Hacker News: VerminOctopus1

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

VerminOctopus1 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:01:43 +0000

Comparing one model (which actually isn’t even the same model) over time doesn’t make sense. Also you’re moving the goalposts here, $28,350 base is not “cheap”

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "The Death of the Middle-Class Musician"

VerminOctopus1 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:24:26 +0000

Capitalism seems to be an optimizer for this type of “efficiency”. How far can we squeeze people for their labour before they are dying in the streets or rioting?

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

VerminOctopus1 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:36:47 +0000

This is just war crime denying spam. Words do not matter in the light of what the IDF actually did.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor"

VerminOctopus1 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:01:22 +0000

I tried using this to learn some basics of Mandarin Chinese. It was frankly a disastrous UX. I have no idea how to begin a useful lesson, the AI just started talking at me in full on Mandarin and asked me questions in Mandarin. How am I supposed to engage with this as a complete beginner?

The text generation and speed of speech also seems painfully slow at this time.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

VerminOctopus1 — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:30:44 +0000

You’re free to post whatever contrarian take you want. Be the change you want to see instead of complaining.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

VerminOctopus1 — Fri, 16 May 2025 03:15:51 +0000

The wealthy are already engaged in eugenics via IVF embryo selection. There are several American startups whose clientele are mainly rich SV types that want to optimize the genetics of their children.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "How much information is in DNA?"

VerminOctopus1 — Sun, 11 May 2025 02:41:38 +0000

Really? Creationists on HN? There are mountains of peer reviewed research articles you can read to see that evolution is real and evidence based. To claim otherwise is idiocy.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions"

VerminOctopus1 — Fri, 09 May 2025 19:20:42 +0000

Was it the Biden administration doing this? Are you sure this wasn’t happening at the university or state level?

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions"

VerminOctopus1 — Fri, 09 May 2025 19:15:47 +0000

You’re getting downvoted because of your childlike naïveté and/or willful ignorance. There is no hidden “very good reason” lurking somewhere. They are slashing and burning the federal government.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "Four Years of Jai (2024)"

VerminOctopus1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:08:01 +0000

Why do you dread this? It’s entirely possible that Jai is not good enough to compete, no?

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity"

VerminOctopus1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:56:30 +0000

Funny to read these comments when China is easily dwarfing all other nations in solar capacity and technology. You can make these dismissive comments all you want, but China is going to be at the forefront of “green” energy production this century.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity"

VerminOctopus1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:54:20 +0000

They’re simply not as good as the Chinese ones.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "The Dire Wolf Is Back"

VerminOctopus1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:07:49 +0000

This is a marketing gimmick and a frankly fraudulent claim. They edited a few genes in a wolf genome and called it a job well done ready for marketing. However, this is not a true recapitulation of the ancient genome of the dire wolf, rather a crude attempt at it. I’m not impressed.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "The Dire Wolf Is Back"

VerminOctopus1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 01:05:48 +0000

Where are you based? I’ve never heard this particular whinging before, the wolf populations across most of North America have been completely obliterated.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?"

VerminOctopus1 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:47:37 +0000

I really dislike your suggestion to eliminate the timer. You frame it like it’s objectively the better choice since you’re a professional - however it’s not. It’s a design decision that leads to a sense of urgency that many players enjoy. Games don’t need to be for everyone. This drive towards the most universally appealing, milquetoast design decisions neuters games.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "The Jakt Programming Language"

VerminOctopus1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:49:38 +0000

It seems like Andreas abandoned SerenityOS and Jakt with it, and moved on to Ladybird. The language died with this move. The project was always very clearly “for fun” so I don’t see any harm or foul here. I also got the sense that there was a falling out between Andreas and some members of the community, like JT and one of the major JavaScript engine contributors whose name I can’t recall right now. Or maybe it was just that the passion for this particular project dried up.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%"

VerminOctopus1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:42:06 +0000

Tesla doesn’t have the engineering or supply chain chops to compete with the Chinese firms.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%"

VerminOctopus1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:37:02 +0000

Absolutely appalling that our precious Elon is being criticized on this holy bastion of tech, HN. Truly this is a sign of a total cultural collapse. Perhaps our ilk is better suited not participating in social media at all.

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself"

VerminOctopus1 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:36:04 +0000

New comment by VerminOctopus1 in "California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers"

VerminOctopus1 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:09:50 +0000

You can get pretty far through imputation. SNPs can reveal plenty about the rest of your genome even if it hasn’t been directly sequenced. Reference populations and linkage disequilibrium go a long way.