<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: peter422</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=peter422</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:56:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=peter422" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can we at least debate the obvious externality that an insider might skew their advice or actions to personally profit instead of doing whatever they think is most appropriate for their job?<p>That seems like a big one</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:24:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495968</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s clearly AI generated when you see 3 comments of similar style posted in the same minute.<p>Anyways ignore the people downvoting you, I don’t want to read AI generated comments even if they are seemingly reasonable. I appreciate you flagging the comment for me, I didn’t even suspect it. I can make my own AI generated content if I want it, I want to read thoughts and ideas from actual humans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:59:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117533</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is funny that my first reaction to your post was that you are crazy, but then I looked at his comment history and you are completely right. Boy this is not a good development. I don’t want to spend my time reading AI generated comments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117213</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reason the top pros like chess960 is because they don’t need to spend hundreds of hours of opening preparation, they can just sit down and play.<p>Caruana (the guy who lost to Magnus), mused in a podcast that chess960 feels strange as a competitor because he doesn’t really prepare (because there are far too many openings to study) and said it feels like he’s getting paid for much less work.</p>
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<p>Fortunately before working hours on the west coast so it shouldn't impact that many people.</p>
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<p>And what about the precedent it sets for other world powers?<p>Why shouldn't Russia or China just do the same and interfere with the leadership of countries they don't like.<p>Also it is impossible to argue the cost of the war in Iraq was worth the benefit, even if we agree Iraq is in a better place now then it was under Hussein.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:37:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477853</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think at least the median citizen in the US has very good access to the best possible care. It may or may not be affordable but you can get it.<p>And yes, that is what I think we optimize for.</p>
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<p>Perhaps my language was too imprecise.<p>My argument is that specifically the best care in the US is the best in the world. We have the best doctors and the best technology and the best treatments. This is not completely universal but it is also generally accurate.<p>Whether or not this care is accessible or the median quality is care is good, that is different.<p>I’m just saying we do get something for the money, it’s not like it all gets thrown down the drain. The best and brightest come to the US to get some of the huge spigots of money in the US healthcare system and it does drive innovation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:06:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114736</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See what the wait times are for the specialists in other countries, if they even exist!<p>The US is also the 3rd biggest country in the world. It’s very hard to solve these things are such a massive scale.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:51:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114545</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A struggling business can go under.<p>When somebody is sick we generally save them even if the cost/benefit is poor. No market is going to solve this if you want to save sick people who don’t have a lot of money.<p>There is no place in the world where health care is solved, it’s one trade off vs another.<p>The US system is also far far from perfect but your solution is quite shallow and unlikely to fix things in a way society wants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:49:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114524</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>15 out of the top 50 and 4/6 top hospitals in the world are in the US: <a href="https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-hospitals-2025" rel="nofollow">https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-hospitals-2025</a><p>Again, I’m not saying the health care outcomes are better, or the value is better. I’m saying the hospitals are nicer, the doctors are the best, etc.<p>Perhaps this is the wrong thing to optimize for! But we are getting something.</p>
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<p>Your whole argument is that the health care system should be optimized for the most productive members of society (like you, right now).<p>You are perfectly fine to have that belief, but the majority of people disagree with you, which is one of the primary reasons the system is designed as it is.</p>
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<p>The quality of health care in the US is significantly higher than anywhere else in the world.<p>Whether that quality is necessarily (or good) is debatable, but we are getting something for the money.<p>You also are just completely wrong in your main point. We cannot provide the same efficacy of healthcare as we are now for 60% less. We are the richest country in the world, labor costs more here than other places.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:31:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114264</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "Why I code as a CTO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The only title that a founder can have that matters more than "founder" is a CEO.<p>He calls himself a CTO, and that's fine, but he's really just a technical cofounder, and that's what he's acting like (and it sounds like it's a very positive thing for the company).<p>The CTO title and the whole point of the article are not really relevant, this entire situation would not be possible if he weren't a co-founder.<p>I think it is a good lesson that founders shouldn't necessarily be pigeon holed into roles they don't want, but the CTO title really has nothing to do with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:58:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706905</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your definition of “making money” is turning bitcoins into USD at bitcoins low point, and then paying that back to them in 2 years, alright.<p>You can have whatever opinion you want about the bankruptcy process, but FTX was most certainly insolvent, due to fraud, and at that point whatever happened after the recovery to make people as whole as possible (which for many was not even close) really shouldn’t get credited to SBF.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:53:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45686978</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45686978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45686978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stage 21 was a great example of how tactics can beat a stronger rider. Pogacar was probably the strongest but Matteo burned up his energy chasing attacks in the final lap and then at the right moment WvA was ready to pounce and take the stage.</p>
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<p>I love the union syntax in 3.9+:<p><pre><code>  new_dict = old_dict | update_keys_and_values_dict</code></pre></p>
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<p>The investors invested on a previous idea.<p>The fact that the other founders are deciding to pivot is just a luxury of the fact that the company has inertia, not value, which is why they are switching ideas.<p>Our OP doesn’t want to work on the new idea, the one that might have value, therefore he is entitled to very, very little.<p>You do not understand the economics of VC backed startups.</p>
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<p>The issue has nothing to do with whether he worked hard, it has to do with the fact that the work the company did ended up being not very valuable, so much so that the company is doing something completely different.<p>Ultimately he created very little value and therefore is entitled to very little value. The company can just go out of business and start fresh!<p>Raising money is not value.<p>2-5% could be appropriate. 10% is completely insane.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:58:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527396</link><dc:creator>peter422</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peter422 in "Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you rely on ‘cgi’ in your Python application, you are probably fine using 3.12 until mid-2028 when it stops being maintained (and probably beyond).<p>You guys are all really getting worked up over very little.</p>
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