Hacker News: rhokstar

We Built NeuroAutomata: protein variant effect prediction

rhokstar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:57:27 +0000

Article URL: https://axonagentic.ai/blog/why-we-built-neuroautomata

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552039

Points: 2

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New comment by rhokstar in "Building Natural Language Interface for Human Protein Atlas Data in 18 Months"

rhokstar — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:10:22 +0000

I spent 18 months building this after discovering the Human Protein Atlas. Started as an antibody search engine, evolved into a verification-first system with 93.6% accuracy against HPA ground truth. Cross-validated every result against their JSON API. Happy to discuss the multi-agent architecture or validation methodology.

Building Natural Language Interface for Human Protein Atlas Data in 18 Months

rhokstar — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:08:42 +0000

Article URL: https://axonagentic.ai/blog/ai-natural-language-human-protein-atlas-18-month-journey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680564

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by rhokstar in "Show HN: Tetris in a PDF"

rhokstar — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:46:32 +0000

I would be surprised if Doom was playable in a PDF that was being read in a LCD screen of a thermometer.

New comment by rhokstar in "macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium"

rhokstar — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:44:47 +0000

This ^^^^. For those who want increased data privacy and ad blocking with extensions, Firefox continues to provide proper support for manifest V2 (MV2).

New comment by rhokstar in "Cloudflare's Silk Privacy Pass Extension: Unexpected Opening of New Tab"

rhokstar — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:48:12 +0000

Hey everyone,

I've been using Privacy Pass to help cut down on those annoying CAPTCHAs while on VPN but I noticed something odd with the recent update that I wanted to get your thoughts on.

Pros:

- Helps reduce CAPTCHAs on some sites - Open-source and maintained by Cloudflare

Cons:

- Recently started opening new tabs without my permission - Asks for "attester" verification in a kind of intrusive way - Interrupts browsing unexpectedly

So, here's the deal: the extension now opens a new tab without any warning, asking you to verify an "attester." I get that this might be for transparency, but it feels pretty disruptive and unexpected.

Has anyone else noticed this? How are you feeling about it? This new behavior seems a bit off, especially for an add-on that's supposed to make browsing smoother. It also seems to clash with Firefox's policies on unexpected actions and user experience but this is unconfirmed.

I've already reported this to Mozilla, hoping they'll take a look. In the meantime, I wanted to give everyone a heads-up. If you value a smooth browsing experience without unexpected interruptions, you might want to hold off.

What do you all think? How can Cloudflare developers balance transparency with keeping things user-friendly? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Cloudflare's Silk Privacy Pass Extension: Unexpected Opening of New Tab

rhokstar — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:48:12 +0000

Article URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-pass/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41068042

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by rhokstar in "Warpd: A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer"

rhokstar — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:32:43 +0000

Has anyone used this in video games? FPS? MMORPGs?

New comment by rhokstar in "Ask HN: Windows 10 WSL2 or Macbook Pro M1??"

rhokstar — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:30:47 +0000

I'm using both. My PC runs on Windows (9900XE 18 cores/ 36 threads /w nvidia RTX A6000) and Macbook Pro M1 Max. Both are 64GB ram. Windows crashes too much and needs constant updates (and will update in the middle of the night which messes up everything) while my Macbook rarely needs a restart and it will ask you rather than automatically update.

For me, it comes down to the OS and I'm running docker on both. WSL2 runs fine but again... constant updates and restarts. It just too much hassle.

Of course, if you go Ubuntu or *nix, sure you can have stability / less restarts on PC. But the developer experience on my Macbook will always be a better experience. Its just less hassle and less frustration/anxiety. I'm on my third Macbook (my first was in since 2006) and so far none of them have had hardware issues other than battery (easily replaceable).

New comment by rhokstar in "Narco Submarine Found in Spain"

rhokstar — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 23:24:50 +0000

I briefly thought that the Narco sub was of Latin America origins and made its way to Europe. That would've been a wild story!

New comment by rhokstar in "How Canada's military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing"

rhokstar — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:48:22 +0000

Yes, I've experienced everything you've mentioned since the beta days of Ingress.

On a more positive note... after finally hiring data scientists and mobile device hackers, Niantic have been progressively banning Ingress accounts suspected of scraping and/or automating the gathering of resources and recharging of portals. The impact in my area, southern California, changed longstanding faction dominated territories into fragmented pockets that either faction can now control. Suspected "automated" supply chains are now broken and rule changes to Quantum capsules resulted in the slowing down of attacks and lowered volume/frequency of those beneficiaries.