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irickt··on Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
Here's his presentations page: https://giacomocavalieri.me/speaking
irickt··on Claude-Shaped Science
Links to the methods:

https://bootloops.ai/bootloops.html

https://github.com/BootLoops-ai/bootloops

irickt··on Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude
Schwartz explains what he did in an Anthropic post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933386
irickt··on Scientists Have Found a Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested in You
Direct to paper:

Body sway predicts romantic interest in speed dating

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7812630/

irickt··on What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance
And an explainer/simulator here: https://vis.csh.ac.at/cities-morphology/#/
irickt··on What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance
Here's a preprint from 2025: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00100v1
irickt··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley
The article is gone now.

A post by the author: https://bsky.app/profile/segyges.bsky.social/post/3mwc2eopu6...

>> I apologize for my earlier article, which did not undergo proper legal review, and will not be able to be present on social media for a while.

irickt··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738411
irickt··on Eiffel Tower employees strike after female staff removed
Consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
irickt··on LG TVs aren't the only ones spying on you [video]
Here's the linked text version of the report: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/research/smart-tv-data-priva...
irickt··on Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
https://github.com/kikkupico/ambientcss
irickt··on ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
As the next sentence says "Spaces are a very flexible primitive, and the range of uses is deliberately broad." Access control by groups fits a wide range of applications. Encryption with multiple access is a specialized need that might be built on the primitive.
irickt··on Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field
Viewer from Aladin Sky Atlas

https://skyviewer.app/explorer

irickt··on J-space comparisons across open models
That refers to comments here. (See the heading several paragraphs above that guideline.) There is no rule against posting the results of AI assisted work sessions.
irickt··on Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k)
Your comments are casting aspersion without showing that you have looked into the work or its author. This project is a case study in good work done with heavy ai assistance while it is clear that there is a skilled person leading. I predict that this will become very common and welcome here.
irickt··on Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts
Another resource to consider: How to add a Legacy Contact for your Apple Account https://support.apple.com/en-us/102631
irickt··on How it feels to practice for IOAI in Iran
International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence
irickt··on The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
>> AX originated in reference to UX (User Experience) and stands for Accessibility Experience. AX is also sometimes used as a synonym for accessibility.

The language of accessibility – Staffnet | ETH Zurich https://ethz.ch/staffnet/en/service/communication/digital-ac...

irickt··on A Man Who Invented the Future
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/27/invent-the-future/
irickt··on Show HN: Ghost Pepper Meet local meeting transcription and diarization
16 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666024
irickt··on Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)
The signal works both ways. "Written in Java" would save a lot of clicks. So the Java author may omit the label for the same reason. /s
irickt··on Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Is there a relation to the similarly-purposed and similarly-named https://github.com/CelestoAI/SmolVM
irickt··on MZI-based transistorlessness might finally be here
An interesting and accessible article on the increased plausibility of photonic compute.
irickt··on Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day
Yes, and other hosts are working normally.
irickt··on PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux
This seems to be the latest release, 16.0:

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27681.0.html

But I don't see a comparable overview.

irickt··on Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
"Everything runs in your browser."

That's cool. The sound effects seem like natural thinking sounds. :)

Several models to compare.

irickt··on Lunar Flyby
This is the best animation of the trajectory I've seen: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260406.html
irickt··on Demand for autism care is soaring
This UK government posted a report recently, which I guess prompted this article.

Review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: interim report (gov.uk). https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-revie...

irickt··on Review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: interim report
submitted previously with a poor source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629676
irickt··on Apple at 50
Seems to me that they are simple saying its not important:

"At 50 years, it’s only natural to look back. But Apple has always looked forward, building tools and delivering experiences that enrich people’s lives. As we celebrate how far we’ve come, we’re inspired by where we’ll go — together."

And, no, I don't think they left it to chance.

Also there's an art video to go with the art animation.

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