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erwinhon Tezos week-over-week usage trends

Week-over-week usage metrics for the proof-of-stake Tezos blockchain. The Tezos chain is a favorite of digital and generative artists experimenting with blockchain technology through platforms such as FXHash, Teia, Objkt.com etc.

erwinhon Mainnet Merge Announcement

What we see in the Tezos chain (liquid/delegated proof-of-stake) is that big custodial wallets for the exchanges have grown to be the largest block bakers: https://thestackreport.xyz/articles/top-tezos-block-producer...

With ethereum the staking mechanism is a bit more complex, my understanding is you lock your stake for quite a while so maybe its too risky for the exchanges, but wouldn't be surprised that exchanges will market a 'stake your eth' feature.

erwinhon Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory?

A lot of the early music theory comes from discovering resonating overtones before having the full physics & mathematical model to describe it exactly scientifically. The opening chapters of Theory of Harmony by Arnold Schoenberg are a very interesting read from that perspective. In a way its the same question as for math. Do mathematicians invent new mathematical theories or do they discover structures and concepts that exist in the idea world outside of our physical reality?

erwinhon I Reached $4k/Mo. But How Many Great Startup Ideas Have Died?

This seems to be the perfect place to reply with a smart remark that subtly links to the project you are building:

https://thestackreport.xyz

erwinhon The Merge

The Tezos chain has been consistently upgrading itself with very little downtime for the past couple of years:

https://thestackreport.xyz/articles/the-ithaca-transition-in...

Lets see how ethereum does.

erwinhon The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

Living in Eindhoven & bought a couple of years ago as my first ever stock purchase, went to the yearly shareholder meeting in Veldhoven which was super low-key with a very homely vibe & some super long-term holders (20+ years). Still my most profitable purchase as well.

erwinhon Launch HN: Turion Space (YC S21) – Space debris removal and satellite servicing

Great initiative! Curious to track your development as a company.

I'm currently developing this web interface to make it easier for people to discover all the various objects, satellites and debris in orbit at the moment: https://space-search.io/

Happy to connect if there is overlapping interest :)

erwinhon Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)

Imo the real fashion trendsetters don’t think about it in terms of what might become trending to surf it like q wave but are focussed on ideas&concepts which are relevant for society in that year/age.

erwinhon Compute Engine Predictive Autoscaling

To prevent others from losing time googling, its a joke ;)

https://twitter.com/jna_sh/status/1410178986978775040?s=20

Did produce some quality comedy material!

=> https://twitter.com/TartanLlama/status/1410959645238308866?s...

erwinhon Fidenza

Great work by Tyler, love his dedication to not just the work itself but also documenting the process, the technology and last but not least reflecting on the "art" of it: https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays

erwinhon A Project of One’s Own

Small new project of my own, doing NFT platform analytics: https://twitter.com/hoogerwoord/status/1402020462268387336?s...

erwinhon The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection

Wait what?? There were audio recordings of these???

erwinhon Welcome to Visualizing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Same problem for me on iphone

erwinhon Starlink Satellites Tracker

For a 3d view of the satellites in orbit check out: https://space-search.io/?search=starlink

erwinhon Making Generative Art with Rust

https://hyperobjects.design/workbench

Developing this creative-coding tool myself that renders to SVG/Canvas!

erwinhon Making Generative Art with Rust

Great to see a movement arising where art/tech starts to hopefully grow closer together with a new generation of generative artists. Reading Isaacsons Da Vinci biography. Even in his time there was a bit of a split between science and art, but also a lot of collaboration in the science of anatomy. In our time I think we still need more merging of art with computer science, complexity science etc!

Quick plug of my own generative work: https://hyperobjects.design/gallery

Click through to the individual artwork pages for links to access the source code for every work and run it directly in the browser.

erwinhon October CMS as you know it is dead

Loved octoberCMS as it let me basically code my website structure and the complete* HTML directly from its admin interface.

*the actual complete HTML! No CMS cruft or anything added to my websites pages I dont want to be there.

If you are looking for a CMS and have some coding skills I think you’ll very much enjoy working with this one.

Will be looking into how to update my websites to WinterCMS then.

erwinhon Orbital Mechanics – How do rockets get to where they're headed?

Unless you play it at work!

Had a summer job at a web-dev shop some years ago already where the boss had a burn-out, but then to get back to a nice work/life balance he played ksp the entire afternoon at work and let all the devs play too :p

erwinhon Starlink Ground Station Map

Check out the starlink satellite orbits here: https://space-search.io/?search=starlink

Still a number of trains spreading out so global ground coverage is coming soon!

erwinhon Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4

Seeing more and more ID.3s in the streets. I find the look a bit funky though with the headlights and VW logo looking almost printed on. Because they wanted it completely flush for aero probably.

erwinhon Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images

Thats pretty sweet shading. Love how it captures the sunlight reflecting on the buildings in the SF example without just averaging out those colors and making it look bland.

erwinhon Cellular Automata (1983) [pdf]

Very interesting! Added to my list for algorithms to use in generative art seeds. Was already looking for computer architecture geometries to visualise and play around with.

Feel like a bit of an amateur with my previous landscape architecture art driven by a cellular automaton: https://hyperobjects.design/artwork/rule-30-city

erwinhon Born secret – the heavy burden of bomb physics

Have not yet read that one but have read the Three Body Problem by Cixin and am a fan! More of his work is definitely on my reading list.

Indeed nature of the story is to focus on individuals. Still for example interstellar, you fully follow the dad/daughter and all that tubular space station building just happens completely off screen. And its assigned to the brilliance of the daughter instead of the coming together of people (how i interpret it!) curious how you view that for example :)

erwinhon Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But at What Cost?

Built using my custom creative coding tool which also incorporates some d3 stuff:

Code sample: https://workbench.hyperobjects.design/share/?script=5febbf46...

erwinhon Born secret – the heavy burden of bomb physics

When I think about sci-fi and people pulling together for an earth-scale thing I immediately think about The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin. Culturally interesting that its a chinese movie whereas in my mind a lot of western sci-fi is more individualistic.

erwinhon Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But at What Cost?

I’m working on generative coding art. One thing I like about it is how having to literally “code” your art enforces already an initial formalization of the shapes in the work.

Check out here to see some of it: https://hyperobjects.design/gallery/genuary-collection

erwinhon Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But at What Cost?

I think there is quite a difference between minimalism and simplicity which is often confused (also by designers themselves).

Simplicity done right is really about focusing on the core idea and removing anything not related to that. This can feel like a “minimalist aesthetic” which others attempt to copy but is actually something completely different.

erwinhon Show HN: React Flow – library for creating node based editors and apps

So cool to see these kinds of in my mind pretty advanced interactive interfaces become easily reusable modules to integrate with any kind of application.

erwinhon Robot-woven sneaker with 3D-printed soles

Was working on a small scale startup trying to do this a couple of years ago using more DIY-style 3d printers and flexible fillament: https://dialectic.design/project/solemaker

Very impressive to see Adidas committing to this concept with real industrial robots and printers for a couple of years already with the Speedfactory and this etc.

erwinhon What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur

I read it as a pretty reflective thread of him admitting he was multiple strategic steps behind Asana at pretty much every stage of growth because of his own ignorance about where VC money can actually be useful.