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"Bollocks" feels like a very uncharitable read. Sure, investing time/money into creating a better chess engine instead of building a faster computer would not have worked out for IBM, but the post never argues that they should have done that. It makes the point that the majority of improvements of chess engines since have been algorithmic and not "free" gains from faster CPUs.

Deep Blue is just used as a point of reference to illustrate that fact.

Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:08PM (#50261355)
"most relevant info" is highly subjective though. One mans "most relevant info" is another mans "unsatisfying read".
> Because of the news articles.

Yes, obviously people are only angry about things they know about. This says absolutely nothing about the news articles, as the same thing thing can be said about any event, no matter how justified the anger would be.

An article making people angry doesn't automatically make the article rage- or clickbait.

Re:Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:11AM (#49905039)
Problem is, AfD voters also don't want to drive Teslas (not because they disagree with Elon's politics, but because "only hippies drive EVs, patriots drive real cars".)
Well for one thing, different currencies have different rates of inflation. If one currency has 10% inflation and another has 1%, the second countries bonds at 5% will have a higher real return than the first, even if the risk of defaulting were the same, so the first country will have to offer a much higher coupon to find any buyers.

Also governments can influence demand, e.g. by mandating banks or pension funds buy their bonds, thereby pushing yields down, without changing the risk of default.

Re:25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:06AM (#49711972)
I'm pretty sure 1st and 4th are the ones GP meant.

The 1st amendment (free speech) in order to protect the right to host the service in the first place and the 4th one (unreasonable search and seizure) to protect against surveillance.

Not sure how the 3rd (lodging of soliders in peacetime) would be relevant.

> My opinion is that the way Omarchy is developed leads to gigantic security holes

>> Fix it. If you see a problem in the world, fix it.

You can't "open a pull request" to fix a projects development process. The point of the article isn't about any specific security issue, it's that these vulnerabilities will keep getting introduced due to the lax attitude the project takes towards security.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
  
  Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Posting guides explicitly state "That includes more than hacking and startups".

I would say that this post definitly falls squarely into the "interesting new phenomenon" category since it's the first time a country has proposed a population cap (as far as i am aware).

Considering the last sentence in the comment you are replying to, i doubt they missed it...
> It has been working quite well until recently.

I'm not sure how reliable the data is, but average uptime seems to have dipped measurably starting within a year of the aquisition, according to https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

Re:Is Germany's gold safe in New York ? on Monday April 06, 2026 @09:39AM (#47660782)
I might be wrong in my reading, but i read the article as stating that while all french gold is now in France, some of that gold is still below modern standards, not that there still remains any gold in the USA.