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Re:The Millennium Problems for Biology on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:42PM (#49777470)
Agreed. Morphogenesis is more general. Limb regeneration is how morphogenesis is represented in this problem set.
Re:The Millennium Problems for Biology on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:37AM (#49776325)
That’s number 6: limb regeneration.
Without humans, you could rediscover any benefit the "human search method" confers with enough compute and time, but we're limited by both.
When a search space has irreducible complexity, ensemble search methods can improve performance. It's possible culture, emotions, religion, etc are part of an ensemble.

Simulating the "human search method" in silico doesn't need to include specific personalities, but they do provide a bootstrap, just as we've bootstrapped current AI with human language.

For symbiosis, there may be an advantage to the physical adaptability of biology.

In general, it's currently unclear if biology is emulating what we're creating in computers, if computers are emulating what we achieve biologically, or if both approaches are imperfect emulations of a different ideal search method.

Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @12:05PM (#48776637)
That's quite a complement to AI
We have already seen selection pressure results in Candida auris

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01397-19 (2019)

https://radiolab.org/podcast/fungus-amungus (2020)

It can be airborne, lives on sanitized surfaces for up to 10 weeks, and may take 3 years for symptoms to appear.

Still, it is more concerning for cats than humans.

From my experience, the team that's the closest to open-source pixel-perfect Word support is https://github.com/superdoc-dev/superdoc (unaffiliated)
Re:The Dead Economy Theory on Saturday May 30, 2026 @01:14PM (#48338543)
One argument may be that ownership is the last role for a human in a business. The firm exists to show ownership of an AI and provides a mechanism for managing its proceeds.
Re:Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:17AM (#47789725)
Derek Muller of Veritasium has a presentation on why the promises of a revolution in education are never fulfilled. [0]

His hottest take is we're already close to the optimal process for learning, so technology isn't going to improve it. Learning takes work, and no technology can do the work for you.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xS68sl2D70

Nanoclaw uses the official claude agent sdk, so it should be unaffected.
Re:Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:57PM (#47568333)
For those looking for an MIT alternative, there's an embeddable solution which uses PDFium (Apache) compiled to wasm instead of MuPDF (AGPL): https://www.embedpdf.com/

There's a hosted version for quick edits: https://app.embedpdf.com/

Discussion from several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901683

Neither fully handles XFA, but that's a perennial struggle.

> A recent study from Stanford

Source?

Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:11AM (#47123310)
Even without prior knowledge, seeing others safely navigate the same section will lower your estimated risk.
Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics on Monday February 23, 2026 @09:52AM (#47123060)
> Musk miscalculated on 1) cost reduction in LIDAR

Given that Musk has a history of driving lower costs, it's unlikely he overestimated the long-term cost floor. He just thought we were close to self-driving in 2014.

Another factor is Andrej Karpathy, who was the primary architect for the vision-only approach. Musk wanted fewer parts, and Karpathy believed he could deliver that. Karpathy is still an advocate of vision-only.

> They also published the report here: https://pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev/VTT_CR_0...

That's the same link. Is there a way to attest that this is an official VTT report?

Re:Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @10:50PM (#47069683)
> Oxfmt got it, and then won.

This doesn't align with the data.

  - 650k npm downloads for oxfmt this week [0]
  - 4.3m npm downloads for biome this week [1]

  - 19.1k gh stars for oxfmt [2]
  - 23.7k gh stars for biome [3]
  - gap widening in favor of biome [4]

  [0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/oxfmt
  [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@biomejs/biome
  [2] https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc
  [3] https://github.com/biomejs/biome
  [4] https://www.star-history.com/#oxc-project/oxc&biomejs/biome&type=date&legend=top-left
Re:Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:51PM (#47037964)
There's an active proposal for rendering html in canvas to control styling. Text rendering and accessibility are main focuses for the proposal.

https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas

He's changed wild-type planarians to grow the heads of other species. It reverts after a few weeks, because the system has error-correcting mechanisms, but the DNA of these worms is unchanged.

He once compared tinkering with DNA as pulling out a soldering iron to fix a software bug.

In the case of morphology, DNA may not be the best level of abstraction. It's certainly possible, just as one can use chemistry for social problems, but for some problems, affecting cell-to-cell communication may be a more direct path.

> The only thing I see in the QC space, are QC stocks and funding paying for the employment of scientific experimentation

Then invest accordingly, and later reinvest your winnings in a different direction.

I've had to switch from SSE to WebSockets to navigate a corporate network (the entire SSE would have to close before the user received any of the response).

Then we ran into a network where WebSockets were blocked, so we switched to streaming http.

No trouble with streaming http using a standard content-type yet.

Re:The era of jobs is ending on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:59PM (#46196848)
> Find me a “lights out” factory. They don’t exist.

"Inside China's 'dark factories' where robots run the production lines" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftY-MH5mdbw

"China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don't Need Lights" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBdcNA_FsI

Standard .env is unencrypted, while a dotenvx .env file has plaintext keys and encrypted values. Anyone with access to the repo would also need the DOTENVX_PRIVATE_KEY variable to decrypt the env file.

One key deployed to your hosts means adding new secrets doesn't take operations effort. Also, the process uses a public/private key pair, so adding a new variable doesn't expose existing variables.

Re:Nano Banana Pro on Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:03PM (#45998456)
I agree. From where I'm sitting, Seedream just bent the neck while Nano Banana Pro actually shortened the neck.
Your example template and the others here are almost jsx after it's compiled (handwritten below). This jsx discussion seems more about removing the compile step, which you can do with https://github.com/developit/htm

    import { createElement as m } from "your-jsx-compatible-library";
    
    var ListComponent = () => {
      let count = 0, selected = null;
      return {
        view: ({ attrs: { items }}) =>
          m("div", null,
            m("p", null, "Clicked: " + count + " times"),
            m("ul", null, items.map((item) =>
              m("li", {
                onclick: () => { count++; selected = item; },
                style: { cursor: "pointer", color: item === selected ? "blue" : "black" },
              }, item)
            )),
            selected && m("p", null, "Selected: " + selected)
          )
      };
    };
> to get sales the company ended up moving everything into AWS because customers did not trust anything else

This is a hidden cost of self-hosting for many in b2b. It's not just convincing management, it's convincing your clients.

It also increases the cost of martyrdom.
Re:Learn to Play Go on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:43AM (#45422292)
I'm glad we figured it out! Have fun.

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