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New comment by John7878781 in "UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub"

John7878781 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:10:18 +0000

What are the pros/cons of just open-sourcing everything for future bio bank projects?

New comment by John7878781 in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"

John7878781 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:25:41 +0000

> 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?

New comment by John7878781 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

John7878781 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:11:43 +0000

> 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?

New comment by John7878781 in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

John7878781 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:02:35 +0000

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?

New comment by John7878781 in "[dead]"

John7878781 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:49:55 +0000

https://archive.is/352Jo

New comment by John7878781 in "ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'"

John7878781 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:30:08 +0000

I like the video recommendations.

New comment by John7878781 in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

John7878781 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:35:21 +0000

Is it just me or is this entire comment AI-generated?

New comment by John7878781 in "A Mystery Trader Made $400k Betting on Maduro's Downfall"

John7878781 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:27:27 +0000

It is well documented that Trump engages (directly or indirectly) in insider trading.

https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/oblb/blog-post/2025/04/most-far-r... https://www.propublica.org/article/us-officials-stock-sales-... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/10/trump-donor...

New comment by John7878781 in "MHRA approves self replicating mRNA Covid-19 vaccine"

John7878781 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:42:16 +0000

I am by no means dismissing this achievement. But can anyone explain to me the advantages of this over the current COVID vaccines? Is it more effective?

New comment by John7878781 in "UN Says US Raid on Venezuela Violated International Law"

John7878781 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:38:47 +0000

How shocking!

New comment by John7878781 in "Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects"

John7878781 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:36:20 +0000

I wonder if this could be used to gauge someone's optimism/pessimism.

New comment by John7878781 in "Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis"

John7878781 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:54:43 +0000

In some contexts (e.g., pancreas), 15-PGDH inhibition can promote tumor growth by increasing specific signaling.

MH370 Search Resumes

John7878781 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:28:39 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/mh370-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-disappear-mystery-92faaa6a15379e67cdceced91c329a2c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447420

Points: 5

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New comment by John7878781 in "Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once"

John7878781 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:52:14 +0000

It's not even loading for me (probably because it's a huge file).

New comment by John7878781 in "NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks"

John7878781 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:34:28 +0000

> What is the reason given for Chromebooks being used so much in US schools?

Chromebooks are much cheaper than Windows laptops.

Similarly priced chromebooks are also much more responsive than their Windows counterparts (mainly due to the OS being so optimized to run on crappy hardware). And you're right -- Linux might be a viable alternative here. But it's not like the corporate world runs on Linux.

New comment by John7878781 in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

John7878781 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:03:39 +0000

Reading all the other comments really puts a smile to my face (as cliche as that sounds).

New comment by John7878781 in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

John7878781 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:43:33 +0000

Yep. And trust is already at all time lows for science, as if it couldn't get any worse.

New comment by John7878781 in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

John7878781 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:59:23 +0000

> But the first clinical trial to test that theory has found that a common antiviral for herpes simplex infections, valacyclovir, does not change the course of the disease for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's.

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/antiviral-treatment-fail...

New comment by John7878781 in "Stackoverflow Outage"

John7878781 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:00:48 +0000

While LLMs may have used Stack Overflow data to get their start, I think it's reasonable to assume that this source of training data will no longer continue to be useful.

Therefore, as both a data source and a QA website, Stack Overflow has lost its relevance.

New comment by John7878781 in "Stackoverflow Outage"

John7878781 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:34:20 +0000

Stack Overflow is no longer relevant. Today, you can just ask Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT instead, and you don’t have to deal with the usual condescension.