I think I read Starship Troopers before I saw the movie, because a small scene reveals that Johnny Rico is of Phillipine descent (his mother tongue is Tagalog) and I remember wondering if that would be part of the movie. Samuel R Delany mentions that scene as something that made him felt included in SF.
I was very young when I read it but even then I could read it as proto-fascist (or rather military-authoritarian, a bit like cod-Roman Republic)
Because the Terminator franchise is from Hollywood, the heroic resisters to SkyNet are Americans. Someone didn’t watch the movies very well.
OFC the OG Terminator was a scary foreign man with a pronounced accent…
ffs Andrew Lee’s Joseon has a space on soj.ooo
jfc
Thanks for taking the time to expand
Interesting to note that apparently Anduril is very bad at their job. Their shit doesnt even work properly.
doesn’t matter if you can grift USGOV for money
suckless is what opened the door to an entire subculture of fascist racist FOSS enjoyers to me, a door I sincerely wished had stayed closed
ok plz explain what “waffles” means in this context
what fresh hell is this
Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin (HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45471573)
One of the many annoying traits of rationalists is their tendency to backproject classic pieces of literature onto their chosen worldview.
Guys according to LW you’re reading Omelas all wrong (just like LeGuin was wrong)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n83HssLfFicx3JnKT/omelas-is-perfectly-misread
Always fun trawling thru comments
Government banning GPUs: absolutely neccessary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452400
Government banning ICE vehicles - eh, a step too far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440664
Let’s not forget the perennial favorite “humans are just stochastic parrots too durr” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452238
to be scrupulously fair, the submission is flagged, and most of the explicit rat comments are downvoted
This is the dumbest timeline.
Some Rat content got shared on HN, and the rats there are surprised and outraged not everyone shares their deathly fear of the AI god:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451971
“Stop bringing up Roko’s Basilisk!!!” they sputter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452426
“The usual suspects are very very worried!!!” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452348 (username 'reducesuffering checks out!)
``Think for at least 5 seconds before typing.‘’ - on the subject of pulling the plug on a hostile AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452743
Can’t wait to use this as a cudgel when the next lobsters whines that the “vibecoding” tag is disrespectful.
Surprise level: zero
The second screenshot goes to a chart where the Y axis is labelled
Task duration (for humans) where logistic regression of our data predicts the AI has a 50% chance of succeeding
So they’re just extrapolating an exponential, not actually measuring it.
Check out this epic cope from an Anthropic employee desperately trying to convince himself and others that actually LLMs are getting exponentially better
https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/
Includes screenshots of data where he really really hopes you don’t look at the source, and links to AI 2027.
He’s been on the vibecoding bandwagon for quite some time on lobste.rs.
Bluesky wanted to be Nazi Twitter, then Elon purchased Twitter and stole their market.