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dr_dshivon Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

Ancient coin collecting is an awesome hobby! I have one that scholars think was made by / designed by Pythagoras himself. For a few hundred bucks!

Recently I learned that only 3% of Latin works from 1450-1700 (including renaissance and scientific revolution) have been translated. Secondrenaissance.ai

dr_dshivon Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?

Get the $200/m Claude code subscription and make all the dreams come true.

dr_dshivon Why I left iNaturalist

Do share book recommendations, please.

dr_dshivon Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf]

Some parts of science can be automated and scaled immensely. Like, look at the science that went into building modern large language models. Massive numbers of theory driven empirical experiments. Ironically, not many papers being written about much of it.

In many domains, human ego is the bottleneck— or maybe organizational incentives. Most scientists work largely alone—a lot more could be done with the right leadership.

dr_dshivon Claude Code On-the-Go

If you are already paying $200-500/m… and you are doing the work of 10 people… I can totally see the value.

I’ll check the Terragonlabs option.

Lots of options for startups right now, selling pickaxes! I’m waiting for a better terminal experience, personally. I can’t deal with 30+ poorly named windows. I need to be able to search for that one thread I was working on yesterday…

dr_dshivon A spider web unlike any seen before

Wow, thank you! I obviously had no idea!

Although, in terms of numbers, according to that Wikipedia: “Several permutations of social behavior exist amongst the 23 species of spider considered to be quasi-social out of some 45,000 known species of spider”

dr_dshivon A spider web unlike any seen before

Spiders are super solitary creatures. I wonder, though, if they could become social.

dr_dshivon Lessons from 14 years at Google

That’s the big difference in China. When there is competition for everything —> prices are low. Not a lot of profits for investors, though…

dr_dshivon Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

“ Computers have a rough time of this because they don’t really know how to “keep a beat”, and the algorithms that can find the beat do a lot better when they already know the estimated BPM, which is obviously a chicken/egg problem.”

Incredible! Would love some science on this.

dr_dshivon Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

I just ask Claude to look at past conversations where I was working on x… it sometimes thinks it can’t see them, but it can.

I’ll give this a go though and let you know!

dr_dshivon Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source

And… “increased logging, rising emissions in peatland forests and declining carbon sink of mineral soils.”

dr_dshivon Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source

Happened in Finland too— forests becoming net carbon producers.

https://www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-events/news/finlands-forests...

dr_dshivon Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors

> When I first learned about this, I thought it was pseudo-science BS. It's crazy what can be done with just sound.

I think we were all thinking that. Acoustic Cavitation has also been proposed as a mechanism for enabling cold fusion. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1067589

dr_dshivon I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools

I’d love to take that bet

dr_dshivon LLM Year in Review

That’s the old way of thinking about it. there is a new way.

dr_dshivon LLM Year in Review

Ok, fine, but do you have a better way to build a bot following and expose oneself to trending MAGA memes?

dr_dshivon LLM Year in Review

I love em dashes—they basically indicate a more deliberate pause than a … without the tight vibes of a semicolon.

dr_dshivon LLM Year in Review

https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/webdev

LM Arena shows Claude Opus 4.5 on top

dr_dshivon Contrails Map

Would be great for shiptracks, too— which used to mitigate 1/3 of the warming impact of maritime shipping — until the 2022 clean fuel standards were implemented.

dr_dshivon Mistral OCR 3

Do you know of any good handwriting eval/benchmark? I haven’t been able to find one.

dr_dshivon History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts

Will add, great point.

dr_dshivon History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts

Just read the rules again— was something inappropriate? Seemed relevant

dr_dshivon History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts

Everyone learns that the renaissance was sparked by the translation of Ancient Greek works.

But few know that the Renaissance was written in Latin — and has barely been translated. Less than 3% of <1700 books have been translated—and less than 30% have ever been scanned.

I’m working on a project to change that. Research blog at www.SecondRenaissance.ai — we are starting by scanning and translating thousands of books at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, a UNESCO-recognized rare book library.

We want to make ancient texts accessible to people and AI.

If this work resonates with you, please do reach out: Derek@ancientwisdomtrust.org

dr_dshivon Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access

In my field, journals subsist precisely as targets for a PhD. 3 journal publications and you can become a doc.

dr_dshivon The appropriate amount of effort is zero

“The Strength of Ease” — a mantra I tell myself

dr_dshivon GPT-5.2

That’s… too bad

dr_dshivon GPT-5.2

Vibes

dr_dshivon How the Brain Parses Language

> It almost sounds like you’re saying there’s essentially an LLM inside everyone’s brain. Is that what you’re saying?

>Pretty much. I think the language network is very similar in many ways to early LLMs, which learn the regularities of language and how words relate to each other. It’s not so hard to imagine, right?

Yet, completely glosses over the role of rhythm in parsing language. LLMs aren’t rhythmic at all, are they? Maybe each token production is a cycle, though… hmm…

dr_dshivon Qwen's API platform for image/video generation

I used this to integrate image generation and gif generation in my Claude coding — very helpful for making beautiful websites. They have Midjourney API

dr_dshivon Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands

Come to the Netherlands! It’s awesome. And the visa is easy: just put 5k in a business account. Look up Dutch American friendship treaty.