hithre's comments

On: What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

[hithre]

Depends. Blackberry 10 hub was strongly designed as a shared inbox instead of a loose system of notification like ios or android.

And it was awesome.

On: What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves

[hithre]

Yes. Though it won’t be a small class of rich, it will be a couple of overpowerful families only. I don’t think we have any examples to compare too.

Also, If you control the AI, but there is no middle class to consume its product, everyone is poor and controlling the AI doesn’t bring that much.

There is still some products much more important and stable: food, water and therefore land control.

[oblio → hithre]

> Though it won’t be a small class of rich, it will be a couple of overpowerful families only. I don’t think we have any examples to compare too.

A couple of powerful families? Where power is transmitted from generation to generation?

I can't think of any examples either, it's a very novel concept.

Oh, wait. Romanovs. Merovingians. Carolingians. Capetiens. Bourbons. Habsburgs. Hohenzollerns. Tudors.

Extremely novel concept :-)

On: Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

[hithre]

One theory is that the early plasma shortly after big bang had the right conditions to set the life building block chemistry.

Imagine the entire universe contains those buildings block.

On: Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]

[hithre]

Surely it can only be fake. How can it be legal?

But seeing so many people from the hacker news community reacting to it as normal or exiting is troubling. This is obviously breaching the limits of ethics.

[0xTJ → hithre]

It's a group of cells on a plate? What is there here that would be illegal? This isn't any different than growing some rat intestinal lining cells in a petri dish.

[Zambyte → 0xTJ]

How do you source living human brain cells? (Not necessarily trying to make a point, I'm genuinely interested)

[volkercraig → Zambyte]

You buy them from a supplier.

but to answer your question honestly the supplier keeps stock of them by growing them and storing them. The original cells came from donations.

You could always extract some cells from a biopsy as well, but these guys likely just bought them from sigma or whatever the Australian lab-supply monopoly is.

[undeveloper → Zambyte]

there are many "immortal" strains of cells that are mass produced and sold to labs, most notably "HeLa" cells. in this case in particular, "iPSCs" cells are used, sourcing skin cells or blood cells (with informed consent of the patient), and using those differentiated (or "specialized") cells to create pluripotent (or "less specialized") cells that can then be transformed into neurons

[NackerHughes → 0xTJ]

Where did they get the brain cells from?

[jeffybefffy519 → hithre]

Cortical labs have done this before, its their whole thing…

On: Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

[hithre]

How do they compete for actual tech then? Like Airbus.

- 35h a week, doesn’t prevent engineers from working more legally (most do) - with the age of AI code velocity is no more about time spent, but fresh brain - And much much more important, it is significantly more efficient to have an employee 10 year in one place than 2 years in 5 places. What could explain higher US turnover than europe, you think?

On: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

[hithre]

Pro: After 10 year I feel that I am becoming a specialist of the software I work on rather than a software specialist. Needing to work in different domains where I am not the expert.

Other: Better time management and micro napping. After a working day sucking mind and kids energy, the brain stops working for anything but doom scrolling or TV.