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New comment by novalis78 in "The Universal Standard Book Number"

novalis78 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:54:10 +0000

Good point. Normalization is deliberately scoped to 'what a human reads off the title page' rather than reconciling all possible metadata sources. LSH as a complementary fuzzy-matching layer for catalog reconciliation is exactly what the planned resolver at openusbn.org is designed to support: deterministic identifier as the anchor, probabilistic matching as the discovery tool.

The Universal Standard Book Number

novalis78 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:07:48 +0000

Article URL: https://openusbn.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736071

Points: 13

# Comments: 4

New comment by novalis78 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

novalis78 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:45:07 +0000

It’s 2026.

“ Drive. You need the car at the car wash. ”

Opus 4.6

New comment by novalis78 in "cURL removes bug bounties"

novalis78 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:12:10 +0000

Just use an LLM to weed them out. What’s so hard about that?

New comment by novalis78 in "Show HN: We made an MCP Server so that Cursor can build anything from API Docs"

novalis78 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:27:58 +0000

Claude wasn’t confused at all by that

New comment by novalis78 in "Gemini Robotics"

novalis78 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:29:27 +0000

Would be nice to get a version for Unitrees robot dogs…

New comment by novalis78 in "GenChess"

novalis78 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:40:50 +0000

Where is AlphaZero?

New comment by novalis78 in "Scientists propose glacier geoengineering to avoid sea level rise"

novalis78 — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 18:37:57 +0000

Let the planet warm back up. More CO2 in the atmosphere is positive for life.

New comment by novalis78 in "Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth"

novalis78 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:45:21 +0000

Clunky code. Slow growing. Makes sense.

New comment by novalis78 in "Why I love Laravel (2022)"

novalis78 — Tue, 21 May 2024 06:44:28 +0000

Livewire is fantastic!

New comment by novalis78 in "Sora: Creating video from text"

novalis78 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:02:58 +0000

The future is bright. Powerful tools, explosion of consciousness, exploration of the cosmos.

New comment by novalis78 in "The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close"

novalis78 — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:58:14 +0000

Not really. Heise’s “ct” seems to be still going as strong as ever. heise.de - it’s Europe’s largest computer magazine.

https://shop.heise.de/magazine/ct-magazin/

New comment by novalis78 in "Reversal of biological age in rat organs by young porcine plasma fraction"

novalis78 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:42:51 +0000

This paper details Harold Katcher's recent research into rejuvination (he was one of the discoverers of the human breast cancer gene (BRCA1).

Also interesting to read is his book "The Illusion of Knowledge: The paradigm shift in aging research that shows the way to human rejuvenation" which details his new and fascinating theory on aging.

Reversal of biological age in rat organs by young porcine plasma fraction

novalis78 — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:38:27 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00980-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38277025

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by novalis78 in "Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died"

novalis78 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:24:21 +0000

Aehm… living memory of an impoverished nation that didn’t export anything else than propaganda - not even cheap crap yet. It’s been incredible to watch Capitalism and hard work rescue and empower a nation that was literally completely destroyed by communism in the past 50 years.

New comment by novalis78 in "Why doctors in America earn so much"

novalis78 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 05:16:23 +0000

Regulatory capture and cartel structures.

New comment by novalis78 in "The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers"

novalis78 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:31:41 +0000

That article sounds like it was AI-generated…

New comment by novalis78 in "A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022)"

novalis78 — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:11:04 +0000

It’s not a fantasy. Read “A case for Mars” if you are sincerely interested in the topic. Terraforming could dramatically thicken the atmosphere - a process that would take several hundred years. Yes, Mars would slowly lose it, but over 100s of millions of years. So you can keep the planet blue and green. Venus is harder but doable too. Can’t do that with the moon ever. So eventually, if we don’t WW3 ourselves, there will be 3 blue marbles in this solar system and an endless number of space and moon based habitats.

New comment by novalis78 in "ChatGPT’s system prompts"

novalis78 — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 11:53:21 +0000

Everyone I know who has great success using GPT4 has tuned their prompts to a friendly and kind tone of conversation. In fact it’s fascinating to watch people start out like talking to a browser search bar and ending up a few weeks later conversing to another human being. Crazy. They begin with timid probes into its (her? His?) capabilities and become more and more daring and audacious.

New comment by novalis78 in "Extreme parkour with legged robots"

novalis78 — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:53:26 +0000

I need that Go1 support asap. Time for my little Unitree friend to evolve and keep up with its GPT4 brain…