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While I find this fascinating, it does seem a bit curious to post this in a hacker forum. I was half way expecting to read that the farmer had been "bio-hackin

by Revex 13y ago

While I find this fascinating, it does seem a bit curious to post this in a hacker forum. I was half way expecting to read that the farmer had been "bio-hacking" trying to come up with a healthy hybrid.

pmurphyirl 13y ago
Other than sharing my name with said farmer, I agree a bit curious to post here on HN...
jonsen 13y ago
You mean expecting a guman?
api_or_ipa 13y ago
"bio-hacking": is this what we call genetic engineering now?
- Revex 13y ago
  Hacking != Engineering
  - mildtrepidation 13y ago
    Unless you go by recent popular usage, in which case every possible interaction with anything that is not specifically laid out in that thing's accompanying instruction manual is now considered "hacking." Case in point: Life has no instructions, so people happily call almost anything "life hacking."
wmil 13y ago
Actually the team that cloned "Dolly" the sheep in the 90s was making sheep-goat chimeras in the 80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%E2%80%93goat_chimera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%E2%80%93goat_chimera
rqebmm 13y ago
>On-Topic[1]: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I certainly found it interesting that this sort of thing is possible in nature. Other's mileage may vary but that's what the voting process is for, no? [1]http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
orky56 13y ago
Many discoveries were based on unintentional or natural accidents. One could calls these hacks since they broke the conventional "usage pattern." Not necessarily for this case but in situations like these.
dang 13y ago
The only sins on Hacker News are being uninteresting and being rude. If PG can post about the margins of medieval manuscripts, anything interesting goes. Given that the top comment in the thread is a relevant (and deservedly upvoted) quotation from a late-Renaissance text, I'd say we're doing pretty well here.

by Revex 13y ago

pmurphyirl 13y ago

Other than sharing my name with said farmer, I agree a bit curious to post here on HN...

jonsen 13y ago

You mean expecting a guman?

api_or_ipa 13y ago

"bio-hacking": is this what we call genetic engineering now?

Revex 13y ago
Hacking != Engineering
- mildtrepidation 13y ago
  Unless you go by recent popular usage, in which case every possible interaction with anything that is not specifically laid out in that thing's accompanying instruction manual is now considered "hacking." Case in point: Life has no instructions, so people happily call almost anything "life hacking."

wmil 13y ago

Actually the team that cloned "Dolly" the sheep in the 90s was making sheep-goat chimeras in the 80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%E2%80%93goat_chimera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%E2%80%93goat_chimera

rqebmm 13y ago

>On-Topic[1]: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. I certainly found it interesting that this sort of thing is possible in nature. Other's mileage may vary but that's what the voting process is for, no? [1]http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

orky56 13y ago

Many discoveries were based on unintentional or natural accidents. One could calls these hacks since they broke the conventional "usage pattern." Not necessarily for this case but in situations like these.

dang 13y ago

The only sins on Hacker News are being uninteresting and being rude. If PG can post about the margins of medieval manuscripts, anything interesting goes. Given that the top comment in the thread is a relevant (and deservedly upvoted) quotation from a late-Renaissance text, I'd say we're doing pretty well here.