Hacker News: frigidwalnut

New comment by frigidwalnut in "Small Models Have Arrived"

frigidwalnut — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:19:04 +0000

Sounds interesting. Can you give more details on your workflow and what tasks you use it for?

Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?

frigidwalnut — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:52:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/can-extreme-morning-sickness-be-cured

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212338

Points: 3

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New comment by frigidwalnut in "Now AI agents need what RSS does"

frigidwalnut — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:15:52 +0000

What are your favorite feeds?

New comment by frigidwalnut in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

frigidwalnut — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:52:10 +0000

Sure that’s fine. They funded research that you think is wasteful and you would like to have tools to provide that feedback. The issue with this OMB change is that it is not that. The OMB change is a change that allows the administration to cancel any grant for any reason without answering to citizens about it.

BTW your “believe it or not” is quite condescending. Do you talk to people in real life like that?

New comment by frigidwalnut in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

frigidwalnut — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:17:06 +0000

I agree. This administration is ground zero for mismanagement of funds and outright corruption. Just look at the director of the FBI and former secretary of DHS. Both have used and continue to use tax payer money for personal use. It should make every tax payer livid.

New comment by frigidwalnut in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

frigidwalnut — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:48:36 +0000

Private citizens fund scientific research through their taxes. This has been the most practical way to fund science for decades.

FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket

frigidwalnut — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:07:54 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fbi-says-google-engineer-used-internal-search-data-to-win-1-2m-on-polymarket/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337737

Points: 2

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB's Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

frigidwalnut — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:55:21 +0000

Article URL: https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331257

Points: 1

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The Quickening

frigidwalnut — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:32:03 +0000

Article URL: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/the-quickening/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076455

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Companies building AI agents, do you build for a specific LLM provider?

frigidwalnut — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:04:52 +0000

Just curious if people tend to focus on e.g. OpenAI or are building LLM agnostic agents (and if so, how are you doing that?)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518716

Points: 1

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A.I. Deal Making Is Getting Faster and Faster

frigidwalnut — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:52:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/ai-deal-making-faster.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151338

Points: 4

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New comment by frigidwalnut in "Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition"

frigidwalnut — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:19:41 +0000

The paper linked in that post proposes a bottleneck at 900Kya in the ancestors of all modern humans. There is a bottleneck associated with the migration out of Africa and the peopling of the world that many populations have, but not all. Based on genetic data the timing is between 100-50Kya, with a lot of the uncertainty coming from converting generation times to years (i.e. how many years on average between parents and offspring). This is a nice reference: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature213...

New comment by frigidwalnut in "Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition"

frigidwalnut — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:31:29 +0000

Follow up work has shown that result is a statistical artifact/does not replicate [1,2,3].

[1]https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article-abstract/229/1/iya...

[2]https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/2/msaf041/8005733

[3]https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.25.586640v1

Harvard Sues Trump Administration over Move to Bar International Students

frigidwalnut — Fri, 23 May 2025 15:38:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/harvard-sues-trump-international-students-garber.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073829

Points: 10

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Chris Maple, creator of the iconic Pokémon logo, reveals his early design drafts

frigidwalnut — Wed, 21 May 2025 23:17:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/meet-the-man-who-designed-pokemons-iconic-logo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057221

Points: 2

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New research counts the ways your genes interact with your environment

frigidwalnut — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:22:12 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/how-your-genes-interact-with-your-environment-changes-your-disease-risk-new-research-counts-the-ways-252139

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985647

Points: 2

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1k Scientist AI Jam Session: Advancing science with the U.S. national labs

frigidwalnut — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:06:47 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/global-affairs/1000-scientist-ai-jam-session/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213730

Points: 2

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New comment by frigidwalnut in "Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research"

frigidwalnut — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:55:02 +0000

Thanks for that link. The Wikipedia article you referenced says "This view is now considered discredited by mainstream science."

There are still papers being written about how those analyses were flawed: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2319496121

New comment by frigidwalnut in "Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies"

frigidwalnut — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:53:22 +0000

Hello, I submitted this. Thanks for your concern. I've been lurking on Hacker News since ~2014 when I was in college. I made an account and started posting because people on the board have something of an interest in biology and genetics (for example this story on cancer detection from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035147 ) and I wanted to contribute. I posted this because the NIH funds a lot of research related to that and this story reports on a massive change to the NIH, which seemed worthy of discussion.

Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies

frigidwalnut — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:48:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050952

Points: 82

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