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brepppon Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

Good thing it eventually grew to replace NTFS

brepppon War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare

What is cultural continuity? Is France, a far more coherent nation is cultural continuous to the Gauls? Even though completely subjugated by the Romans?

Is the Islamic Republic more culturally similar to the Arab Khalifate it professes to emulate or Cyrus?

Also you brought up Sumer, how is Iran related to Sumer more than it is related to the actual Mesopotamian empires? I never heard someone claim that

brepppon Gemini Omni

I am for decades watching movies generated with the sterility of CGI

brepppon War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare

"2500+ years of continuous operations"

I see it repeated a lot, but Iran is not a direct descendent of some Persian empire, it was conquered by Greeks, Arabs, Turks and Mongols and ruled by Arabs and Turks for most of its history.

These nationalist myths are not taken seriously for western countries but that criticism usually does not extend to foreign myths

brepppon Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

This entire thread is generally weird.

If someone has this kind of exploit and can't get a bug bounty for it, and desperately needs the money, he can sell it for 100k+ in a shady black market

brepppon Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

Similar to the British in India, it was first controlled by some kind of company that benefitted the host country by extracting resources, and later on the host country took control. Belgium took control of Congo in 1908

brepppon Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

The worse example I know is the time the Belgians forced the Congolese to harvest more rubber by cutting their hands if they haven't reached the correct quota, ensuing a cross-tribe hands trading economy

brepppon Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

and so is ARPANET

brepppon Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

That slide was about the NSA sitting inside Google data centers without Google's knowledge.

That doesn't mean collusion

brepppon Show HN: Race to the Bottom

If this was framed as things you'd eliminate from society tomorrow, maybe pharma would fair better

brepppon Toxicity on Social Media

I agree with the notion in the post, though I do not agree that users will feel the format is not being pushed top-down by the man

I just had an issue with the way that number was completely overlooked

brepppon Toxicity on Social Media

"What percentage of the other side supports political violence"

Both Democrats and Republicans estimated 30% but actually.. only 10% of both sides supported political violence

That number is crazy in so many ways and the post is overly nonchalant about it. The "distortion" isn't what's worrying here

brepppon A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous

That's presumably great for legal exposure because it increases deniability

brepppon Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

In the context of war profiteering this is a long used racist trope, intentionally misquoted

brepppon Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

and not only one https://www.cyera.com/press-releases/cyera-raises-400m-to-me...

brepppon Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

There's a company doing this, and I don't think they were super successful

https://www.getnexar.com

brepppon AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

or less aesthetic versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street#/media/File:A...

brepppon Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results

from doc.new to blog.google, they are on top of that

brepppon UAE to leave OPEC

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-trained...

https://israel-alma.org/special-report-for-years-iran-planne...

There was extensive planning for a multi front attack including Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah.

The story of this war is the previous idea in Israel that you could work out with an extremely religious enemy at the border as underneath their claiming to want to destroy you, they are rational.

After Hamas decided to go on a national suicide for no achievement except for a single day of an orgy of violence and the complete destruction of gaza, that view has changed.

This puts Hezbollah similar to Hamas, and their patron Iran ballistic and nuclear weapon program in a different light, and makes preemptive strikes and the complete destruction of the Iranian Axis (largely successful) as an important goal for Israel

brepppon UAE to leave OPEC

Probably Saudi Arabia is more important in OPEC, so that might be actually a middle finger to SA. Saudi Arabia and UAE had a recent dispute in Yemen that went pretty hot.

An alternative is the US trying to dismantle OPEC together with its new found supply in Venezuela to drive prices down

brepppon The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color

Jewish communities in Europe trace their roots to Israel/Judea and the Roman expulsion and subsequent colonization.

Israel nowadays is mostly non-Ashkenazi in any case, and is mostly composed of Jews ethnically cleansed from Arab countries following the 1948 war

There's a widespread antisemitic conspiracy theory which links Ashkenazi to Khazars, but except being historically unsound, it echoes very ancient antisemitic (racist) tropes such as British Israelism, which are christian ideas claiming Jews are imposters to their own religion/nationality

brepppon The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color

So a thousand civilians weren't shot by death squads in civilian towns? babies weren't kidnapped? women weren't raped? houses weren't burned with people inside? bodies weren't found dismembered?

I think you should really investigate your sources of information as this is approaching an alternative reality.

brepppon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

The same binary has encrypted strings so I assume there was a pass, but if you look at the source control strings they seem to decrease the appearance of maliciousness, even today they are out of place for malware

brepppon Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

Headspace leaves health data, that's where my first guess would be

brepppon DeepSeek v4

I'd like to see the numbers please, how that gets close to 50 million dead by the CCP, and I can't fathom how do you attribute the Khmer Rouge genocide committed by a communist party to the USA or others on the list

brepppon DeepSeek v4

To be fair, I don't know where starting a union under Mao would get you

brepppon DeepSeek v4

Nazis? Soviets? CCP? Spanish Empire? How are you doing the math?

brepppon Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

> Didn't Donald Trump state that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country? Didn't Adolf Hitler say Jews are poisoning the blood of the country? Aren't both simulates?

That is actually something that is pretty popular with anti-immigration rhetoric before and after Hitler, although there are probably over a hundred such politicians who used that rhetoric, not many have killed millions, that's hardly enough to think you have found Nazism.

> I have high confidence that Adolf Hilter, Bentio Mussolini, and Emperor Shōwa never were part of a child trafficking ring that catered to the wealthy and assisted them with raping and torturing of youths on a privately owned island. There are simulates though with _human trafficking_ between all parties.

As far as I can tell apart from guilt by association, there is no definitive proof about Trump being part of their pedophile ring, nothing that can't be said about Clinton, Chomsky or Gates or many others for example. The relation to Hitler in any case is no relation at all, so this segue is confusing

In any case, this examples are redundant as similarities are not enough to establish a category, as I could establish similarities between Hitler and Gandhi (Vegetarianism, cult following, theatrical rhetorics and meta-narratives) to say Hitler is actually a pacifist. That's of course absurd.

Ignoring the Nazi anti-morality and national scale paranoid schizophrenia which are major missing points, the rapid takeover of a single party of the state, destroying the parliament, making the Executive into the law, creating a party's army and using state violence against political enemies are some of the hallmarks of the beginning of third reich germany. This is simply not Trump USA after 6 years, not close.

I am sorry but these false comparisons are simply a social media convention of getting engagement by turning the volume to 11, and nothing works better than misusing categories through superficial comparisons

brepppon US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

Soldiers can't catch a flight back home when war starts (or about to), and by the time the Iranians were able to attack back after the initial shock, all US soldiers knew there's a war going on

That's why I am having great difficulty following that argument

brepppon US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

Some, and probably very few.

When the people feel everyone is corrupt without any evidence then the next step is getting actual corrupt leaders like Trump's government and soldiers like this that feel corruption is standard behavior