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New comment by xhevahir in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

xhevahir — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:32:46 +0000

He may be a little guy but that doesn't mean that he's a fall guy. The Special Forces at Fort Bragg are a law unto themselves. I've just finished reading The Fort Bragg Cartel and the things some of those guys have been up to, and the leniency of both their commanding officers and the local civilian police toward them, are shocking. Drug smuggling, murder, theft of arms, coming back from deployment with tens of thousands of dollars taped to their persons...not to mention the war crimes.

New comment by xhevahir in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

xhevahir — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:28:59 +0000

When I first played the NES the pause feature impressed me even more than did the graphics. Apparently Atari already had the feature on the 5200 console, but even as late as 1988 it felt like magic to hit a button, go and eat dinner, and an hour later resume my game with another press of the button.

New comment by xhevahir in "Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty"

xhevahir — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:06:41 +0000

I've never been able to get into Calvino. Those works of his that I've read mostly felt like games and puzzles, sterile mental exercises, or inconsequential fantasy.

New comment by xhevahir in "A brief history of instant coffee"

xhevahir — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:25:41 +0000

In lots of Latin America instant is preferred. I don't remember but I think the historical explanation is that the whole beans were exported to wealthier markets, and the poorer consumers of coffee-growing regions had to settle for the cheaper product, which they eventually came to prefer.

New comment by xhevahir in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

xhevahir — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:54:18 +0000

Odd timing...Everything I've read about Claude the last several days suggests that its users are disappointed, even furious at what's happened to its performance.

New comment by xhevahir in "Yggdrasil Network"

xhevahir — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:01:41 +0000

All of Western history comes from the Nordic countries? News to me.

Prism: Demystifying Retention and Interaction in Mid-Training

xhevahir — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:56:38 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17074

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475368

Points: 1

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New comment by xhevahir in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

xhevahir — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:56:31 +0000

It's petitio principii, or begging the question, if I'm not mistaken.

New comment by xhevahir in "Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)"

xhevahir — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:00:32 +0000

A lot of those Soviet guitars didn't have truss rods. Maybe none of them did. Some of them look cool but the quality is terrible.

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

xhevahir — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:47:12 +0000

Your attitude is Panglossian, and even your concession that these changes are "going to impact the job market quite a bit" massively underestimates the danger we could be facing. As opposed to what happened in any previous era, we're talking about the replacement of workers across practically all white-collar career fields, all happening over the course of a few years. There will be nowhere for these workers to go but down, into low-paid and precarious service work—assuming they can still find work even in these industries, which will have become more crowded with workers of all sorts; the skilled trades are likely to face a frightful race to the bottom as well. How many years of such creative destruction do you think our economic and political systems can weather before something truly disastrous happens?

New comment by xhevahir in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

xhevahir — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:22:52 +0000

I think the author would say that the developer who is without soft skills won't merely be prevented from gaining desirable work. They'll be unable to keep a job, period.

New comment by xhevahir in "Training my smartwatch to track intelligence"

xhevahir — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:27:28 +0000

I don't wear one anymore, but I used to put in on an ankle overnight. I would wear a sock on that foot so that I didn't tear it off with my other foot during sleep.

New comment by xhevahir in "Find a pub that needs you"

xhevahir — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:19:37 +0000

What's especially American about this remark isn't the experience of consuming alcohol in public. What is characteristically American, I think, is the assumption that we can pronounce a thing good or bad merely on the basis of its effect on the individual, with no regard for one's relationships with other people. Drinking in a pub is a social activity, and the alcohol is a lubricant for that activity. Yes, doing too much of it can cause great harm; doing any amount of it could cause some harm; it does not follow that the thing is a net detriment to society, and that it should be banned.

New comment by xhevahir in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

xhevahir — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:42:03 +0000

Wasn't the Sidekick the phone in the Paris Hilton hack? Man, that was a long time ago.

New comment by xhevahir in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

xhevahir — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:03:12 +0000

Pretty much every major historical trend of Western societies in the second half of the eighteenth century, from the development of the modern corporation to the advent of total war, was intimately tied to railroad transportation.

New comment by xhevahir in "My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)"

xhevahir — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:28:35 +0000

I doubt any major publications are choosing the year's best Japanese learning tool for iOS.

Toward Training Superintelligent Software Agents Through Self-Play SWE-RL (Meta)

xhevahir — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 04:21:41 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18552

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389205

Points: 1

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New comment by xhevahir in "X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents"

xhevahir — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:40:51 +0000

> as surely people tasked with redacting a bunch of files receive some instructions on what to do/not to do?

You've phrased this as a question; I gather that you know better than to assume a modicum of competence from these people.

New comment by xhevahir in "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"

xhevahir — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:58:17 +0000

> Just hover to get translation

Translating everything into your native language is pretty universally considered a very bad habit in language pedagogy.

Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road

xhevahir — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:04:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologists-may-have-found-the-lost-city-of-the-silk-road-180987637/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959461

Points: 11

# Comments: 0