Hacker News: thecosas

Reelizer: Film Art, Curated

thecosas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:11:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reelizer.com/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863292

Points: 1

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New comment by thecosas in "You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters"

thecosas — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:32:39 +0000

Interesting thing to ponder: How much time, money, energy (et al) is being used in the (now) ever-escalating war between generating and detecting AI content?

This goes for HR, education, code review, on and on.

New comment by thecosas in "You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters"

thecosas — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:27:11 +0000

I know some would label this view as "Luddite" with derision, but learning some of the background of the actual Luddites, the parallels are hard to ignore. If you're interested, 99pi did a solid episode recently [1].

Yes it's ALSO to a promote a book, but still... there's a lot more to it than just mindlessly raging against a new technology.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/552-blood-in-the-mach...

Token economy

thecosas — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:53:15 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_economy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753625

Points: 2

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Stop sign

thecosas — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:31:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753405

Points: 2

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Ancient Philosophy, in Plain English

thecosas — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:36:39 +0000

Article URL: https://thinkplain.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878739

Points: 3

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The Biggest Bundle? How everyone is wrong about AI

thecosas — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:57:56 +0000

Article URL: https://asymco.com/2026/03/26/the-biggest-bundle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529874

Points: 3

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The Comeback of Small Conferences

thecosas — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:56:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flarup.email/p/the-comeback-of-small-conferences

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517419

Points: 1

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Misguided Optimization

thecosas — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:00:04 +0000

Article URL: https://seths.blog/2026/02/misguided-optimization/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123153

Points: 2

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Apex: A unified Markdown processor for all major flavors in one C tool

thecosas — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:13:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ApexMarkdown/apex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365924

Points: 2

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How to eat with others – Mike Monteiro

thecosas — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:47:38 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-eat-with-others/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46015591

Points: 2

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New comment by thecosas in "Microsoft makes Zork open-source"

thecosas — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:08:19 +0000

Looks like someone made a project to hook LLMs to Zork with some learning along the way: https://github.com/gudlyf/zork_ai_player

New comment by thecosas in "The American Nations regions across North America"

thecosas — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:12:03 +0000

Got me with this one.

Cory Doctorow: "centaurs" and "reverse-centaurs"

thecosas — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:39:19 +0000

Article URL: https://locusmag.com/2025/09/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45218681

Points: 124

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New comment by thecosas in "Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes"

thecosas — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:13:32 +0000

Yep, I think vertex is one of the companies trying to tackle an encapsulated set of insulin producing cells.

Neat stuff!

New comment by thecosas in "Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes"

thecosas — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:12:08 +0000

Despite that, glad to see it in a human subject.

I’ve had T1D for more than 30 years and have seen every headline under the sun with a “cure” always sometime in the next 5 years, so my expectations are properly tempered.

Still excited by it but a long way from clinics handing this out as a solution (if it’s viable).

New comment by thecosas in "Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes"

thecosas — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:06:08 +0000

There are also loads of tests for antibodies now; some are even (gasp) free for qualifying people. More here: https://www.breakthrought1d.org/early-detection/#screening-o...

New comment by thecosas in "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued"

thecosas — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:30:47 +0000

I know a few news sites have low bandwidth versions, which are arguable way better than the auto-play video and ads plastered across their “normal” sites.

A couple examples:

https://lite.cnn.com/

https://text.npr.org/

New comment by thecosas in "How to Not Build the Torment Nexus"

thecosas — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:05:07 +0000

Perhaps those of us voicing no opinion at all are the crazy ones.

MyHeritage – Improved LiveMemory

thecosas — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/07/livememory-brings-your-photos-to-life-now-with-fun-new-effects-and-improved-ai-technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763971

Points: 1

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