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How to Trick Your Brain into Doing Difficult Things
The Twilight of the Smartphone
A cosmic collection of old Soviet space imagery
Re:How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?
on Sunday May 26, 2024 @07:13AM (#40481270)
ZKP and FHE let you verify whatever you like. The former leaks data while the latter doesn't.
Re:Larry Tesler's Works
on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:13AM (#39101917)
It's working for me.
Larry Tesler's Works
What Led to the Fall of SGI?
Ask HN: Personal computing, a low-hanging fruit?
Proponents of mainframe/time-sharing/big computing opposed personal computers pretty strongly. To them(e.g. John McCarthy), it probably seemed like computers are there to be the big-brains, sort of oracles, humans should seek help from solving complex problems like AI. So, relegating majestic computers to companions filling people's desks/pockets was not acceptable. From a historical...
Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:00PM (#24112088)
Paper is a vastly different medium compared to computers. The ignorance large companies(digital book distributors) show when dealing with humans(by only focusing on ebook sales and nothing more) is really annoying. Take Adobe Reader for example, it is really awkward in how dozens of researchers are unable to grasp the most basic feature of computers: dynamism. These people's minds are still stuck in Gutenburg era and they fail to notice how powerful computers are.
Having had headaches with pdfs(I read lots of books) and the way knowledge is buried in this format, I started a project to inject some dynamism into our book reading.
Please check it out if you are interested.
Re:The Mothers of the Mother of All Demos
on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @10:23AM (#24061089)
Its notable how defective our current computers are compared to glorious days of 60s-70s.
Re:Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creat...
on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:03AM (#23348946)
I once read somewhere that while designing Hypercard, Bill Atkinson used to consume LSD in order to get some mental boost.
Re:History of Logo
on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:12AM (#23057221)
Santafe institute's 'Introduction to Complexity' online course uses NetLogo to run simulations.
Show HN: A dynamic book reading system for computers
Systems (co)designed by Butler Lampson
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
on Thursday December 13, 2018 @07:49AM (#18671909)
FAILED IT! - (good ideas but not deep enough)
The Children's Machine, Rethinking School In The Age of Computers - (uprooted my mind completely about kids)
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas -
Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds - (helped me to start thinking about phenoms in a decentralized way, a delightful perspective!)
Re:Ask HN: What is Alan Kay's email?
on Sunday November 25, 2018 @04:03AM (#18526076)
This address is not working.
Ask HN: What is Alan Kay's email?
What the Internet Is, and Should Continue to Be
Re:Ask HN: How much are you willing to pay to meet a very prominent pe...
on Monday January 08, 2018 @09:48AM (#16097028)
Yea, Consider meeting Elon Musk for a lunch. You and him alone without anyone around. You could ask anything you want...
It is something like 'Warren Buffett's charity lunch'.
Ask HN: How much are you willing to pay to meet a very prominent person?
People have role models and they like to meet them in person, talk to them, take selfies and all other sorts of things. They might even stalk celebs anywhere they go to just get a chance to meet them. By celebs I mean tech entrepreneurs, political figures, actors/actresses, singers, tv personalities and ... . So, if you were to meet a prominent person for a 60 minutes...