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Assume for the moment that he did not have DHH in mind, and the timing of the post is coincidental.

Is there some way of reading the moral of his story such that it is not defending projects and people like Omarchy/DHH against criticism?

user982on Bob and Van

Remember: the onus is always on you to prove that you're one of the "good ones" by coddling them.

user982on Bob and Van

The essay makes a token gesture toward this ("privilege and power dynamics play a complex and unavoidable role"), but ultimately Marco, who is a rich straight white male unaffected by any meaningful or existential prejudice, is willing to overlook those views (which do not impact him) as things that do not matter.

user982on Bob and Van

The crux of this post is that even publicly stated political views like DHH's shouldn't matter.

"If I learn today that my neighbors have political views that my “side” considers unacceptable and unforgivable, [...] Should I be condemned for not publicly condemning them myself? [...] I don’t want to associate with any community that would insist on either of those. [...]

"The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren’t publicly shamed for going there because one of the owners was an ass."

user982on Bob and Van

From the timing, this seems to be a vaguepost in support of Omarchy and DHH.

user982on AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them

Metacommentary: how did this post get to #5 on the front page with 1 upvote within 2 minutes of submission?

user982on Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths

The previous time that the US and UK overthrew Iran's government (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat), they used the BBC in that way.

  Roosevelt told the Shah that he was in Iran on behalf of the American and British secret services, and that this would be confirmed by a code word the Shah would be able to hear on the BBC the next night. Churchill had arranged that the BBC would end its broadcast day by saying not 'it is now midnight' as usual, but 'it is now exactly midnight'

user982on The Little Book of C

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448525

user982on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

That original headline is longer than what HN accepts. What editorialized message are you accusing the shorter "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story" of inserting?

user982on South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

Read to the end:

  Every South Korean president who has served a prison sentence has ultimately been pardoned.

user982on Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

> The embargo was partially lifted in 2015

And then reinstated in 2017. How has that been "over for a long while"?

user982on Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate

> the blockade has been over for a long while.

What are you talking about?

user982on Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

For however long flagging on HN has no downsides.

user982on US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again

The bill had no traction, "until Oct. 7. The attack that day in Israel by Hamas and the ensuing conflict in Gaza became a turning point in the push against TikTok, Helberg said. People who historically hadn’t taken a position on TikTok became concerned with how Israel was portrayed in the videos and what they saw as an increase in antisemitic content posted to the app."

"How TikTok Was Blindsided by U.S. Bill That Could Ban It" (https://www.wsj.com/tech/how-tiktok-was-blindsided-by-a-u-s-...)

> its very obvious from public statements by both co-sponsors that the primary motivation for this bill was concern with Chinese influence.

Here's an op-ed authored by bill sponsor Mike Gallagher entitled, "Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok.": https://www.thefp.com/p/tik-tok-young-americans-hamas-mike-g...

user982on US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again

> This is brainrot conspiracy garbage.

Here's Mitt Romney explaining that "the number of mentions of Palestinians" was the reason why "there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down (potentially) TikTok": https://x.com/wideofthepost/status/1787104142982283587

> Additionally, if you're defending TikTok because it allowed them to amplify support for the Palestinian cause, it's interesting that TikTok themselves claim that you are wrong, as they said to the US Supreme court that "allegations that TikTok has amplified support for either side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are unfounded". Are they lying here? If so, why should we trust them with control over mass social media? If they're not lying, you are wrong.

The sentence that you quoted from that Wikipedia page came at the end of this paragraph:

  Several officials subsequently cited alleged pro-Palestinian bias on the app. While advocating for a ban, Representative Mike Gallagher alleged "rampant pro-Hamas propaganda on the app". Senators Mitt Romney, Josh Hawley, Representative Mike Lawler, and other Republicans have also alleged that TikTok had a pro-Palestine bias, with Lawler even alleging that TikTok was being manipulated during pro-Palestinian protests at colleges. In a filing to the Supreme Court, TikTok's attorneys said, "Allegations that TikTok has amplified support for either side of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict are unfounded."

There's no contradiction if TikTok was telling the truth about its neutrality: not amplifying support for Israel was reason enough to get banned by the United States government, and immediately after Trump's first reprieve a year ago TikTok began flagging and removing "Free Palestine" posts as hate speech (https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/tiktok-labels-free-pal...).

user982on Trade Chaos Causes Businesses to Rethink Their Relationship with the U.S.

