Hacker News: otikik

New comment by otikik in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

otikik — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:18:27 +0000

Making the wealthy scared

New comment by otikik in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

otikik — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:24:09 +0000

“Advertising” vs “doing”

New comment by otikik in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

otikik — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:58:02 +0000

> a disgruntled employee

With access to the SSL certificates.

New comment by otikik in "US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance"

otikik — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:24:40 +0000

They will care more if you pay them instead, though.

New comment by otikik in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

otikik — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:15:30 +0000

Maybe you are not counting the products they kill.

New comment by otikik in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

otikik — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:10:41 +0000

I stand corrected, thank you sir

New comment by otikik in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

otikik — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:50:40 +0000

It's not good. They can sell it to insurance companies as well. Who might decide not to provide you with health insurance based on your genetic profile.

New comment by otikik in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

otikik — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:07:54 +0000

How are they going to prevent stealing of genetic code? With copyright? See how that went with AI.

New comment by otikik in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

otikik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:25:09 +0000

Well you could grow a clone body and then use a brain transplant.

This is still within the science fiction territory, but much more realistic than fixing aging or an actual teleporter.

The brain would still be old, but it would probably benefit quite a lot from the new body's youthness.

New comment by otikik in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

otikik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:20:09 +0000

We stopped using evolution for adaptation the moment we started using tools. Our brain size was the last "gift" from evolution. We have been on our own since then.

New comment by otikik in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

otikik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:18:41 +0000

what if it's only for the 10 wealthiest men in the world? Does it still sound enticing?

New comment by otikik in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

otikik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:17:59 +0000

Perhaps the jawbone receding is just a way to make us less attractive, so we are less likely to procreate. Perhaps natural selection just wants us to die once we are out of teeth, and to remove our genes from the pool. It really doesn't care about individuals.

(I am aware that natural selection doesn't "want" or "care" about anything. It is just a convenient way to say it).

New comment by otikik in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

otikik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:11:29 +0000

> is this life

Well it is probably more life than being dead.

New comment by otikik in "A modular impact diverting mechanism for football helmets [pdf]"

otikik — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:49:06 +0000

"But there's no helmets in football... Oh, that football"

New comment by otikik in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

otikik — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:21:54 +0000

echo $bait > /dev/null 2>&1

New comment by otikik in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

otikik — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:49:03 +0000

My review would have been along the lines of:

'Please split this PR into smaller ones'. I would even sketch which groups/phases would make sense, perhaps with the help of AI.

New comment by otikik in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

otikik — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:18:10 +0000

The LLMs will gradually cramp more and more adds in their responses in an effort to make a profit.

At least now we know why we will start watering our plants with Brawndo.

New comment by otikik in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

otikik — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:31:30 +0000

"Bought" is probably more correct, but honestly discussing semantics is just distracting from the main issue.

New comment by otikik in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

otikik — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:45:39 +0000

> if the product is free, you are the product

I used to think like that, but then I realized that

> if you are paying for the product, nothing guarantees that you are not the product anyway

Companies like money and they will have no qualms against double dipping. Even if you refuse to be their customer (and thus they lose the revenue coming from you) as long as the majority of their customers are ok with being a product, they will keep doing it.

New comment by otikik in "A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot"

otikik — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:38:32 +0000

Yeah, I was reminded of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator a little bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w