Hacker News: stringfood

New comment by stringfood in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

stringfood — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:59:18 +0000

>I can have fun without drugs.

Yes!!! I love this approach! unironically

New comment by stringfood in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

stringfood — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:54:00 +0000

cannabis is harder to quit because it doesn't have that "it's killing you" aspect to it - but staying in bed and playing video games can kill in a different way! Still better than drinking heavily though

New comment by stringfood in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

stringfood — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:44:56 +0000

I feel by your logic, no one should ever use drugs or alcohol lest they become addicted to how good they make them feel. An abstinence approach. very modern!

New comment by stringfood in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

stringfood — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:36:57 +0000

people rarely compare cannabis to fentanyl they normally compare it to alcohol and tobacco...

New comment by stringfood in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

stringfood — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:35:03 +0000

not alcohol, they will use that no problem, they can handle it unlike others

New comment by stringfood in "Fable 5 Is Back"

stringfood — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:43:40 +0000

what if they improve the model and fix such errors? by writing off now you will take finger off pulse of our great vibrating ai lords

New comment by stringfood in "Fable 5 Is Back"

stringfood — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:41:15 +0000

funnily enough for me, Fable 5 was much better at refactoring my large codebase than Opus 4.8 was - perhaps the scope of Fable is very great

New comment by stringfood in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

stringfood — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:47:43 +0000

what is happening is that the gap between what the experts and AI know is getting smaller each year. this year sure radiologists are mocking AI's ability to interpret MRI results, but they are a lot better at that this year than last. In five years perhaps radiologists will truly appreciate AI, but I am not holding my breath because radiologists are notoriously slow to adapt to changes in medical science compared to other specialists like anesthesiologists or surgeons

New comment by stringfood in "Peppa Pig studio wants to clone child actors' voices with AI indefinitely"

stringfood — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:55:26 +0000

just want to clarify it's not Peppa Pig himself who will be paying the royalties but the production company for the show.

New comment by stringfood in "AI in mathematics is forcing big questions"

stringfood — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:00:07 +0000

couldn't God have created a more orderly universe for us? this is ridiculous

New comment by stringfood in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

stringfood — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:26:44 +0000

> Can our sci-fi writers come up with something equivalent

No, because reality is always stranger than fiction

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

stringfood — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:22:10 +0000

This author is way too wordy and spends too much time with flowery prose when he should be getting to his weird, highly idiosyncratic point

New comment by stringfood in "Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia [audio]"

stringfood — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:46:50 +0000

"Nostalgia is death" - Bob Dylan

I have to agree, and feel looking back is bad for you

New comment by stringfood in "Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia [audio]"

stringfood — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:44:23 +0000

Reminds me of the book of oxymorons I read when I was a kid: who ordered the Jumbo Shrimp?

New comment by stringfood in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

stringfood — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:42:30 +0000

when I first read the title thought he was talking about linear algebra and I was like damn it's not that hard

New comment by stringfood in "An interview with an Apple emoji designer"

stringfood — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:14:46 +0000

long eggplant and a smaller Pinching Hand emoji were probably the first to go

New comment by stringfood in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

stringfood — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:43:12 +0000

Another moving the goalposts moment - "if only my seemingly magical constantly improving language machine could code a proper front-end" - 2026

"if only my seemingly magical constantly improving machine could craft an ion thrust engine from raw silica without fudging the wiring" - 2036

New comment by stringfood in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

stringfood — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:29:06 +0000

Books were already losing the fight on road trips once the gameboy came out - I can't imagine what having every movie, tv show, and song in a flashing touchscreen connected to the internet, why would I pick up a book that takes so much work to deliver fun when I can play AstroBlasters and watch tiktoks of war crimes

New comment by stringfood in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

stringfood — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:40:39 +0000

I'll be in my woodshop!

New comment by stringfood in "Even light drinking raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and early death"

stringfood — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:09:55 +0000

You can spend your life avoiding grain, sugar, and alcohol... or you can actually live a real life /s