Hacker News: mikeodds

New comment by mikeodds in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

mikeodds — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:39:45 +0000

The way the documentary never questioned their sales guys claims felt naive

New comment by mikeodds in "Silent speech with ultrasound"

mikeodds — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:47:10 +0000

is this true for medical use cases where it’s primarily for imaging? i.e. echocardiogram or pregnancy scans

New comment by mikeodds in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

mikeodds — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:31:03 +0000

You do have to question why representatives of the people have not managed to address this

New comment by mikeodds in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

mikeodds — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:08:12 +0000

got any more links for info on these?

New comment by mikeodds in "Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution"

mikeodds — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:56:16 +0000

There’s a funny amount of beef around using it in art, you have Anish Kapoor who bought exclusive rights to use Vantablack artistically and man of the people Stuart Semple offering his versions Black 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 getting ever blacker.

New comment by mikeodds in "Should every baby's DNA be sequenced?"

mikeodds — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:05:47 +0000

to call this outcome unrealistic, now or in the future seems incorrect as there is already a thriving pay for kidney trade.

https://www.dw.com/en/inside-a-global-organ-trafficking-netw...

it’s fair to say there would be great advances from such a programme, I’m personally in favour of medical surveillance generally for this reason but you have to be realistic about outcomes

New comment by mikeodds in "Should every baby's DNA be sequenced?"

mikeodds — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:49:09 +0000

your class C adolescent has been identified as being an eligible kidney donor for a Class B worker, congratulations! please book into your nearest hospital within 2 days

New comment by mikeodds in "Ask HN: Norway bans AI in elementary schools"

mikeodds — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:39:40 +0000

This could be customized to each child, a primer if you will, you could call it “a young lady’s illustrated primer” for the girls

New comment by mikeodds in "Show HN: Valence – Real-time emotion detection from voice, as an API"

mikeodds — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:16:41 +0000

Your insurance claim has been denied as our agents detected you may have been lying

New comment by mikeodds in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

mikeodds — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:02:41 +0000

Not sure how this doesn’t seem to get more attention. Sensitive queries can undoubtedly end up flagged and eventually in front of a human, apparently with the capability to then explore all other submissions from you.

New comment by mikeodds in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

mikeodds — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:57:39 +0000

Disappointly small bag to buy most cars with 100 dollar bills

New comment by mikeodds in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

mikeodds — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:36:48 +0000

Just prepend url with archive.is/ if you want to check

New comment by mikeodds in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

mikeodds — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:06:40 +0000

fair number of people do this, bunch of free tools to filter by this criteria (brand new account, more than $xx,xxx size), vulnerable to spoofing obviously

New comment by mikeodds in "Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare"

mikeodds — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:12:24 +0000

Had a bizarre situation for a while where they had physical branches in Texas, could deliver care, but couldn’t take card payments for years. Medical bills could be paid but the actual subscription couldn’t be. They asked for a cheque. Support promised they wouldn’t pursue the charge until they could take card payments. Obviously they reneged (even with the above statement in writing) and sent it to collections.

New comment by mikeodds in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

mikeodds — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:42:27 +0000

Maybe I’m out of touch, but doesn’t a $1.4b dollar settlement for this seem rather… large?

New comment by mikeodds in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

mikeodds — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:08:59 +0000

New comment by mikeodds in "UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place"

mikeodds — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:27:48 +0000

Already have the makings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_th...

New comment by mikeodds in "Why did we use leaded petrol for so long? (2017)"

mikeodds — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:29:49 +0000

I’m perpetually having to take apart and clean the carbs of a 2003 motorbike because of the added Ethanol in fuel nowadays.

New comment by mikeodds in "YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same"

mikeodds — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:19:08 +0000

I don’t think this idea is that controversial? Most (?) people would agree watching YouTube 16 hrs a day is bad, but agree there is also a benefit to some of the content available.

New comment by mikeodds in "Tiny sugar spoons are popping up on NYC fast-food menus"

mikeodds — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:16:41 +0000

Treat yourself to a sonic shake with your sonic fast food meal instead.

Only 146g of sugar, 26g of saturated fat and 1100 calories.

https://foods.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/sonic/banana-...