Hacker News: Biologist123

New comment by Biologist123 in "Tesla Roadster"

Biologist123 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:34:42 +0000

Called my kids to watch: “you’re seeing history”, etc.

Kids: “that’s not really flying”.

New comment by Biologist123 in "How El Niño Made the Atlantic Hurricane Season Disappear"

Biologist123 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:27:43 +0000

I don’t know about you, but for me, little could be worse than being stuck in a doomsday bunker.

New comment by Biologist123 in "Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances"

Biologist123 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:25:38 +0000

The devil’s own horseman, whipping the horses on: “faster, faster, more compute! But I might also just ride this carriage over the cliff!”. Laughing maniacally as he goes.

Which one is it, Dario?

New comment by Biologist123 in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

Biologist123 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:27:35 +0000

Corporate law.

New comment by Biologist123 in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

Biologist123 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:26:49 +0000

Fair enough.

New comment by Biologist123 in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

Biologist123 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:43:55 +0000

Thanks - useful to think about as I try and wean myself off the novel information highs. I’ve been consciously aware of the problematic aspect of my behavior since about the pandemic - but struggle to make much change.

New comment by Biologist123 in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

Biologist123 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:40:19 +0000

That’s a good point. Internet addiction didn’t have a name, or a stigma, in the way alcohol or other drugs did so in a sense I had no idea that the slide I was on was harmful. It also felt a lot like what I did a lot of at university - library research.

New comment by Biologist123 in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

Biologist123 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:36:13 +0000

I don’t think I’m necessarily caught in a doom loop news cycle. My reading habits are around philosophy, sociology, anthropology, technology.

That’s not to say I’m immune to clickbait!

New comment by Biologist123 in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

Biologist123 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:59:57 +0000

> People increasingly behave like addicts because addiction is the business model.

I sense my internet addiction got a lot worse in recent years. I don’t use social media, but I consume news, blogs and newsletters - and comment threads - voraciously.

I think the addiction began as soon as I started to work at a desk behind a computer which had internet access - 20+ years ago. Like putting an alcoholic to work behind a bar and thinking he’d restrain himself.

It seems to have worsened in recent years. I’d like out, but the dealers are on every corner.

New comment by Biologist123 in "Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout"

Biologist123 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:36:49 +0000

And the rest you squander. (RIP George Best).

New comment by Biologist123 in "Premier league bans gambling sponsors"

Biologist123 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:17:42 +0000

Blimey. This surprised me. But I see Labour also run one.

I suspect more influential is gambling industry lobbying and sinecures.

New comment by Biologist123 in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

Biologist123 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:06:06 +0000

> As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis.

I work in mediation and have recently seen a few cases where I’ve wondered if the participants were suffering from AI psychosis as related to their claims: where they’d constructed their legal cases hand-in-hand with an LLM and had become absolutely convinced despite a contestable set of facts.

People have always been subject to delusion, but in these cases, all documentation submitted was obviously created by chatbots.

New comment by Biologist123 in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

Biologist123 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:31:42 +0000

Ummm, whose that?

New comment by Biologist123 in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

Biologist123 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:37:17 +0000

Are they serious when so much of training was on illegally acquired data?

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

New comment by Biologist123 in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Biologist123 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:13:34 +0000

Is this a new record for enshittification?

New comment by Biologist123 in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"

Biologist123 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:14:14 +0000

Eh? The more standard view is that Clegg put in place efforts to ward off regulation as long as possible…he’s as popular as Jimmy Savile in the UK.

New comment by Biologist123 in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

Biologist123 — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:02:33 +0000

Err…becuase we speak Scottish not English.

New comment by Biologist123 in "Show HN: Omi – watches your screen, hears conversations, tells you what to do"

Biologist123 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:33:23 +0000

I guess you have to turn it on. Might be handy for things like electrician courses, DIY jobs, maths homework etc. Maybe one day even surgery!

New comment by Biologist123 in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

Biologist123 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:10:51 +0000

Well done. This is precisely what the future will look like. I’ve hacked together my own version of this using N8N whereby I feed in tasks via text or photo through telegram and it outputs a to do list. At some point I’ll link it to my personal wiki and then have it action tasks. This was just a fun project, but one design decision is to keep third party services away from commercially sensitive emails.

New comment by Biologist123 in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

Biologist123 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:43:15 +0000

Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!