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almogo commented on Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor) github.com/denisepattenso... · Posted by u/denisepattenson

saxonww · a month ago

This looks like another AI project. The HN user is new, the GitHub user is 4 days old, and all the content in the GitHub repo is authored by someone else. There's a blog repo with one commit containing 29 pre-written posts. A third repo 'nexusai-landing' is the only repo where 'denisepattenson' has committed anything.

almogo · a month ago

Yeah, I second this. Like other comments have mentioned, you'd expect a human to add a video to such a post. I wonder what urged this robot to post this to HN.

almogo commented on Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push cnbc.com/2026/01/28/amazo... · Posted by u/bluedino

almogo · 2 months ago

Was going to post this too:

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/01/28/tech/amazon-layoffs-ai

almogo commented on Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials time.com/7357635/more-tha... · Posted by u/mhb

Bender · 2 months ago

I guess this will be a difficult question to ask. I have no doubt the numbers are high but there is something odd about the videos that leak out. The sound of the guns are enhanced for psychological effect? and in the cases where a gunner on a truck is moving down a road purportedly mowing people down there is no blood on the road where the protestors had been standing, no bodies and we never see the people being shot. It's not like I want to see people being shot but I've also seen a lot of fake mass shooting videos in the past decade. There's no shortage of real uncensored footage of killing in Ukraine. Why is everything censored for Iran?

almogo · 2 months ago

Ukraine was historically more or less a free-for-all as far as front-line cinema is concerned.

I have to imagine the situation in Iran is more difficult for a few reasons:

1. Gen AI is much better today than it was in 2022. So, both sides can generate much more realistic fakes.

2. There was an article here on HN about Iran's internet slowly coming back on a whitelist basis. We're probably getting more pro-Government videos now than we were at the beginning of the current events.

3. Further crackdown on Starlink minimizes authentic leaks (I only heard about this and have no way to confirm how impactful this really is)

I'll add my own anecdotal agreement with your suspicion though - the footage coming out of Iran has been, for me, more difficult than other conflicts to piece together into a cohesive story. Western countries are claiming 30k+ dead, and while I don't necessarily reject the claim, the situation on the ground is still very blurry to me.

almogo commented on Iran is likely jamming Starlink timesofisrael.com/iran-ap... · Posted by u/ukblewis

Rover222 · 2 months ago

Why are none of the people I saw posting non-stop about Palestine saying anything about Iranian freedom? Would honestly love to hear a genuine response from anyone who is against the movement in Iran. Or even conflicted about it.

almogo · 2 months ago

Speaking from an American perspective, many left-leaning commentators I've seen are focused on the ICE situation in the states right now.

But that's the most optimistic take I can conjure.

almogo commented on Iran is likely jamming Starlink timesofisrael.com/iran-ap... · Posted by u/ukblewis

almogo · 2 months ago

Does anyone know how Iranians are _actually_ communicating right now? I remember seeing here on HN (admittedly a long time ago) some Bluetooth-mesh technologies that promised decentralized solutions to these very type of problems

almogo commented on Molly: An Improved Signal App molly.im/... · Posted by u/dtj1123

homebrewer · 4 months ago

Wire was able to implement a fully E2E-encrypted messenger with proper multi-device support almost a decade ago, long before it became mainstream. Fully FOSS too, including the server. For some reason it never became popular. They don't have proper desktop clients (just the usual Electron mess), but then, which one of them does except for Telegram?

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server , etc.

almogo · 4 months ago

I moved all my friends to Wire about a decade ago. Pretty, but the actual user experience was awful. We moved to Telegram and since then to Signal.

I didn't actually know Wire was FOSS.

almogo commented on Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik... · Posted by u/duncanjbrown

david_draco · 5 months ago

Now apply to each topic at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_a...

almogo · 5 months ago

Very interesting to see "Technical Analysis" in this list. I'm no expert in the field, and TA always seemed like quackery to me, but I suspect many more people believe in it than for example Cryptozoology. I personally know someone who even took a course in TA, couldn't imagine anyone taking a course in looking for Bigfoot.

almogo commented on Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik... · Posted by u/duncanjbrown

Hikikomori · 5 months ago

Genocide definition includes more than exterminating all the people. UN, pretty much all humanitarian organisations, including Israeli ones, has concluded that its a genocide. Hamas offered hostage exchange 2 years ago.

almogo · 5 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa%27s_genocide_case...

Except the one that matters.

almogo commented on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss techinasia.com/news/opena... · Posted by u/breadsniffer

cool_dude85 · 5 months ago

I think trying to compete with Google in search is a big problem. First you have to deal with all the anticompetitive stuff they can do, since they control email and the browser and youtube etc. Second they could probably stand to cut the price of advertising by 5 times and still be turning a profit. Will ads in ChatGPT be profitable competing against Google search ads at 1/5 the price, hypothetically?

almogo · 5 months ago

If they're better - yes. ChatGPT is a very different product from Google Search. Return on Ad Spend could be significantly higher than even Google/Meta/ByteDance can offer.