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New comment by mnky9800n in "Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?"

mnky9800n — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:55:47 +0000

Anyone can cherry pick examples to support that science is incremental (or not). The current structure of academic science struggles to reward creative thinking, struggles to support eccentric thinking, and struggles to move outside of their ivory domain based towers. It’s both a bureaucratic issue and one of hierarchy and power within science itself. I have seen far too many physicists resist changing how they teach because they have already figured out how to educate how dare you question them. I have seen far too many seismologists refuse to use non acoustic data sets because why wouldnt seismic data be enough? These are often even young people who refuse to step outside of their domains point of view perhaps from fear that they will never secure a faculty position. Additionally it is often times driven by university politics and finances. For example, Most R1 universities large revenue source is grant overheads, and yet most faculty have little say on how those overheads are spent because university democracies and leadership have been replaced with administrators building bureaucracies. I say this as a scientist for 15 years whose published over 30 papers, won grants, advised phds and postdocs, etc. the system would do well to change if only to give more time back to scientists to do science they find interesting instead of what can be keyworded in to grant applications.

New comment by mnky9800n in "Crap is more memorable than your slop"

mnky9800n — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:23:31 +0000

I would rather watch a bad movie than an ai generated one

New comment by mnky9800n in "Is Carbon Removal in Trouble?"

mnky9800n — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:20:22 +0000

Have any of the carbon sequestration companies sequestered enough carbon to matter? Have any of the carbon capture companies captured enough carbon to matter? So far it seems like no they have not.

New comment by mnky9800n in "Luigi-Inspired Arsonist Threatened "Our Way of Life," Feds Say"

mnky9800n — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:13:09 +0000

I have lived in Germany, Norway, and now the Netherlands. I think they all have socialism as Americans talk about it while also having capitalism. And none of those seem terribly corrupt.

New comment by mnky9800n in "Luigi-Inspired Arsonist Threatened "Our Way of Life," Feds Say"

mnky9800n — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:07:27 +0000

Essentially anything can be anti capitalism. Advocating for a free market instead of a crony market that countries like America has could be anti capitalism. Getting rid of the citizens united decision could be anti capitalism. Voting against corporate subsidy could be considered anti capitalism. Worker strikes could be anti capitalism. This list continues…

New comment by mnky9800n in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

mnky9800n — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:37:02 +0000

Would a self hosted model also not be protected? Like because it’s classified as “ai” can those logs be read without a warrant?

New comment by mnky9800n in "Rainy-City.com"

mnky9800n — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:25:27 +0000

Well I started it as a project to learn react but recently Claude got so good that coding agents did most of the work. I wanted it to be completely client side so it can run as a static page and be hosted on GitHub pages. All of the art is ai generated from prompting the open ai image gen through the api. Except for the whales they are just wireframes.

This was all part of a project I did while at the recurse center.

New comment by mnky9800n in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

mnky9800n — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:56:18 +0000

I think you are overfitting to temperature as a variable in this decision making equation.

Rainy-City.com

mnky9800n — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:39:31 +0000

Article URL: https://rainy-city.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631951

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Rainy-city.com: A side project I have been thinking about for a long time

mnky9800n — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:00:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/rainy-citycom-a-side-project-i-have

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628321

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mnky9800n in "Vibe physics: The AI grad student"

mnky9800n — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:17:30 +0000

Grad students are hopefully semi autonomous and don’t need close supervision.

Another thought, I think ai enabled science is something of a panacea for the publication crisis of too many bullshit boring papers. That’s because no longer is that effort time consuming enough to suggest you need to write a paper. You could do it in two weeks. So now reviewers could just reject work for it doing enough on the assumption a coding agent could have done the work in a couple weeks. I have rejected grants I have reviewed recently on this principle. Why not papers?

FOMO.nyc – what are you doing tonight?

mnky9800n — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:36:17 +0000

Article URL: https://fomo.nyc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471684

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mnky9800n in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

mnky9800n — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:23:28 +0000

It’s somewhat impossible to me to determine if a sense of self is an emergent phenomenon or an illusion without Descartes.

After AI smashes the information barrier

mnky9800n — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:28:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/after-ai-smashes-the-information

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451952

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mnky9800n in "The Film Experience (2013)"

mnky9800n — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:28:35 +0000

Why does the class stop in the 1970s right when you get the film school generation of directors?

New comment by mnky9800n in "Ask HN: How to improve my OSINT middle east monitor"

mnky9800n — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:05:30 +0000

Make it mobile friendly. Like it opens with the news scroller. But then you don’t see the map. Maybe instead of a pop up it can drag up from the bottom?

New comment by mnky9800n in "Autoresearch Hub"

mnky9800n — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:49:20 +0000

It’s like the old days when you opened up Kazaa and downloaded smooth_criminial_alien_ant_farm.mp3.exe

New comment by mnky9800n in "Marketing for Founders"

mnky9800n — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:52:00 +0000

I think it’s strange to dislike vibe coded things. I’ve seen a lot of cool stuff that’s mostly vibe coded. fomo.nyc for example. The problem is mostly the intention. I think a lot of vibe coded stuff isn’t solving a problem someone has its someone trying to seek profit. It’s no different from when smartphones first came out and people wanted to make a for everything when most of them didn’t solve any problems. The difference is nobody is wowed anymore by anything so your app that turns your phone into a beer kind of thing doesn’t exist in the vibe coded world.

New comment by mnky9800n in "“This is not the computer for you”"

mnky9800n — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:39:06 +0000

In high school we had a g3 Mac that we got Final Cut Pro on. It took forever to render a minute or two of video. But having a nonlinear editing system that took forever to do anything was way better than not having anything at all.

Edit: for true self embarrassment purposes you can see some of the films we made here:

https://youtu.be/FRQv7VUauWs?t=447&si=lCu3rp28XfKWN5ch

And also here:

https://youtu.be/ytKIG802baw?t=615&si=FJI8Cm9yYaXKMZdS

I put the start times at my movies. But there are others as well. lol.

New comment by mnky9800n in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

mnky9800n — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:50:52 +0000

vibe hiring.