<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jmcgough</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jmcgough</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:58:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jmcgough" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlike AI, calculator use has been studied and shown to be useful for math education. Our understanding of these things evolved over time, however the results of this study are concerning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:13:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395284</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You need <i>some</i> baseline knowledge to be able to gauge the correctness of answers you get from AI and to be able to ask the right questions. Removing homework and exams seems very short-sighted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:56:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391708</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're seeing a generational loss of young talent that will be hard to reverse. PhD grads who would normally stay in the US after graduation are returning to their home countries. My American post-doc friends have had funding for cancer research, Alzheimer's research, Parkinson's disease; some have left the US, others are making plans to do so.<p>And for what? Any money we "saved" by killing our research pipeline has already wasted in a pointless, self-destructive war.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:08:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322260</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Half of people with Alzheimer's carry at least one APOE ε4 allele. <i>However</i>, a full quarter of the population carries that mutation, and most carriers never go on to develop Alzheimer's. Lifestyle matters a lot here.<p>This kind of misdirection is not helpful for educating people on changes they can make <i>now</i> to reduce their risk, rather than waiting for a silver bullet. Alzheimer's research is well-funded in the US as the octogenarians running our congress are personally invested in it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233249</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Source? There are so many explanations for that beyond just "bike lanes kill businesses".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982673</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is pretty different - in both of those, the officer faced consequences. Unidentified masked ICE officers have killed about a person a month with no consequences, many times over a civil concern (immigration status) or just getting annoyed with protesters who broke no laws. ICE is effectively a lethal extrajudicial force with no means of seeking accountability when they kill.<p>On top of that, they are acting aggressively and violently in broad daylight solely to terrorize immigrant communities. The chilling effect is very visible in hospital systems right now - I have seen far less Hispanics in the hospital for medical emergencies, and that includes people who are in this country legally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:18:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925783</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This new technique doesn’t just recycle materials; it recovers most of them at an unbelievable rate.<p>I'm so tired of reading articles written by LLM. There are several sites that just ingest material (like studies) and crap out low-effort LLM articles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:37:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902354</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902354</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thankful that California banned them, others should follow suit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:50:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877282</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>EMT now is often used as a stepping stone to a career with a liveable wage, like physician.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:31:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855439</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> most people die because vitamins, minerals, amino acids deficiency every day<p>The most common cause of death globally is cardiovascular disease. The people buying supplements from him are buying his longevity supplements which likely have limited benefits to anyone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:45:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837195</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He's going about this in the least scientific way, though. When n=1 and he has a million confounding variables, it reads more like fear of his own mortality than a meaningful research project. And this is a business for him now, he sells supplements through his Blueprint program.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:15:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834541</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't read like it's AI-written to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:43:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778431</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article isn't focused on LLM for code generation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:39:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778369</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Billionaires can spend unlimited money convincing people to oppose anything that benefits them, and we have an entire industry of social media influencers who get rewarded for stoking conflict. Citizens United passed in 2010 and everything has gone dramatically downhill since then.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:05:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758541</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think they're arguing that a somatic cell from an older human contains mitochondria that's more degraded. Egg cells are all created before birth, and each is pre-seeded with a large number of mitochondria.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:29:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743789</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most states had lotteries before this though. At least those brought in tax money and were designed to be relatively fair. Online gambling can shut down your account and refuse to pay if you get too big of a payout, and their money isn't going towards public schools.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:33:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640327</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fanduel and draftkings poured massive amount of money into advertising, pumping their numbers to make it seem like gambling was too big to stop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:30:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640293</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The live scammers targeting kids are pretty vile: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTPI57GLac" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTPI57GLac</a><p>Seems like it's just a game of whack-a-mole, nothing is really being done to stop scammers from making new accounts and continuing their scams.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:26:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640264</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They influence clinical decisions by adding to treatment options, but they do not make clinical decisions. If we believe that a drug's potential risks outweigh its benefits, clinicians will not prescribe it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:45:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527713</link><dc:creator>jmcgough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmcgough in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can understand being frustrated and cynical with the pharmaceutical industry, but I have never worked with a single doctor that approaches patient care with the goal of getting them "hooked" on something for life.<p>The pharmaceutical companies are not the ones making clinical decisions - in this case, it's a shared medical decision between a patient and their oncologist.<p>Having seen how horrific pancreatic cancer is, how difficult it is to treat, and the decades of slow research done by academic scientists to get to this point, I am elated that we have a tool to give patients more time with their families even if their cancer can't be "cured" with this particular drug.<p>This may seem unsatisfying, but it's real, measurable progress. KRAS has been known about since the earliest days of cancer research, so it's a true breakthrough to finally have a drug targeting it.</p>
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