Hacker News: dleeftink

New comment by dleeftink in "37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it"

dleeftink — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:53:31 +0000

You could likely cluster individuals by drawn features; might not tells us much about geographic origin but may reveal interesting differences/levels in geographic aptitude, and which clusters correspond best to what land borders/contintents.

New comment by dleeftink in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

dleeftink — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:42:00 +0000

> necessary algorithmic check

Are there any stats available on the weighting ratios such as flags to upvotes, likes and comments per post after flagging, average time to frontpage to flag?

(G summarises the following[0], but a definitive source would clear up what the necessary algorithmic checks are).

[0]: https://share.google/aimode/cs9cKsvGMNRHs8OG1

New comment by dleeftink in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

dleeftink — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:26:58 +0000

Wouldn't excessive/above average flagging rather indicate a post is controversial/counter narrative enough to warrant longer front page exposure? It certainly seems to have gotten the people going in the short time it was up, and it's not a secret that early vocal users can be quite generous with the flag button.

New comment by dleeftink in "Every novel is boring until it isn't"

dleeftink — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:42:58 +0000

Flow is a state of privilege, too, yet (thru reading) one most easily cultivated. Take control of your time expenditure!

New comment by dleeftink in "Tangle – Visual ML Pipeline Editor"

dleeftink — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:33:12 +0000

Seems like a suitable candidate if you ever get tired of KNIME[0].

[0]: https://www.knime.com/why-visual-workflows

New comment by dleeftink in "Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL"

dleeftink — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:30:41 +0000

Echoes of a semantic Web that never was! Showing the prompt trajectories is also a nice touch.

New comment by dleeftink in "Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS"

dleeftink — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:25:07 +0000

Remember motiongerm and the whole sleek 60fps flash design thingamabob? Bespoke interfaces everywhere

New comment by dleeftink in "Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default"

dleeftink — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:23:59 +0000

There is of course, transformative use, and the slew of software packages we used to depend on without acknowledging the original maintainers on every commit.

New comment by dleeftink in "Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models"

dleeftink — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:15:22 +0000

They say to throw away the first page. It needs to hurt a bit as we go.

For 'context priming' I'd like to see an interface that supports this. Not just alts and variations, but an assistant or companion that challenges what's already on the page, and sometimes doesn't even look back at what's been thrown out.

Forgetting can be just as effective as capturing.

New comment by dleeftink in "Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)"

dleeftink — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:58:27 +0000

Beyond imaging, a related paper I came across goes in-depth on identifying the interstellar nodes/constellations to furnish an actual network mesh:

> [ABSTRACT] An interstellar communication network benefits from relay nodes placed in the gravitational lenses of stars. The signal gains are of order 10^9 with optimal alignment, allowing for GBits connections at kW power levels with meter-sized probes over parsec distances. If such a network exists, there might be a node in our solar system: where is it?

In: Hippke, M. (2021). Interstellar communication network (III). Locating deep space nodes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09564[0].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.09564

New comment by dleeftink in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

dleeftink — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:50:54 +0000

Just as stating the wrong thing would be the quickest way to elicit a response in the past, so too can 'dumb' questions prime the context for more complex queries.

I am all for this strategy, and revisiting my list is equal parts fun and conducive to long-term recall.

New comment by dleeftink in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

dleeftink — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:23:14 +0000

Software has a dependency contract that is quite unique. We can't imagine the shelflife beyond the Bazaar or Cathedral. They seem ever lasting.

The myth of impossibility remains, because we can't imagine what it means to forever occupy those places, even when others rise past them.

New comment by dleeftink in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

dleeftink — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:13:06 +0000

Alternative to resolving an image via Einstein ring lensing?

New comment by dleeftink in "The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter"

dleeftink — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:07:07 +0000

I think social graphs are often pre-disposed to capturing strong interactions only—an email chain, a trace-able back and forth (just as this), friend degree networks—not the off-hand conversations you overhead on the coffee corner, a tidbit you saw on a documentary awaiting a doctor's appointment, a faraway poster hanging on a museum wall.. you get the idea. Weak ties are everywhere! (Just not always recorded)

New comment by dleeftink in "The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter"

dleeftink — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:50:14 +0000

The weak ties were strong all along.

New comment by dleeftink in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

dleeftink — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:58:10 +0000

As far as I understand it, the storage is the space, or rather, spacetime emerges from a system's informational capacity and the degrees of freedom along which information can spread. On the balance all information is retained but undergoes various phase transitions (the 'computations').

New comment by dleeftink in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

dleeftink — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:25:46 +0000

There are two very lonely trains departing from Stranraer and Kyle of Lochalsh

New comment by dleeftink in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

dleeftink — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:11:59 +0000

> it cannot have any ownership rights

Actor network theory sheds a tear. And more promptly: ownership rights are enacted via tools. Whether agentful or non-agentic, listing them would in the very least be similar to disclosing funding bodies or agencies.

New comment by dleeftink in "Bring back crappy forums"

dleeftink — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:31:33 +0000

Depends on what we value, I suppose; a depth-first style that surfaces isolated chains or a breadth-first style that surfaces interleaved replies.

New comment by dleeftink in "Claude Science"

dleeftink — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:49:38 +0000

Some authors may even choose to leave syntactical errors as a tell for those self-authored passages; long-term, some interesting language drifts may come of it.