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New comment by lanakei in "Warp is now Open-Source"

lanakei — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:22:59 +0000

Every tech company could not exist without the internet, developed by the US government/universities and released for free. Should they all be nationalized? Are they all "raping public resources"?

Open-source developers have plenty of ways to make money from their work. You can even stipulate in your license that companies who use the code to make more than a certain amount of money pay a fee. If developers choose not to do that, that's fine, but it means nobody is obligated to pay them.

Imagine Warp donated $1000 to Alacritty. Would you be happy then? What about $10k, or $1 million? What would be the appropriate compensation? Sure, Warp wouldn't exist without Alacritty, but they also wouldn't exist without the ARPANET. At the same time, Alacritty's developers didn't raise $50 million in funding, pay developers to build Warp's features, or do any of the marketing. How do we know how to compensate them? Answer: we look at Alacritty's licensing terms, which explicitly permit free use of the software as long the license is included in all copies (which the Warp devs have complied with).

Chopping my brain into bits – turning my brain into a 3D model on the web

lanakei — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:25:55 +0000

Article URL: https://srg.id.au/posts/brain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486705

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

New comment by lanakei in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

lanakei — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:58:34 +0000

Probably the Mac Mini. A few OpenClaw users are buying the agent a dedicated device so that it can integrate with their Apple account.

For example: https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2017686846910959668.

New comment by lanakei in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

lanakei — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:30:22 +0000

It doesn't cost $600 in Anthropic credits though. It probably costs a few cents (definitely <$1).

I do understand the general point you're trying to make, but you can't overestimate the cost of tokens by a few orders of magnitude and still expect the logic to hold.

Optimizing my note-taking to study 585 medical conditions this year

lanakei — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:22:08 +0000

Article URL: https://srg.id.au/posts/notes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791016

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by lanakei in "Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke"

lanakei — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:16:24 +0000

Full article: https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/scientists-unlock-brain...

New comment by lanakei in "Updates to H-1B"

lanakei — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:44:28 +0000

It does make a difference. When filing for adjustment of status, you can request USCIS to consider both you and your spouse as chargable to your spouse's country of birth, and therefore be placed in a more favourable GC queue. This is called cross-chargeability [1].

Because of this, the "100-year green card queue" problem only really applies for a couple who are both born in India/China, with kids who are not born in the US. If even one child was born in the US, they would be able to sponsor both parents for an immediate green card when they turn 21 years old. In the meantime, the H1-B beneficiary can extend their visa indefinitely and port their approved I-140 whenever they switch jobs, with a 6-month grace period. The spouse also has full working rights.

21 years is a long time, but while working, both parents will accumulate social security credits and will be eligible to recieve benefits upon retirement (if they've secured a green card by then).

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-7-part-a-chapter-...

New comment by lanakei in "Last hours of an organ donor"

lanakei — Tue, 28 May 2024 07:59:48 +0000

Donated blood is stored as packed red blood cells, with the plasma removed. The plasma is where most of the hormones reside while being transported, so in packed RBC transfusions, there will almost no transfer of hormones. This makes it so that blood type is pretty much the only important factor when determining whether somebody can receive blood.

Sometimes doctors do perform whole blood transfusion which does not have the blood plasma removed. This has the chance of increasing hormonal levels temporarily in the recipient. However, the body will quickly compensate and bring levels back to normal. Even if not, the hormones will still degrade and lose their effectiveness over time.

Side note: everybody has both male and female hormones in their body, at different levels. These levels can change a lot depending on your age, genetics, menstrual cycle, or even the time of day. As long as there is no prolonged increase in the levels of a particular hormone, there won't be any abnormal effects.