<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Protostome</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Protostome</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:39:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Protostome" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Protostome in "Beyond Git: Real-Time Version Control for Godot – Lilith Duncan – GodotCon 2026 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is so cool. 
One of the thing that was truly missing in Godot.</p>
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<p>Oh, so that's what you were aiming for, LOL<p>there are many reasons for this chimera not to be viable, 
mitochondria co-evolves with the nuclear DNA, you can't just take a mitochondria from a totally different species</p>
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<p>I will let the experts continue from here :) 
This review is from 2020, i bet things have progressed since then<p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7169912/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7169912/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:55:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743154</link><dc:creator>Protostome</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Protostome in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mitochondria can be translplanted/replaced. There already therapies and babies born out of these kinds of procedures</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:43:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743089</link><dc:creator>Protostome</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Protostome in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you encounter any mistranslation here specifically? it's pretty easy to translate the video with Gemini or a different AI tool. I did it - I ran it through ElevenLabs transcription and GPT5.5 based translation of the transcript, this is what I got:<p>00:00:16,479 --> 00:00:34,520 [Speaker 0]
And I pray in every prayer — every prayer, every prayer — that I, your father, your sisters, girls and boys, all of you, will be martyrs for the sake of God. When death comes to us, may our whole family be martyrs for the sake of God. And of course, I am proud of Muhammad. I am proud, praise be to God. I mean, praise be to God, praise be to God, all my children are religious and good.<p>00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:34,919 [Speaker 1]
God has willed it / God bless.<p>00:00:34,919 --> 00:00:49,959 [Speaker 0]
And I, praise be to God — by God, by God — my children and my grandchildren, and all of their family, if all of them were martyred for the sake of God, I would be happy. I mean, praise be to God, I love this path. I mean, I feel that this path is salvation.<p>Clearly, there's no mistranslation here, the intention is very clear.</p>
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<p>Well, I presume you never had to make the choice between just living with rocket barrages as a daily routine, this is something that’s incredibly hard to fathom. For years and years.<p>Golda Meir once said that peace between Israel and the Palestinians will come once the Palestinians will love their children more than they hate the Jews.<p>Here is perhaps something that could sway your opinion 
<a href="https://youtu.be/g-xfCH3PQT0?si=aQ3O6g_0v_-2mzf_" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/g-xfCH3PQT0?si=aQ3O6g_0v_-2mzf_</a></p>
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<p>Again, children got killed because their school was used as a ground base to fire rockets from. Do you expect Israelis to allow Hamas rockets to fall in Israeli schools? That's not a reasonable expectation.<p>The choice hamas forces israel to make is cruel and inhuman, that is direct consequence of their radical islamic belief of martirdom. They do not see death like the same way as the west. To them (and I'm not talking about all palestinians, for sure, only Hamas senior leadership which governs Gaza) dead children is a weapon against Israel. In light of this, all their actions finally make sense:<p>1. No civil defenses, or shelters - just tunnels.
2. Firing from schools and hospitals, as well as hiding weapons and ammo in those places.
3. Arming and sending children to fight<p>That's the most reasonable explanation (which many palestinian extremists have even voiced themselves)</p>
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<p>Well, given that between 2015 and 2024 alone, the General Assembly adopted 154 resolutions against Israel. That's more than Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Russia, China *combined*, I find it a bit ... unfair, wouldn't you say?</p>
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<p>There are roughly 50 to 57 countries where Muslims make up the majority of the population. Add the countries that are heavily dependent on them, and you end up with a game that is often decided before a single ballot is cast.</p>
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<p>Well, every choice has a consequence. For Israel the choice was accept rockets fired on Israeli towns on a regular basis(not settlements, btw, just towns within the 1948 UN recognized borders of Israel) or respond.<p>BTW, The response came after texting the residents, distributing leaflets and annoncening in every way possible that the place is going to be bombed.<p>BTW (2), For years Israel avoided bombing dense residential areas, despite knowing the origin of those rockets.</p>
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<p>"The International Court of Justice (ICJ; French: Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN)"<p>"The Court is composed of a panel of 15 judges elected by the UN General Assembly and Security Council for nine-year terms"<p>Literally, from the first few paragraphs of wikipedia. 
People don't read these days.<p>If the UN general assembly (mostly anti israel) selects the judges how is it "structurally independent of the UN"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:48:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643553</link><dc:creator>Protostome</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Protostome in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you saying that every militia and army use hospitals as a base from which to wage war? (e.g. firing rockets, artillery shells, etc)</p>
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<p>That's a slight mix of cause and effect. There is a shortage of construction material because Hamas uses it not for the wellbeing of the citizens of Gaza, but for the construction of border crossing tunnels into Israel.</p>
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<p>the UN claimed that the UN agency was just fine... no s**.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:54:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643075</link><dc:creator>Protostome</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Protostome in "StoryLab: Brand positioning – free. Full strategy, less than lunch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>another LLM wrapper?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:23:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602226</link><dc:creator>Protostome</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Protostome in "Tell HN: Claude is completely unusable for biology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here is a question that was just flagged: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/k90ce00" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/k90ce00</a><p>This is absurd</p>
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<p>I've found that doing basic biology research with Claude has become extremely difficult. I'm not talking about anything remotely related to developing a bioweapon, just straightforward immunology questions that almost always end up being flagged.<p>I completely understand the need for guardrails, but in practice they can significantly reduce the tool's usefulness for legitimate scientific research. It sometimes feels like the model is better suited for "vibe coding" than for serving as a serious research assistant.<p>What's more funny is that you can use claude code together with molecular design models like RFdiffusion and Alphafold to develop a real bioweapon, but since this is in the realm of software, the prompts do not get flagged at all.
Those models can even run on consumer GPUs so the limit of access is almost not there.<p>Has anyone else had a similar experience?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538686">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538686</a></p>
<p>Points: 17</p>
<p># Comments: 5</p>
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<p>There's nothing Israelis want more than give up their military. but when countries like Iran vow to "wipe israel off the map" and Hamas states in its covenant to annhilate all jews, what sane country would give up its army?<p>Second, Israel does not expand. On the contrary - Israel returned the Sinai Desert which is a territory x3 times its size back to Egypt for peace.</p>
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<p>Maybe, doing the actual negotiations, not just reporting on it from a known position</p>
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<p>Well, I didn't see anyone from Israel agreeing to a cease fire with Lebanon. did you?</p>
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