Articles by amichail
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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)

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Ask HN: Can you make money from writing short stories with the help of AI?

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Brain-eating amoeba detected in western national park waters (sfgate.com)

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Tile Wipeout – a new kind of slider puzzle [beta] (testflight.apple.com)

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Research suggests that dinosaurs may have influenced how human beings age (phys.org)

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Nature vs. nurture: How much of our personalities are determined at birth? (bbc.com)

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Commodore 64 Ultimate Line-Up Expands with C64C Edition Later This Year (commodore.net)

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AI Wellbeing: Measuring and Improving the Functional Pleasure and Pain of AIs (ai-wellbeing.org)

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Long Covid Linked to Brain Changes, Cognitive Decline (medscape.com)

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Just How Much Should You Worry About Eating That Burnt Toast? (mcgill.ca)

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Ask HN: Is modern AI like glasses for the mind?

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Ask HN: Why don’t laptops beep loudly like cars when locking and unlocking?

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Original Task Manager creator explains why it lies to you about CPU usage (tomshardware.com)

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Shinichi Mochizuki: On the Formalization of IUT: a preliminary progress report [video] (youtube.com)

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Eating more fruits and vegetables tied to unexpected lung cancer risk (sciencedaily.com)

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CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome (medicalxpress.com)

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AI trained like a Rubik's Cube solver simplifies particle physics equations (phys.org)

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Formalization of IUT: A Preliminary Progress Report by Mochizuki et al. [pdf] (kyoto-u.ac.jp)

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Canada Post is planning to end home delivery (cbc.ca)

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Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails (arstechnica.com)

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Back to the Pet (Again and Again) [video] (youtube.com)

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Toronto considers micro-shelter communities to tackle homelessness (ctvnews.ca)

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TeXmacs 2.1.5 has been released (texmacs.cn)

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Show HN: PluriSnake, a new kind of snake puzzle game [iOS/iPadOS/macOS] (apps.apple.com)

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I just released PluriSnake, a new kind of snake puzzle game. [macOS/iOS/iPadOS] (apps.apple.com)

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Neuroscientists have pinpointed a potential biological signature for psychopathy (psypost.org)

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Air Quality in Toronto (iqair.com)

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Quarkdown: Markdown with Superpowers (quarkdown.com)

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One-Line C64 Basic Dice Program: Default RAM Initialization [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: In which countries is corporate speak a bad idea for advertising?

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Mogan vs. GNU TeXmacs (mogan.app)

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The Jolly Writer (scypress.com)

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A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers (vincentrolfs.dev)

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Safe VSP (linusakesson.net)

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The Future of VSP Scrolling on the C64 (kodiak64.co.uk)

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Ask HN: What do you think of this new kind of snake puzzle game?

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Bali's thieving monkeys can spot high-value items to ransom (theguardian.com)

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First Vibecoded AI Operating System (github.com/viralcode)

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Anthropic Found Why ChatGPT Goes Insane [video] (youtube.com)

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Why elite chess ratings get stuck: A new model treats draws as data (phys.org)

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Associations between infants' head growth patterns and risk of autism (psypost.org)

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Ask HN: Why doesn't Netflix add a “Theater Mode” that recreates the worst parts?

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Ask HN: Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

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How the Tandy Color Computer Works [video] (youtube.com)

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First Proof (arxiv.org)

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Ask HN: Put a ring image on the back of your phone instead of wearing a ring?

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Ask HN: Why not have a news channel that views the world as deterministic?

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Ask HN: Does a CS degree increase or decrease job satisfaction as a programmer?

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Researchers tested AI against 100k humans on creativity (sciencedaily.com)

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LLMs Can't Jump [pdf] (pitt.edu)

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Ask HN: Can you beat my score of 862,294 points in today's PluriSnake puzzle?

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Ask HN: Why not have a subreddit where all voting is done by a single AI?

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MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger (sciencedaily.com)

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Giant Virus Discovered in Japanese Pond May Hint at Multicellular Life's Origins (sciencealert.com)

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Ask HN: Why not make English computational, just like LaTeX, to ensure lock-in?

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How a Superhero Costume Made Strangers Kinder (scienceinhand.com)

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Ask HN: A movie about a killer improving society's understanding of probability?