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New comment by mrtesthah in "Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner""

mrtesthah — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:16:10 +0000

Using unpermitted turbine generators[1] is just as illegal as violating the other permits they’d need to obtain for grid access. Doing illegal acts is a choice on their part — no one is forcing them to do that. There is no inherent right to private profit at the expense of the social good.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk...

New comment by mrtesthah in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

mrtesthah — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:13:46 +0000

Bomb fossil fuel power plants. They’ll be replaced with the least expensive alternative, solar and batteries.

New comment by mrtesthah in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

mrtesthah — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:28:01 +0000

The amount of original, copyrightable and trademarkable IP actually created by the AI labs themselves is dwarfed by their staggeringly vast infringement activities.

New comment by mrtesthah in "Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now"

mrtesthah — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:22:19 +0000

Child labor pays. Sex trafficking pays. Slavery pays. What kind of person do you want to be?

New comment by mrtesthah in "Agent swarms and the new model economics"

mrtesthah — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:38:08 +0000

To test this hypothesis you would need to look at the initial version before subsequent agents started refactoring it.

New comment by mrtesthah in "Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?"

mrtesthah — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:16:12 +0000

Most models’ reasoning abilities drops off significantly between the 256K-1M token ranges of the context window. There’s too much stuff to “pay attention to” at once.

New comment by mrtesthah in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

mrtesthah — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:41:06 +0000

They already bundle Brave’s rust-based ad-blocker:

https://shivankaul.com/blog/firefox-bundles-adblock-rust

New comment by mrtesthah in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

mrtesthah — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:56:28 +0000

We can look to certain world "leaders" for confirmation of that.

New comment by mrtesthah in "Data centers trigger voter backlash"

mrtesthah — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:01:28 +0000

Is it really a matter of "national security" when the technology at hand is being used in a way that unilaterally benefits a small class of oligarchs at the expense of the rest of society? That's not really in the benefit of the nation anymore, is it?

New comment by mrtesthah in "Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party"

mrtesthah — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:37:30 +0000

>democracy incentivizes clientelism and tribalism

Cite your peer reviewed sources.

Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets

mrtesthah — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/06/25/texas-man-gets-30-years-in-prison-for-transporting-anti-government-pamphlets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683477

Points: 51

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New comment by mrtesthah in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

mrtesthah — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:32:26 +0000

The illusion works only in places like American and Canadian suburbs in which residents depend entirely on cars for even the shortest trips. Everything takes 10-100x the space due to all the paved asphalt. It’s an intensely alienating approach to building infrastructure.

New comment by mrtesthah in "Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress"

mrtesthah — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:17:20 +0000

Measles infections can trigger the following autoimmune diseases:

* Type 1 diabetes

* Multiple sclerosis

* Rheumatoid arthritis

New comment by mrtesthah in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

mrtesthah — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:04:53 +0000

>...while the US digs in it's heels is infuriating.

And we shouldn't imply that this policy represents any sort of national consensus -- it's pure corruption plain and simple.

New comment by mrtesthah in "ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light"

mrtesthah — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:23:09 +0000

Nowadays the issue is that the “I’ve got nothing to hide” crowd assumes we all live in a society where laws are equally and sensibly enforced. That is demonstrably no longer the case under the prerogative state, which now includes ICE/CBP, DOJ, and FBI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_state_(model)

New comment by mrtesthah in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

mrtesthah — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:50:56 +0000

That sounds like an untestable hypothesis, aka conspiracy theory.

New comment by mrtesthah in "New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections"

mrtesthah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:45:39 +0000

Technically they are circular episomes — not integrated into chromosomal DNA like HIV.

And we do know that it’s possible to reduce the pool of reactivation-competent HSV genomes by the presence of IFNα during primary infection:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12764766/

This causes PML-NB formation → more viral genomes with H3K9me3 + ATRX → resists eviction by the H3K9me3S10ph “methyl/phospho switch” → stops Phase I HSV transcription (and VP16 expression).

Who’s to say an HPI like IM-250 isn’t altering epigenetic markers in viral episomes in this way? Innovative Molecules’ own press release states that some sort of permanent or semi-permanent modification may take place:

https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/analyst-comment/es...

>Furthermore, testing in animal models showed that adibelivir affected the latent viral reservoir, suggesting that it has potential as a long-term curative therapy for HSV.

New comment by mrtesthah in "Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm"

mrtesthah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:24:05 +0000

This is desperately needed. I currently use https://freetubeapp.io/ but this seems to have more flexible deployment options.

New comment by mrtesthah in "New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections"

mrtesthah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:10:10 +0000

IM-250 (Adibelivir) is a helicase-primase inhibitor that targets latent HSV so well it may actually permanently reduce the pool of viable latent HSV genomes.

New comment by mrtesthah in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

mrtesthah — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:10:23 +0000

>...sending money to China...

Have you seen the trade deficit lately?