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lbeckman314on Six Math Essentials by Terence Tao

Previous Discussion (February 2026): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113796

TIL about Quanta Books, thanks OP — will be checking this out! :D

lbeckman314on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026)

Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Python, TypeScript, Java, Rust, Bash, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Docker, AWS, Azure, OpenStack, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, gRPC/Protobuf, GitHub Actions, Nextflow, GA4GH TES/DRS, HL7 FHIR

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/lbeckman314/resume/releases/latest/downlo...

Email: lbeckman314@gmail.com

Website: https://liambeckman.com

GitHub: https://github.com/lbeckman314

Backend and platform engineer with 5+ years in research software. Looking for backend, platform, or infrastructure roles, including in open source, science, or health.

lbeckman314on Ask HN: What are you reading?

Lord of the Rings — second read after ~15 years, excited to revisit!

lbeckman314on Pirating the Pirates

"Death to the opposition!"

- Commander Worf, Take Me Out to the Holosuite (7x4)

lbeckman314on Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos

Gift article!

> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-gal...

Big fan of Will Matsuda's photography + just wanted to share :p

> https://www.willmatsuda.com

lbeckman314on Sigbovik 2026 Proceedings [pdf]

Praise be to heretics everywhere!

Here were the SIGBOVIK 2026 papers I was able to find in the wild while the official proceedings were being published, excited to revisit them alongside the new ones:

AI Agents Decline Free Beer but Have a Big Heart [0]

No one can force me to have a secure website!!! [1]

On parallels between Large Language Models and the Black Knight [2]

[0] https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2055070/FULLTEXT...

[1] https://tom7.org/httpv/httpv.pdf

[2] https://dennissoemers.github.io/assets/publications/SIGBOVIK...

lbeckman314on Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

"<sighs> They could've made this clearer..."

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/26vdkf/dont_do...

lbeckman314on Runners who churn butter on their runs

Good competition for Fatih Karakaya (@runners_pie)!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCuSImnocL7 (November 23, 2024)

> Fatih is a master pastry chef and marathon runner, and he baked a Sachertorte during his marathon at the Ring Running Series at the Hockenheimring.

> Fatih ist Konditormeister und Marathonläufer und hat während seines Marathons bei den Ring Running Series am Hockenheimring eine Sachertorte gebacken.

lbeckman314on OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

Oof TIL, thanks for the heads up that's a shame!

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417269/archive-toda...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-...

lbeckman314on OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission

https://archive.is/fuJCe

(Apologies if this archive link isn't helpful, the unlocked_article_code in the URL still resulted in a paywall on my side...)

lbeckman314on A shortage of tenors

This is now my favorite benign conspiracy/cause of the lack of tenors!

Damn those big-voiced basses — they're stealing all our love interests :p

lbeckman314on Make.ts

If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in

nature? In the horizon line—the lightning-harrowed bough—the canyon's

pink striation—the pupil of the goat

    — @ctrlcreep

https://twitter.com/ctrlcreep/status/1808321708627317061

https://nitter.net/ctrlcreep/status/1808321708627317061

lbeckman314on I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds

- https://atlasof.space

lbeckman314on I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds

Beautiful visualization at https://attron.github.io/astroz-demo! (~160 MB transfer)

My (very amateur) belief is that we're in a quiet golden age of cool space viz/tools, for example:

- https://www.asterank.com/3d

- https://dmytry.github.io/space/

- https://www.tng-project.org/explore/3d

- https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm

- https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools

Feels like the halcyon techno-optimism from TOS + TNG!

lbeckman314on Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://liambeckman.com

https://github.com/lbeckman314/lbeckman314.github.io

Excited to check out everyone else's sites here : )

lbeckman314on The Eggstraordinary Fortress

So one of those egg council creeps got to you too, huh? [0,1]

[0] https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E12/-1x9jGk4guJdUb76ZrC2FbPyug...

[1] https://youtu.be/AHAFMFFQlkI

lbeckman314on Advent of Code on the Z-Machine

This Z-Machine is also featured in 'Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon' [1] by Lightning on Demand [2]!

[1] https://youtu.be/lix-vr_AF38?t=3m12s

[2] https://lod.org

lbeckman314on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)

Location: Portland, Oregon, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Python, Kubernetes, Helm, Typescript, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/lbeckman314/resume/releases/latest/downlo...

Email: lbeckman314@gmail.com

---

Fullstack software engineer with 6 years of experience in deploying cloud environments and building and managing workflows, CLIs, and databases.

