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ethanj8011on Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed

slop core

ethanj8011on Show HN: Corral – Kill every command your agent starts

slop core

ethanj8011on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

This to me reads like an absolutely bog standard statement that would be made at any university PR piece about any novel nucleic acid system like this one. The paper itself will usually be more restrained but still attempt to gain some status via comparison.

It also is clearly novel in the scientific sense. This is not a known system and it may resemble some attributes of similar systems but it differs substantially in its arrangement, since it's not clearly a retron.

As for if it is for PR. Yes, I don't disagree about that.

ethanj8011on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

I'm not going to say that it is absolutely Earth shattering (not that they claim that), but your comment is obviously wrong. In the paper they show experimental results where they express some of the proteins and show a phenotypic effect. They don't claim an exact function either, and are relatively restrained on the biology end of things. I fail to see how it is at the level of a vague shower thought.

ethanj8011on Show HN: ClaudeStatsBar: your session is 486k deep and nothing told you

Insane slop title.

ethanj8011on Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

Yes. See for example any number of nerve agents such as VX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent). Yes, you can quibble over whether they count as "phosphates" given they often have fluoryl or other substituents, but the class is generally referred to as organophosphates, and they certainly have phosphorous in them. Malathion, is also an organophosphate which acts via the same pathway, but only in insects.

ethanj8011on Superhuman Attention

Claude slop.

ethanj8011on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

What would be the incentive behind doing this specifically to Fable, given that Fable is the only one that uses API credits?

ethanj8011on Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

Yes, but developing a better horse has a low likelihood of success and a relatively long time horizon. There are some arms race dynamics here in that as long as no one else is trying to develop a better horse, you probably are better off just not trying to either.

ethanj8011on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%

It's true as far as I can tell, just by my own checking using `/status`. You can also tell by when the "clear" reminder hint shows up. Also if you look at the leaked claude code you can see that almost everything in the main thread is cached with 1H TTL (I believe subagents use 5 minute TTL)

ethanj8011on Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate

Isn't the point that unless actually audited each time, the code could still be effectively anything?