<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pepperball</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pepperball</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:13:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pepperball" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "'I'm stupid': SF tech founder jailed in Davos for bomb-lookalike device"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The device, which Heyneman said does not work, is meant to recognize the unique characteristics of a silicon chip to prevent financial fraud.<p>> I give him the same pitch that I gave all the business people in Davos,” Heyneman said. When Chris drilled him on his code, Heyneman admitted that he had used Cursor and Claude Code to vibe code the entire thing. Chris then took it upon himself to explain the code to Heyneman, line by line.<p>This is parody right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736455</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "AI Usage Policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lack of shame, and antisocial behavior in general are also directly economically rewarded nowadays thanks to the attention economy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:18:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735040</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "UK Home Secretary's Admission About the Emerging AI Surveillance State"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh man, we’re fucked though. No one is going to stop these people.<p>Even in the US I can feel the scale tilting as normies start to rationalize a mass surveillance on unprecedented scales.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:53:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732490</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Cold War warriors gonna flip out.<p>All of these people folded immediately when a fat TV retard won. I’ve seen them literally call for the nationalization of private companies that act contrary to Trumps desires in the last couple of years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:35:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732319</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Expect a lot more of this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:17:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732128</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not everybody. Some very mentally ill individuals thought we’d all be living in some start-trek post scarcity TV show.</p>
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<p>> And I can't even understand why this obsession of lowering interest rates in the USA.<p>You have to understand how much the middle and lower classes can become addicted to cheap lines of credit made accessible to them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:41:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719823</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "Uber Faces Growing Pressure over Sexual Assault Record"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a man, I never understood how bad this was. I have only felt unsafe in an Uber a few times, mostly because the driver should have had their license revoked due to their advanced age.<p>Without going into too much detail, I’ve learned just how bad it is. On the “less” vile end of things, my current parter had some desperate slime try to offer her money for sex. I made sure he reported him, but Silicon Valley loves to enable sex criminals, I imagine he’s still out there.</p>
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<p>A few years back, I had fun setting up an old X11 terminal I had in my rather eccentric retro computing collection.<p>But I don’t think I had much memory in it. I had ordered a fair bit more, but maybe only 4-8M.<p>I did get it to work with only minor difficulties, but man only the simplest of applications could run. The barebones basic GUI text editor that came with Ubuntu couldn’t even start up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:29:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706211</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Meta’s in-house lawyers demanded the erasure of any and all evidence of this finding. When asked by Senator Josh Hawley how often she’d witnessed an underage user being exposed to inappropriate sexual content on Meta VR, Savage replied, “every time I use the headset.”<p>We need brutal, public executions for people like this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:36:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695921</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "'This is sell America' – US dollar tumbles as globe flees US assets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It is really disturbing to see that most Republican legislators are still not speaking up openly against the Trump administration.<p>Take a look at the voter base: There’s a hubris of invincibility and jingoism in the air. Even among typical moderates. Rome can never fall!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:25:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695766</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You're bringing a knife to a gunfight<p>It’s worse than that, it’s like bringing a knife to a fight against an entire army equipped with all the latest and greatest weapons of the day.</p>
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<p>How much did they deposit you for that lie lmao.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:45:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695138</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I haven’t cancelled Spotify etc but I axed HBO max after what seemed to be the third email about another price increase in a short period.<p>Funny thing is, if they just had offered me larger one-shot price increase, I’d have paid it no mind likely. Something about the drip-feed of price increases in such a short time pissed me off enough to cancel though.</p>
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<p>It does make sense if they position themselves to take hard power. That’s worth a lot more than money alone and worth losing even large amounts for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:58:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649526</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "Judge: ICE violated Liberian man's rights by bursting through front door"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone of consequence will likely be ok. They have good revenue streams that they would prefer not be interrupted though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:02:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648738</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> except maybe among a certain set of cranks.<p>Eh, a growing set of cranks. The diversity of political opinion in America seems to have exploded over the last decade. Cranks are now serious contenders for power and influence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:56:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648659</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I can't believe it's current year and this bigot doesn't want his country overrun with foreigners or to have a middle class lifestyle unattainable for the average man<p>Tsk tsk, peasants learned to live with their stature centuries ago why can’t you?</p>
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<p>Man, a gun is so much cheaper.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:29:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624721</link><dc:creator>pepperball</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pepperball in "The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Its very much like google. Anyone can google anything. But at a certain point, you need to understand _how to google_ to get good results rather than just slapping any random phrase and hoping the top 3 results are magically going to answer you. And sometimes you need to combine the information from multiple results to get what you are going for.<p>Lmao, and just as with google, they’ll eventually optimize it for ad delivery and it will become shit.</p>
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