Literally yes. "Tariffs on imports are designed to raise the price of imported goods to discourage consumption."

user982on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

> I don't think I am naive, just imagine the repercussions of the headline "FBI collected thousands of child rape photos for blackmail"

What were the repercussions of this: "FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images" (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/21/fbi-ran-websi...)

user982on Transparent computer monitor designed to protect your vision

In the pilot episode of Banshee (2013), a character has transparent monitors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PiIhMs4k88) which never showed up again. They seemed higher tech than anything else in the series and I was never able to find information on them.

user982on America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

When I first read Asimov's Foundation, I thought the decline and loss of knowledge in the Galactic Empire within a few generations was unrealistically quick. It's been eye-opening to witness new parents who not only don't know that they're supposed to teach their children to read, but wouldn't know how to do so.

user982on How to write in Cuneiform

Additionally, syllabaries (like the kana) are not alphabets.

user982on Show HN: The Little Book of C

Nobody finds it at all questionable that this submitter has "authored" around a dozen such books in 30 days?

user982on [dead]

The fact that you preemptively lampshaded this shows that you are well aware that this post actually is textbook trolling whataboutism from an account that only started spamming submissions about other famines (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mhb) after a thread about Israel's starvation of Gaza (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447699) hit the front page a day ago. A thread in which mhb posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454862), and a topic on which mhb has a long history on this site of genocide denial (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44731958, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44749417).

user982on The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh

"Caesar" was pronounced in Latin with a hard C, which is preserved in German ("Kaiser").

user982on The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh

But which "ch" sound? "Ch" as in "church" is just "tsh". "Ch" as in "charade" is just "sh".

user982on DHH Is Worse Than I Thought

> being vaguely anti-immigrant

He is not vague about it.

> DHH acknowledging Tommy Robinson's march existed

He did more than just acknowledge it.

user982on The Demon-Haunted World

Chapter 2:

  I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

Chapter 13:

  One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Chapter 25:

  In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

user982on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

Hypocrisy is a show of power.

user982on Deep Zionism

> (1) why has Israel dropped millions of leaflets to warn of impending attacks?; (2) why has israel sent millions of text messages warning of impending attacks?;

These are the kinds of leaflets dropped by Israel: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250220-israel-drops-leaf... https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/israel-opt-is...

"The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist. No one will feel for you, and no one will ask about you. You have been left alone to face your inevitable fate. Iran cannot even protect itself, let alone protect you, and you have seen with your own eyes what has happened. Neither America nor Europe care about Gaza in any way. Even your Arab countries, which are now our allies, provide us with money and weapons while sending you only shrouds.

"There is little time left — the game is almost over."

So, to your question, the primary purpose of these leaflets is to terrorize and threaten the population. The secondary purpose is to have hasbarists like yourself pretend that they are evidence of humanitarian magnanimity.

> (3) why has israel ordered evacuations of combat zones prior to attacking; (4) why has israel set up refugee camps/ safe zones;

"[Forensic Architecture] has documented a pattern in which civilians have been directed to move to certain areas by official evacuation orders, only for the Israeli military to attack those same areas shortly afterwards, either on the same day as the evacuation order, or the day after.

"The incidents documented here are representative, not exhaustive." - https://frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/updates/attack...

> (5) why has Israel supplied so much aid to a civilian population you claim it's trying to kill;

Even rhetorically this question makes no sense, considering that it is very well-documented that Israel has been and is actively preventing real humanitarian aid. The Israeli-sanctioned "aid" via the GHF is a "killing field" of desperate Palestinians: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-ma...

> (6) why has its genocide been so incompetent and long-lasting if it could accomplish its alleged genocidal goal in a week;

Because then there would be even fewer of those alongside you willing to defend the indefensible.

> (7) what % of those killed are terrorists?; (8) why is the civilian:combatant death ratio so low;

The postulate required for this pair of questions to not be self-defeating is to expand the meaning of "terrorist" to encompass, at the least, every male in Gaza. In other words, "Gaza deserves death. The 2.6 million terrorists in Gaza deserve death! … Men, women, and children – in every way possible, we must simply carry out a Holocaust on them – yes, read that again – H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! For me, gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel forms of death for these Nazis. Without fear, without hesitation – simply crush, eradicate, slaughter, flatten, dismantle, smash, shatter …. Gaza deserves death. Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza." - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/israel...

user982on Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

"Yes, history repeats itself. You're fooling people with your propaganda."

"Oh, Sawatzki... You don't understand. In 1933, people were not fooled by propaganda. They elected a leader, who openly disclosed his plans in great clarity. The Germans elected me."

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ALTkMpPLuU

user982on ICE's Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200M Images

Many of the weapons now wielded by Trump (ICE, AUMF, DHS, Guantanamo, etc) were introduced under Bush II.