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I spent 18 months building this after discovering the Human Protein Atlas. Started as an antibody search engine, evolved into a verification-first system with 93.6% accuracy against HPA ground truth. Cross-validated every result against their JSON API. Happy to discuss the multi-agent architecture or validation methodology.
Re:Show HN: A playable game of Tetris inside a PDF on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:46AM (#42657282)
I would be surprised if Doom was playable in a PDF that was being read in a LCD screen of a thermometer.
Re:macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium on Thursday December 05, 2024 @06:44AM (#42327215)
This ^^^^. For those who want increased data privacy and ad blocking with extensions, Firefox continues to provide proper support for manifest V2 (MV2).
Hey everyone,

I've been using Privacy Pass to help cut down on those annoying CAPTCHAs while on VPN but I noticed something odd with the recent update that I wanted to get your thoughts on.

Pros:

- Helps reduce CAPTCHAs on some sites - Open-source and maintained by Cloudflare

Cons:

- Recently started opening new tabs without my permission - Asks for "attester" verification in a kind of intrusive way - Interrupts browsing unexpectedly

So, here's the deal: the extension now opens a new tab without any warning, asking you to verify an "attester." I get that this might be for transparency, but it feels pretty disruptive and unexpected.

Has anyone else noticed this? How are you feeling about it? This new behavior seems a bit off, especially for an add-on that's supposed to make browsing smoother. It also seems to clash with Firefox's policies on unexpected actions and user experience but this is unconfirmed.

I've already reported this to Mozilla, hoping they'll take a look. In the meantime, I wanted to give everyone a heads-up. If you value a smooth browsing experience without unexpected interruptions, you might want to hold off.

What do you all think? How can Cloudflare developers balance transparency with keeping things user-friendly? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Has anyone used this in video games? FPS? MMORPGs?
Re:Ask HN: Windows 10 WSL2 or Macbook Pro M1?? on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:30PM (#32773879)
I'm using both. My PC runs on Windows (9900XE 18 cores/ 36 threads /w nvidia RTX A6000) and Macbook Pro M1 Max. Both are 64GB ram. Windows crashes too much and needs constant updates (and will update in the middle of the night which messes up everything) while my Macbook rarely needs a restart and it will ask you rather than automatically update.

For me, it comes down to the OS and I'm running docker on both. WSL2 runs fine but again... constant updates and restarts. It just too much hassle.

Of course, if you go Ubuntu or *nix, sure you can have stability / less restarts on PC. But the developer experience on my Macbook will always be a better experience. Its just less hassle and less frustration/anxiety. I'm on my third Macbook (my first was in since 2006) and so far none of them have had hardware issues other than battery (easily replaceable).

Re:Narco Submarine Found in Spain on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:24PM (#26460573)
I briefly thought that the Narco sub was of Latin America origins and made its way to Europe. That would've been a wild story!
Yes, I've experienced everything you've mentioned since the beta days of Ingress.

On a more positive note... after finally hiring data scientists and mobile device hackers, Niantic have been progressively banning Ingress accounts suspected of scraping and/or automating the gathering of resources and recharging of portals. The impact in my area, southern California, changed longstanding faction dominated territories into fragmented pockets that either faction can now control. Suspected "automated" supply chains are now broken and rule changes to Quantum capsules resulted in the slowing down of attacks and lowered volume/frequency of those beneficiaries.

Their hair paste work really well.

And Gatsby JS work really well, as well.

Re:I don’t need The Onion, I have China Daily on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:37PM (#20204698)
The Onion would probably post something similar :)
For now, Unreal. Flutter at this stage doesn't have support for 3D via OpenGL ES or similar. Heavily focused on 2D only.
"Across many of the proposed breaks in the poem, we see that these measures are homogeneous," said Krieger. "So as far as the actual text of Beowulf is concerned, it doesn't act as though there is supposed to be a major stylistic change at these breaks. The absence of major stylistic shifts is an argument for unity."

I'm imaging this methodology applied across many other literary works. So many insights can be generated throughout the ages!

Very, very true! By proclaiming "Can’t Be Hacked" is an invite to the world.
The constant need to do a task cheaper and faster.
Since the introduction of cameras used at intersections to penalize stop light violators (made famous by a former mayor who ran a red light while getting a blow job from his mistress), San Diego has always been experimenting with surveillance technology especially thereafter. Those intersection cameras have been minimized from county wide implementation at its height.

Being a border city and a major military hub for the Navy and Marines, surveillance technology being developed by businesses here have been a response to these types of organizations' needs and challenges.

I could see backlash as this surveillance tech permeates the county and extreme edge cases are brought to the surface to be used as weapons for curbing implementation.

Re:Brain-Destroying Prions Also Spread Through Victims' Eyes on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @10:18PM (#18499921)
Fascinating although deadly... prions persist through fire, radiation, and other sterilization methods. Yikes!

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