GitHub → https://github.com/lbeckman314

Website → https://liambeckman.com

lbeckman314on Tumult and Sympathy – The Letters of Oliver Sacks

Ah I've only recently discovered Oliver Sacks and have just picked up his Letters and Gratitude [1, 2] from the local library!

Marginalian also has a great exploration of his letters as well [3]:

> I think “the meaning of life” is something we have to formulate for ourselves, we have to determine what has meaning for us… It clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love.

[1] https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/letters

[2] https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/gratitude

[3] https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/08/oliver-sacks-lette...

lbeckman314on ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access

TIL Domino's has an (unofficial/experimental) MCP Server + API

https://mcpizza.vercel.app

https://riaevangelist.github.io/node-dominos-pizza-api

https://tech.dominos.co.uk/blog/tag/API (September 2023)

lbeckman314on The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth

We're spoiled in terms of cool astronauts! A couple of personal favorite posts:

1. Jonny Kim: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkj52PuO6h/

> My first time-lapse. Thanks to some instruction and tips from @Astro_Ayers, I caught my first aurora. After seeing the result, I told her this felt like fishing. Prepping the camera, the angle, the settings, the mount, then setting your timer and coming back to hope you got a catch. And after catching my first fish, I think I’m hooked. Thanks, Vapor!

———

2. Don Petit: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/xbmhz4/i_captured_so...

> These are Star Trails taken from my previous mission to the ISS, Expedition 30, in 2012. I call it "Lightning Bugs."... In the photo, stars make arcing trails in deep space, while a huge thunderstorm pounds Earth below as seen from the time history of lightning flashes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250215124004/https://blogs.nas...

lbeckman314on Particle Lenia Deluxe Edition

Awesome port, playing around with the 3D example now!

Steps to run (in Chrome):

  git clone https://github.com/craftlinks/Notebook

  cd Notebook/particle-lenia

  node --version
  # v24.3.0

  npm i

  npm run dev

  # 2D Example: http://localhost:5173

  # 3D Example: http://localhost:5173/gpu_test

lbeckman314on APOD is 30 Years Old Today

I don't remember how I first heard about APOD but it's become one of my favorite sites to look forward to and share with friends and family.

Thanks to Robert Nemiroff, Jerry Bonnell, and to everyone involved for making it available!

lbeckman314on Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub

> https://ohshitgit.com

lbeckman314on Onfim's world: Child artists in history

> "[His drawings] force us to see childhood not as something that takes place in an eternal present, but as something with as deep a history as anything else that is a central part of what it is to be human."

Absolutely love rediscovering Onfim's drawings thank you for submitting this.

Cool site from with more birchbark records: https://web.archive.org/web/20250114034538/https://gramoty.r...

Previous discussion (of Onfim's Wikipedia): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089343

lbeckman314on SIGBOVIK 2025: Call for papers

From the SIGBOVIK Announcements mailing list:

The not-yet-extended submission deadline is March 23rd. Everyone is encouraged to submit, regardless of affiliation, discipline, rationality, or goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a five minute presentation of their work.

Submit your papers here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdKa_012z-wuT3F1Gxl...

———

For those not in the know:

SIGBOVIK is an evening of tongue-in-cheek academic presentations. If we have a goal, it's to poke fun at our fields and provide a venue for silly ideas with (often, but not always) serious executions. SIGBOVIK has both published proceedings and live talks, and everyone is welcome to participate. All subjects are welcome, although our audience is primarily made up of computer scientists. The best way to get a feel for SIGBOVIK is to look at our past proceedings, which you can find at https://sigbovik.org.

lbeckman314on Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

https://convexsplatting.github.io/

TIL — very cool work!

lbeckman314on Perpetual stew

Annie Rauwerda's exploration of this (cooking a stew for 60 days and sharing it with the community in Brooklyn) was really fun to track along with!

https://www.perpetualstew.club

https://www.grubstreet.com/2023/07/annie-rauwerda-perpetual-...

https://archive.ph/iGGJz

lbeckman314on Show HN: Atlas of Space

This is so cool! Is the codebase available for poking around (no worries if not!)

Now if only there was an option to export an SVG to à la https://github.com/samyk :p

Fantastic project!

lbeckman314on Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)

A Tree Octopus Renku by Lyle Zapato [0]

  wisteria on pine --
  a tree octopus climbs
  there's a spectacle!

I am one of today's lucky 10,000 — thank you! [1]

[0] https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201104210388.a_tree_octopus_...

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/