Hacker News: peanuty1

New comment by peanuty1 in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

peanuty1 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:04:34 +0000

He left Character.ai for money.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Layoffs at Block"

peanuty1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:52:30 +0000

They own Square, Cash App, Afterpay and Jay Z's music streaming service Tidal. They make a decent amount of money from people buying and selling Bitcoin on Cash App but most of their revenue is not related to Bitcoin.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Layoffs at Block"

peanuty1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:18:52 +0000

That significantly more generous than the 12-16 week severance packages being doled out by big tech during the great layoffs of 2022-2023 if I remember correctly.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Layoffs at Block"

peanuty1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:17:44 +0000

They're going from over 10k employees to just under 6k. So more than 40%.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"

peanuty1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:43:11 +0000

He doesn't play the classical championship anymore because it's 6+ months of daily hard work to prepare for it and he's already won it 5 times.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

peanuty1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:52:19 +0000

The pager bombs injured and maimed many civilians including children.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

peanuty1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:51:56 +0000

The pager bombs injured and maimed many civilians including children.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Accepting US car standards would risk European lives"

peanuty1 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:58:15 +0000

You think JD Vance is equally incompetent as Trump?

New comment by peanuty1 in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

peanuty1 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:15:10 +0000

Offering free childcare would be far more expensive than offering subsidized cafeterias, meditation rooms, and a gym.

New comment by peanuty1 in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

peanuty1 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:26:20 +0000

To push a pro-Israel agenda. That's why Larry Ellison put Israeli loyalist Bari Weiss in charge of CBS.

New comment by peanuty1 in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

peanuty1 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:24:28 +0000

I thought Ben Horowitz supported Kamala during the 2024 presidential election.

New comment by peanuty1 in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

peanuty1 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:23:45 +0000

It's a coup by pro-Israel interests like Larry Ellison and Andreessen Horowitz.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

peanuty1 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:22:05 +0000

There is nothing anti-semitic about what the parent poster said. Any criticism of Israelis is anti-semitic according to Israel.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team"

peanuty1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:05:47 +0000

Better than Samuel Altman being at the helm.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta's 'Superintelligence' Team"

peanuty1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:05:08 +0000

Sam Altman is leading OpenAI out of the goodness of his heart. He told Congress he has zero equity or financial stake in OpenAI.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

peanuty1 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:34:10 +0000

How about $15B for Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO?

New comment by peanuty1 in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

peanuty1 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 04:27:12 +0000

California has a weather advantage over rainy Seattle though.

New comment by peanuty1 in "HP Acquires Humane's AI Software"

peanuty1 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:53:01 +0000

And no refunds for purchases made before Nov 15, 2024.

New comment by peanuty1 in "HP to Acquire Parts of Humane for $116M"

peanuty1 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:27:35 +0000

The acquisition will not include Humane’s AI pin device business, which will be wound down, an HP spokesperson said.

New comment by peanuty1 in "Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income"

peanuty1 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:56:49 +0000

Isn't PayPal where he got the startup capital for Tesla and SpaceX?