Hacker News: _reza

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

_reza — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:19:57 +0000

Article URL: https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979845

Points: 109

# Comments: 64

How to Trick Your Brain into Doing Difficult Things

_reza — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:35:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.brainhealthdecoded.com/p/how-to-trick-your-brain-into-doing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49670959

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Twilight of the Smartphone

_reza — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:19:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dezeen.com/2025/06/26/smartphone-era-jony-ive-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179204

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A cosmic collection of old Soviet space imagery

_reza — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:36:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.huckmag.com/article/soviet-images-of-the-cosmos-space-artwork

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990124

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by _reza in "How do layer 2s differ from execution sharding?"

_reza — Sun, 26 May 2024 11:13:54 +0000

ZKP and FHE let you verify whatever you like. The former leaks data while the latter doesn't.

New comment by _reza in "Larry Tesler's Works"

_reza — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:13:26 +0000

It's working for me.

Larry Tesler's Works

_reza — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:45:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nomodes.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088125

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

What Led to the Fall of SGI?

_reza — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 14:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://vizworld.com/tag/sgi-bts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33894430

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Personal computing, a low-hanging fruit?

_reza — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:42:48 +0000

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 perspective, coming up with the idea of personal computers, with TX-2 to be the first actual PC followed by PARC's ALTO, and amid all the drama and money poured on developing big machines(lobbied by big names), was the PC, along with its metaphors: GUI, desktop publishing, ..., something that could have been invented by anyone easily?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854075

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by _reza in "PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later"

_reza — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:00:00 +0000

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.

https://github.com/rezahsnz/readaratus

New comment by _reza in "The Mothers of the Mother of All Demos"

_reza — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:23:53 +0000

Its notable how defective our current computers are compared to glorious days of 60s-70s.

New comment by _reza in "Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity"

_reza — Fri, 29 May 2020 12:03:18 +0000

I once read somewhere that while designing Hypercard, Bill Atkinson used to consume LSD in order to get some mental boost.

New comment by _reza in "History of Logo"

_reza — Sun, 03 May 2020 06:12:20 +0000

Santafe institute's 'Introduction to Complexity' online course uses NetLogo to run simulations.

Show HN: A dynamic book reading system for computers

_reza — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 14:47:01 +0000

Article URL: http://www.readaratus.ir

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21928216

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Systems (co)designed by Butler Lampson

_reza — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:32:02 +0000

Article URL: http://bwlampson.site/Systems.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20108260

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by _reza in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?"

_reza — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:49:05 +0000

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!)

New comment by _reza in "Ask HN: What is Alan Kay's email?"

_reza — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:03:29 +0000

This address is not working.

Ask HN: What is Alan Kay's email?

_reza — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:56:25 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18509458

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

What the Internet Is, and Should Continue to Be

_reza — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:13:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.deepplum.com/blog-dpr/?p=132

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302702

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by _reza in "Ask HN: How much are you willing to pay to meet a very prominent person?"

_reza — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 14:48:44 +0000

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'.