Hacker News: John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=John7878781Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:43:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind"]]>Frankly, I haven’t been impressed with AlphaGenome at all. What use cases have had good results for you?

IMO, out of all the products with the “Alpha_____” branding, AlphaGenome is the most underwhelming.

]]>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:23:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964160John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964160https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964160<![CDATA[What's at the center of Claude's mind?]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKV5JcALQoQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48809905

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:16:49 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKV5JcALQoQJohn7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48809905https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48809905<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Pre-2022 Books"]]>Interestingly, you're actually more likely to be flagged as AI if English is your second language.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:27:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614042John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614042https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614042<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "India's surprise baby bust"]]>Given that intelligence is ~60% genetic, if well-educated people are having kids less, then are we going to start getting dumber?

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:44:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416559John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416559https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416559<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia, a school I have no connection with"]]>Abolish SSNs.

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:21:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404795John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404795https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404795<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"]]>AI mode isn't that terrible.

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 16:47:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296921John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296921https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296921<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"]]>This sounds completely absurd. What's stopping me from starting up a bunch of LLCs or Trusts to rig the vote?

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 15:20:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295675John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295675https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295675<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Google Antigravity 2.0"]]>Run the following two commands in your terminal while inside the ~/Antigravity-x64 directory:

sudo chown root:root chrome-sandbox

sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:47:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197563John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197563https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197563<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"]]>They work for me.

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:20:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197170John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197170https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197170<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action"]]>[deleted]

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:07:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196935John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196935https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196935<![CDATA[Google Antigravity 2.0]]>Article URL: https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity-2-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196838

Points: 16

# Comments: 10

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:01:41 +0000https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity-2-0John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196838https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196838<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss"]]>Do you worry about having an increased risk of Alzheimers/Dementia?

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:38:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923043John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923043https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923043<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss"]]>Why are you so hostile?

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:37:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923028John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923028https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923028<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub"]]>What are the pros/cons of just open-sourcing everything for future bio bank projects?

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:10:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882057John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882057https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882057<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"]]>> Two bird populations living in the same locale but divided by a mountain range therefore not naturally breeding with each other would classify as a different species, even if they could breed with each other.

Really? I thought the requirements for species classification were: (1) must be able to reproduce and (2) offspring must be fertile.

Is it less objective than that?

]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:25:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813125John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813125https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813125<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"]]>> it just a statistical model, text-in, text-out (and it humans that feed the input and act on the output).

You're not thinking long-term. What happens when AI is put in charge of systems that interact with the physical world?

]]>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:11:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741404John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741404https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741404<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"]]>Is it just me or does this metaphor sound AI generated?

> It is like a memory leak that keeps sucking resources while growing exponentially until the system crashes. The real question for an economist is how much ram has the system and how much the memory has leaked?

]]>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:02:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838967John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838967https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838967<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "[dead]"]]>https://archive.is/352Jo

]]>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:49:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698735John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698735https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698735<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'"]]>I like the video recommendations.

]]>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:30:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653088John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653088https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653088<![CDATA[New comment by John7878781 in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"]]>Is it just me or is this entire comment AI-generated?

]]>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:35:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648356John7878781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648356