Hacker News: hlynurd

New comment by hlynurd in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

hlynurd — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:26:13 +0000

It still baffles me that some have children to have someone around them when they're old

New comment by hlynurd in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

hlynurd — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:01:18 +0000

> are not meant to

Because it hasn't happened?

New comment by hlynurd in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

hlynurd — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:59:42 +0000

A lot of parents are literally trying to live forever in some way by leaving a legacy.

New comment by hlynurd in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

hlynurd — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:20:48 +0000

Yeah we gotta put me on that list too. This is a weirdly specific prejudice.

New comment by hlynurd in "The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly"

hlynurd — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:58:24 +0000

Well, someone. But not necessarily anyone else.

New comment by hlynurd in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

hlynurd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:51:22 +0000

us really messed up there

New comment by hlynurd in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

hlynurd — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:51:16 +0000

Yeah that's more fair

New comment by hlynurd in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

hlynurd — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:39:21 +0000

>companies spent a long time telling us downloading single songs via Napster was the worst thing ever, before torrenting every book in existence themselves

really not the same entities here

New comment by hlynurd in "Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too"

hlynurd — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:53:24 +0000

That's fine, they just gotta tone down the victim rhetoric.

New comment by hlynurd in "P(doom)"

hlynurd — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:59:51 +0000

I can only speak for myself but dislike him for being a dangerous far-right, labor-exploiting oligarch.

New comment by hlynurd in "Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state election"

hlynurd — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:41:16 +0000

It's practically impossible to find a definition of far-right that they don't fall under.

New comment by hlynurd in "No AI Fridays"

hlynurd — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:57:28 +0000

As I've gotten older I've felt this more with every passing year (even before ai)

New comment by hlynurd in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

hlynurd — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:06:57 +0000

You would think it's in the interest of whoever is responsible for keeping those areas clean to offer garbage cans.

New comment by hlynurd in "Sol loves to cheat"

hlynurd — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:04:55 +0000

>Emotions aren't all learned, a lot of it comes wired in us because that's how we relate to others as a species and as animals, in general.

Yes and no. My understanding is that modern neuroscience is trying to disentangle the raw sensations and contexts from the words we put to them (emotions), kinda like how colors are just wavelengths but we call them different things (like "is my green your green?")

New comment by hlynurd in "Where Human Sleep Went Wrong"

hlynurd — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:25:01 +0000

If they have no frame of reference then it seems like their general contentedness is being measured (or as another commenter indicated, their willingness to gripe.)

New comment by hlynurd in "Where Human Sleep Went Wrong"

hlynurd — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:44:33 +0000

>the Hadza uniformly reported high satisfaction with their sleep.

And why wouldn't they? This is (presumably) the only kind of sleep they know.

New comment by hlynurd in "Superpowers, Not Superintelligence"

hlynurd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:02:16 +0000

You can plan and prepare my meals for me if you want to :)

New comment by hlynurd in "Superpowers, Not Superintelligence"

hlynurd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:57:49 +0000

Believe or not people pay for others to do this for themselves.

New comment by hlynurd in "Superpowers, Not Superintelligence"

hlynurd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:30:57 +0000

Thanks to people pioneering this I can spend a lot more time on the things I want.

New comment by hlynurd in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

hlynurd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:07:22 +0000

Is there a specific point you want to make or are you just vagueposting?