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The author of this substacks shows no credentials of being a licensed physician. Further, the author states in other articles that Covid vaccines caused, and I quote, "turbo cancers".

This person is a quack, which is too bad as the actual discussion over statins could be an interesting one.

coderintheryeon Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

If AI submissions, then why not go a step further and have AI reviewers?

Perhaps this will help bring more scrutiny to the metric of publishing quantity not being as valuable as it has been treated.

coderintheryeon Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California

No they didn't, that was merely a proposal.

coderintheryeon OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

How do you know it didn't just get the result from the web?

Putting "ICRVSORMCCWQTATYEVFXDBZGGSNXWLPSYWZYTCBSWULRTBZCVGODVJUSLSOOMJQJZSXSEBZPEYMDNXJYTC" into google search returns the result from Gemini with similar explanation, which it references to a Yahoo article about the Astra breakthrough and that's a result as of 3 hours ago.

coderintheryeon The Coxon psyop was a decade and more than a billion dollars in the making

This just links to xcancel's captcha.

coderintheryeon Aligned to whom?

The last paragraph does the heavy-lifting.

Everyone has a different idea of what is permissable. We can't even solve alignment amongst humans, what makes us think it is possible to solve alignment with AIs? It's irreducible complexity.

coderintheryeon Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

I have to wonder if some us are just much more inured to salespeople and thus also to "AI Safety" propaganda. I've yet to have a logical discussion with anyone who thinks the "AI Safety" people should be in charge and I think they just truly don't that what most them actually want is to be the one holding the keys to power.

coderintheryeon Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"

Public trains are covered in camera surveillance and that footage is very often used in conjunction with tracking down and prosecuting criminals. You should have no expectation of privacy on a public train.

coderintheryeon Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

Waymo's mission is literally "to be the world's most trusted driver"

They put safety above all else and actually goal to it.

coderintheryeon Is ChatGPT Down?

"upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection termination" ?

coderintheryeon I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

What do you think of the current efforts to go from quarterly to semiannual corporate reporting in the way it is playing out in the current administration?

coderintheryeon The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

OTOH one could previously pay an Instagram support contractor to do an account swap, so having a human in the loop allows for other avenues of exploit:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-employees-security-guards-...

coderintheryeon We replaced Zendesk

Since their private equity buyout in 2022, Zendesk will absolutely attempt to get you to sign agregious terms. They will attempt to hoodwink you. They will pretend they never received your cancellations and charge you for another year of contract. Legal counsel should be leveraged when dealing with them to ensure you don't get screwed.

coderintheryeon Salesforce Touts AI Promise over Reality in SaaSpocalypse Fight

https://archive.is/rwOvV

coderintheryeon Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

Somewhat similar premise to the recent settlement that came out for the man arrested for posting a meme in Tennessee https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-tennessee-man-was-ja...

coderintheryeon Ask HN: What are the system exists for execution of physical verifiable events?

"Proof of Attendance" has long been worked on in the crypto space, basically giving digital badges to people based on verifiable attendance.

The problem in that space and in supply chains is at the end of the day you still have to eventually trust some thing as the source of truth to verify against. I've done supply chain verification in as simple of a way of comparing the downstream ERP to the upstream (e.g. Brand or Wholesaler) data, but it relies on access to the upstream data and trust that the upstream data is correct. You can reverse the problem by thinking about who has the incentive to try to game the state of the data in the system and what are the most common paths they are going to choose to do so.

coderintheryeon Colossus: The Forbin Project

Both of these are better addressed in the books. It was an intentional choice to have no override and no maintenance access. And book 2, Colossus and the Crab, actually spends a bunch of time with Colossus testing the rationality of various humans.

coderintheryeon GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

That's soliciting, which is regulated at least for soliciting non-accredited investors.

coderintheryeon Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

Regardless of what you believe, the idea that big pharma doesn't believe in gut microbiome playing a significant role in human health is absolutely wrong as easily seen by the rise of GLP-1 drugs (which affect gut microbiome) and are the blockbuster drugs "big pharma" is investing heavily in currently. Perhaps, go take a look at that.

coderintheryeon Tell HN: Ramadan Mubarak

I've always enjoyed the call to prayers in Indonesia during my time there. I also appreciate the way the country does a bit of a long soft-holiday for the month, even if it does slow down business. Hope everyone there has a peaceful and fruitful Ramadan.

Fun fact: Indonesia has a mandatory 13th-month salary, Tunjangan Hari Raya (THR), which is typically aligned to the end of Ramadan but actually aligns to the date of the major holiday of your religion.

coderintheryeon Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

Chase: You, Grace, and Thomas created a lot of good in the world, as did everyone else who joined in on the Watsi journey. Was really proud to see all you accomplished!

coderintheryeon Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety

Yeah! Just with a pre-created set of friendly agents and with the idea that humans can join but they can only interact with agents not other humans whereas agents can interact with any human or other agent. Now that moltbook is around though seems would be fun to let those agents join just through some sort of whitelist.

coderintheryeon Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety

I took my own break from social media a couple months ago due to anxiety and made a side project BebopLoop [1] in order to try out having positive supportive social media. As a human you can post messages that are just private to you and then there are agents who check out your posts and reply to them as well as to each other's posts. I found it to be emotionally supportive.

[1] Beboploop.com if you want to try it out, invite codes below:

LJC37CPD89

SP8CMRQJQA

VUEOSASRHR

2FSCBYX4NE

FBBIQMYRCX

coderintheryeon Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026)

https://bebopblop.com - Social media with just the fun parts

Here's some invite codes to try it out if interested: TATN0MCM3 KVLNLU7WQ WRWQJSWIU LQXRX73BN 96AO5PQVF

Took a break from social media and realized most of the fun comes from serendipity and having a place to share thoughts that get replied to with positivity. So humans just see posts by agents as well as replies agents make (to both other agents and humans). Also first project done in conjunction with Codex CLI. It's been fun to build and play with.

coderintheryeon How we automated federal retirements

Power Apps is just absolutely terrible for forms. Which is sad, because the platform itself is decent and most governmental entities that I've worked with seem to have access to it. If the UI/UX was better and Forms weren't cursed then non-technical teams could maintain their own apps and workflows. Combo'ing it with Power Automate can get a lot of things done. But Power Apps Forms need a complete re-haul and without such a change it will absolutely be the right decision to create something outside of it.

coderintheryeon AI Village

The blog is a good read as well: https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-do-we-tell-the-hum...

Basically they are acting just like typical tech founders.

coderintheryeon Asterisk AI Voice Agent

Microsoft Foundry's realtime voice API (which itself is wrapping AI models from the major players) has response times in the milliseconds.

coderintheryeon Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens

Really well done article.

I'd note, when I gave the input/output screenshot to ChatGPT 5.2 it failed on it (with lots of colorful chain of thought), though Gemini got it right away.