Hacker News: phyzome

New comment by phyzome in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"

phyzome — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:22:47 +0000

IN MICE

New comment by phyzome in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

phyzome — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:19:21 +0000

Compromise of developer's access, API keys, etc. in order to create a supply chain attack.

New comment by phyzome in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

phyzome — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:14:50 +0000

There hasn't been a programming priesthood for decades, now.

New comment by phyzome in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

phyzome — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:13:33 +0000

"AI-detectors" are still probabilistic and none of them are exactly stellar. (No, even Pangram. It still screws up on the regular, very badly.) And some of that includes calling real people's writing "AI-generated", which isn't acceptable for this task.

New comment by phyzome in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

phyzome — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:10:21 +0000

"Diversity" doesn't mean "zero thresholds for skill or respect".

New comment by phyzome in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

phyzome — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:07:37 +0000

You pretty quickly get a sense for it. But the author does also explicitly list a few indicators.

New comment by phyzome in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

phyzome — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:51:09 +0000

Have you tried just mashing on the keyboard and seeing if a great comment comes out?

New comment by phyzome in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

phyzome — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:40:08 +0000

You understand the distinction though, right? The current state is that you cna choose one of these:

A) Be tracked

B) Use a phone not connected to your identity

C) Go without a phone sometimes

The FCC's proposed change would remove one of those options.

New comment by phyzome in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

phyzome — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:31:57 +0000

It's even worse: Since cell phones broadcast your location at all times, this means telling hundreds of companies (and a number of governments) your location at basically all times.

That's already an issue with most cell phones. Making this apply to prepaid phones is even worse.

New comment by phyzome in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

phyzome — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:23:01 +0000

The point is that they don't have to! That's what progressive enhancement means.

New comment by phyzome in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

phyzome — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:19:54 +0000

Remember, "don't support JS" is just a shorthand for a broader variety of situations:

- Old browsers without the modern JS features you're trying to use

- Different browsers, with different features

- JS didn't load due to network errors

New comment by phyzome in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

phyzome — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:57:25 +0000

How is it so different from, I don't know, directly grabbing it and tearing it apart? There are only so many ways they have to kill something (or injure it enough to allow killing it).

New comment by phyzome in "Dopamine Fracking"

phyzome — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:19:42 +0000

Hmm, weird. I've not found real maple syrup to be too runny. (But then, I haven't had the fake stuff in decades... maybe they add a bunch of thickener to it.)

New comment by phyzome in "Dopamine Fracking"

phyzome — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:04:36 +0000

Kind of sounds like you haven't had real maple syrup.

New comment by phyzome in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

phyzome — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:12:32 +0000

Corrected headline: "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked due to their insecure AI chatbot".

New comment by phyzome in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

phyzome — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:53:06 +0000

A lot of this is about admins, but I also find it weird when university lecturers embrace LLMs, which are fundamentally opposed to the principles of academia as I understand it.

New comment by phyzome in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

phyzome — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:46:17 +0000

I can heartily recommend going into your Google settings and disabling the global "smart features" option. It removes a huge amount of crap all at once.

For GMail, go to Settings -> General (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/general) and scroll down to "Smart features" and disable that.

Then go to the next option, "Google Workspace smart features" and disable them across your entire workspace with 1 or 2 more toggles.

Finally, just switch to Fastmail or something. :-)

New comment by phyzome in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

phyzome — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:38:39 +0000

GMail users sometimes don't see my messages because they get sent to spam. (These are just normal person-to-person emails.)

Google used to have pretty good spam detection but now they seem to have cranked the dial over to err on the side of hiding mail the user actually wanted. It's not a good situation.

New comment by phyzome in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

phyzome — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:31:27 +0000

Why is it bad that a company continues to provide services for customers and income for employees?

New comment by phyzome in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

phyzome — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:41:06 +0000

Someone I know said "software is made of decisions". <https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1219758.html> Seems very applicable here.