<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: odyssey7</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=odyssey7</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:53:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=odyssey7" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "Formal methods and the future of programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, formal methods produce runnable systems, but communication remains the challenge.<p>If a formal spec is messy, then it's a proof of ... what, exactly?<p>A formal specification that bridges tech and product, that lets non-technical contributors read and discuss all the logical nuances, directly as operational code, at product's level of abstraction of interest, would transform a lot.<p>It's no longer a challenge to create code, it's a challenge to create business requirements and translate them into systems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:51:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529522</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529522</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The bargaining dynamics are stacked against biology researchers at every stage of their career, from needing years and years of unrelated performance to be admitted to terribly expensive programs before they can begin to do experiments, to requiring costly equipment and resources to work, to needing to work with a small number of very powerful companies.<p>As a result, life science researchers are more price-taking than proce-setting when it comes to their wages / salary. If money is the motivator, then the market as-is isn’t addressing this one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506351</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Okay, fair. I was thinking mostly about the high-impact issue of preserving the security vulnerability and how an essential vendor was not being candid, but you are also right to note how AMD was avoiding its responsibilities to the individual researcher himself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:33:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497305</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What hair is this splitting? The issue was that AMD allowed a known and serious security vulnerability to exist within their customers’ systems, for months, and acted with a lack of candor while doing so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:14:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491496</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "The curious case of low-protein diets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe more so with fitness than with health. People generally think of Mediterranean diets as healthy but not as a looksmaxxing linchpin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:56:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438981</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m watching to see what happens to big enterprise software contracts. Why pay some vendor $800k annually for something a couple mid-level devs can replace—-and tailor closely to your needs——by leveraging AI.<p>Open source software changed the world. AI that will cheaply write whatever you want in a few days will also change the world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 22:10:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301452</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haskell is more readable. It looks just like pseudocode. Change my mind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 12:42:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107441</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s not as if institutions have been lavishing PhD students with money up until now.<p>As an afterthought budget item, those funds aren’t exactly attractive targets to raid for pursuing an expensive, different process.</p>
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<p>Each turtle gives them another 9. How many 9s are they down due to incidents over the past year?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:17:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069953</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "Virtual violin produces realistic sounds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is getting a lot of criticism but as a demo I think it sounds nice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043652</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe, but in 100 years, people looking back on the current era will easily understand the work. It symbolically communicates something about the spirit of the age.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 21:02:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001439</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "The USB Situation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It read okay to me?<p>Also, I encourage people not to change their writing style just to avoid patterns that AI likes to use. I'm going to continue my em dashes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989724</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The question used to be: <i>should we have online censorship?</i><p>Now, the question is: <i>what should the implementation details of online censorship be?</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:48:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955206</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you prove a negative, that something is vestigial?<p>An unfortunate habit of medical messaging is to assert that absence of evidence is evidence of absence. If you haven’t studied a phenomenon well enough, you simply assume that it doesn’t exist or is not important.<p>Some people will say that this is important, because the public needs simplified messages. That viewpoint is misguided and denies patients autonomy by denying them the information needed to weigh matters themselves. It rightly causes many to view the advice they receive with suspicion toward an untrustworthy salesman who is either ignorant or intentionally misleading.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:21:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947338</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Part of this reads like a shortlist of things that doctors and scientists don’t know enough about yet. If you’re looking for a PhD topic, here are some ideas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:05:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910454</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is an interesting pattern, but I see your point. The network effects of ~people a degree removed from direct nuclear research~ gets big.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:58:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910386</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the fertility crisis, you would think that linking a devastating disease to a common and incurable STI would make the both of them top priorities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:47:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910305</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If we are censoring our daily activities and major life decisions like healthcare due to the data economy, then it is making us less free. But who knows how many generations will pass before a solution shows up. We would need representatives who act collectively towards motives beyond profits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:55:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889556</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All work and no play... gives you a birth rate crisis, apparently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:20:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883514</link><dc:creator>odyssey7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by odyssey7 in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that this article resonates, should I infer that the startup economy is picking back up?</p>
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