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world2vec··on How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math
From what I've seen on Tao's YouTube channel, he does use GitHub Copilot via VSCode to write Lean4 code.
world2vec··on Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)
According to his blog, Peter Watts is currently writing the 3rd book of the Firefall Series. It'll be titled "Omniscience", no release date has been set yet.
world2vec··on Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)
The whole Rifters trilogy (quadrilogy?) is amazing, Starfish is actually my least favourite of the Rifters' books but still really good.

The villain Achilles Desjardins (I don't think he shows up in Starfish? been some time since I read it) is possibly one of the most villainous and sociopath characters I've ever read in a book.

world2vec··on Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
My stack is really boring, just VSCode + Ghostty and Claude Code team plan (premium seat).
world2vec··on Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
Two of the best things for my mental health is maintaining a 7 day moving average of +10k steps and working out every Mon-Fri during lunch time.
world2vec··on SpaceX S-1
You're ignoring all the depreciation costs.
world2vec··on I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers
I take 3 weeks in a row every summer, couldn't live without it.
world2vec··on Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
English is a mix and merge of Norman French and Anglo-Saxon.
world2vec··on Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)
You're right, it's the stretcher!
world2vec··on Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)
The x-ray scans are interesting, I didn't knew the canvas was taped together from 33 smaller ones.
world2vec··on A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears
There's this YouTube channel called "soiboi soft"[0] that is doing many experiments with air-powered soft robotics and microfluidics.

It's a pretty cool concept and might have interesting albeit niche applications.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@soiboisoft

world2vec··on Claude Code is locking people out for hours
I'm getting "Prompt is too long" a lot today
world2vec··on Show HN: Sundial – a new way to look at a weather forecast
Very pretty. Would be cool if the Moon followed the real Moon phases (if the sky is clear enough to see it). For example April 2nd is full moon and the sky is clear so the Moon in your Sundial should be full too.
world2vec··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Did they remove that in some very recent commit?
world2vec··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
In my parents' farm the compost comes from cleaning up the forest around it (trim branches, vegetation, dying trees, etc) mixed with the chicken and goat manure plus whatever else gets mixed in there (food leftovers, ashes, coffee grounds, etc). Of course it's at a small-ish scale (less than 1 hectare) but my parents definitely don't denude 4 hectares to do so.
world2vec··on How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel
Awful llm writing for what it seems to be some sort of ad but I can't quite figure out what's the ad for...
world2vec··on Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019)
They'll just charge an additional makeup fee...
world2vec··on Astral to Join OpenAI
Just when I moved from poetry to uv.
world2vec··on Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]
What book?
world2vec··on Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran
At some point it's more a "weird shaped airplane flies close to the water" than a sailing boat. It sure does look super cool tho.
world2vec··on Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]
I just finished the book and it did not live up to all its hype. Quite boring, actually.
world2vec··on Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?
Weird, it' all looks good to me. Using both Chat and Code variants without issues.
world2vec··on Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font
Turning my handwriting into a font is akin to encrypt the text :-D
world2vec··on GPT-5.4
Benchmarks barely improved it seems
world2vec··on Claude Opus 4.6
`claude update` then it will show up as the new model and also the effort picker/slider thing.
world2vec··on Anthropic is Down
Their website seems fine to me but CC is throwing API error 500.

-edit- CC is back up on my machine

world2vec··on Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105
I'm so sorry.
world2vec··on How AI destroys institutions
HN auto-removes "How" from the titles.
world2vec··on SETI@home is in hiberation
It was my screensaver too and it felt like the most sci-fi thing ever. I'd stare it while daydreaming about aliens.
world2vec··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
My issue is that, during winters, the bedroom's CO2 raises to the 2000ppm levels. But I keep all doors open in this (small) apartment and not much changed. It's too cold to keep windows open like we do in the summer and it's nighttime so plants won't help.
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