Hacker News: pea

New comment by pea in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

pea — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:14:13 +0000

Good fun! Spacebar should launch, r should reset, maybe I'm imagining it, but it's a lot slower and thus easier on my phone than my MBP.

New comment by pea in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

pea — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:04:52 +0000

Oracle hire some extremely good people and pay very well

New comment by pea in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

pea — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:00:22 +0000

The darkest UX pattern I have ever hit is trying to cancel Google Workspace; whereby they disable the scrollbar on the page so you cannot actually get to the cancel button.

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams"

pea — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:55:44 +0000

Decapod

New comment by pea in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

pea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:50:55 +0000

What sort of things do you notice?

New comment by pea in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

pea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:40:27 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by pea in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

pea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:36:40 +0000

maybe productive isn’t the right word - more like satisfying and constructive. Right now I might play blitz chess or end up checking the news or X. But when I’m in the middle of a good book or some long form content, I’ll use that time to read and it’s much more fulfilling.

And I think breathing meditation is an excellent idea! I didn’t only mean phone-specific activities at all! Thank you

Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?

pea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:14:42 +0000

I often have 5-10m gaps. It’s too easy to waste this time.

What things do you like to do in these increments?

For instance, learning a new skill, getting slightly better at something, reading high quality content.

Edited to clarify that I don’t mean phone-specific activities!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492873

Points: 46

# Comments: 57

New comment by pea in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

pea — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:36:40 +0000

I think it makes sense given the following:

- Your brain has been trained extensively to recognize faces / people. Even very small babies can do this.

- Your brain processes a large amount of mostly noise, and sometimes mislabels noise as objects, which trends towards face-like things (see: seeing faces in clouds, people in shadows etc.) Various classes of substances make this effect more noticeable (even stimulants, including caffeine)

- The jump from that to 'elves' is largely just cultures have some form of small magical person.

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Epstein's emails reconstructed in a message-style UI (OCR and LLMs)"

pea — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:51:58 +0000

This is really cool, I enjoyed going through them in this form. Thanks

New comment by pea in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

pea — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:17:23 +0000

Didn't they also just shut down Vertex and Gemini APIs to launch a new unified API this week?

New comment by pea in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

pea — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:33:59 +0000

It’s a shame because people forget how good IBM research was back in the day. I do wonder if they still have great people in those r&d labs, or if they all left.

New comment by pea in "Tides are weirder than you think"

pea — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:14:28 +0000

We had one of these today in Sausalito!

New comment by pea in "I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it"

pea — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 02:08:39 +0000

The way Gemini (which is incredible) has been haphazardly shoved into gsuite products seems devoid of any kind of common sense. Even very basic obvious things via Gemini in Gmail fail. It’s ironic because it’s the one place I’d love a decent model.

New comment by pea in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

pea — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:03:04 +0000

I got a nasty one of these recently. Attacker had my wife’s CC, and made purchases they knew would flag our bank and look sus and pop up on the app. Then I get a call from my “bank”, correct number, I ask them to verify and they say look at the number. All they ask for is the customer support code in my banking app to cancel to fraudulent transactions. At that moment I insist on calling back and they hang up, but I was very close.

New comment by pea in "No adblocker detected"

pea — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:33:12 +0000

I wonder if you could spend a few million on promoting adblockers to justify a short position on Google or Meta.

New comment by pea in "I'm switching to Python and actually liking it"

pea — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:27:44 +0000

I feel like the opposite is also true. People view Java as enterprise Java from 2008; a clunky outdated language for bad, verbose spaghetti code.

In fact, a lot of the most interesting plt and compiler r&d going into real world applications is on the jvm (project loom, graal etc), and the features of modern Java (pattern matching, records, etc) make it a great choice for lots of projects that aren’t legacy enterprise apps.

New comment by pea in "Mechanical Watch: Exploded View"

pea — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:45:19 +0000

For something slightly more expensive check out NTH (now defunct micro brand but easy to find on eBay) or Squale.

For vintage (ignore their new stuff), Enicar, Eterna, Roamer, Rodania, Cortebert, Wakmann, Mido, Certina, early Girard Perregaux, etc. all can be had cheap. Bunch of excellent brands wiped out in quartz crisis that can be had for next to nothing.

New comment by pea in "uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS"

pea — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:51:54 +0000

Thanks. I don’t have mullvad either - anyone can point their dns at their Adblock dns without paying for their VPN

New comment by pea in "uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS"

pea — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:07:10 +0000

I’ve been using the mullvad adblock via pure dns on iOS and I haven’t seen an ad in years. Is there a reason others are installing a separate app?