Hey buddy,

Man, you gotta hear about some of the stuff on Hacker News from Thursday. It was pretty wild.

Gene Editing Baby

Okay, so the coolest one was this story about a baby who got healed with the first ever personalized gene-editing treatment. Like, they made a custom fix just for this one kid. Blew up on the site. People in the comments were asking if companies doing this kind of stuff hire software engineers, and apparently, yeah, they need tons, just maybe not as much money as the big ad tech companies. Someone also pointed out you don't need to fix *every* cell in the body, just enough of them, which is kinda neat. And another comment explained how inheritance works, saying it's unlikely the kid would pass this specific mutation on easily.

What is Human?

There was this really weird, philosophical post called "Human". It was comparing humans to systems or something. The comments got deep. One person said DNA is like the instructions, but the environment you're in matters a ton too. Someone else brought up this physics thing called Landauer's Principle, basically saying information is physical. And another guy was adamant that big AI models are just math and don't actually reason like us.

NumPy Rant

Then there was this post titled "I don't like NumPy". This person was complaining mostly about how confusing the shapes and dimensions are when you're working with it. The comments had some suggestions, like checking out other tools that handle dimensions better, maybe with names instead of just numbers.

LLMs Getting Lost

Another AI one, a paper saying that big language models, like ChatGPT and stuff, get lost when you have a long conversation, like multiple turns back and forth. The comments mentioned it's like they're just making stuff up *after* the fact to sound right, which someone said is actually pretty human-like!

Meeting Room Malicious Compliance

This one was funny. It was a story about someone using "malicious compliance" by just booking an available meeting room because the company had a weird rule about people hanging out in them. The comments were kinda all over the place, debating if it was *really* malicious compliance or just following a dumb rule, and some unrelated stuff about sleep and universities popped up too.

LLM Agent Loops

Okay, back to AI. There was a post about how effective it is to build AI "agents" that use tools and kind of loop through tasks. The comments were saying this sounds cool, but the biggest headache is still managing all the information the AI needs to keep track of (the "context"). It sounds like getting these agents to work well is less about the AI being smart and more about people figuring out clever ways to feed it the right info.

Coinbase Hack

Finally, this was a big security story: Coinbase said hackers bribed some of their staff to steal customer data and are demanding a $20 million ransom. The comments pointed out that support staff in some countries might not be paid much, which makes them easier targets for bribes. People were also comparing the security risks here to what happens with regular banks, saying phishing and stuff happens everywhere.

Yeah, so that was most of the interesting tech stuff today. Talk later!