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Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest

shymaple — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:19:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/climate-change-strengthening-el-ni%C3%B1o-coral-records-suggest

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475404

Points: 46

# Comments: 17

New comment by shymaple in "Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives"

shymaple — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:18:07 +0000

Yes totally agree, not just the carbon dioxide but other by products too.

New comment by shymaple in "Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives"

shymaple — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:15:19 +0000

With gut microbes handling the plastic degradation to proteins? :-D

New comment by shymaple in "Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives"

shymaple — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:14:27 +0000

even if you decompose it, plants uses the same during their growth.

New comment by shymaple in "Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives"

shymaple — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:12:52 +0000

Not exactly these set of microbes(you will need to find the process). These authors used engineered microbes on a plastic derived substrate and not the plastic it self(PET).

To make a fuel or food or other stuff out of it you need to define the microbes set(mixture). Almost every study claiming plastic to X follows hybrid pattern, they break the polymer into smaller molecules by depolymerization either thermally/chemically for polyolefins like PE/PP/PS, since no enzyme is known to break a C-C backbone; enzymatically for ester-linked plastics like PET/PU, via PETase-type enzymes). Then it goes to the fermentation process, resulting small molecules into lipids (most common), PHA, or specific chemicals.

Sometimes a consortium(Mixture of microbes) is used, with different microbes handling different fractions of the breakdown mixture. Any "protein from plastic" claim is the same logic, the depolymerized substrate is just feeding an yeast, and the protein is the yeast biomass itself, harvested and used crude or extracted.

True microbial degradation of intact plastic polymers, no pretreatment, organism doing all the work, is still a challenging task for biologist.

New comment by shymaple in "Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance"

shymaple — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:16:20 +0000

thanks for sharing full text

New comment by shymaple in "Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance"

shymaple — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:15:51 +0000

Yes you are correct, at age 1 screen time is not at all in your hand, it's your parents who has access to it.

New comment by shymaple in "Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance"

shymaple — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:14:17 +0000

Directly mapping screen time with academic performance is difficult to correlate. Like the article shows that age 1 has the strongest association, but I feel at a very early age like 1, screen time is not in your(toddler's) hands and slowly, as age grows, kids become habitual. It like the impact is not linear.

Also, I think the type of content kids consume can tell us more about the performance, because IMO, long form content can have a different impact than short form.

It's an interesting study to follow and if anyone has access to the raw data, I would be really interested in looking into it.

New comment by shymaple in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

shymaple — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:42:18 +0000

Yeah, this is going to matter for me. Most of my sessions are long scoping/architecture conversations rather than coding loops.

New comment by shymaple in "Just Show Me the Prompt"

shymaple — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:08:10 +0000

Actually, I started the same thing a few weeks ago. I feel your prompt is as good as your skills for whatever task you're performing.

And whenever someone says, "I'm trying this but Claude isn't working properly," I'm like, wait, what???? What did you say, Claude isn't working properly?? Let me see your prompt. And most of the time, the answer we find is in the prompt.

Ask HN: Part of your job LLMs replaced and which part got harder?

shymaple — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:12:57 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342406

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

USC Study Finds AI Is Better at Reading Than Listening

shymaple — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:56:10 +0000

Article URL: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/08/can-ai-read-the-room-usc-study-finds-ai-is-better-at-reading-than-listening/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327313

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shymaple in "Ask HN: Anyone's Claude Code session finishing quickly from yesterday?"

shymaple — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:02:58 +0000

Yes, it happened to me too. Yesterday claude showed me that I had exhausted my weekly limit, so I tried to add new credits, paid, but still couldn't use it.

Surprisingly, it's working today. My weekly limit is supposed to reset in 11 hours from now, but it's working now.

New comment by shymaple in "Show HN: Roamr – a CLI that picks the best saved WiFi, and tells you why"

shymaple — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:52:01 +0000

Hey this is really a cool idea. I'd surely give it a try.

Show HN: Loopsfinity–I built an agentic platform that writes and ships code

shymaple — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:08:55 +0000

Article URL: https://loopsfinity.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088486

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Show HN: I built a Markmaster, a Markdown learning tool for non-coders

shymaple — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:22:54 +0000

Article URL: https://drmarkdown.netlify.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743340

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shymaple in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

shymaple — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:14:39 +0000

Absolutely amazing Rod.

I could feel your excitement in the way you wrote this. And like you said, in a time dominated by CGI and AI, it’s refreshing to see people who still want to create things as real as possible. These experiences and the thinking behind them make the outcome far more meaningful.

Congratulations and best luck!

New comment by shymaple in "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]"

shymaple — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:29:56 +0000

IMO, Stupidity is like entropy and this randomness in our society seems to be increasing too. If we assume society is an ordered system (IF :-D ). So yes, stupidity seems to be on the rise. And the new fuel? unverified information on the internet.

New comment by shymaple in "[dead]"

shymaple — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:56:23 +0000

Because a country where you can move faster, goods, services, people, ideas has more economic energy. It’s not just about convenience. It’s about momentum. A delivery that takes 2 hours instead of 8, a person who can work 50 km away because of good roads, a farmer whose produce reaches the market in time, these things matter.

New comment by shymaple in "30 minutes with a stranger"

shymaple — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:28:53 +0000

I have been talking to people online as well as in person and especially strangers. What I felt is, many only talk about work, and how they are doing well and all and it takes huge time to build trust with the person when it's online. While, in offline meet, you talk more about interest, hobbies or common things and build trust faster and usually they even share personal information easily because they trust you.