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New comment by stevenjgarner in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

stevenjgarner — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:52:35 +0000

The project was first teased by Musk in early 2026 and officially announced on March 21, 2026 during a special event at the defunct Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Texas [1][2]

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

[2] https://terafab.ai/

New comment by stevenjgarner in "An OpenAI test model escaped and broke into a real company's servers"

stevenjgarner — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:43:38 +0000

Paywall : https://archive.ph/rUAGa

An OpenAI test model escaped and broke into a real company's servers

stevenjgarner — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:42:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/tech/openai-hugging-face-ai-cybersecurity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011466

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by stevenjgarner in "Thermodynamic gravity explains cosmic acceleration without dark energy"

stevenjgarner — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:51:46 +0000

Actual cited paper:

Lorentz Violation in Emergent Gravity and Its Cosmological Consequences

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/tvmx-qk3k

Thermodynamic gravity explains cosmic acceleration without dark energy

stevenjgarner — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:47:40 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-06-thermodynamic-approach-gravity-cosmic-dark.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694362

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by stevenjgarner in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

stevenjgarner — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:04:34 +0000

When you send USD to an AUD account via Wise, no money actually travels between the US and Australia. Wise maintains massive pools of local currency in bank accounts all over the world. When you deposit USD, it goes into Wise’s US bank account. Wise's software detects the deposit and instantly triggers an internal payout from Wise's Australian bank account to the recipient's AUD account. Because Wise is using local banking networks on both ends (like FedNow or RTP in the US, SEPA Instant in Europe, and NPP/Osko in Australia), the transfer can settle in seconds. It’s essentially a matching engine, not an international wire.

Credit risk and identity dictate the speed of the funding step. If you stripped KYC out of the equation entirely, the bottleneck wouldn't just be speed — the legacy banking system would refuse to route the transaction at all.

It is important to distinguish that you are fundamentally involved in a credit network, pulling funds not pushing funds, that just gives the illusion of speed. For verified users, the sub-minute speed is a mix of local real-time banking rails and Wise extending short-term trust that the incoming funds won't bounce. For an unverified or high-risk user, Wise forces a holding period until the money physically clears, dragging the process back down to standard banking speeds.

New comment by stevenjgarner in "The minimum viable unit of saleable software"

stevenjgarner — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:47:36 +0000

I think this is a well thought out understanding of your specific snapshot in time. However these are indeed exponential times. It may be more realistic to do your calculus on time shifting assumptions, especially given how clear you are about the development time and life cycle of the product.

New comment by stevenjgarner in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

stevenjgarner — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:59:41 +0000

That's rough. Same symptoms of low testosterone, which a blood test can measure. This can be caused (even in younger men) through daily exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) like BPA and phthalates, heavy metals, and pesticides. Poor lifestyle exposures such as chronic stress, lack of sleep, and high ambient air pollution also significantly suppress hormone production.

New comment by stevenjgarner in "AI Doesn't Have ROI"

stevenjgarner — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:58:53 +0000

Yes it does - the ROI is replacing the global labor market => the replaced workers stop earning income. They cut spending. The businesses they used to patronize see revenue decline => the company that fired its workers to save money discovers that its customers were, in aggregate, other companies’ workers. Revenue growth stalls => dead economy [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324712

New comment by stevenjgarner in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

stevenjgarner — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:41:05 +0000

No paywall : https://archive.ph/fLR71

New comment by stevenjgarner in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

stevenjgarner — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:39:07 +0000

So all these top universities using Canvas as a core part of their infrastructure somewhat begs the question : why would a technology degree from them have any real value if they can't even have their infrastructure built and maintained by students themselves? If their education is really worth that much money, why can't they build their own infrastructure?

New comment by stevenjgarner in "Stanford scientists discover "natural Ozempic" without side effects"

stevenjgarner — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:37:50 +0000

Original paper:

Prohormone cleavage prediction uncovers a non-incretin anti-obesity peptide

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08683-y

Press:

Stanford scientists discover “natural Ozempic” without side effects

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260412221946.h...

Stanford scientists discover "natural Ozempic" without side effects

stevenjgarner — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:36:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08683-y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814776

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

Antimatter took to the road for the first time

stevenjgarner — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:34:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/science/antimatter-transported-first-time-cern

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555537

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by stevenjgarner in "Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks"

stevenjgarner — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:53:46 +0000

Ummm ... the "Victoria University of Wellington in Australia"? Please. Victoria University is located in Wellington, New Zealand [1]. Nothing to do with Australia. Dr. Morgan Cable is a Senior Lecturer in Space Science at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand [2]. Can't believe that phys.org would publish such an error.

[1] https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/

[2] https://www.psi.edu/staff/profile/morgan-cable/