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New comment by erwinh in "AI Tokens Are Mana"

erwinh — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:19:48 +0000

"The dealer is always going to tell you to do more drugs — that’s not insight, that’s a revenue projection dressed up as wisdom."

Classic Claude turn of phrase and em dash give-away...

New comment by erwinh in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

erwinh — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:59:11 +0000

Working on a new generative art collection of works: https://socratism.io/feed

New comment by erwinh in "GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion"

erwinh — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 12:29:59 +0000

Does anyone know of ways to expand this towards 3D paths with consistent screen-space stroke width?

Review of EthCC Week 2023

erwinh — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:58:21 +0000

Article URL: https://thestackreport.xyz/articles/review-eth-cc-week-2023-in-paris

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36931187

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by erwinh in "Finite and Infinite Games (1986) [pdf]"

erwinh — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:19:50 +0000

One more comment as this is a tech website:

‘Meanwhile technologist Kevin Kelly praised it for "alter[ing] my thinking about life, the universe, and everything."’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games

New comment by erwinh in "Finite and Infinite Games (1986) [pdf]"

erwinh — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:16:20 +0000

Love this ‘self-help’ book to reframe where you might need to compete for profit or where it can be competitive/play for fun.

But more importantly to interpret the competitive behavior of others and identify where its not even necessary to compete at all. Because you can choose to play a different level of game than those around you. (Hint: its usually people playing too small finite win/lose games that you’d like to not engage with wherever possible)

New comment by erwinh in "Interactive ASCII art face study"

erwinh — Sat, 27 May 2023 07:54:29 +0000

By artist: https://twitter.com/adelfaure

Interactive ASCII art face study

erwinh — Sat, 27 May 2023 07:54:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adelfaure.net/lab/apps/animascii_test.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092865

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by erwinh in "Synthea: Open-source synthetic patient generation"

erwinh — Fri, 19 May 2023 18:33:41 +0000

Yeah so many cards stacked against potential start-ups who could potentially bring some quality to the industry :/ Curious to see though that Google cloud / AWS etc are building fhir store APIs.

New comment by erwinh in "Synthea: Open-source synthetic patient generation"

erwinh — Fri, 19 May 2023 17:04:18 +0000

Played around with this in my soon-to-be previous health-tech job and its great.

Actually the entire hl7-fhir ( https://www.hl7.org/fhir/ ) standard seems to me quite solid. It would be wonderful if a new cohort of start-ups would leverage it to drastically improve the digital UX of healthcare generally.

New comment by erwinh in "Get started making music"

erwinh — Mon, 15 May 2023 20:32:06 +0000

Love what the team over there does with these web demos. They previously made this amazing interactive synthesizer learning resource: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

New comment by erwinh in "CIAM vs. IAM: What's the difference (2022)"

erwinh — Fri, 12 May 2023 05:05:50 +0000

Also a bit disappointed in the article that it doesn’t connect the dots between WIAM and CIAM for B2B. One companies customer is another companies workforce.

Many of the apps you want to have for your workforce are actually third party, but you want to give SSO etc with an employee account. These saas apps need to not only provide CIAM ala “sign in with google” but allow the Customer to set up the connection with the WIAM to give employees access.

New comment by erwinh in "Bluesky April 2023 user growth in a graph (based on data dump)"

erwinh — Wed, 10 May 2023 07:44:41 +0000

Daily user and posts growth graph based on the previously posted data dump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35845504

Bluesky April 2023 user growth in a graph (based on data dump)

erwinh — Wed, 10 May 2023 07:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://thestackreport.xyz/articles/bluesky-early-adoption-and-growth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35884786

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by erwinh in "Mastodon Has Already Won"

erwinh — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:18:57 +0000

Agreed, the critical article does raise some good points that these more decentralized/fedarated/self-hosted/self-custody protocols need to incorporate in their designs at some point of they really want to scale to challenge the current status quo of social media.

New comment by erwinh in "Mastodon Has Already Won"

erwinh — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:21:00 +0000

Interesting contrast to have both

“Mastodon is doomed?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713894

And

“mastodon has already won”

On the front page

New comment by erwinh in "Show HN: ChatGPT on 2-Dimensional Map"

erwinh — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 05:11:37 +0000

This resp has very chatgpt tone of voice…

New comment by erwinh in "I Wrote an Activitypub Server in OCaml: Lessons Learnt, Weekends Lost"

erwinh — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:17:24 +0000

A bit off-topic but the post title will probably attract relevant people.

What are the thoughts on OCaml on HN?

New comment by erwinh in "How to become a “designer who codes” (2019)"

erwinh — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:49:31 +0000

My journey has been to start with data visualization using d3.js etc and gradually moved into much more complex tech stacks for vis & data processing.

Data visualization is very much user facing and lots of opportunity to let your more designerly intuitions in visual storytelling, communication motivate you along the way.

Then gradually you start to learn more about UI programming, but also data preparation with larger and more complex datasets.

New comment by erwinh in "E-Sports economics by president of esports at Riot"

erwinh — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:44:08 +0000

Some interesting reflections by Riot Games on the unique aspects of e-sports and how it plays out in terms of market structure and monetisation.