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- You don’t need to learn debugging, just regenerate until it works.

- You don’t need to learn types, the model knows what you meant.

- You don’t need to learn security, just ask the LLM to make it secure.

- You don’t need to learn performance, you can always scale later.

Today, Jews are denied entry to many Muslim countries - not just Israelis, anyone who looks Jewish.

The excuse that “some other people of this religion did something bad” does not justify hating and ethnically cleansing everyone who shares that religion.

Re:Bad Claude's Constitution on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:19PM (#46783056)
What we actually need is an LLM with critical thinking, that could just be honest when something doesn’t deserve compliments.
> The oppressors and the victim are clear in the Israel - Palestine conflict

Only if you zoom in and focus on one tiny sliver. If you look at the bigger picture, Israel is surrounded by dozens of countries 100s of times its size, that have all been ethnically cleansed of Jews, many of them in different stages of open or proxy war with Israel, militarily or politically.

I’m appalled at the lack of balanced comments in here. Acknowledging the humanity of the people on both sides. That both deserve to live in peace. That both have suffered deaths and injuries from the other side. That both can claim the other side has committed war crimes.

Demonizing one side is neither rational, moral, nor conducive to resolving the situation.

There are hundreds of videos of tower blocks being bombed, where people are standing a distance away with cameras set up, ready and waiting, because they’ve been warned and evacuated. These are not the actions of an army trying to target civilians.
These are 30,000 human lives. Their value doesn’t diminish because of a larger supply.
Re:Claude Code Is Locked in Your Laptop on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:13PM (#46769317)
Well, there’s Claude Code Web.
Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:09AM (#46767393)
You were not born “here” either.
The official government policy, which they have communicated many times, is that the goal was return of the hostages and dismantling of Hamas. Since the return of all the hostages, there has been a drastic drop in fighting - the figures have not changed much in recent months (although the condemnations haven’t subsided). The stalemate at the moment is waiting for Hamas to disarm and hand over control to a civilian Palestinian government.
Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:05AM (#46765156)
You think that people who were not born in America cannot be trusted / are not moral?
Lol. It’s about engineering “American” views.
Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:44AM (#46764964)
The irony of a post about Palantir working with ICE devolving into xenophobia about the founders of Palantir.
You treating human life as less worthy if a population has more of them?

It’s 30k in a week - all civilians vs 60k in 2 years - in a mixture of civilians and combatants.

Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data on Sunday January 25, 2026 @07:46PM (#46760376)
Not sure what point you were trying to make, but if it was about inconsistency on the Left, you could’ve picked better examples, like give all Americans citizenship to Greenland, or give all Russians citizenship in Ukraine.
Re:Yes, It's Fascism on Sunday January 25, 2026 @07:30PM (#46760255)
Well done on finding a way to link this story to your favorite scapegoat.
Re:Tell HN: I Have Won HN on Sunday January 25, 2026 @07:22PM (#46760203)
Congratulations! Does it roll over to negative when you reach the end?
Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data on Sunday January 25, 2026 @06:57PM (#46760010)
Everyone on Earth should have a country they could call home.

That you single out specifically one tiny country when it’s off topic and not “rational criticism” reflects more on you as a person and the value system that guides your thinking.

The rule doesn’t really make sense in a small country with proportional representation. The government can stay in power as long as a majority of the country wants it to stay in power.
Re:ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:38PM (#46757938)
The irony of a discussion on how bad Palantir is for providing tools for ICE to fight illegal migration devolving into hating Palantir because of the countries of origin of their founders.
You can build something like Library of Babel – but for books that make sense.
Really like this. Will have to try it when I’m on a desktop.
There’s no magic right to kill n people for n deaths. If 1 person killed a 1000 people, that doesn’t give you the right to kill 1000 people.

If an army of 100,000 attempts to kill as many people as they can but have only managed 1000 so far, you can kill as many as many of them as you need until they stop trying to kill you.

But the protests weren’t limited to Ameica, there were protests all over the world, including in Muslim countries.

And the outrage wasn’t always directed at the government. We don’t see Iranian students in the US being attacked. We don’t see Iranian places of worship in the US being attacked. We don’t see as much outrage in the comments on HN - there were some event justifying it.

Re:Is Privacy an Illusion? on Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:01PM (#46746451)
Who has access to your SSDs?
Re:TikTok Is Now Collecting More Data About Its Users on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:56PM (#46746403)
US aid to Israel is about 0.05% of the federal budget, and around 3% of Israel’s state budget. That’s nowhere near enough to fund healthcare in either country.
Re:When employees feel slighted, they work less on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:35PM (#46746197)
What are you trying to say?
Re:Waze built the largest crowdsourced surveillance system on Friday January 23, 2026 @10:25AM (#46733595)
You think it’s important to point out that the founders are Jewish/Israeli/Zionist.

But if Waze was actually created for nefarious global surveillance as part of another conspiracy, they wouldn’t have shared it all publicly.

The Internet was only needed to bootstrap LLMs. From this point, future iterations can be built using synthetic data and high quality sources only.

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