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New comment by Andr2Andr in "Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off"

Andr2Andr — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:51:58 +0000

Potential for failure is high, of course, an experiment might not have the desired outcome and a death of a few hundred mice would not lead to a cure of some disease, sure. But without trying for millions of times, scientists won’t find the one drug that works. If it saves at least person, isn’t the risk and cost of not trying to find the cure by all mean possible even higher?

New comment by Andr2Andr in "Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off"

Andr2Andr — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:46:51 +0000

Honestly I don’t get it. Why use a model of organs when you can use real organs in mice? If society had to choose: cure one extra disease variant and sacrifice a million mice in the process, or don’t. Shouldn’t the answer be obviously to use mice to save people lives? Honestly I don’t get it. How many lab rats is one person worth? Judging by some comments here, the answer would be they won’t trade mice lives for people lives?

New comment by Andr2Andr in "De-Brainrot Vacations"

Andr2Andr — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:15:02 +0000

This is the first time I see webmention used anywhere. Idea seems to be good, but it is not used for some reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmention

New comment by Andr2Andr in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

Andr2Andr — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:42:59 +0000

Oh! Then it makes sense! Missed that

New comment by Andr2Andr in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

Andr2Andr — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:06:33 +0000

Side by side images of exactly the same places one year apart would have been much better than the images in the article - combining left and right part from 2 years. Maybe it's just me, but the satellite images mostly were hard to read

How much "Brain Damage" can an LLM Tolerate? (2024)

Andr2Andr — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:57:16 +0000

Article URL: https://hawaii.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/blog/llm-brain-damage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960270

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Andr2Andr in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

Andr2Andr — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:23:49 +0000

It is bad at reverse direction though (LinkedIn -> English). If I give it LinkedIn post in corporate language, it doesn’t remove all the nonsense words. Could have been nice if it worked both ways

New comment by Andr2Andr in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

Andr2Andr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:46:17 +0000

What I see in a German university - no change for undergraduate CS degree, which still has 50% maths annd theoretical CS and is not affected by LLMs. But in a Master’s degree they offer really lots of ML courses - from basics to CV to hardware aware. Exams in those are written on paper without any aids.

Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial

Andr2Andr — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-in-social-media-addiction-trial/a-76028273

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071293

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Andr2Andr in "We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)"

Andr2Andr — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:53:37 +0000

Here is another classic: wrong password when standing. https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3v52p...

New comment by Andr2Andr in "TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin"

Andr2Andr — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:41:32 +0000

It is a bellwether trial, a test of sorts combining hundreds of similar cases. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwether_trial

New comment by Andr2Andr in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

Andr2Andr — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:24:24 +0000

Will it be possible to plot large graphs/ networks with thousands of nodes?

New comment by Andr2Andr in "Death by AI"

Andr2Andr — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:35:54 +0000

Here is the AI overview I got just now:

> Dave Barry, the humorist, experienced a brief "death" in an AI overview, which was later corrected. According to Dave Barry's Substack, the AI initially reported him as deceased, then alive, then dead again, and finally alive once more. This incident highlights the unreliability of AI for factual information.

New comment by Andr2Andr in "I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning"

Andr2Andr — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:26:44 +0000

How much approximately does it cost to rent these amounts of gpu + server?

New comment by Andr2Andr in "Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability"

Andr2Andr — Fri, 23 May 2025 08:19:21 +0000

Serious question - who and why would be using this tool? What is the use case? In other comments I have only seen exporting ChatGPT conversations to md