Hacker News: viciousvoxel

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

viciousvoxel — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:33:13 +0000

That was samsung

New comment by viciousvoxel in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"

viciousvoxel — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:07:01 +0000

Seems like an extremely reductive and negative take on what is "American". Perhaps you've only experienced America via LinkedIn and a specific shitty company?

New comment by viciousvoxel in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

viciousvoxel — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:24:32 +0000

Perhaps you're thinking of Salad Fingers?

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

viciousvoxel — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:39:14 +0000

Same on pixel 10

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

viciousvoxel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:56:12 +0000

Yes, we regularly (for some definition of "regularly") uncover human burial sites (both as part of planned archaeological excavations and accidentally during construction) all around the world, including Europe, Asia, and the Americas. If you're asking specifically about tombs then the answer is also yes.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind"

viciousvoxel — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:43:30 +0000

I thought it was strange that I hadn't heard of this...apparently it's widely agreed that it's a conspiracy theory started by Russia and then amplified by China.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)"

viciousvoxel — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:16:24 +0000

There's a big difference between the (controlled) chaos of an ER vs scheduled surgery, but it's still dramatized for TV obviously.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Rotman Lens"

viciousvoxel — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:31:08 +0000

or nominative determinism

New comment by viciousvoxel in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

viciousvoxel — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:44:07 +0000

Nowhere was Israel mentioned. Please stop with these antisemitic dogwhistle posts in this thread.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins"

viciousvoxel — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:56:20 +0000

Nitpick but we do know who built Teotihuacan -- it was the Teotihuacanos! Unfortunately it's true that we know relatively little about them.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

viciousvoxel — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:23:48 +0000

The term "toxic individualism" doesn't mean that individualism is inherently toxic, like "toxic masculinity" doesn't mean that about masculinity in the general case. These terms mean the over-expression of their worst aspects.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

viciousvoxel — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:19:26 +0000

Once a desirable sequence modification is identified through artificial means, what is often done in practice is to simply expose samples of the organism to UV until the desired sequence appears "naturally." The output of this process is not typically considered GMO, at least for regulatory purposes.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Unexpected things that are people"

viciousvoxel — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:04:03 +0000

Doh, thanks. I even googled to check my spelling but the first article that came up was from The Guardian which also misspelled it :'(

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Unexpected things that are people"

viciousvoxel — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:39:19 +0000

The Whanganui river is in fact only the second of three geological features to have been granted personhood in NZ, the others being Te Urewera and Taranaki Mounga (mountain).

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

viciousvoxel — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:18:49 +0000

There was a No Kings protest just a few days ago, millions of people across nearly every state demonstrated against the administration.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation"

viciousvoxel — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:33:34 +0000

If you use an ad blocker, just disable inline scripts

New comment by viciousvoxel in "At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says"

viciousvoxel — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:00:43 +0000

Minor correction, but in the book the act of asking to be discharged on account of insanity is taken as proof that one is sane, because no sane person would want to keep flying bombing missions day after day with low odds of survival.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "Endometriosis is an interesting disease"

viciousvoxel — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 11:09:53 +0000

There's been conflicting information about this over the years. The latest research suggests that it may increase cancer risk when combined with other behaviors that themselves increase risk, but it probably has little to no effect on its own.

https://www.mskcc.org/news/burning-issue-truth-about-hot-dri...

New comment by viciousvoxel in "1,700 year old egg never broke"

viciousvoxel — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:45:39 +0000

It's usually just called archaeology or perhaps biomolecular archaeology. Forensic archaeology is a bit different, and it usually pertains to humans and their crimes.

New comment by viciousvoxel in "1,700 Year Old Egg Never Broke"

viciousvoxel — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:41:32 +0000

This is actually my wife's job/area of research, except typically they use the eggshell proteins to determine taxonomy. It's extremely rare that DNA survives in these types of samples but the proteins are preserved in the eggshell's mineral matrix.