Even as a med student, the idea that audible sound can actually influence gene expression and cell differentiation feels like something out of sci-fi.

Imagine targeted sound therapy for metabolic conditions, or for promoting muscle regeneration after injury. We already use things like ultrasound for diagnostic imaging and physical therapy

Very cool!

>Focused Ultrasound Exceeds One Million Patients Treated Worldwide

https://www.fusfoundation.org/posts/focused-ultrasound-excee...

It's too easy B)

You should now craft a prompt and post a new article generated by an LLM of your chosings. Ask it for a catchy title for HN and post it at the right time window for high ranking articles.

I suppose that's debatable but the point is the site is heavily moderated, something the owners can manage without volunteers for now because it doesn't appeal to the mainstream. I think your post is interesting and should have stayed, for what it's worth. I think it's a topic worth discussing but alas, many people just thought you were a bot as well. It really highlights the state of things.

I appreciate the feedback.

Sorry to pick apart your sentences, I wrote as if I was picking apart something computer generated, without a human in the loop.

Haha, no worries! You were right to call it out.

The blog has been running since 2022 under a different domain name. It was then focused on economics, as the archive suggests. I'm currently migrating articles from the old host.

And what was the previous domain name?

apathetic.bid

Well, this looks legit, as this is a real domain registered in 2022, but I still don't get why would you make a new post on a freshly registered domain after a 3-year pause and immediately submit it to HN.

Well, med school might be related to the 3-year pause thing.

Honestly, the situation was just too absurd/twisted/funny not to write about. I also had nothing to do yesterday so that helped.

I'm gonna write a part two about everyone turning against me, thinking I'm a bot haha.

> I still don't get why would you make a new post on a freshly registered domain after a 3-year pause and immediately submit it to HN

You don’t really have to get it, to be fair. If it was, to give an example, a poorly thought-out decision, then you’re just picking on them for that.

Seems like mods nuked the thread now. Oh well

[flagged] is from users, not mods.

Oh, ok. Interesting. Thank you!

Interestingly, a few hours after the posthuman.blog post circulated on reddit yesterday, the embedded amazon link at the end of the original post was suddenly edited out.

They're among us.

Behind every bot is a shifty motherfucker who has always been a scamming piece of shit.

First they polluted email with spam. Then they polluted search results with SEO. Now they pollute forums with crap like this.

For a brief moment in the 20th century, small pockets of middle-class people in the West forgot this basic fact of the universe, but people the world over still suffered. Leaded gasoline. Big tobacco. Cults. Big oil. Big sugar. Violent ideologies with seven-digit body counts. ...All of this happened while we were enjoying our nice suburban lifestyles where we could "leave our doors unlocked."

It never stopped, but it never started, either. Radium water. Snake oil salesmen. The Claque. Papal indulgences. Debased and shaved coinage. The greatest engineer of the Roman period, Hero of Alexandria, made numerous devices that performed "miracles" so temples could extract donations from visitors. I'm sure if they were around today, those same ancient corrupt priests would be shilling memecoins.

This behaviour isn't even unique to humans.

Ever since the first bacterium with a defective metabolic pathway started taking excess production from its neighbours, there have been cheaters. Ecologists call it the Black Queen hypothesis: if the other guy is left holding the bag, then you can invest more of your own energy into reproducing, until there's no more slack in the carrying capacity. Cheating is literally an evolutionary strategy.

To be part of the world you must be resilient to the evil that is baked into it, even when it comes to your doorstep.

If a platform can't or won't offer the tools to limit abuse, go find or build a new platform that can.

Oh true. It's there in archived version but now absent in the post itself. Maybe they're reading HN too?

What if OP is the bot creator and is triple dipping on the outrage? Just look at the blog. One other post from 3 years ago and nothing else.

Btw the posthuman.blog domain was registered yesterday, right when this post was written - https://www.whois.com/whois/posthuman.blog.

So, what, this is now performance art?

You can contact them via email which is on the main page of the site. If it's not fake obviously.

I'm not a bot (or am I?)

It didn't hit the news tab yesterday, only "new", because my account is newly registered. So I reposted it one more time.

Beep boop.

I get it but for what is worth, the accepted behavior here is that you can repost eventually but you should wait significantly longer than a day before doing so.

> Are reposts ok?

>If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Weeeell, technically a fresh new story hasn't got any attention in the last year or so because it was never posted before, so a small number of reposts - like in this case - should be ok.

Seems like the resulting attention on the repost makes for decent justification in this case. I'm glad to have seen this, and I don't like the idea of good content slipping through the cracks because of timing and circumstance.

Note that there is a “second chance” pool of posts which did not get much attention but are perhaps more interesting to the community than the engagement suggests. The mods seem to agree with this point, given that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

I can relate and it is something I'm thinking about as I have a post I'd like to try reposting without coming off as spammy. In this case, the repost was indeed worth it as far as I can tell.

Thank you for clarifying.

I will keep that in mind.

You're not wrong. I'm 2 & 3.

Same, but only on HN. No reddit account to be had.