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You asked for a single example, not the most recent one.
by usea 13y ago
You asked for a single example, not the most recent one.
- StavrosK 13y agoClearly, I meant "in recent memory, preferably on Hacker News", not "was the inventor of the wheel younger than twenty?".
- shocks 13y agoI think this was just meant to be an amusing remark to make people laugh...
- lhl 13y agoA slightly more recent invention that I recall would be Jack Andraka's pancreatic cancer testing. Via Wikipedia[1]: "Andraka's sensor costs $0.03 (to compare to a $800 cost of a standard test[10]) and 10 tests can be performed per strip, taking 5 minutes each. The method is 168 times faster, 26,667 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive than ELISA, and 25% to 50% more accurate than the CA19-9 test" Discussion on Hacker News from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265830 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Andraka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Andraka
- StavrosK 13y agoThat's a much better example, thanks. Still, I wouldn't place the odds very in the title's favor, but at least there are counterexamples...