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by yboris 8mo ago
Sortition may be what you're looking for: "sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample". No one can amass power because it's short ter
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by yboris 9mo ago
Link to save you time searching: https://www.retroarch.com/
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by yboris 9mo ago
Link for faster results: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor
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by yboris 9mo ago
Thank you for the link. Great to see this news already spread to HN!
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Chrome 145 will support JPEG XL / JXL(twitter.com)
5 points by yboris 9mo ago|2 comments
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by yboris 10mo ago
Walden Two is one hidden gem! I love this book.
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by yboris 10mo ago
REQUEST to include the 4DWW (Four Day Work Week) tag & text in the description to provide a clear signal to companies that workers are yearning for it.
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Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by yboris 10mo ago|0 comments
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by yboris 10mo ago
Never read the first two, love Accelerando , unsure what I was missing; feels like a well-written self-contained story.
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by yboris 10mo ago
Also related: https://epstein-files-browser.vercel.app/ - Epstein Files Browser - an infinite scroll through all the photos
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by yboris 10mo ago
I once commented on HN how my favorite Sci Fi novel is Accelerando and the author, Charles Stross, replied to it suggesting I try his The Rapture of the Nerds he co-wrote with Cory Doctorow; I loved it when I read it too. I love HN - it
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by yboris 10mo ago
Unsure what this means but I appreciate contributors / collaborators over on GitHub: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App Feel free to message me: https://videohubapp.com/en/contact/
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I 3D Printed Origami [video](youtube.com)
2 points by yboris 10mo ago|0 comments
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by yboris 10mo ago
Thank you for all the suggestions! I like them and will try to implement at least a few in the coming year (I end up spending more time towards other exciting projects like writing a sci-fi novel and DIY remodeling my house).
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by yboris 10mo ago
When a person buys, they get the download links in the mail; the installers work without any license keys, so buy once, use forever.
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by yboris 10mo ago
My favorite explanation for why LSD and similar psychedelics generate the visual patterns they do: mathematics of wrapping polar coordinates of the retina to the rectangular coordinates of the visual processing system: https://ww
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by yboris 10mo ago
Occasionally $500/month, but more reliably $300/month in sales of my Video Hub App - lets users browse, search, tag, and organize videos on local / network drives. Aiming to have an 8th anniversary release February 2026. $5
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by yboris 10mo ago
In related news: ironically, Psychedelics disrupt normal link between brain’s neuronal activity and blood flow - thus casting some doubt on findings that under psychedelics more of the brain is connected (since fMRI showed elevated blood
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by yboris 10mo ago
8th anniversary release of my app: Video Hub App - browse and organize your local video collection in style. https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App (MIT open source)
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by yboris 10mo ago
Thank you for sharing - it's a brilliant piece of tech. I posted this earlier but it didn't catch on with upvoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137203
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Solid State Volumetric Display [video](youtube.com)
3 points by yboris 11mo ago|0 comments
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by yboris 11mo ago
Amazing Thank you for sharing. Reminds me of how thinking using frequencies rather than computing probabilities is easier and can avoid errors (e.g. a 99% accurate test being positive does not mean 99% likelihood of having disease for a dis
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by yboris 11mo ago
Reminds me of cool-retro-term - a terminal that looks like a CRT https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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by yboris 11mo ago
Next release of my app (8 years since initial release) - adding minor features and minor bugfixes. Video Hub App - browse your local video files with a beautiful interface (and scrub-able thumbnails to see multiple screenshots) $5 for any
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by yboris 1y ago
Hugo Mercier is the originator of this: https://philpapers.org/rec/MERTSO-7 "reasoning evolved not to complement individual cognition but as an argumentative device" -- and it has more positive effects at s
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by yboris 1y ago
Mildly related: TypeScript Call Graph - CLI to generate an interactive graph of functions and calls from your TypeScript files - my project. https://github.com/whyboris/TypeScript-Call-Graph
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TSMC moves up 2nm production plans in Arizon(tomshardware.com)
21 points by yboris 1y ago|0 comments
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by yboris 1y ago
Interesting idea called transparent self model by Thomas Metzinger, author of The Ego Tunnel where he explains it further. The gist from my memory of 15+ years ago is that the brain needs to model the world and then itself within the wo
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by yboris 1y ago
Trying to get a new release of Video Hub App - my 7+ years passion project to browse videos from local storage in style. Maybe will finally finish the (optional!) facial recognition feature I started 5+ years ago. https://githu
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by yboris 1y ago
Plug for the Shavian alphabet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet "a constructed alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonemic orthography for the English language to replace the inefficie

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