<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: TaupeRanger</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TaupeRanger</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:52:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=TaupeRanger" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very common press release/headline meme: the question in the title of the article is literally never answered (or the opposite of the headline's claim is true). This research plainly DOES NOT explain why certain mice got cancer and others didn't, let alone why smoking/UV rays cause cancer in some humans but not others.  There was no control group for exposed mice that would've allowed them to look at which biological differences made one group get tumors and the others not (the study doesn't appear to actually be interested in that question).<p>The language here is also pretty hyperbolic. We've known for decades that certain gene mutations cause increased cancer risk in the context of a certain genetic background (BRCA1/2, etc.). Using language like "for the first time" is just juvenile, or purposeful lying at worst.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:48:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111678</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "Bitchat is now on Radicle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And at least one comment references "Curtains for Zoosha"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:35:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049701</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even that would be false.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873667</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873667</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "GPT‑Live"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right, and to me it's refreshing to see a promo video that shows how the <i>real</i> product works, rather than a sanitized over-produced edit that takes out all the flaws.</p>
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<p>What do you mean? OpenAI has had a real-time voice model since August of last year. This is a new model with better performance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:45:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834920</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really? Are you under the impression that parrots are able to synthesize their input and create entirely new, useful outputs which they have never heard before?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:23:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806829</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whether Bender intended it or not, the term has an inherently pejorative sense. "Parroting" is not really indicative of what modern LLMs do. However, when most people bring it up as a criticism of "AI in general" in 2026, they're using it as a pointer to all of the social/environmental criticisms, rather than the technological capabilities.</p>
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<p>"Use Claude"<p>[the end]</p>
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<p>How in the world did you miss such obvious sarcasm?</p>
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<p>Really interesting - if I understood the article correctly, they're simulating this on conventional hardware, so in order to get the proposed benefits, it would need to be implemented in some other electronic medium.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:09:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48680366</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48680366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48680366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure you responded to an AI bot, looking at their comment history.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:06:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661961</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "The AirPods Effect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TLDR: "I think AirPods increase social isolation, I don't have much good evidence for it, and although I started the article by observing how many MORE Americans use AirPods, I completely contradicted myself at the end by pointing out how Germans, who apparently use AirPods <i>less</i>, are still <i>less</i> friendly/warm to strangers than Americans."<p>Suspiciously close to an AI slop article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:28:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598338</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Basketball players are extremely tall."<p>"Go tell that to the middle school travel team in my neighborhood."<p>Why are you even making this comment? The comment you responded to was <i>obviously</i> talking about median wages of the entire US population. Real Wages are near all-time highs - it's just a fact, you can look up the data yourself.</p>
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<p>Technical Analysis is Astrology, and Burry has predicted 17 of last the last 2 stock market crashes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:26:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555845</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The word "benefit" does not apply here. The only "benefits" patients and families care about are: 1) does the patient live longer, and/or 2) does the quality of life improve in a meaningful way? Amyloid plaques are a <i>surrogate</i> marker, and (as already explained by many people in this thread) have not been established as a causal factor in disease. In fact, some work has even suggested a <i>protective role</i> for plaques. So we do not have enough evidence to say that a 42% reduction in amyloid-beta IN MICE relays any benefit at all to humans.<p>You are correct that a series of clinical trials, which would take 7-10 years, would clear things up. But for now, we simply don't know.</p>
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<p>Flagged. Nonsense puff piece by the university. The headline itself is beyond terrible - this is a mouse model and would need years of further successful research to be able to say that it "restores memory" in any meaningful way, let alone in actual humans.</p>
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<p>You are wrong. This paper very clearly does <i>not</i> show that it "works".  The debate exists for a good reason - the very thing this paper claims to show is the <i>exact thing</i> the person you replied to was questioning. And that is a central question in all of Alzheimer's research.<p>There are dozens of studies that show mice improving their memory/spatial reasoning as Alzheimer's models. <i>None</i> of them have led to a proven improvement in longevity or quality of life for human Alzheimer's patients. Some of them slightly slow the progression, but even then you're getting into a gray area - is it really "better" to be stuck in the Alzheimer's fog for <i>longer</i>? Are we actually improving quality of life? It's unclear.<p>So no, in order for us to say that this approach "works", we would need randomized controlled clinical trials in <i>humans</i> showing a strict improvement in quality of life and/or longevity. This is not even close to that level of evidence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:14:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543456</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have had a family member die of pancreatic cancer before age 60. It is, of course, terrible beyond belief. I'm not sure what you mean by "SOP" in this context. Referencing a bio-plausible mechanism is not actually clinically meaningful. It can provide a direction for study, but does not replace an actual clinical trial. As I said, "a patient can try anything they want".<p>But since we don't actually know whether such a recommendation will harm or help any individual patient, no one should be taking this recommendation as advice, and at the very least you should not be "highly recommending" specific dietary changes to people based on one anecdotal experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:58:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521900</link><dc:creator>TaupeRanger</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48521900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TaupeRanger in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are working on getting in vivo studies going from what I remember - it's going to take a positive result in a trial on real patients to get attention - that's just how medicine works. You have to show it actually improves longevity and/or patient quality of life before anyone has a reason to care.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, anecdotes are not data, and although a patient can try anything they want, there is no way to know that such dietary changes are beneficial or potentially harmful for most patients without doing a randomized controlled trial and hoping for strong adherence from the participants.</p>
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