Hacker News: peyton

New comment by peyton in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

peyton — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:10:19 +0000

I strongly disagree. That person retains the option of returning to their origin country and having a say there.

New comment by peyton in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

peyton — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:29:51 +0000

What are people concerned about? If I walk into your house uninvited, that’s trespassing. Is that “solved” by declaring all entry into residences legal?

New comment by peyton in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

peyton — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:59:03 +0000

> The origins of the data are not yet known

> The addresses of around 2,000 Albertans

> Lorne Gibson, former Election Commissioner at Elections Alberta: “The data is worth probably millions of dollars. It's probably worth at least $3 million.” “It’s the largest data breach in Canada. I haven’t heard of anything that surpasses that scale,” he added.

Not gonna lie, the Commissioner’s remarks and the general tone wouldn’t be out of place in a South Park episode about Canada, hah.

New comment by peyton in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

peyton — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:14:16 +0000

> funding fascism

What are you talking about? The point of fascism is to circumvent the need for funding.

New comment by peyton in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

peyton — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:26:22 +0000

It’s Manichaeism. A proselytizing religion for those without religion.

New comment by peyton in "Google I/O"

peyton — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:40:39 +0000

He had a point of view. “I discovered Gemini could help me with xyz” is too passive.

New comment by peyton in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

peyton — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:54:15 +0000

Is there any precedent you’re referencing? Many things that are expensive, slow, scarce, or bad are going to become cheap, fast, abundant, and awesome. Historically people like that a lot.

I just have trouble seeing how we get to there from here. Vote to ban AI? Has anything like that happened before?

New comment by peyton in "Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test"

peyton — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:14:13 +0000

The sand melted, yielding a type of glass. Melt emphasizes a change.

New comment by peyton in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"

peyton — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:19:16 +0000

The other day somebody sped through my neighborhood ignoring all red lights and lane markers. It would be cool to deter this behavior before somebody gets hurt. The police aren’t patrolling 24/7.

New comment by peyton in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"

peyton — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:11:05 +0000

It’s interesting this AI-generated article references “Reddit threads” being “full of support” two or three times, yet I can’t find Reddit threads in the references.

I wonder if we are seeing what may be the result of a Reddit bot campaign to sway generative output.

New comment by peyton in "Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials"

peyton — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:54:34 +0000

Do you like abortion?

New comment by peyton in "Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis"

peyton — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:41:29 +0000

Reading more, it seems part of his point is “if you’re making these primitives, it’s up to adopters to deploy, so mean-time-to-recovery isn’t that relevant.” Which is valid I guess.

But equally, like, do people need Terraform if they can just tell codex “put it live”, and does that hurt to see?

New comment by peyton in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

peyton — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:22:27 +0000

> the construction itself will likely hire locals but that can't go on forever

Does any construction project go on forever?

It’s just a building. Come on.

New comment by peyton in "Cisco workforce reductions"

peyton — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:05:48 +0000

What immigrant workers? H-1B is a non-immigrant visa. Immigrants get screwed too.

New comment by peyton in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

peyton — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:20:03 +0000

It’s pretty common in WASP-y circles.

New comment by peyton in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

peyton — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:55:39 +0000

Search “cyber jihad” and “cyber islamic state” if you’re curious for answers.

New comment by peyton in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

peyton — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:04:51 +0000

The author suddenly began writing a post per day around November 2025. They’re all tongue-in-cheek. I believe you are wrong.

New comment by peyton in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

peyton — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:26:42 +0000

Seriously, it’s not worth reaching for less intelligence. Use Extended Pro 100% of the time for things you’d spend the amount of time GP spent writing their post.

New comment by peyton in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

peyton — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:49:58 +0000

I make codex do everything through a giant `justfile`. Simple, greppable, self-documenting, works great, and I don’t even need to read it.

New comment by peyton in "DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May"

peyton — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:28:28 +0000

Definitely would select the frowny face if that happened.