Hacker News: pnut

New comment by pnut in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

pnut — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:15:59 +0000

Sounds like VIP/head of state visit and terrible communication skills.

New comment by pnut in "Siri AI"

pnut — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:03:43 +0000

Pretty sure unaccountability is a desired feature of management decisions in most organisations.

That quote has an unexpressed precondition to the effect of "In order for an organisation to be objectively well run..." or "In order for an organisation to equitably benefit all stakeholders at all levels..." etc

New comment by pnut in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"

pnut — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:09:52 +0000

I walk slower and talk slower than I used to, and do both way slower than people I interact with.

I can appreciate things better by moving slowly, with more intention, conserving my concentration and energy for matters of substance.

Why must moving slowly be stigmatised?

I am surrounded by people talking at such a high rate, they start responding before the other person's sentence or thought is completely expressed.

My value at work has become disentangling messes made by people failing to communicate effectively, and the first step in addressing that problem is always, slow down.

You will not get 10% further in life by going 10% faster. People moving quickly, failed at planning. The entire mystery of the universe is accessible to you in your current location.

New comment by pnut in "Leviathan (1651)"

pnut — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:47:48 +0000

If you don't trust individuals, you're going to need an institution (or private security) to protect you from them. Police, laws, etc.

New comment by pnut in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

pnut — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:55:45 +0000

The president of the United States sets the tone that hated without reason or explanation is the way the system works now. Belligerence and power are the currency.

Speaking to people's better angels as if it has a chance of influencing Trumps behaviour is a fool's errand. It's not derangement. His word is worthless.

New comment by pnut in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

pnut — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:37:03 +0000

...and when your labour, and the labour of 90+% of all humans on the planet have no economic value, we'll do what?

Continue to avoid exploring obvious solutions because certain words have been made into epithets, or failed previously because they were solving future (now imminent) problems?

New comment by pnut in "The Waymo World Model"

pnut — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:42:43 +0000

Nope. Humans are statistically fallible and their attention is too valuable to be obliged to a mundane task like executing navigation commands. Redesigning and rebuilding city transportation infrastructure isn't happening, look around. Also personal agency limits public transportation as a solution.

New comment by pnut in "UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs"

pnut — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:08:16 +0000

Counterpoint - Governments are attempting to wrest political control away from coordinated global corporate fascists.

New comment by pnut in "Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it"

pnut — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:54:23 +0000

Does Rockstar count? https://codewithrockstar.com/

New comment by pnut in "The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice"

pnut — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:44:02 +0000

Rule of law and precedent are considered quaint and optional now.

But this centuries-old decision not encapsulated as a constutional amendment is binding?

Nope.

New comment by pnut in "A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera"

pnut — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:28:18 +0000

I don't doubt this description of what happened, but the sad irony in a company whose product was producing tools to generate archival copies of images, not recognising the value of retaining archival copies of images... facepalm.

New comment by pnut in "The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn"

pnut — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:06:36 +0000

I read that as "playing Grandma" and thought that was a pretty clever game concept.

New comment by pnut in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

pnut — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:32:19 +0000

Is that true, that it's money that belongs to people?

OpenAI isn't spending $1 trillion in hard earned cash on data centres, that is funny money from the ocean of financial liquid slushing around, seeing alpha.

It also certainly is not a cohort of accredited investors putting their grandchildren's inheritance on the line.

Misaligned incentives (regulations) both create and perpetuate that situation.

New comment by pnut in "Trade Chaos Causes Businesses to Rethink Their Relationship with the U.S."

pnut — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:28:59 +0000

Right, because that is a national emergency on the level of severity and immediacy of a foreign military invasion - which is the actual legal arguement put forward.

New comment by pnut in "RuBee"

pnut — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:04:37 +0000

Google says

> RuBee is an acronym for "Radio U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing",

Weirdly not related at all to Zigbee's naming origins, in spite of their technological similarity.

New comment by pnut in "Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)"

pnut — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:15:36 +0000

An idea compressed down into a single character is elegant and efficient.

New comment by pnut in "Unexpected things that are people"

pnut — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:34:30 +0000

And be completely unaccountable in criminal court, for the consequences of their actions.

Don't forget that one. All the rights, none of the responsibility.

New comment by pnut in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

pnut — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:54:09 +0000

Urbit IDs https://urbit.org/overview/urbit-explained/urbit-id

New comment by pnut in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

pnut — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:51:53 +0000

Yeah but think of the automated age discrimination during resume/CV screenings.

New comment by pnut in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

pnut — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:51:08 +0000

Why do we encourage microsecond scale HFT and tout its virtues, yet shut the market down for the majority of every day?

Why not go all the way and have markets running 24/7/365?