Hacker News: Pigo

New comment by Pigo in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

Pigo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:31:45 +0000

Gladly, I have

New comment by Pigo in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

Pigo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:31:37 +0000

Just getting in I faced extremely rude border agents, which was just confusing. If it hadn't been for work I would have just gone home. There were some nice people, but I felt a general unfriendliness most places I went. Maybe it was just my experience.

New comment by Pigo in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

Pigo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:10:32 +0000

Trips to Canada have always left a bad taste in my mouth, but they've always been to Ontario, Quebec. I've been wondering if I'd like the people in Alberta better.

New comment by Pigo in "Making"

Pigo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:15:50 +0000

I've been trying to rebuild my back deck this summer. I've wasted so much material, cut myself several times, and I was stung by a paper wasp, it has not been going well so far.

New comment by Pigo in "Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years"

Pigo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:50:05 +0000

I went from laughing to wanting really quickly

New comment by Pigo in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

Pigo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:49:36 +0000

I'd assume there's better options, but I've worked a lot with cesium. Even it has some interesting visualizations, textures, even weather you can add with it. Anything that could make it feel more immersive would just be cool in my opinion. That just sounds like fun to me.

New comment by Pigo in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

Pigo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:49:45 +0000

This is a fun idea and interesting implementation. I know there's only so much an api can give you, but I'd love to see anything that gives more information or visuals of the surroundings.

New comment by Pigo in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

Pigo — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:10:06 +0000

I'm always wondering how long it will take for popular sentiment to finally shift. So many years of things like Blinky the fish in the Simpsons really did a number on our shared consciousness.

New comment by Pigo in "Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)"

Pigo — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:17:44 +0000

I never thought about the smell.

Does it smell strong because of it's composition or because the vacuum of space has a strange effect on it? Like the particulates not dispersing enough?

New comment by Pigo in "The Problem with AI Welfare"

Pigo — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:35:35 +0000

Just because you fell in love with an AI, doesn't mean it loves you back.

New comment by Pigo in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

Pigo — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:05:13 +0000

It's hard to argue against that. I suppose it's not that they even exist, it's just the unreasonable amount they profit on the items. If it's purely because they cannot attain items another way, they markup should be more apparent maybe? It just hurts seeing young and disadvantaged people being taken advantage of.

New comment by Pigo in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

Pigo — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:09:26 +0000

Still waiting on anything to be done about rent to own businesses. The businesses that rely solely on exploiting the people in a bad position bother me so much, they should at least have some kind of limits on their usury.

New comment by Pigo in "Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?"

Pigo — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:53:47 +0000

"original html with extensions"

I just had this weird flashback to Frontpage...

New comment by Pigo in "National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers"

Pigo — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:46:39 +0000

Everything I know and loved as a kid is disappearing. This one really hits me deep. I sincerely hope that national geographic is not disappearing on me.

New comment by Pigo in "Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore"

Pigo — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:26:22 +0000

It seems likely much more effort will go into evaluating the failure than went into designing this submersible. It would be interesting to know how much more.

New comment by Pigo in "Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be"

Pigo — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:38:17 +0000

This reminds me of how long it took me to notice a pattern in my relationships. When I look back, it's so obvious that I was picking a certain kind of person, and behaving in a certain kind of way, that would lead to the same conclusion. But it didn't feel like I was repeating the same story over and over again just to satisfy some malformed part of my psyche. I can't rewire something so deep in me that even effects who I'm attracted to. All I can do is be aware of it, and course correct.

New comment by Pigo in "92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people"

Pigo — Thu, 14 May 2020 15:42:25 +0000

Do you think this is because no one was profiting from your message board community? I'm sure there's several factors, but it takes people who love something to build a presence without motivation for profit.

New comment by Pigo in "92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people"

Pigo — Thu, 14 May 2020 15:27:30 +0000

> * The "Reddit Contrarian", waiting to snipe your post with their immense intellect

I began thinking twice before commenting on anything, and then eventually stopped. Even in the most benign subs, you can quickly escalate to Hitler if you deviate from the hive-mind.

New comment by Pigo in "John Titor"

Pigo — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:55:06 +0000

I wouldn't just normally post to a youtube video, but this seems rather relevant https://youtu.be/YJYFlI4ytbU

New comment by Pigo in "NBCUniversal Sold $500M Stake in Snapchat"

Pigo — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:10:02 +0000

That's a good rule of thumb