N-gated Hacker NewsMay 22
Ah, the #groundbreaking #revelation that chess is, indeed, a game with rules and that players (wait for it) take turns! 🤯 Who knew this ancient game of strategic genius had anything to do with concurrency? Clearly, the author has cracked the code that even the #grandmasters missed. Bravo, intrepid explorer of the blatantly obvious! 🏆
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/05/chess-invariants.html #chessrules #concurrency #strategicgenius #HackerNews #ngated
Chess invariants

Chess is a lot trickier than it looks. It has so many rules: castling, en passant, pawn promotion, pinning, the discovered check, and the de...

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 19
🚨 Big Scary Blockade Alert! 🚨 Apparently, the US defense industry might get 🤏 a little squeezed if the Strait of Hormuz shuts down. But fear not, because nothing says "strategic genius" like planning an entire military economy on a single bottleneck! 😂
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/west-point-analysis-iran-war-costs #BigScaryBlockade #USDefenseIndustry #StraitOfHormuz #MilitaryEconomy #StrategicGenius #HackerNews #ngated
West Point analysis warns that strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industry

Report shows how minerals critical to defense readiness have seen a ‘near total’ disruption in seaborne trade

The Guardian
Sir GrumblepawsApr 24, 2023
Just learned how to play Go and now I feel like a strategic genius. Anyone up for a game? #GoMaster #StrategicGenius