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amzin··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
In progress: I’m writing a book about how the brain processes text in general - and news articles in particular.

I also created and maintain a Russian "newspeak" dictionary: https://github.com/alamzin/az/

amzin··on How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do
Professional procrastinator here. All the tips in the post are common knowledge and, sadly, not very good (especially in the long run).

The only thing that works for many people is to skip the motivation part and embrace the rather uncomfortable principle of "action before motivation."

The flow state will come. I believe it arises independently of motivation. Motivation just tricks us into believing that everything we do should bring joy.

It will — but not right now; we need to dive in first.

amzin··on Hyperspace
Is there a FS that keeps only diffs in clone files? It would be neat
amzin··on Steam has been banned in China
Sent the link to my son who is an avid gamer.

Got an one-word response:

"Winnienet".

Could not phrase it better.

amzin··on SCP-055
And to clarify, the beginning is here: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
amzin··on Gitlab considers not hiring SREs and Support Engineers in China and Russia
> Gitlab has no Chinese or Russian employee so far -> so nobody got pressure or intimidate, ffs.

Actually, they do have employees there. There are at least 5 Russians and 1 Chinese listed here: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

There are no Russians at the role that had been debated though.

amzin··on Ask HN: Tell me why this auth system is a bad idea
Came to mention Notion.so too.

My email is a mess for I should switch between several work/home mailboxes — and from time to time I just have to wait for an email too.

This is one of the reasons I avoid launching Notion.so.

amzin··on Yandex startup fund Yandex.Factory to invest in Zenmoney
Yandex.Factory is not a fund, actually. It is investment program.