Hacker News: peyton

New comment by peyton in "Pacing the frontier"

peyton — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:23:55 +0000

Why should I trust these randos instead of Claude? I know Claude. I would hope Claude is smarter than whoever wants to make rules about my use of Claude. Replace Claude with Kimi, etc. if needed.

I don’t find a petition from people I don’t know who don’t care about me more compelling than my own direct experience with these models.

New comment by peyton in "The relay market powering token resellers and fraud"

peyton — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:24:53 +0000

It’s pretty clearly theft of services as generally defined in most places. It’s a hack in the same sense that rolling back your electric meter is a hack.

New comment by peyton in "Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes"

peyton — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:54:02 +0000

Feels like a just-so story. How to quantify “ambitious”? If the goal were flight, would jumping off cliffs with wings like birds be “ambitious”?

The most parsimonious explanation is either our models or methods (or both) are garbage. Something’s missing. The failure rate is insane, and writing it off as ambition or “biology is hard” rather than digging in does us no favors.

New comment by peyton in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

peyton — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:50:27 +0000

They don’t pay tax, right? Correct me if I’m wrong. It’s definitely a different (and public) conversation when things are claimed done for the public benefit and thus exempt from tax.

At least in the US tax-exempt status carries obligations.

New comment by peyton in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

peyton — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:41:46 +0000

I think you could be more charitable, as GP said “culture,” not “society.”

Apple alleges not only individual malfeasance, but also recruitment tactics like “show-and-tell” aimed at recruiting those willing to bring company secrets (and discriminating against those who would not).

This is enough to constitute a low-trust culture that self-perpetuates.

Surely given the size of China there are plenty of honorable people. And surely in the US there are many dishonorable people, as you’ve pointed out.

New comment by peyton in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

peyton — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:32:08 +0000

You get trustworthy people by trusting people. Generally when I was there there was a presumption of trust. Given how blatantly the defendants are alleged to have acted, that’s still the case.

New comment by peyton in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

peyton — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:33:59 +0000

They are white [1].

[1]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21211671-1997-revisi...

New comment by peyton in "Grok 4.5"

peyton — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:50:44 +0000

I just asked Deepseek “tips for organizing politically in China” and hit the guardrail.

New comment by peyton in "Fable is not a useful model"

peyton — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:30:33 +0000

I but skimmed the model card on release, but my impression was that there may be an incentive for this expert panel to exaggerate as a form of job security. A lot of the challenges seemed to be of the form “would this allow somebody who isn’t me to do what I do professionally?”

New comment by peyton in "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"

peyton — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:40:14 +0000

Interesting. It would be easy to detect hate speech client-side too I’d imagine. My phone already listens for certain words.

New comment by peyton in "Egypt Is Building a New Nile"

peyton — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:36:48 +0000

It was a narrow miss. There was a time the crown wanted everyone farming cotton, but entrepreneurs pitched arbitrage instead.

New comment by peyton in "How to sequence your own DNA at home"

peyton — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:12:13 +0000

Unfortunately you’d have no power to correct it. Even if such a thing were possible. I hope that changes.

New comment by peyton in "Resetting Xbox"

peyton — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:35:39 +0000

You’re saying that they should take the money people pay to buy Xboxes and put it in T-bills instead of delivering Xboxes? What happens when people ask where the Xbox they ordered is?

New comment by peyton in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

peyton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:51:20 +0000

Yep, those regulated marketing terms could use an update.

Regulators don’t make cures. There’s room to improve on that side of the system.

Especially as emerging approaches seem to be trending more systems-thinking-oriented, eg “this will strengthen your immune system to fight lots of diseases.”

New comment by peyton in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

peyton — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:07:34 +0000

Look up the Curley Effect for an explainer of what might be going on. I’m not Swedish but feel it may be worth examining given their rhetoric.

New comment by peyton in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

peyton — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:36:55 +0000

APA guidelines come with expiration dates [1]. 10 years is the maximum.

Churn is built in to the specialty. Read into that what you will.

[1]: https://www.apa.org/practice/guidelines/criteria?item=5

New comment by peyton in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You"

peyton — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:12:29 +0000

They have capital controls. Good luck moving yuan instead of Labubus.

New comment by peyton in "To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system"

peyton — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:39:43 +0000

It’s clearly AI-assisted.

New comment by peyton in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

peyton — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:35:50 +0000

I’m not. This is a serious comment.

New comment by peyton in "A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech"

peyton — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:31:34 +0000

Yes, that’s how I read your comment. There are narrow circumstances but no general principle. To generalize from narrow circumstances is simply misguided, so I commented.