Hacker News: gdrift

New comment by gdrift in "Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair"

gdrift — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:48:10 +0000

Happened to me too with a new chair.

I suspected static electricity. The solution was a thin cotton pillow on the seat. Problem gone.

New comment by gdrift in "We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History"

gdrift — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:44:59 +0000

Freedom, Security, Convenience. Choose two.

WhatsApp will soon join the premium subscription club

gdrift — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:03:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.androidpolice.com/whatsapp-will-soon-join-the-premium-subscription-club/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311829

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Russia investigating Telegram founder Durov as part of criminal case

gdrift — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:30:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/russia-investigating-telegram-founder-durov-part-criminal-case-rossiyskaya-2026-02-24/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133561

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by gdrift in "[dead]"

gdrift — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:56:07 +0000

This maybe?

https://zropi.com/

A man making millions from exposing scientific scandals

gdrift — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/21/sholto-david-exposing-lazy-scientific-studies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707051

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Anthropic's Claude AI became a terrible business owner in an experiment

gdrift — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:54:11 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/anthropics-claude-ai-became-a-terrible-business-owner-in-experiment-that-got-weird/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44420602

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

An instantaneous voice-synthesis neuroprosthesis

gdrift — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:16:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09127-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413361

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Kraft Heinz promises to eliminate all chemical food dyes within two years

gdrift — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:32:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/heinz-kraft-food-dye-removal-foods-b2771502.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300400

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Cellular 'trash' reveals new immune defense mechanism against bacteria

gdrift — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 06:33:33 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-cellular-trash-reveals-immune-defense.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277092

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025

gdrift — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/appstore/android/faq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113397

Points: 221

# Comments: 195

What really doomed the ‘unsinkable’ Bayesian?

gdrift — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:25:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/how-bayesian-yacht-sank-evidence-mike-lynch-storm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42526635

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Music Player Daemon

gdrift — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:53:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.musicpd.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42518492

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement

gdrift — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:10:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr3837

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42321517

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The association between sleep duration trajectories and successful aging

gdrift — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-20524-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42106547

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

NextSilicon Launches Maverick-2, Software-Defined Acceleration for HPC Workloads

gdrift — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:43:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/nextsilicon-launches-maverick-2-introducing-software-defined-acceleration-for-hpc-workloads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42021367

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Vampire Domestication: Taming Yesterday's Nightmares for a Better Tomorrow

gdrift — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:27:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rifters.com/real/progress.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423612

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Brazilian judge orders suspension of X in disinformation battle

gdrift — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:48:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/30/brazil-suspends-x-musk-moraes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404278

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by gdrift in "Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth"

gdrift — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 14:18:20 +0000

That hasn't changed. It's still ~90% junk.

  Total Essential/Functional (so far) = 8.7%
  Total Junk (so far) = 65%
  Unknown (probably mostly junk) = 26.3%

  https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2011/05/whats-in-your-genome.html
  https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/theme-genomes-junk-dna.html

New comment by gdrift in "Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth"

gdrift — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 14:07:26 +0000

Still 90% junk.

https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2011/05/whats-in-your-genome.h...