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New comment by opello in "Claude CRISPR-like sequence may be a parallel discovery of unpublished research"

opello — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:49:12 +0000

The Anthropic announcement was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820134

Claude CRISPR-like sequence may be a parallel discovery of unpublished research

opello — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:49:12 +0000

Article URL: https://recul.ai/news/claude-viral-dna-pattern-priority-dispute/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128328

Points: 3

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New comment by opello in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

opello — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:00:17 +0000

For various embedded environments that use busybox it's busybox's brand of ash. I generally enjoy the opportunity to learn when bumping up against these kind of edge cases.

New comment by opello in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

opello — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:36:57 +0000

That equivalency only holds if there is a visual distinction in the output between the l and the 1. There often wasn't when this practice was popular.

New comment by opello in "IRCv3"

opello — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:31:36 +0000

And the fog horn launch sound that reminded you if your speakers were on or turned up... good times.

New comment by opello in "Pirating the Pirates"

opello — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:44:35 +0000

I also really enjoyed this show and rewatched it a few years ago on DVD. But I certainly noticed the main title music was different. I don't recall noticing in-episode music though, and wouldn't have remembered it from the show.

I went looking for the PAL DVDs after seeing your comment, and found one season but not a full set. After looking a little online it seems like the PAL release might have been cropped down a bit from the NTSC release? If that's the case it seems pretty disappointing.

New comment by opello in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

opello — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:35:23 +0000

Wouldn't this require a man-in-the-middle since the PS5 is transmitting data to a specific server, YouTube or Twitch in the article?

There are extensions to RTMP to use encryption or even just TLS. But do you mean that the risk of fragments of audio and video bitstreams going out unprotected presents a remote code execution risk? That seems less a problem of vulnerability and more one of privacy.

New comment by opello in "Pirating the Pirates"

opello — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:25:01 +0000

In my (admittedly limited) experience, adding audio tracks to a video track that weren't produced together often requires editing. If not for sample rate reasons, content reasons, like extra space for additional video space at the beginning or ending most basically. It seems like in any instances like that, which I would count as "nominal," it would be appropriate to identify those as "modified from" which would seemingly place you squarely into "hybrid" space within the taxonomy of this comment thread.

New comment by opello in "Pirating the Pirates"

opello — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:18:05 +0000

Scrubs was another one with pretty obvious music changes, because some were part of the dialogue or a joke that just doesn't make sense after the change.

New comment by opello in "Pirating the Pirates"

opello — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:29:11 +0000

> Movies and especially TV shows on the other hand are a mess. It shouldn't be a miracle to get a high-quality, faithful official remaster like the one Star Trek: TNG got.

Star Trek: TNG was a bit of a special case though, because it had to be re-cut and new digital special effects created and edited into scenes.

I think this perspective holds more true for things that were broadcast in HD but only got commercial DVD releases. That's a disappointing lapse in high quality availability where HD content was distributed, just not in a persistent form for home use. In those cases the best quality available is an HD TV or satellite recording which might not have been preserved even in online media sharing communities.

New comment by opello in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

opello — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:21:44 +0000

I was wondering about that too, it seems like it's partly in this test report:

https://www.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/AppleiPho...

and then more context, especially for the less objective categories, in this test protocol description:

https://www.dxomark.com/smartphone-camera-image-quality-test...

It was a little annoying to find (About Us > How We Test) but not awful I suppose.

New comment by opello in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

opello — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:38:26 +0000

Convenience as a higher order motivator than disgust at the bad behavior of archive.{today,ph,...} mentioned elsewhere, I think is the point of the comment to which you replied.

New comment by opello in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

opello — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:47:59 +0000

I think there's still an ethical question of a business trying to scoop a researcher solely because the business learned of promising progress. It's not a very big leap to consider "multiple discovery" (a la calculus by Leibniz and Newton) and chance that the model that is good at math proofs might have enough ambient context to work faster from a similar knowledge base on the problem for which promising progress was discovered. I think that's not nice at the very least. Surely the above-board way to approach that is "hey researcher, we learned, indirectly, that you might have made significant progress on flashy research topic and would like the chance to throw our vast computational resources in to try to help work toward the conclusion of that effort." But, maybe that's asking too much?

New comment by opello in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

opello — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:25:36 +0000

In order for this to be the strong evidence everyone also has to believe that the setting is absolutely true. That some logging from some piece of the system could not also leak the prompt information in such a way that it could have been included as training data. Perhaps the design of how data is collected for the training dataset is so rigorous as to make this a practical impossibility. But, it's asking a lot without sufficient detail to completely exclude from possibility that one setting is all that could possibly have been absolutely load bearing in deciding if the other researcher's active efforts meaningfully contaminated the internal model.

At least, as an ignorant outsider, that's how it seems to me.

New comment by opello in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

opello — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:02:05 +0000

No evidence until there's an answer to the question of if prompt data from the other researchers was used to train the internal model.

I think the reasonable ethical question to consider when a company has an incentive to prove its value, and learns of the state of the art of a flashy research topic being close to a solution, and then throws loads of resources at trying to solve it first. I agree that "AI" didn't "take" but it's not an incomprehensible shortcut of criticism of the aforementioned behavior, not that precision should be avoided here.

New comment by opello in "Jellyfin 12.0"

opello — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:31:30 +0000

It seems like a strange juxtaposition to talk about buying vs. renting while getting updates for free.

New comment by opello in "There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis"

opello — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:54:34 +0000

That's interesting. Some of the fandom wikis are really high quality (memory-alpha, starwars) and were my introduction to the service. I suppose I appreciate that someone paying for the hosting and running the wiki has to be paid for somehow. And this kind of consolidation makes it worse if the underlying provider fails, but ideally avoids that so individually hosted instances don't more silently disappear. It makes me wonder about the most reasonable balance.

I also enjoyed browsing the list of mappings:

https://github.com/IndieWikiBuddy/indie-wiki-buddy/blob/main...

New comment by opello in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

opello — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:59:07 +0000

That is a reasonable push back. The simple answer is a lack of present day need given my TV is a very old Samsung without any need.

I suppose I also assume someone with Android ROM development experience is better positioned to take up organizing such a project as an overall smaller effort, there by being faster and more efficient. Other real life constraints also seem to suggest not pursuing this type of thing in lieu of other things I should be pursuing and already procrastinate. But, here there be dragons, or at the very least a can of worms.

New comment by opello in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

opello — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:10:17 +0000

This exactly. Surely some sort of IoT mesh networking will allow exfiltration of data even without having configured your own device.

I'm hopeful that there will be sufficient distrust that "jailbreaking" or "rooting" TV controller boards will be turnkey enough to move to something like OpenWrt or GrapheneOS but for TVs.

New comment by opello in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

opello — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:39:29 +0000

Have citations of case law that doesn't exist been addressed? It seemed like that kind of outcome being punished might make people less likely to try relying on LLM output for legal situations without an expert human performing a review.