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New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours"

xyzzy9563 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:34:09 +0000

the school was an Iranian missile: https://x.com/angertab/status/2031005762395504647?s=20

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

xyzzy9563 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:20:01 +0000

I'm guessing you haven't considered evolutionary psychology? If we didn't yearn for other people, there would be a lot less reproduction, and the human species would die.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours"

xyzzy9563 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:34:44 +0000

They didn't intentionally try to attack a school, and also they gave the crew of the ship a chance to evacuate.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "GPT-5.4"

xyzzy9563 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:13:14 +0000

Do you think the US military should have handicapped technology while China gets unrestricted LLM usage from their models?

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

xyzzy9563 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:11:04 +0000

What about paying your mortgage, food, utilities etc.? Or is that all supposed to come from savings or inheritance?

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

xyzzy9563 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:07:14 +0000

>Energy drain because of JVM agent change

So funny, he essentially works for free for 10 years, then finally burns out because he doesn't want to put up with a bunch of annoying work? This is why you shouldn't work on open source unless you have a business strategy to get paid. Tons of stuff in life is 100x more annoying and exhausting if you aren't making any money. If he was making $1 million per year from this I doubt his energy would be drained.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Does the market return 10% on average?"

xyzzy9563 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:33:37 +0000

It's about 10% nominal, 7% after inflation, if you count dividend reinvestment.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

xyzzy9563 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:39:58 +0000

It gives really good caching functionality so you can have large amounts of traffic and your site can easily handle it. Plus they don't charge for egress traffic.

Service Degradation – Agent Chat

xyzzy9563 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:56:00 +0000

Article URL: https://status.cursor.com/incidents/qpkksd1kmq3h

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45675038

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "How to Run WordPress completely from RAM"

xyzzy9563 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:18:35 +0000

Why not just use a reverse proxy that caches pages into RAM, or use Cloudflare or such?

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do"

xyzzy9563 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:31:28 +0000

Well think of this: if you knew there was $100 million in a dufflebag of gold at the bottom of a pond, would you learn how to put on scuba gear and retrieve it?

Perhaps you don't have compelling enough reasons to do things.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do"

xyzzy9563 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:29:25 +0000

The way that works best for me is a 2-step approach:

1. Think about the ultimate goal and why you want to do it. If there isn't a compelling reason, there is no reason to do it, especially if there is short-term pain or annoyance.

2. Take at least one small action towards it per day. This often puts you in the mindset to do more things.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

xyzzy9563 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:23:51 +0000

Do you know of any societies in the world that have a high quality of life but don’t have wealthy shareholders?

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

xyzzy9563 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:20:21 +0000

Everyone is free to make their own search engine. The consumers choose Google time and time again.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

xyzzy9563 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:07:08 +0000

Why should shareholders have to suffer just because the Google engineers were good at their job?

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

xyzzy9563 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:56:25 +0000

Do you think it's better if all companies with competitive moats have a collapse in share price? I'm not really understanding what you're implying here.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Code Is Debt"

xyzzy9563 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:07:46 +0000

Code is an asset of different levels of quality and importance.

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "Dating Men in the Bay Area"

xyzzy9563 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:16:09 +0000

Just find someone you usually enjoy being around and can ultimately start a family with, and who would be loyal. Too many people are over-thinking this stuff.

Instagram account disabled for "impersonation", any advice?

xyzzy9563 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:57:31 +0000

My Instagram account was disabled for alleged impersonation but I didn't do anything wrong, and my appeal failed as well. I filed appeal with taking the video of my face but it got denied after a few hours and won't let me re-appeal and says all my data will be deleted. My account is several years old. I was posting on Threads a lot and I suspect some random person reported me for impersonation (even though I am just representing myself). Anyone have advice?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44899352

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

New comment by xyzzy9563 in "JavaScript decided my day starts at 9am"

xyzzy9563 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:25:57 +0000

If you always store dates as unix seconds and display them as local time on the browser, you'll almost never go wrong. Most other strategies leave too much room for ambiguity.