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New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra"

Feuilles_Mortes — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:31:38 +0000

i'm hesitant to say, since the "data format" was actually just a password-protected zip file. claude was actually able to find the password in the decompiled .exe to extract the data in the zip... but i'm worried if i'm public about it, they'll change the password!

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra"

Feuilles_Mortes — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:02:37 +0000

claude code helped me get access to the raw files from a scientific instrument we use in the lab all the time, but which won't give us raw data (only PDF reports). claude asked me for the .exe, which it promptly decompiled and reverse engineered the data format, and then helped me write my own analysis suite for the raw data. super cool.

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "So where are all the AI apps?"

Feuilles_Mortes — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:13:52 +0000

I like using it to make personal apps that are specific to my use-case and solve problems I've had for ages, but I like my job (scientist), and I don't want to run an app company.

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "Ask HN: Did Claude Code just bump Opus default to 1M context?"

Feuilles_Mortes — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:29:05 +0000

Yes, was also just announced on twitter.

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

Feuilles_Mortes — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:53:38 +0000

I do hear what you're saying, and I've wrestled with "not everything should / can be an app". That being said, I'm still trying to solve food (for myself) with computers, haha.

Right now, that looks like trying to create a nutritionally-optimal "dog food for humans", using combinatorial optimization solvers. I think I'm going to write something up as a post when it becomes a bit more feature-complete.

It's living at chow.seanjohnsen.com if you're curious! Would love feedback from someone who has thought along these lines.

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

Feuilles_Mortes — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:07:40 +0000

What I would really want is for this to be a hardware button that, without requiring input on the phone itself, starts and stops a recording on my iphone which uses my airpods as a mic.

This would actually be super helpful in the lab, dictating notes on a protocol ("I did something weird in this step") without needing to stop to write things down (sometimes protocol is quite time-sensitive).

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

Feuilles_Mortes — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:43:25 +0000

shouldn't we expect that all of the companies are doing this optimization, though? so, back to level playing field.

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "Macro Splats 2025"

Feuilles_Mortes — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:40:39 +0000

Wow this would be lovely for my Drosophila lab.

OmniFocus 4.7 supports Planned Dates

Feuilles_Mortes — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnifocus-4.7-now-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030255

Points: 2

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New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "Code formatting comes to uv experimentally"

Feuilles_Mortes — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:23:46 +0000

But you have to know about ruff. I didn't, but I did know about uv.

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

Feuilles_Mortes — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:30:03 +0000

for doing laboratory work in my PhD, I've found no better app than OmniFocus. It's particularly valuable in its ability to create tasks via a templating system. This is crucial, for example, for managing 10+ genetic crosses at a time. Each cross takes weeks to move to the next step, but when that next step occurs, I need to be on top of the cross 2x / day. Juggling different crosses at different stages would be impossible for my brain without a system I can rely on. Other lab work follows similar workflows.

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

Feuilles_Mortes — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:35:03 +0000

Instead of writing the counting tool he could have used the Multi-Point Tool in ImageJ [1] [2]. I used it just this morning for counting some embryos I collected.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhFNiPsVRoM

[2] https://fiji.sc/

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "Model Organisms Are Not Static"

Feuilles_Mortes — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:38:45 +0000

biology is hard

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "Model Organisms Are Not Static"

Feuilles_Mortes — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:38:56 +0000

C. elegans is nice for this since you can freeze stocks in glycerol. Labs routinely go and thaw out the main wild-type reference stock if the lab stock has been around for too long.

Now I'm in a fly lab and no one's really figured a good way to freeze a fly stock down for long-term storage. So we're left to just accept some degree of background mutation and generally assume that it's not impacting our experiments too much...

New comment by Feuilles_Mortes in "Serious errors plague DNA tool that's a workhorse of biology"

Feuilles_Mortes — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:45:28 +0000

Before these companies like plasmidsaurus that do whole-plasmid sequencing for relatively cheap with nanopore, people generally only sequenced a region of interest using sanger sequencing. The rest of the plasmid was assumed to be mostly correct, as long as it grows on a bacterial resistance. As noted in the article, the rise of nanopore-based whole-plasmid sequencing has reduced a lot of these types of errors.