<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: schainks</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=schainks</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 21:04:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=schainks" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "Starship V3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a blastocyst, then back to earth experiment. No organ development?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:43:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137836</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "Starship V3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, we don't experiment on humans in space right now, so there is no evidence, sure. My (limited) understanding leads me to this conclusion for (I think) two _very good_ reasons:<p>1. The twisting and folding of the heart tube is highly dependent on gravity and micro-pressures of circulating blood in the embryo. I learned that from Dr. Larry Taber at Wash U in St. Louis. In microgravity, there's a very strong chance the heart forms incorrectly or if it does form correctly, it conditions itself for zero-g life, so it will have reduced pumping strength because it never needs to move blood from toe to head against gravity. So, even if you gestate a kid correctly in microgravity, the transition to an environment _with_ gravity could be extremely stressful on the body or possibly fatal.<p>2. Other phases of gestation _depend_ on gravity. The "baby dropping" around the beginning of third trimester is important to kick start the body to prepare for birth. The baby presses on the cervix to stimulate dilation during the process of birth, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137820</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems pretty cut and dry to me: Boomers I know today still rave about Regan-era policies and how good they were for everyone, although I'm not sure what "everyone" they are referring to in that sentence. Regan-era deregulation, cutting of social spending, and favoring asset-based versus wage based economic growth certainly laid the groundwork for where we are with today's K-shaped economy.</p>
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<p>Moon more likely than mars, but “permanent” is a big lift in that sentence.<p>Humans gestate at 1g and only 1g. Try doing it elsewhere and you’ll have horrible problems.</p>
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<p>Try the Jira MCP server.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:03:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981013</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am _fighting_ with elderly relatives to adjust their YouTube habits. They didn't even know it comes on autopilot by default. They don't even check sources, they just let the garbage in.</p>
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<p>Sendgrid is such an enshittified product, I am grateful this now exists and integrates directly with tools I have on cloudflare already.</p>
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<p>I can see many cases where installing an IoT camera will be more reliable and less costly than, "shut down equipment to unplug this analog instrument, hook up a digital one, calibrate it, then restart the equipment".<p>If it ain't broke don't fix it — pointing a cheap camera at it with some cloud compute will suffice.</p>
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<p>I think you meant to reply this elsewhere? My comment was in response to the apparent social willingness to accept violence towards oligarchical behavior.</p>
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<p>Plugging this video about infrasound, which I only recently learned was a thing: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo</a><p>These datacenters can be built in ways to limit this kind of noise pollution, but it appears local leaders do not think about things like this that can truly harm their constituents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:39:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755410</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People are coming to a logical conclusions that:<p>- Some if not many jobs are at risk.<p>- AI Psychosis is actively tearing apart families and communities, after social media and opioids have already had a pass.<p>- Negative social outcomes are in the service of _making money_. Not money to pay taxes to fund a healthy society, but money for the people running these systems.<p>Humans that lack community, safety, and purpose will embrace more drastic means of exerting control over their lives at the expense of others, no?<p>It is probably safe to say the temperature has been firmly up for a while. And certain subsets of the population have come to trust their Dear Leader's embrace of violence as a solution, for sure.</p>
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<p>Please someone bid to name it the most confusing thing possible, like “that” or “this”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:09:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636662</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some of the wiring/compute needed to operate your limbs in the spinal cord? So, even if you replace the brain, you actually need the whole spinal cord too in order for the whole system to integrate properly?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:34:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593754</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it's pretty good! I've also written API harnesses for bot-based browser automation so that you can detect fields to fill in, remember where they are for next time you need them, and then if the webpage changes, re-explore and rewrite the tags to remember for the new form fields.<p>Spoiler: this is to automate ticket submission to my landlord's half-baked web portal, not some kind of nefarious captcha breaking thing.</p>
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<p>Very interested. Would even pay for an api for this. I am doing something similar with vibium and need something more token efficient.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:17:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392561</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me."<p>1000% agree. It's also easy to talk to it about something you're not sure it said and derive a better, more elegant solution with simple questioning.<p>Gemini 3.1 also gives me these vibes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:07:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374097</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Useful! Thanks for replying to this internet stranger's comment!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:24:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350219</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software.<p>You sound quite jaded. The people I see struggling _the most_ at prompting are people who have not learned to write elegantly. HOWEVER, a huge boon is that if you're a non-native English speaker and that got in your way before, you can now prompt in your native language. Chinese speakers in particular have an advantage since you use fewer tokens to say the same thing in a lot of situations.<p>> Talk about a rug pull!<p>Talk to product managers and people who write requirements for a living. A PM at MSFT spoke to me today about how panicked he and other PMs are right now. Smart senior engineers are absorbing the job responsibilities of multiple people around them since fewer layers of communication are needed to get the same results.</p>
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<p>So this is Time Machine, but with extra steps? </s></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:05:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189161</link><dc:creator>schainks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schainks in "The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Show me how the capital costs of rolling out high PSI hydrogen infra will be cheaper than building a power grid. You can even refit and re-use existing natural gas pipelines to move hydrogen if you want to cheat. I am willing to bet the costs per kW will still be crazy, especially at last mile where you are in an area populated by humans.<p>I don't see a bright future for hydrogen in transport while we keep putting cheap solar, wind, and batteries on the grid / roads.</p>
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