<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: mbeavitt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mbeavitt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 20:33:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mbeavitt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "'Like science fiction': How a new wave of immunotherapy is eliminating cancers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah for many cancers, CAR-T is <i>the cure</i> which is insane and cool. We just need to make it cheap enough that everyone can benefit…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 23:55:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991769</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Stupid NYT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haha this is cool, it reminds me of the simple.wikipedia.com alternatives to English language pages. Is there an about page linked somewhere? I’m wondering if the images are AI generated or if someone handmade all of this</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 17:12:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988287</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder - everyone keeps talking about brain drain and how impactful it is, but is it quantifiable?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 11:43:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985547</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Ask.com has closed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In 6 months we’re gonna see a HN thread: “I bought ask.com for £250k - here’s what I did with it”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 10:57:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985282</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These kind of project reports showing consistent breakthroughs and clearly a finger on the pulse of what users are encountering as pain points are a good indication that the Asahi team are real pros :)<p>Look forward to switching back to Asahi full time soon!!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:54:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909933</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly I've been doing a lot of image-related work recently and the biggest thing here for me is the 3x higher resolution images which can be submitted. This is huge for anyone working with graphs, scientific photographs, etc. The accuracy on a simple automated photograph processing pipeline I recently implemented with Opus 4.6 was about 40% which I was surprised at (simple OCR and recognition of basic features). It'll be interesting to see if 4.7 does much better.<p>I wonder if general purpose multimodal LLMs are beginning to eat the lunch of specific computer vision models - they are certainly easier to use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:47:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793849</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Sizing chaos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having briefly experienced weight loss drugs - and the bliss of that constant “EAT!” voice in your head just going quiet - I’m pretty convinced most humans have a genuine genetic predisposition to overeating.<p>And when you zoom out to the population level, the “we’re all autonomous individuals” argument gets a lot shakier.
Like yeah, at the individual level you have agency, you make choices, fine. But at scale? We are absolutely at the mercy of whoever has figured out how to tickle our monkey brains in just the right way to get us buying their fattening food.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:19:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068293</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if you read the article...<p><i>Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, remanufacturing, donations, or reuse.</i><p>I guess remanufacturing/reuse might be the intended solution if it's absolutely not to be worn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:23:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025488</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from.<p>The funny thing I find about criticism is that you actually don’t have a choice about whether or not it affects your future actions. Criticism that I have dismissed has persistently come back to haunt me, perhaps via my subconscious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:54:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718625</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what evidence do you have to back up this baseless claim? They openly publish their financial reports: <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports" rel="nofollow">https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports</a><p>$178 million might sound like an extremely large amount of money if you're a member of the general public, but for a global resource kept up to date that serves hundreds of billions of visitors per year this is actually not a huge quantity of money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:29:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043970</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Rao Reading Algorithm (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, I get it. Missed the joke.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:02:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755220</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Rao Reading Algorithm (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it though? The algorithm you reference is meant to be a joke:<p>1) Write down the problem.<p>2) Think real hard.<p>3) Write down the solution.<p>This is not a useful algorithm in any sense, apart from that it might be thought provoking.<p>What's the "universal nike algorithm"? I didn't find anything on google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:37:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755051</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Rao Reading Algorithm (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can't tease me with "Algorithm" in the title and then not actually define an algorithm... TL;DR: Read lots of widely acclaimed books that are close to the source of what you want to learn?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:24:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754615</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Russia's China Ties Spur Boom in Learning Mandarin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.is/20250801081751/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/russia-s-china-ties-spur-boom-in-learning-mandarin" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/20250801081751/https://www.bloomberg.com/...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754588</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia's China Ties Spur Boom in Learning Mandarin]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/russia-s-china-ties-spur-boom-in-learning-mandarin">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/russia-s-china-ties-spur-boom-in-learning-mandarin</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754586">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754586</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:19:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/russia-s-china-ties-spur-boom-in-learning-mandarin</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "We've got to stop sending files to each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Merge conflicts are a blessing - they tell us exactly what the problem is...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:44:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592718</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "We've got to stop sending files to each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't imagine the horror of tracking down a regression and finally fixing it, only to find someone else edited another section of the codebase, ruining all my efforts.<p>This is fine in text documents (to an extent, obviously references to sections of text that no longer exist can happen) because different sections are not as inextricably linked to each other.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:43:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592703</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "We've got to stop sending files to each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just curious - what do you see as being a viable alternative to the current git paradigm?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:34:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592594</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "Using MPC for Anonymous and Private DNA Analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok but the lab has access to the unencrypted data? You haven't removed the requirement that the user needs to trust the lab with their raw genome markers. This entire operation hinges on the lab's trustworthiness, does it not?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:47:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44514077</link><dc:creator>mbeavitt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44514077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44514077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbeavitt in "AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Simulating the real world at increasingly accurate scales is not <i>that</i> useful, because in biology - more than any other field - our assumptions are incorrect/flawed most of the time. The most useful thing simulations allow us to do is directly test those assumptions and in these cases, the simpler the model the better. Jeremy Gunawardena wrote a great piece on this: <a href="https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-12-29" rel="nofollow">https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007...</a></p>
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