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New comment by o_____________o in "For the First Time, Scientists May Have Found a Way to Regenerate Cartilage"

o_____________o — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:11:37 +0000

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/august/new-biomat...

> The new biomaterial comprises two components: a bioactive peptide that binds to transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGFb-1) — an essential protein for cartilage growth and maintenance — and modified hyaluronic acid, a natural polysaccharide present in cartilage and the lubricating synovial fluid in joints.

and application:

> the new material could be applied to joints during open-joint or arthroscopic surgeries. The current standard of care is microfracture surgery, during which surgeons create tiny fractures in the underlying bone to induce new cartilage growth.

New comment by o_____________o in "Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP"

o_____________o — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:00:32 +0000

> modern MCP clients do smart tool search that obviates the entire "I am sending the full list of tools back and forth" mode of operation

How, "Dynamic Tool Discovery"? Has this been codified anywhere? I've only see somewhat hacky implementations of this idea

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...

Or are you talking about the pressure being on the client/harnesses as in,

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us...

New comment by o_____________o in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

o_____________o — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:52:37 +0000

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/src/branch/main/prompts/LL...

New comment by o_____________o in "Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin"

o_____________o — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:43:20 +0000

I picked up Tao Te Ching as an American teenager and was moved by how it cuts against the American faith in visible dominance and self-assertion, proposing a form of strength that is low, quiet, and unseen. It's much more than that of course, but that aspect had immediate impact on my thinking.

New comment by o_____________o in "Backing up Spotify"

o_____________o — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:52:13 +0000

> Please note that Apple Music and iTunes Music data will be migrating away from the Enterprise Partner Feed (EPF). Starting July 16, 2024

New comment by o_____________o in "Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library"

o_____________o — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:36:18 +0000

Simply sharing metadata, related artists, genres, etc would create a pretty interesting ecosystem[1].

[1]: https://everynoise.com/

New comment by o_____________o in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

o_____________o — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:33:57 +0000

I think this is too much credit given for emotional labor. NY has an intrusive din and these people live in their cars all day. They evolve toward chronic irritation alleviated with impotent shows of force.

New comment by o_____________o in "Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet"

o_____________o — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:48:31 +0000

Would love to see this show up on homebrew!

New comment by o_____________o in "Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits"

o_____________o — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 16:20:37 +0000

Alternatively for Mac,

https://github.com/halo/LinkLiar

New comment by o_____________o in "Malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy"

o_____________o — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:24:19 +0000

> "Cheaper/easier" is what creates consequences, not "new".

Nuclear bomb?

New comment by o_____________o in "Show HN: Lemon Slice Live – Have a video call with a transformer model"

o_____________o — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:37:30 +0000

Mostly personal/art projects for now, but willing to pay.

New comment by o_____________o in "Show HN: Lemon Slice Live – Have a video call with a transformer model"

o_____________o — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:25:09 +0000

Are you going to offer a web embeddable version of the Live offering?

New comment by o_____________o in "Telling the Bees"

o_____________o — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:21:47 +0000

Had a hard time parsing this, assumed "breeder" was the role of a human ranch hand, and you were telling them about family trivialities ("bull") so they felt included and soothed. Theory really fell apart around the time you started giving them corn and "sweet feed".

New comment by o_____________o in "OpenAI Audio Models"

o_____________o — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:08:30 +0000

interesting to see what accents do and do not work

New comment by o_____________o in "Directus – real-time REST and GraphQL API of any SQL database"

o_____________o — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:43:52 +0000

The eternal red flag of a DB UI that tries to support wildly different backends explains a lot of the problems. Many sane and powerful Postgres features can't be used because Directus also needs to support SQLite, for example. Views not properly supported, search features inadequate, graphql DSL with arbitrary limitations, a lot of weird or dysfunctional relational patterns when something much simpler would do... it's a parallel, inferior system on top of stock pg that is very frustrating when used at some depth.

New comment by o_____________o in "Music Generation AI Models"

o_____________o — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:29:52 +0000

Suno has select region editing now

New comment by o_____________o in "TikTok ban: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives"

o_____________o — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:08:48 +0000

I think part of this is the genuine benefit of social media, it's used for education, connection, political organization... not quite the same as a cigarette. You can pick any emotional or moral response you're having from it and cite some aspect of its multifaceted nature to bolster your position.

New comment by o_____________o in "First AI-generated and 3D-printed shoe makes its dubious debut"

o_____________o — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 01:29:03 +0000

> The Syntilay company used Midjourney AI to create the basic shape of the shoe, after which an artist drew a sketch based on Midjourney's creation. That image was run back through Vizcom AI to produce a 3D computer model. After that model was created, generative AI was used to apply the patterns to the model, to give it some character.

I assumed this was going to be a functional evolutionary algorithm to make an efficient shape, it's just an image generator and an artist in the loop

New comment by o_____________o in "People who are good at reading have different brains: study"

o_____________o — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:04:43 +0000

Yeah word replacement is exhausting, and it does feel like the two fluent states for me are extreme relaxation and a very specific amount of localized stress. Lots of... unnatural pauses. Sometimes warmup sounds like "uhhh" that can inject a kind of vowel before a word. Have you tried listening to an AI version of yourself speaking fluently? I have and sent it to some friends – one of their points of feedback was that the cadence isn't like mine. My cadence is built around stuttering avoidance!

New comment by o_____________o in "People who are good at reading have different brains: study"

o_____________o — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 06:09:07 +0000

What kind of stutter, blocks/valsalva or repetition?