Hacker News: jjoe

Partial reprogramming as a strategy for aging and disease

jjoe — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:38:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568163726000012

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662814

Points: 2

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New comment by jjoe in "Roadmap for using transcranial ultrasound to learn more about consciousness"

jjoe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:03:56 +0000

Direct link to PDF https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.08517

Sample three-pass analysis: https://papersplain.com/sample/773126d7f311ad4e14da9c408ba17...

Roadmap for using transcranial ultrasound to learn more about consciousness

jjoe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:55:50 +0000

Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-tool-could-tell-us-how-consciousness-works-0112

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608808

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jjoe in "Eat Real Food"

jjoe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:51:15 +0000

I processed the Scientific Report Appendices (PDF) through PaperSplain. I'm sharing the analysis here for those interested:

https://papersplain.com/sample/62d71c8ecb6411e042f346088c231...

New comment by jjoe in "Show HN: I built a tool to stop pretending I understood research papers"

jjoe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:42:38 +0000

The landing page has no-login samples you can checkout right away: https://papersplain.com/#samples

One of the available samples: https://papersplain.com/sample/c05c23b9cbf442206ede9c44ab983...

Show HN: I built a tool to stop pretending I understood research papers

jjoe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:36:13 +0000

I'm not a researcher. I'm just someone who gets unreasonably excited when a new paper drops in a field I have no business reading about. Protein folding? Fascinating. Quantum error correction? Sign me up. The problem is, jumping into a paper on topological qubits when your physics education stopped at "electrons go around the nucleus" is... humbling.

So I built PaperSplain for myself. It implements the Three-Pass Method – an actual academic reading technique where you read a paper three times at increasing depth. First pass: what's the paper about and why should I care? Second pass: what did they actually do, with attention to the figures that usually make or break my understanding. Third pass: what are the assumptions, limitations, and implications?

The idea isn't to replace reading the paper. It's to give me enough scaffolding that when I do read it, I'm not just pattern-matching words I've seen before. There's also a foundation survey that identifies prerequisite concepts I'm missing – turns out knowing what you don't know is half the battle.

The library already has a few hundred papers across different fields, and I keep adding more as I find interesting ones. You can borrow already analyzed papers or upload your own.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530528

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jjoe in "Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]"

jjoe — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:18:37 +0000

Three-pass method analysis of the paper: https://papersplain.com/sample/19d93721d4de21982ca5d81ec6396...

New comment by jjoe in "Decompiling the Synergy: Human–LLM Teaming in Reverse Engineering [pdf]"

jjoe — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:18:31 +0000

Three-pass method (How to Read a Paper) analysis: https://papersplain.com/sample/d6a099ae0c4327ede1bb24fcdc3db...

New comment by jjoe in "Ask HN: Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle"

jjoe — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:31:05 +0000

the struggle is believing I'm a founder of a startup when all I have is an idea and some code

New comment by jjoe in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

jjoe — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:49:59 +0000

Do you think usury is to blame for this aggressive and excessive push to make more money? Synonym for excessive here could be unethical

New comment by jjoe in "Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?"

jjoe — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:37:23 +0000

So they own the media...

New comment by jjoe in "FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go"

jjoe — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:47:13 +0000

Will definitely give it a shot this weekend. Any known quirks to be aware of on Pop!_OS 22?

"Trump is in Epstein files." Reason why they haven't been made public

jjoe — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1930703865801810022

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44195039

Points: 34

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Forensic crime scene reconstruction expert statement on MH370 footage

jjoe — Wed, 21 May 2025 22:47:35 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ScottRoderCSTM/status/1924202901850698131

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057029

Points: 2

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New comment by jjoe in "Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost"

jjoe — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:27:21 +0000

Surely there must be an uncensored, decentralized means for sending messages? What about banking...

Gordon Stare possibly captured MH370's disappearance

jjoe — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/JustXAshton/status/1921631448244609144

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002795

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by jjoe in "Ask HN: How to Monetize a Trading Strategy?"

jjoe — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:56:29 +0000

There's an inherent ubiquitous nature to the strategy. Kinda like the golden ratio or the elliott wave theory. They've been published and are ubiquitous but they still occur in charts.

But I understand that once the algos know about the strategy, it becomes targeted to oblivion. So maybe I need to muster out the strength and use it without publishing its source.

New comment by jjoe in "Ask HN: How to Monetize a Trading Strategy?"

jjoe — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:50:09 +0000

I'm burnt out on this front. Maybe I'll try again some day

Ask HN: How to Monetize a Trading Strategy?

jjoe — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:10:34 +0000

Hello HN

While studying price charts, I stumbled upon a high-probability trading strategy. My back testing has shown very good results. I haven't found anything like it online. While I'm not ready to share this strategy here yet, I have a few questions.

How would you go about sharing this strategy but at the same time monetizing it? Besides a book and maybe an online course, is there anything I can do to make a passive income out of this?

Thank you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42510506

Points: 2

# Comments: 6

New comment by jjoe in "Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help"

jjoe — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:53:13 +0000

Maybe reach out to Netflix's live streaming dept. since we all learn so much more from our own failures.

Cheers!