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New comment by jrpt in "Burnout is real for open source maintainers"

jrpt — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:39:48 +0000

Instead of going open source, consider selling licenses with Supported Source (https://supso.org/). I made this for the maintainer problem: it's easy to burnout when companies are constantly asking for new features or fixes, while not paying you anything. Why should you work for free so these companies can make more profits? When they start paying you, you're a lot happier about it.

Show HN: Supso, a CLI for selling licenses to your projects

jrpt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:05:48 +0000

Article URL: https://supso.org/blog/supso-cli-for-paid-licensing-with-supported-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498133

Points: 1

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New comment by jrpt in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

jrpt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:04:59 +0000

Seems similar to open source bounties, which have been tried in the past and never succeeded.

We've seen something like 20+ years of different attempts of voluntary donations to fund open source, and it never worked. Companies barely fund anything voluntarily.

I'm taking the opposite approach with Supported Source (https://supso.org/) which is this: actually force companies to pay to use the project. Sell commercial licenses. Make it mandatory to using your software commercially. This approach works much, much better than voluntary donations.

Show HN: SupXML, modern memory-safe XML parser replacement for libxml2

jrpt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:48:44 +0000

Article URL: https://supso.org/projects/sup-xml/docs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416611

Points: 3

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New comment by jrpt in "Mythos found the bugs. Who funds the fixes?"

jrpt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:19:50 +0000

Open source funding is broken. That's why I'm making Supported Source (https://supso.org/).

SupXML: The modern, memory-safe XML parser drop-in replacement for libxml2

jrpt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:16:22 +0000

Article URL: https://supso.org/blog/introducing-supxml-modern-memory-safe-xml-parser-alternative-to-libxml2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416218

Points: 4

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Securing America's grid: a strategic transformer reserve

jrpt — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:08:06 +0000

Article URL: https://breakingdefense.com/2025/11/securing-americas-grid-through-transformers-and-workforce-resilience/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838441

Points: 2

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New comment by jrpt in "Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study"

jrpt — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:15:17 +0000

There’s a lot of umbrella diagnoses that would benefit from more specific diagnostics first. What we call Alzheimer’s is probably actually caused by number of different causes depending on the person. This is true of a lot of things in medicine that get grouped together. That’s why testing a drug in mouse models with all the same characteristics sometimes works but fails to translate into humans who have more variety amongst each other.

The same is true of many diagnoses like pneumonia, cancer, alopecia, essential tremor: there’s multiple different groups that would benefit from different things, and if we had better ways to identify the groups, we’d give them what works for them instead of wasting their time with the wrong treatment. As an example, antibiotics won’t work for viral pneumonia and in addition to wasting the patient’s time, actually harm your microbiome. If you had a perfect way to know which is which, you’d always get the right treatment.

Precision medicine takes this even further.

New comment by jrpt in "Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol"

jrpt — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:12:07 +0000

hs-CRP is well known as a useful biomarker and it is cheap to test too. If you look at page 13 of the GrimAge 2 paper, you'll see CRP is one of the factors most negatively correlated with their aging clock, in fact basically as strong of a negative impact as smoking. https://escholarship.org/content/qt6k46n006/qt6k46n006.pdf

This new news is about research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

It's definitely not some marketing fad.

New comment by jrpt in "The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer"

jrpt — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:23:08 +0000

I would like to know how regular sunlight compares to the combination of vitamin D supplementation and red light therapy. If you do both of those, is that equivalent or better since it doesn't have any damaging effects of the sun?

New comment by jrpt in "Towards a Physics Foundation Model"

jrpt — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:15:18 +0000

What do you think about the Nobel prize in physics going for neural networks last year? What combinations of AI + physics do you think will be most impactful and could potentially get a Nobel prize?

Is Altos Labs gearing up for clinical trials?

jrpt — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:43:12 +0000

Article URL: https://longevity.technology/news/is-altos-labs-gearing-up-for-clinical-trials/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820043

Points: 3

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New comment by jrpt in "Mayo Clinic's secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action"

jrpt — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:10:04 +0000

"Mayo’s LLM split the summaries it generated into individual facts, then matched those back to source documents. A second LLM then scored how well the facts aligned with those sources, specifically if there was a causal relationship between the two."

It doesn't sound novel from the article. I built something similar over a year ago. Here's a related example from Langchain "How to get a RAG application to add citations" https://python.langchain.com/docs/how_to/qa_citations/

New comment by jrpt in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

jrpt — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:33:21 +0000

That would not have solved the problem in this fire since wind speed was so high. The videos showed embers traveling far and fast. Having a 10 foot fire break would not have prevented the spread. One thing to look into is how the fire started and if the electrical equipment can be made safer, like being underground in some places.

New comment by jrpt in "LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters"

jrpt — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:42:45 +0000

I made something like this to let people explore the lore of my game. It has an AI act like a dungeon master as you play through a story. You can try it for free at: https://orbsccg.com/adventures

The main game is a strategic collectible card game, but the “adventure mode” is just for fun AI-powered stories.

New comment by jrpt in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

jrpt — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:39:07 +0000

Even Waymo has external investors. It’s not all funded by Alphabet.

New comment by jrpt in "Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth: research"

jrpt — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:04:08 +0000

I don’t know why this is downvoted. The lack of profit motive is a big reason that nutrition and supplements aren’t as well studied through rigorous trials as drug therapies. The ones that are run are funded by grants. Rather than just “more funding” I think there needs to be more systemic ways at reducing the cost of clinical trials or using alternate methods of getting high quality scientific data for answering these questions.

For example, there is a good trial running now on ketogenic diet in glioblastoma patients, NCT05708352, I think with a NIH grant and maybe the NCI as well. Here is a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W31kR0MzyRA

Food and nutrition is a big business though.

New comment by jrpt in "IEEE President's Note: Why Students Should Stay with IEEE"

jrpt — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:56:35 +0000

IEEE Spectrum used to be good. I don't know whether it still is. Does anyone know?

New comment by jrpt in "Cursor Has Raised $60M"

jrpt — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 03:40:57 +0000

That feature is getting built into the IDE, for example: https://www.jetbrains.com/ai/

New comment by jrpt in "Peloton to charge $95 activation fee for used bikes"

jrpt — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:07:14 +0000

Peleton is not a monopoly. Anyone can make an exercise bike. Anyone can offer an online class. I own an exercise bike made by a different company.