Hacker News: memonkey

New comment by memonkey in "CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome"

memonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:00:57 +0000

I am slightly reminded of Gattaca, the story of which is that certain people are discriminated based on their DNA. Society is built, in general, excluding certain people due to their disabilities. Whether or not a blind person can find meaning or enjoy life has road blocks but is not impossible. Science can provide technologies to potentially improve people's lives -- cochlear implants for those with hearing loss, for example. There are ongoing philosophical discussions of whether or not these technologies and scientific discoveries are actually harming or helping those with these disabilities and the broader discussion of 'normalizing' society at large (I don't want to use the term eugenics).

New comment by memonkey in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

memonkey — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:23:05 +0000

I've always been very interested in these types of games. Grew up playing Neopets which was inspiration to becoming a software engineer. Am interested in gamified aspects as well. The thing I've not quite figured out is how to make these types of games _actually_ addictive? Neopets had a lot going for it IMO. Would love to know if this is actually working for you (and maybe others) personally and why.

New comment by memonkey in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

memonkey — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:49:31 +0000

I know we're getting deep in the meta discussion but the free will that you're describing involves basically starving to death. Sure, you can walk away but unless you're well off, we all basically live in the same society that makes sure you are ALWAYS dependent on some kind of wage. You cannot live off the land, build housing, or eat food without some kind of income in the modern world. And thus the concept of wage slave.

New comment by memonkey in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

memonkey — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:08:51 +0000

The post is about a scientific study and your response is your opinion with nothing else to back it up?

New comment by memonkey in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

memonkey — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:08:37 +0000

except that it only allows summaries behind paywalls. in many cases you never get the full article

New comment by memonkey in "A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev"

memonkey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:45:37 +0000

i feel this totally ignored the point of infinite input space. you only providing 3 scenarios and eye balls rigorous comment is either hilariously patronizing or ironically self aggrandizing.

New comment by memonkey in "Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains"

memonkey — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:26:38 +0000

Agree with you and your responses in the threads elsewhere.

There seems to be a point of contention amongst the terminology for anybody with autism. Someone with autism might not see themselves as having a disorder. But there are certainly very high needs autistic individuals. Apply a whole spectrum of people as being "developed wrong" and you can start to see ableist language.

I appreciated your metaphor about cars on a highway -- and that there's something wrong with the highway, not the car. I thought it was really simple and clear and I think I got the point you were trying to make. And even if it the highway isn't wrong (it was made for cars after all), we should at least extend it to support many types of transportation.

New comment by memonkey in "CSS Grid Lanes"

memonkey — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:32:20 +0000

Masonry grid layout was one of a few interviewing pair programming tests I would give to frontend engineers. I need to see how this works under the hood!

New comment by memonkey in "Thin desires are eating life"

memonkey — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:24:19 +0000

Didn't really come off as design-y or antithetical form and definitely not manipulating lol, maybe a little poetic or artsy fartsy. Agree that it's important and deep.

New comment by memonkey in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

memonkey — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:31:02 +0000

i think there are internationally recognized lawful terminology that several institutions and countries recognize that permit the use of "act of war" and "terrorism". but at any given time a country _does_ act of war/terrorism, they likely would deny claims of terrorism if it was recognized as terrorism by said institutions.

New comment by memonkey in "Making RSS More Fun"

memonkey — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:31:52 +0000

This makes me so happy. I love, love, LOVED StumbleUpon. I was actually just thinking how I'd love to rebuild it.

New comment by memonkey in "Rebecca Heineman has died"

memonkey — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 01:20:48 +0000

What an amazing career. RIP.

New comment by memonkey in "Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web"

memonkey — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:58:49 +0000

UX matters when doing art = pen, paper, paint.

But UX does not matter when experiencing art. OP is entitled to feel nit picky and pissy and a critic because of the normal way they experience the web. It does not mean his critique matters.

New comment by memonkey in "consumed.today"

memonkey — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:22:35 +0000

https://zombo.com/

New comment by memonkey in "Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day"

memonkey — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:04:42 +0000

Not the first time Japan has done something like this[1] and I honestly welcome it. It's not a strict rule, gives people flexibility to at least talk about it and disagree with little consequence. Another severely online commenter mentions protecting peoples privacy and exploitative practices but we're wayyy beyond those types of conversations. Limiting online-ness in a gentle way that's not gonna piss off a bunch of people and get the feels for it seems to be a very Japanese thing to do.

https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/17744?phrase=Onaga%...

New comment by memonkey in "A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut"

memonkey — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:33:21 +0000

why is it red?

New comment by memonkey in "US companies, consumers are paying for tariffs, not foreign firms"

memonkey — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:20:17 +0000

Does partly wrong imply they can both be partly right?

Regardless, within the current system (which is not based on theory and based on reality), we combine these elements, and neither seem to directly benefit certain industries depending on who you're looking at. If it does, these policies may not benefit everyone.

New comment by memonkey in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

memonkey — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:30:21 +0000

> What gets covered could simply be who a journalist happened to talked to the past week or what is trending on social media that will get clicks.

Do you believe this with regard to what is happening in Israel/Palestine?

The chaos of information and what is truth is only bubbled up when 1) there's very few journalists in the area or 2) all the journalists are being killed or 3) there's no journalists and only special interests.

Consider that even if it was a "narrative" which at this point is controlled by social media, as it stands it seems to be: "these people are evil, they should be killed, sorry not sorry about the babies" or "these people are committing genocide, this bad."

New comment by memonkey in "BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR"

memonkey — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:10:51 +0000

Most thinking people will try not to take current event reporting at face value. For many Americans, it's easy to accept a lot of things your Mainstream Media Source gives you (including NPR or NYTs), and ironically when one of the current themes is to distrust mainstream media.

New comment by memonkey in "Ask HN: If AGI were invented tomorrow which countries would fare better?"

memonkey — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:40:22 +0000

You can be born into it