and solar panels will not save us from an economic system that requires over-production and over-consumption.