Hacker News: thisisauserid

New comment by thisisauserid in "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash"

thisisauserid — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:01:17 +0000

Google's main source of revenue is advertising not enriching people's lives. It's not a charity.

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

thisisauserid — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:18:53 +0000

In 2011 researchers identified a fungus named pestalotiopsis microspora. It gained widespread attention because it can digest polyurethane plastic and survive entirely in anaerobic conditions, making it a prime candidate for deployment at the bottom of landfills.

I for one look forward to serving this underground deity.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"

thisisauserid — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:12:55 +0000

And before LLMs he would have slapped together a twenty-line bash script and a cron job over lunch, and spent six months working on something else.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

thisisauserid — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:22:10 +0000

For some reason, room-level air conditioning is basic public health, but weather engineering is a sci-fi villain origin story.

Chinese Hackers Broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate

thisisauserid — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:59:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-sponsored-hacking-platforms-seized-by-us-justice-department-says-2026-08-26/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450370

Points: 14

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New comment by thisisauserid in "Felony Bench"

thisisauserid — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:34:51 +0000

The delay of Mythos is obviously due to Anthropic's failure to keep it from turning state's evidence in laboratory conditions.

New comment by thisisauserid in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

thisisauserid — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:43:22 +0000

Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (in favor of Google) 2015 that similar actions constituted "fair use".

New comment by thisisauserid in "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)"

thisisauserid — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:11:05 +0000

A lot of the behavior people point to as schizophrenia was heavily driven by his prolonged amphetamine.

Amphetamine psychosis is almost indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenia.

It causes severe paranoia, delusions, visual hallucinations, and a complete break from reality.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions"

thisisauserid — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:44:03 +0000

Shocking that Zhejiang University didn't find this when TikTok was Chinese...

New comment by thisisauserid in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

thisisauserid — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:21:15 +0000

It's almost like transformers generate output using some sort of guided prediction!

How do they expect us to bring our capricious demands to fruition reliably?

New comment by thisisauserid in "Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network"

thisisauserid — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:19:48 +0000

Was also the name of the internet in Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros"

thisisauserid — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:44:05 +0000

In 1954, Escher inspired Roger Penrose to create the impossible triangle. Roger shared this with his father, Lionel, who then designed the impossible staircase. In 1958, they published a paper on these illusions and sent a copy to Escher. Escher used Lionel's staircase to create Ascending and Descending and Roger's triangle to create Waterfall. Both Penrose and Escher were completely unaware that Oscar Reutersvärd had independently invented these shapes earlier.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros"

thisisauserid — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:39:06 +0000

I always thought it odd that Penrose gets dropped from the Escher conversations.

Gemini 3.7 Flash

thisisauserid — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:23:22 +0000

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.7-flas...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289112

Points: 968

# Comments: 495

New comment by thisisauserid in "Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder"

thisisauserid — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:13:19 +0000

Whenever I've had it from a Ukrainian place (labeled with the same name) it's been too sweet.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning"

thisisauserid — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:46:11 +0000

I know very little about this but why isn't it mamba-3? Isn't it... uh, more gooder?

New comment by thisisauserid in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

thisisauserid — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:51:18 +0000

Just like when the official kilogram ("Le Grand K") was losing weight!

New comment by thisisauserid in "Crickets as pets"

thisisauserid — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:37:22 +0000

Fits in pocket, chirps for attention, low lifespan...

It's an analog Tamagotchi.

New comment by thisisauserid in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

thisisauserid — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:27:57 +0000

My knuckles no longer crack when I'm in ketosis. I assume it's inflammation related but I've never heard anyone else mention this though.

New comment by thisisauserid in ""Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers"

thisisauserid — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:21:24 +0000

Almost all of us would agree if this was just better articulated:

"Code was never the hardest part."

There you go. Doesn't imply that coding is easy.