Hacker News: Biologist123

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!

New comment by Biologist123 in "How important was the Battle of Hastings?"

Biologist123 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:06:25 +0000

The UK has land ownership inequality comparable to South Africa and Brazil. Quite something.

New comment by Biologist123 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

Biologist123 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:24:11 +0000

Maybe add climate change is real but there’s little we can do to stop it/change the systems which result in it.

New comment by Biologist123 in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

Biologist123 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:29:39 +0000

Not enough is understood about the replication crisis in the social sciences. Or indeed in the hard sciences. I do wonder whether this is something that AI will rectify.

New comment by Biologist123 in "Erich von Däniken has died"

Biologist123 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:30:56 +0000

Thank you. This was well-written and made a point I think I needed to see set out in this form.

> We cannot go through our days questioning everything all the time if we want to remain functional, some things we will have to take for granted.

On reading this, it struck me how much of the world we engage with on these terms. And how much of the information soup we live in seems designed to persuade us of things being just so.

Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives

Biologist123 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:06:03 +0000

Article URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.70035

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330249

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Biologist123 in "Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities"

Biologist123 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:13:47 +0000

There’s an alternative theory that cities need to be bit chaotic:

“The Uses of Disorder analyzes human development at the personal and collective level in wealthy cities, presenting the thesis that such cities are excessively ordered and thereby enable residents to avoid personal growth or change. Instead of relying on prescriptive plans and rigid self-conceptions, Sennett argues, people should remain open to difference and disorder while city life ought to be more disorderly and decentralized.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uses_of_Disorder

New comment by Biologist123 in "Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does"

Biologist123 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:04:18 +0000

Great idea! May I ask what the information source is?

Coinbase's musical ad satirises the state of Britain

Biologist123 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:04:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.creativereview.co.uk/coinbase-musical-ad-everythings-fine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082853

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by Biologist123 in "Online news publishers face extinction-level event from Google AI-powered search"

Biologist123 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:23:12 +0000

Thanks. V helpful. Especially the point about dopamine hits.