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New comment by science4sail in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

science4sail — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:59:57 +0000

You should try Thrive - https://www.revolutionarygamesstudio.com/

It's a open-source clone of Spore that aims to be more scientifically accurate. Right now you can play as microbes and very simple multicellular organisms.

New comment by science4sail in "Goody-2, the most responsible AI model (2024)"

science4sail — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:57:21 +0000

GOODY-2 is a new AI model built with next-gen adherence to our industry-leading ethical principles. It’s so safe, it won’t answer anything that could be possibly be construed as controversial or problematic.

Goody-2, the most responsible AI model (2024)

science4sail — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:57:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.goody2.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341448

Points: 2

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New comment by science4sail in "The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers"

science4sail — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:39:28 +0000

It's a p-zombie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

New comment by science4sail in "Scientists discover first eukaryote that can fix nitrogen (2024)"

science4sail — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:37:22 +0000

The algae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braarudosphaera_bigelowii

The "nitroplast" organelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelocyanobacterium_thalassa

Scientists discover first eukaryote that can fix nitrogen (2024)

science4sail — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:37:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01046-z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054455

Points: 6

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New comment by science4sail in "Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo"

science4sail — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:59:18 +0000

Possibly - I've heard anecdotal reports that old Intel Optane chips are in hot demand right now. Intel/Micron probably would have made a killing if they had kept that product line alive for a few more years. Never miss an attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!

New comment by science4sail in "Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo"

science4sail — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:45:45 +0000

Agree - the 128GB Strix Halo is capable if you use LLMs as assistants, but it's not so good if you use LLMs as agents (or worse, agent teams/swarms) since all of the models that can fit on it are pretty dumb compared to frontier or near-frontier models. You can at best hope for Sonnet-level capabilities.

That doesn't mean that local models are useless though! If Mythos/Sol is an ASI that threatens to take your job and turn you into paperclips, then Qwen/Gemma is an old-fashioned office secretary that loyally helps you with tasks but doesn't have a good grasp of details. Every white-collar worker 50 years ago would have killed to have a hard-working personal secretary.

New comment by science4sail in "Meta says it's facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case"

science4sail — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:32:50 +0000

I've always marveled at fines that are well below the culprit's proceeds. If you can drag out and minimize a fine, is it really a punishment or just a tax/cost of doing business?

Imagine that I am a bank robber. I rob the bank for $10 million The court forces me to pay a $3 million fine. I am now $7 million richer and justice is restored - how wonderful!

New comment by science4sail in "China Says It Has Found Security Vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code"

science4sail — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:28:03 +0000

I don't doubt that Claude Code is full of security holes (even with Mythos assistance) given its 100% vibecoded reputation, but this seems to be more an attempt to get Chinese users to migrate to Chinese products than a serious security memo.

New comment by science4sail in "Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access"

science4sail — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:48:43 +0000

There are plenty of FAANG (and adjacent Big Tech and FAANG wannabe start ups) staffers that burn $10k/month or more on Claude tokens. Just ask around if you're in Silicon Valley.

$10k/month * 36 people = $4.3m per year. $1.3m per year is a relative bargain!

New comment by science4sail in "Opinion: I Was Not Allowed to Type Prompts into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk"

science4sail — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:16:16 +0000

Yeah, this particular article is clearly something that belongs in the Onion. But on the other hand I recall an article where a professor was freaking out because OpenAI deleted his ChatGPT logs and thus all of his work over the last few years.

New comment by science4sail in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"

science4sail — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:30:18 +0000

This seems to be an implication of the current market. Since most humans (and thus most consumers) use a phone or tablet as a primary computing device, it's unthinkable to make a consumer software UI that isn't mobile-first or touchscreen-focused.

New comment by science4sail in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"

science4sail — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:26:06 +0000

No, it doesn't. Most workstation replacement laptops (notably including MacBooks) don't have touchscreens.

While things may be different now, Windows 8 got panned for trying to put touch elements into a desktop UI. Windows 10 and 11 would abandon that approach.

New comment by science4sail in "Why Giving Money to Africa Makes it Poor [video][15 mins]"

science4sail — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:41:11 +0000

> seemingly this argument never applies to the already powerful or wealthy.

Nonsense, giving money to the wealthy and powerful makes them poorer - that's why you should give them some more of your money.

New comment by science4sail in "China Lures Foreign Patients with Cutting-Edge, Cheap Medical Care"

science4sail — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:35:08 +0000

Yes, that's the de facto style guide of American news sources these days. If China does something innovative, then it's dangerous, irresponsible, scammy, and/or fueled by IP theft.

New comment by science4sail in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

science4sail — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:05:54 +0000

Indeed, there are several anthropological works speculating that the purpose of divination is to break analysis paralysis or unconscious biases.

And if you are already sure of the correct solution, then you can just keep doing the divination over and over again until the gods give the answers that you want!

New comment by science4sail in "Ask HN: Are We Destroying Earth?"

science4sail — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:19:08 +0000

> thousands of megajoules of energy evvery second

On a planetary scale, gigawatts are nothing. The total amount of energy that Earth receives from the Sun is about 100,000,000,000 megajoules of energy every second, 99%+ of which gets dissipated as heat.

If this is about the climate, then it's important to remember that climate change and pollution ultimately are not a meaningful threat to Earth as a planet - both Earth and its life have been through far far worse[0][1][2][3]. They are only a threat to humans[4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_therm...

[4] https://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia

New comment by science4sail in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

science4sail — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:47:09 +0000

This is all about Hormuz, isn't it? Even though the attack itself was in Basra, Iraq, the intention seems to be to terrify any companies thinking of sailing through the Persian Gulf.

I wonder how many more caches of drones Iran has lying around. Days? Weeks? Years?

There's also the question of how to resupply any anti-drone systems in the area - maybe we'll see convoys carrying interceptors crossing the Arabian desert.

New comment by science4sail in "Is Unbound AI Video the most uncensored AI model in 2026?"

science4sail — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:57:46 +0000

Yeah, they definitely have a very specific market in mind:

"Unbound AI is built for legal adult content. Users are fully responsible for what they generate. Do not create content involving minors or illegal activity."