Hacker News: cyrillite

New comment by cyrillite in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"

cyrillite — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:35:04 +0000

I am actively researching this friction and others like it. I would love it if you happened to have recommendations for literature that 3rd parties can use to corroborate your experience (I’ve found some, but this is harder to uncover than I expected as I’m not in the field)

New comment by cyrillite in "Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf]"

cyrillite — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:19:34 +0000

Sometimes two sentences is the minimum necessary number of sentences, but everybody should be wary of that instinct

New comment by cyrillite in "Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years"

cyrillite — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:50:59 +0000

This appears to coincide with the rapid rise of my wealthier friends taking extended holidays in Croatia. It wasn’t the cool thing to do, now suddenly it’s a must-see place. I didn’t get the memo about that, apparently. I wonder if it’s having an impact or if it’s just a local phenomena that feels far larger to me

New comment by cyrillite in "Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial"

cyrillite — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:45:23 +0000

Not to mention that we really are much more similar to chimps than they’re giving us credit for. If we ate a relatively low calorie, high protein diet, and maintained an active lifestyle, we’d all be pretty damn muscular and lean. Not roided out muscular, but far more so than I think the average person expects. Our body composition is significantly determined by relatively near-zero fitness demands in modern life and an overabundance of the wrong kinds of calories

New comment by cyrillite in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

cyrillite — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:53:25 +0000

As Bitcoin increases in value, the reward for breaking into wallets grows. Satoshi’s is the ultimate target here, followed by wallets used to burn currencies. Some of these look like they’d only be brute forceable and that takes more time and energy than we think is plausible, but I suspect people will find the system isn’t as secure as expected in some weird and wacky ways as this bounty grows.

Although, I wonder if emptying the wallet is actually harder than breaking in, in some ways. Let’s say you get into Satoshi’s wallet (or they still have access), how do you move anything without spooking the entire market?

New comment by cyrillite in "Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages"

cyrillite — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:06:13 +0000

I have been thinking of a project extremely similar to this for a totally different purpose. It’s lovely to see something like this. Thank you for sharing it, inspiring

New comment by cyrillite in "New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation"

cyrillite — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:11:51 +0000

One of my favourite sci comms YouTubers explained this in great detail https://youtu.be/8JuWdXrCmWg

Highly recommend

New comment by cyrillite in "IBM's Dmitry Krotov wants to crack the 'physics' of memory"

cyrillite — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:46:10 +0000

I would love to read this and other material. Got links?

New comment by cyrillite in "I made a history timeline to learn what events happened around the same time"

cyrillite — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:43:02 +0000

I’ve been thinking about building precisely that sort of tech tree for a while, then extending it forwards in time to see if we can guess at how to work backwards from hypothetical technologies to where we are or if we can see obvious gaps

New comment by cyrillite in "Steve Jobs would have fired everyone"

cyrillite — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:18:52 +0000

I really like what they’re going for but I’m disappointed in the outcome (so far). Then again, Apple has always managed to have a glaring oversight in design somewhere — “just hold your phone differently!”

New comment by cyrillite in "Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?"

cyrillite — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:52:35 +0000

This sounds like you’ve found a citation ring, but with all the trimmings of legitimacy. Has it had similar benefits for your career?

New comment by cyrillite in "The average college student today"

cyrillite — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:53:01 +0000

In my experience it’s one or the other: attend all the lecturers and nullify the need to study more than that attendance and some specific exam revision if they drop hints or don’t attend but do the readings. I think a lot of being a successful student is cutting through all the duplicative work that gets thrown your way.

New comment by cyrillite in "How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)"

cyrillite — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:11:23 +0000

I have been doing this for purely aesthetic reasons my whole life. Style guides be damned, I hate connected em dashes.

New comment by cyrillite in "How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon"

cyrillite — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:01:17 +0000

Don’t forget sex and randomly inferred things too!

New comment by cyrillite in "Artificial photosynthesis directed toward organic synthesis"

cyrillite — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:30:20 +0000

If we’re talking strictly about producing energy, yes, but this isn’t a method for more efficient or desirable solar energy production. This is an attempt to recreate the biomanufacturing processes of plants, so that we can use solar energy and rain to synthesise desirable organic compounds in situ. If we can do that, then it’s very exciting that we’ve blown plant efficiency out of the water before, because it means we should be able to do it in this domain too.

New comment by cyrillite in "Magnesium Self-Experiments"

cyrillite — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:07:54 +0000

Ah. I just checked a formulation for my old supplements v my new ones. I see increased magnesium. This was helpful

New comment by cyrillite in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

cyrillite — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:06:20 +0000

Where can one reliably learn about rare earths in the supply chain, refining abilities, what’s actually important for which tech, etc? I feel like I read very different views on this stuff all the time at different levels of granularity.

New comment by cyrillite in "Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them Within Weeks"

cyrillite — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:09:04 +0000

Having recently walked away from that exact situation miraculously unscathed (the teenage drunk drivers also managed to walk away somehow), that’s an interesting insight into the type of injury I avoided. Grim, scary, but very interesting. Glad you recovered.

New comment by cyrillite in "A decade later, a decade lost (2024)"

cyrillite — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:10:32 +0000

This would be a really good read if anything like it exists somewhere. Do you have notes, more to say, a direct link to relevant work, anything?

New comment by cyrillite in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

cyrillite — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:42:00 +0000

Yes. Adversity is only good for development if it’s a strong enough signal to require growth while also being within the range of adaptability, relative to your environment (support system, resources, etc.).

A given event might wipe out Child A, might cause adaptation in Child B, and might be within the recoverable range but above the adaptive threshold for Child C. The reliable path to growth is small but sufficient challenge, response, adaptation and recovery, repeat as frequently as is beneficial.