Hacker News: peebee67

New comment by peebee67 in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

peebee67 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:31:24 +0000

I personally broke it by admonishing it for fucking up its last revision to my project.

New comment by peebee67 in "Mark Zuckerberg reportedly working on AI clone of himself"

peebee67 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:47:34 +0000

The headlines just write themselves at this point.

New comment by peebee67 in "SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock"

peebee67 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:16:44 +0000

That's right. SpaceX is likely a great business on its fundamentals, and starlink is probably even better. The meme-stock part of this is that they've swept all these different business up together. I would've loved the opportunity to invest in SpaceX and starlink, but I'm not convinced the AI and other parts of the business are anything other than a landfill fire. The orbital datacentre concept is just plain nutty and in a different way than most of Elon's major undertakings. Sweeping them all in together like this just creates a serious risk that the best space company in the world will go under when the AI bubble bursts.

New comment by peebee67 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

peebee67 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:46:50 +0000

They'd tolerate it because they all poked a giant in the eye and it didn't go down. It's by far the cheapest route to peace any of them have.

USA could agree to it because it's not particularly dependent on that fuel supply and therefore would only pay the costs indirectly via market forces, which as the thief-in-chief pointed out, does (the parts he cares about of) their economy no harm as a net petroleum-product exporter, and above all else, they are losing the war.

New comment by peebee67 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

peebee67 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:58:20 +0000

Absolutely none of that would happen. It's in Iran's interests to keep the oil flowing at a fee that everyone can stomach and that doesn't offend the sensibilities. $1 a barrel for a year of unprovoked war crimes costing them hundreds of billions of dollars, with the cost effectively shared by all, fits this description. Nor has Iran responded with the kind of zero-sum, suicidal, totalitarian foreign policy that is always attributed to them by their enemies. Serious commentators have all remarked at how restrained they've been during this war. It's almost as though sane people who intend to come to a realistic agreement that everyone can live with are running their foreign and defence policies.

New comment by peebee67 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

peebee67 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:51:49 +0000

As you say, the shadow fleet exists because of sanctions. In other words, because the biggest bully on the block is committing de facto piracy with their navy. Pretty much the definition of blocking freedom of navigation. Their insurance paperwork not being in order justifies their seizure?

New comment by peebee67 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

peebee67 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:38:34 +0000

Just pointing out that for the volume of these ships, it's not really a massive toll. It's honestly a bargain, paid for in a really easy to stomach way by the people who allowed this to happen: Everyone else.

New comment by peebee67 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

peebee67 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:19:49 +0000

Nobody ever questions why the troll is living under a bridge.

New comment by peebee67 in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

peebee67 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:39:57 +0000

I realise he was making comedy, but breaking that down further I'd argue that dumb people can fool smart people for a little while that they're smart.

My social acuity has developed slowly, only after being repeatedly pounded into shape from mistakes, and quickly reading people is something that does not happen intuitively for me. I've been misled multiple times by people who, overall, I would now describe as just not that bright, with horrible consequences as the relationship developed. What they had in common is that they were all good at mirroring. Eg, They hear me use a technical term in an early conversation, they drop one or two confidently not much later, and before I picked up on what they were doing, I mistook them for an intellectual peer and let that early impression colour later ones. These days I'm much more attuned to it and have caught people doing it, along with the little microexpressions they pull when they think they've successfully deceived me. It's fun now, but it certainly didn't start that way.

New comment by peebee67 in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

peebee67 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:05:58 +0000

I remember the set of his shoulders and generally pained body language during that address. He knew it was bullshit, and knew that the world could tell that he was bullshitting. They sent him because out of the four (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, and Powell), he was the only one regarded as somewhat reliable.

He sold his soul that day and regretted it almost instantly. I agree that the people who put him up to it were also setting him up as they knew he already wasn't really with them on this thing. They were politicians, after all. I have no sympathy for the personal toll it took on him. He's a war criminal like the rest.

New comment by peebee67 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

peebee67 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:43:36 +0000

The E3 fleet is aging and difficult to keep airworthy. Of the 32 or so planes the US has, it sounds as though they struggle to keep the operational number above 16, and moving more to the gulf means they have to pull them from other theaters. In short, they simply don't have enough to provide coverage of all the areas they want them.

This was completely foreseeable and is a situation that appears to have arisen entirely due to vest interests stifling procurement of a suitable replacement in order to spruik up business for their own competing, but unfinished offering. Prior to the war in Iran, total cancellation of the procurement of E7's had been announced.

https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/01/e-3-awacs-loss-saudi-a...

New comment by peebee67 in "Volume in stock and oil futures surged 15 min before Trump's market-turning post"

peebee67 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:16:25 +0000

Okay, so this is clearly corrupt, but is it illegal?

If not, add it to the United States Congress' many failings. If it is, since they spy on everything, it really shouldn't be hard to convict everyone who spilled the beans early. There's two halves to every transaction, and every trader probably told at least one other person, so there should be no shortage of people willing to rat on each other.

New comment by peebee67 in "Volume in stock and oil futures surged 15 min before Trump's market-turning post"

peebee67 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:00:01 +0000

pfft, were you still working for a living or something, you leaner?

New comment by peebee67 in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

peebee67 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:58:55 +0000

You must be young.

New comment by peebee67 in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

peebee67 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:16:50 +0000

Nuremberg Defence for the 2020's will be "the Agent did it."

New comment by peebee67 in "Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox"

peebee67 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:04:51 +0000

I also fell for it.

New comment by peebee67 in "OpenAI Has Murdered Orion"

peebee67 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:04:56 +0000

This is just elaborate trolling that you're all in on like Sopranos quotations, right?

New comment by peebee67 in "Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel"

peebee67 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:32:31 +0000

Third amendment was tested in 2011 when Nevada police decided they wanted to occupy the house of a disinterested neighbour to a suspect and then when he refused, bashed down his door, shot him with pepper balls, pulled him out of his house and jailed him for obstruction. Then went across the street to his dad's house, tricked him out of the house, and arrested him too when he tried to go back home. Charges were dropped, and courts ultimately decided that police are not peacetime military, so 3A doesn't apply.

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/in-rare-third-amend...

New comment by peebee67 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

peebee67 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:13:52 +0000

How is it double-speak? The "free" part doesn't mean "free beer"...

New comment by peebee67 in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

peebee67 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 11:34:59 +0000

I've often had the mental image of Galileo trying to order a pizza and being very disappointed at the garlic bread that turned up.