Articles by amichail
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Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding?

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Brain scans reveal widespread changes in patients following COVID-19 infection (psypost.org)

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AI Settles a 25 Year-Old Problem We Left Behind (twitter.com/dimitrispapail)

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Illinois Institute of Technology cuts 160 faculty and staff before fall semester (wbez.org)

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What Gives AI-Generated Text Away? Not Em Dashes [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Did society luck out by forcing mathematicians to reinvent their field?

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Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look Coming August 27 (netflix.com)

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COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you (nature.com)

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AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds (theguardian.com)

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Ask HN: Could Linux on the Amiga have saved Commodore from bankruptcy?

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How syntactic degradation became the ultimate proof of human identity on Reddit (reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Can AI keep PhD students completely independent from professors?

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Ask HN: Can AI breakthroughs in mathematics help non-mathematicians feel better?

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Maths shows why your vote may not count the way you think it does (cam.ac.uk)

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Long Covid symptoms linked to measurable damage in the brain's dopamine system (psypost.org)

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Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?

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Doom for Commodore 64 Progress (x.com)

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Doom running on nothing but regex find-and-replace (github.com/4rh1t3ct0r7)

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Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?

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Counter-example found by ChatGPT to the Dinitz–Garg–Goemans conjecture (xcancel.com)

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WASM TeX Engines (PdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX) (github.com/corca-ai)

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The mysterious hum heard around the world may have an explanation (sciencedaily.com)

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You probably misunderstand the double slit experiment [video] (youtube.com)

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Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf] (tug.org)

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Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1 ms [video] (youtube.com)

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LANA Project Interim Report 2026: Computer-Assisted Verification of IUT Theory [video] (youtube.com)

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What I learned inside escape room with one of the most brilliant mathematicians (begiant.ca)

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Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier?

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Update: Mochizuki's ABC Conjecture proof is unformalizable (twitter.com/fumiharukato)

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GPT 5.6 solved all 6 problems from IMO 2026 (reddit.com)

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Toronto now has the worst air quality in the world among major cities (iqair.com)

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Rural NY School District Will Be One of First to Bring Humanoid Robot into Class (nysfocus.com)

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Long Covid May Affect Motivation and Memory by Injuring Brain's Dopamine System (discovermagazine.com)

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Scientists Calculated When the Last Plants on Earth Will Die (sciencealert.com)

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Predict AI's impact on creativity by studying what Python did to programming (reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Will AI make English more uniform just as Python did with source code?

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Ask HN: Why is not using AI considered a form of arrogance?

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Ask HN: Why are there only a handful of high quality TUI apps in homebrew?

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We just figured out how AI works (J-Space) [video] (youtube.com)

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Is AI making us dumber? (businessinsider.com)

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Stanford Scientists Reverse Age-Related Memory Loss by Targeting the Gut (scitechdaily.com)

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Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight (designboom.com)

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Ask HN: Can you prove that my puzzle is always solvable with unlimited moves?

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Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021) (sfgate.com)

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Ask HN: Why do programmers watch medical shows given that it is debugging?

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Ask HN: Will AI force CS to focus on what to build instead of how to build it?

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Ask HN: Living alone to become illegal as intelligent robots could be required?

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Scientists reverse autism-like symptoms in mice (psypost.org)

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Ask HN: Why don't bug reporting systems provide workarounds as rewards to users?

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Ask HN: Did 1984 Mac *hardware* share more in common with the c64 than Apple II?

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Beta test TeXmacs on Android (polytechnique.fr)

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Ask HN: Did the 1984 Mac share more in common with the c64 than the Apple II?

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DARPA's New X-Plane Aims to Maneuver with Nothing but Bursts of Air (twz.com)

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Younger Adults May Be Aging Faster Than Previous Generations (sciencealert.com)

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Bipartite Matching Is in NC (scottaaronson.blog)

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5 Monitors on a Commodore 128 [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

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Ask HN: Can a "smart diff" modernize code for app B after doing it for app A?

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Ask HN: Did early 80s home computers mislead you about what is important?

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Widely Prescribed Blood Pressure Drugs Could Be Harming Diabetic Kidneys (scitechdaily.com)

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Ask HN: Why does Spotlight indexing get stuck in loops but Time Machine doesn't?

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Ask HN: Do you reindex from scratch after making changes to Spotlight settings?

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Beyond speed: Racer demonstrator proves agility and stability in latest tests (airbus.com)

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Birth of new brain cells might erase babies' memories (2014) (sciencenews.org)

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Brew Browser: A Native macOS GUI for Homebrew (github.com/msitarzewski)

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Tell HN: iOS devs, get back lots of disk space: xcrun simctl delete unavailable

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Canada Post announces 485,000 more addresses to lose home delivery (cbc.ca)

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New experimental versions of TeXmacs for Windows 11 and Android (revision 15512) (texmacs.org)

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Ask HN: Is online irritability the canary in the coal mine for various fields?

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Ask HN: What's wrong with using #warning(...) for important comments in my code?

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Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?

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Ask HN: Why isn't AI image generation closely linked with graphics code gen?

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Why Canadians can now get cheaper generic Ozempic – and Americans can't (bbc.com)

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New diabetes pill burns fat without the downsides of Ozempic (sciencedaily.com)

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C64 OS – Ready for Internet Action – C64 OS steps it up [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: Are multifocal lenses important for older people who don't drive?

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Undigested fructose linked to anxiety and brain inflammation (psypost.org)

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Commodore OS Basic V2 – Introduction (commodoreos.net)

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Ask HN: Instead of autofocus glasses, why not have auto "focus mode" glasses?

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Autoimmunity Drives Long Covid Symptoms (neurosciencenews.com)

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Ask HN: Why is problem solving in math still important in the AI age?

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Ask HN: Is the future of CS mostly applied and mostly in biology?

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IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses (engadget.com)

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Action for official authorization of TeXmacs in French exams (texmacs.cn)

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Fatherhood Dramatically Rewires Your Brain, Scans Reveal (sciencealert.com)

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A Photographer in Canada Found a Toad with Eyes in Its Mouth (thetravel.com)

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Ask HN: Why didn't the C64 come with Simons' BASIC in the box from 1983 onward?

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Ask HN: Why disparage AI while attributing ideas to AI when written with it?

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Ask HN: Do people lie about why they hate AI writing on social media?

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Idea: Subreddits as curator blogs for the AI era (reddit.com)

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Adults who return to childhood games are searching for person they used to be (dailygalaxy.com)

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The brain's code seems to be in constant flux. Neuroscientists are baffled (nature.com)

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Ask HN: Are there any social media sites that are AI positive?

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She Is Set to Win 2026 Fields Medal, Nobel of Math [video] (youtube.com)

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Scientists have invented a way to erase bad memories. But should we? (sciencefocus.com)

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The reason nearly all humans are right-handed (thebrighterside.news)

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Your brain is always a fraction of a second behind the present (sciencefocus.com)

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Twitter user posts a real Monet and says it's AI (reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Is delegating writing to AI like CEO delegating writing to a secretary?

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Mammals May Have a Hidden Limb Regeneration Ability We Never Knew About (sciencealert.com)