Hacker News: choult

New comment by choult in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

choult — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:29:35 +0000

But it _will_ reduce cortisol, which is known to increase the likelihood of infections

New comment by choult in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

choult — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:24:14 +0000

The writing was on the wall as soon as it went all-in on commercializing the tech.

This will never happen, LLMs are already being used very unsafely, and if this HN headline stays where it is OpenAI will quietly remove their charter from their website.

US and Israel launch attack on Iran

choult — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:34:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193410

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Electronic Artist/YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to Represent UK at Eurovision

choult — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:03:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygz17y5kdo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047071

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach

choult — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:33:28 +0000

Article URL: https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022669

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)

choult — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:27:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758450

Points: 316

# Comments: 230

New comment by choult in "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018)"

choult — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:00:03 +0000

_Fewer_

New comment by choult in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

choult — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:48:48 +0000

> Dictators will go to sleep just slightly more terrified tomorrow night.

The irony of someone who (presumably, from statements) voted for Trump saying this while their own country tortures, disappears and in some cases murders thousands, plus potentially rigged elections...

The Ridiculous Engineering of the World's Most Important Machine [video]

choult — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:29:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459398

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by choult in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

choult — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:04:24 +0000

It's Trump's version of Reagan's Star Wars - it's all bluster that we will not see any result of, and it will be quietly shelved by future governments.

New comment by choult in "Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers"

choult — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:24:27 +0000

Thanks for your contribution to this Ben - I was quite stunned by Megalag's finding, and I agree with you that it could definitely be characterized as wire fraud.

I think the very interesting wrinkle here is that, for the most part, their victims are corporations - meaning, sadly, that it's much more likely they will be prosecuted, either in civil or criminal court.

New comment by choult in "Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers"

choult — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:49:38 +0000

It's comparing Honey's behavior to a well-known and comprehended scandal. Simile is a tried and tested way (hah!) to explain otherwise potentially hard to understand or dry content.

It's not about the severity of the impact, its the fact that they were breaking the rules and explicitly coding to actively avoid being caught by testers.

Cocktail Distributed Key Generation

choult — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/cocktail-dkg.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46320465

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Updates to GitHub Actions Pricing

choult — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:47:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311118

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

X sues challenger for trying to 'steal' Twitter brand

choult — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:50:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/12/17/x-sues-challenger-operation-bluebird-for-trying-to-steal-twitter-branding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301952

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Fermi (FRMI) Is Down 33.4% After Key AI Tenant Cancels $150M Grid Funding Pact

choult — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:50:16 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fermi-frmi-down-33-4-030807469.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288454

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Merriam-Webster's human editors have chosen 'slop' as the 2025 Word of the Year

choult — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:12:15 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/merriam-webster.com/post/3m7zskzxxms2r

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282242

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by choult in "Saved by Stoppard"

choult — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:18:58 +0000

Headline: Saved by Stoppard

Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of “adjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival.

Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.

Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

Saved by Stoppard

choult — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/harrywallop.co.uk/post/3m6ykow3vvs2o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121407

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

OpenAI confirms major breach, exposing user's names, email addresses, and more

choult — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:08:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt/openai-confirms-major-data-breach-exposing-users-names-email-addresses-and-more-transparency-is-important-to-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069392

Points: 7

# Comments: 1