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New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe"

thewanderer1983 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:39:38 +0000

And here I thought this was the biggest 2D map.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/01/a-logarithmic-map-of-...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Cyberpunk Video Games"

thewanderer1983 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:16:04 +0000

A couple more worth mentioning. Beneath a steel sky, flashback.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:53:44 +0000

This academic publish and industry doesn't is an incorrect view. Academics also hold off from publishing groundbreaking science in order to protect their research edge. You shouldn't see this as industry bad as driven by profits and academia is free from career incentives and money.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:03:27 +0000

Visual effects went through this same development issues as the industry matured. What took this industry decades to advance it taking months in AI. Think the spaghetti Will Smith and now this. Another one people don't mention here but is specific to video is higgsfield ai.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity"

thewanderer1983 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:01:30 +0000

Guzzles or sensibly sips?

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

thewanderer1983 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:52:42 +0000

Yes the complete lack of geography in the article should of raised red flags for people.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

thewanderer1983 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:10:53 +0000

My original specialist wasn't very engaged with my condition. I was getting the same speech every six month visit. On my last meeting she incorrectly stated a condition I wasn't having with bleeding. My wife had a thyroid issue a number of years ago including cancer growth on it. Her first specialist was using older techniques for her treatment. We ended up going to another specialist who's focus of research was her condition. It was worlds better. Given that experience I decided to find another specialist who focused on my condition.

The first specialist ( hematologist) was referred from local GP. She is a a hematologist, but she wasn't focused on MPNs.

I recommend joining your local MPN alliance to keep up with what's going on in this field. I also recommend finding a specialist with a focus on MPNs. Looks at their papers or listed focus.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

thewanderer1983 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:32:38 +0000

I was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) which is part of a group of diseases called myeloproliferative neoplasms. This happened about three years ago. Recently, I decided to get a second opinion and my new specialist changed my diagnosis from ET to Polycythemia Vera (PV). She also highly recommended I quickly go and give blood to lower my haematocrit levels as it put me at a much higher risk of a blood clot. This is standard practice for people with PV but not people with ET. I decided to put the details into google AI in the same way that the original specialist used to diagnose me. Google AI predicted I very likely had PV instead of ET. I also asked Google AI how one could misdiagnose my condition with ET instead of PV and google correctly explained how. My specialist had used my high platelet count and blood test that came back with a JAK2 mutation then after a bone marrow biopsy to incorrectly diagnose me with ET. My high hemoglobin levels should of been checked by my first specialist as an indication of PV not ET. Only the second specialist picked up on this. Google AI took five seconds, and is free. The specialists costs $$$ and took weeks.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome"

thewanderer1983 — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:53:16 +0000

Here is the translation from the article. Which is slightly different from what is listed below in the comments.

Now let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian, the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts, the work of the glory-father—of every wonder, eternal Lord. He established a beginning. He first shaped for men's sons Heaven as a roof, the holy Creator; then middle-earth mankind's guardian, eternal Lord, afterwards prepared the earth for men, the Lord almighty.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:34:51 +0000

Thanks for the response. Sorry I should of been less vague. Paqet works on raw sockets with KCP. Though it's intended for good. What's to assume bad actors aren't also using this method to get around solutions like littlesnitch?

A recent example, but not the only is a Iran a botnet, using this to get around detection.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/iran-linked-botnet-exposed-aft...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:58:38 +0000

Does little snitch and similar software work against solutions like Paqet?

https://github.com/hanselime/paqet

Arena Zero Ep.1 [video]

thewanderer1983 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqcH-1Rk-ow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567262

Points: 3

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New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web"

thewanderer1983 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:21:46 +0000

Have you considered including Gemini and gopher support? There is a very nice small web community there.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight"

thewanderer1983 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:41:17 +0000

Yep.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:03:57 +0000

But yeah AI slop and all that...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

thewanderer1983 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:34:20 +0000

did “not impact the main text, analyses, or findings.”

Made me think of the black spoon error being off by a factor of 10 and the author also said it didn't impact the main findings.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/13/how-a-simp...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales"

thewanderer1983 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:30:38 +0000

How about some local performance that recreated shoes from the Victorian period. That ended up in the ocean?

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Global Village Construction Set"

thewanderer1983 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:56:46 +0000

Someone only has to take part in a makerspace to see tragedy of the commons in action.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Choose Your Own Adventure"

thewanderer1983 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:16:06 +0000

Interactive Fiction still exists and is being actively developed. Check out the top games on Interactive Fiction DB. https://ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=1lv599reviaxvwo7

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:10:32 +0000

>Peer review isn't spellcheck or proofreading.

>It's about logic, methodology, significance, and citations

To quote kazinator in this thread. "The typo is not the problem; it's that the typo is evidence of academic dishonesty.

When you make a citation, it means you cracked open the original work, understood what it says and located a relevant passage to reference in your work.

The authors are propagating the same typo because they are not copying the original correct text; they are just copying ready-made citations of that text which they plant into their papers to manufacture the impression that they are surveying other work in their area and taking it into account when doing their work."

>It's not some gold standard of perfection or truth.

"Gold standard" is a term used within the scientific community to describe the high rigor expected within the scientific community when doing research. One of the processes they hold up in this standard is Peer Review. I wasn't making some general public statement about perfection. Google "Gold Peer Review Gold Standard".