https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2008.06608/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31226549urn:hackerpapers:mention:2008.06608:31226549Sun, 01 May 2022 16:56:42 GMT<p>I don&#x27;t enjoy the science writing at Quanta. Their articles in fields I know something about are so inarticulate and misleading that I have to doubt whether their reporting in fields to which I am largely ignorant (particularly the publication&#x27;s namesake, quantum mechanics) would stand up to scrutiny. In this case, you should know that the phagocytic model of endosymbiosis has been radically upended since the successful culturing of a Lokiarchaeota in (ecto)symbiosis with a delta-proteobacterium in 2019 by Imachi et al. &quot;Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface&quot;…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2008.06608/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.bio-ph