Hacker News: Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MetacelsusHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:37:49 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"]]>>Legit password resets for example come from more random top level domains with "microsoft" in it, like microsoftonline.com

Or aka.ms

]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:15:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612819Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612819https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612819<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"]]>Yeah, missing the booster sep was a real bummer

]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:04:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608316Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608316https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608316<![CDATA[Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences]]>Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10078-y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607879

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]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:18:52 +0000https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10078-yMetacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607879https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607879<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies"]]>Interestingly, in "The Island" Dr. Merrick pitched investors on growing brainless clones, but actually kept the brains in, because it worked better (and gave him a labor supply).

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:17:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580898Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580898<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies"]]>Anecephaly is a thing. Though those babies don't survive much past birth.

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:16:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580892Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580892https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580892<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "25 Years of Eggs"]]>And if the price reflected the externalities of factory farming, eggs would be even more expensive!

]]>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:56:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478826Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478826https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478826<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication"]]>IN MICE

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:03:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358464Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358464https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358464<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study"]]>As a stem cell biologist: my guess is that it doesn't help much

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:37:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227264Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227264https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227264<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"]]>I'm glad to see Dario and Anthropic showing some spine! A lot of other people would have caved.

]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:02:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173397Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173397https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173397<![CDATA[Ovelle Bio Wants to Give Women More Eggs]]>Article URL: https://www.corememory.com/p/this-startup-wants-to-give-women

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139829

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]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:25:04 +0000https://www.corememory.com/p/this-startup-wants-to-give-womenMetacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139829https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139829<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"]]>According to benchmarks in the announcement, healthily ahead of Claude 4.6. I guess they didn't test ChatGPT 5.3 though.

Google has definitely been pulling ahead in AI over the last few months. I've been using Gemini and finding it's better than the other models (especially for biology where it doesn't refuse to answer harmless questions).

]]>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:05:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991427Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991427https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991427<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"]]>MS sucks. We need to end Epstein-Barr virus!

]]>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:42:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919716Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919716https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919716<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy"]]>It was known in 2006 but rediscovered recently: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060281113A1/en

]]>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:33:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918436Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918436https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918436<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy"]]>The Church lab came up with this in 2006, sadly it never took off: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060281113A1/en

]]>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:31:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918413Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918413https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918413<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"]]>>"What is 2+2?" apparently "Applied.....*_dAK[...]" according to my iPhone

At least the machine didn't say it was seven!

]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:53:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851500Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851500<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89"]]>>Harold Shipman Saved the lives of thousands

Probably not though, I don't think a typical GP saves thousands of lives

]]>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:15:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845669Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845669https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845669<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy"]]>Next up: "Coffee in Austria recalled due to high concentrations of heavy metals"

]]>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:08:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845628Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845628https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845628<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?"]]>>“The fact that the paper still exists means that medical students, pharmacy students, and, presumably, genetics students are being taught this as if it’s a real thing, and it has implications,” Juurlink told Scherer.

Yup. This paper was a lesson in my genetics class (2017)

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:17:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808653Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808653<![CDATA[New comment by Metacelsus in "Mystery of the Head Activator"]]>Reminds me a lot of Andrew Schally's "growth hormone releasing hormone" that turned out to be a contaminating peptide derived from pig blood.

]]>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:01:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713863Metacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713863https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713863<![CDATA[Prototaxites]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713851

Points: 3

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]]>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:58:42 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrototaxitesMetacelsushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713851https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713851