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New comment by hawkjo in "Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated"

hawkjo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:33:15 +0000

Allegory, Reference, Anthology, Edict, Appendix

New comment by hawkjo in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

hawkjo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:10:06 +0000

And Yoshi. And Pfirsich, which is Peach in German

New comment by hawkjo in "'Ten Martini' Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals"

hawkjo — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:35:52 +0000

The cantor set exists in a real phenomenon? Any real phenomenon? That makes me feel like we live in a simulation perhaps more than anything else I’ve heard. This story is a nice description of the people, but I want more on implications. What is going on here?

New comment by hawkjo in "New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden"

hawkjo — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 09:17:48 +0000

Producing large quantities of drug resistant bacteria sounds at least BSL3. The principle might make sense, but one wouldn’t “spray the fields” of something like that.

New comment by hawkjo in "Talkin’ about a Revolution"

hawkjo — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:52:34 +0000

Nice article, but framing it around the doomsday clock felt like the author just needed to express his angst on whatever page was in front of him

New comment by hawkjo in "Apple squandered the Holy Grail"

hawkjo — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:54:27 +0000

This comment and the article they came from are a perfect snapshot of this moment. The fact that major players at each company have made public statements about the philosophical definition of what a photo is. I mean, of course they have. Of course. The times be wild.

New comment by hawkjo in "Kelly Can't Fail"

hawkjo — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:12:46 +0000

Very cool to see no variance in the outcome. But that also makes it feel like there should be a strategy with better expected return due to the unique problem structure. Do we know if the Kelly strategy is optimal here?

New comment by hawkjo in "The backlash against the world's most hated font may be ending"

hawkjo — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:08:57 +0000

Comic Sans getting all this hate… Papyrus is feeling left out

https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?si=8qENZvgeBrRdB-xp

New comment by hawkjo in "Meditations on Moloch (2014)"

hawkjo — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 01:27:53 +0000

Beautiful

New comment by hawkjo in "Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain"

hawkjo — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 14:48:40 +0000

The contents of disc 3 are the same as disc 2, even though the file is named correctly. Is there another link for that one?

New comment by hawkjo in "Mars’s Soundscape Is Strangely Beautiful"

hawkjo — Mon, 02 May 2022 21:15:55 +0000

Thank you! Frustrating this was not obvious in the article

New comment by hawkjo in "Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?"

hawkjo — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 22:55:02 +0000

This is amazing! The rest of this thread completely buried the lead. Delightful.

New comment by hawkjo in "5k Year Old Bog Oak Table: Digging up 4k-year-old trees for furniture"

hawkjo — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 20:24:48 +0000

So, how do we find out when they put it on display at Ely Cathedral?

New comment by hawkjo in "AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology"

hawkjo — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 23:04:23 +0000

So how fast does the prediction model run? Will they soon be publishing predictions for millions of known sequences?

New comment by hawkjo in "Awfice – A collection of tiny office suite apps"

hawkjo — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:26:44 +0000

Love the package name Awfice. Aww.

Why Scientists Stored “The Wizard of Oz” in DNA

hawkjo — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:34:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33327626/scientists-encoded-wizard-of-oz-in-dna/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23967996

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New comment by hawkjo in "Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera"

hawkjo — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:14:07 +0000

I have to also mention nandgame.com here. Similar idea, but all presented as an interactive, browser-based game. Start with nand gates and build up to a functioning computer. You never get to tetris, but it's great and super easy to start playing/learning. Delightful.

New comment by hawkjo in "The Life of a Data Byte"

hawkjo — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:00:57 +0000

Cool article. Another future method is the use of DNA (e.g. [1], [2]). Not good for speed, but with more development it could become a great solution for large-volume, low-access archival data.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage... [2] https://www.catalogdna.com

New comment by hawkjo in "Frink"

hawkjo — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:14:00 +0000

What does this do that mathcad doesn’t?

Promising new CRISPR “prime editor” uses more precise editing mechanism

hawkjo — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:02:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/new-prime-genome-editor-could-surpass-crispr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325235

Points: 1

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