Hacker News: rifish

The Ethiopian Running Secret

rifish — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:35:28 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/what-ethiopian-running-says-about-the-limits-of-human-ability

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972791

Points: 4

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The Eye of the Mathematician

rifish — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:27:28 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/how-should-we-define-mathematical-beauty-in-the-ai-age

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307630

Points: 2

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Playing in Flatland

rifish — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/anyons-the-two-dimensional-particles-that-reframe-reality

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901917

Points: 2

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A Light from the Periphery

rifish — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:18:53 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/why-satyendra-nath-bose-was-more-than-einsteins-sidekick

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691520

Points: 1

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Long Live the Aeonophiles

rifish — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:50:07 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/the-discovery-of-aeonophiles-expands-our-definition-of-life

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46312607

Points: 3

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The Joys of 'Urban Geology'

rifish — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251017-urban-geology-how-to-find-fossils-and-other-discoveries-in-your-citys-buildings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45617123

Points: 7

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Extraterrestrial Tongues

rifish — Sat, 10 May 2025 06:18:44 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/why-alien-languages-could-be-far-stranger-than-we-imagine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943579

Points: 5

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Why zero could unlock how the brain perceives absence

rifish — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:30:58 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/why-zero-could-unlock-how-the-brain-perceives-absence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43681050

Points: 2

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The super-clocks that define what time it is

rifish — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 15:16:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220721-the-super-clocks-that-define-what-time-it-is

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32296091

Points: 1

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The environmental case for buying a coal mine

rifish — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:21:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220118-the-environmental-case-for-buying-a-coal-mine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29992708

Points: 2

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When Aldous Huxley Opened the Doors of Perception

rifish — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:43:07 +0000

Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-aldous-huxley-opened-the-doors-of-perception/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29635335

Points: 2

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Thanks for All the Fish

rifish — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:13:53 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/dolphin-intelligence-and-humanitys-cosmic-future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29623528

Points: 2

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Perils of short-termism

rifish — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 20:21:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190109-the-perils-of-short-termism-civilisations-greatest-threat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18906103

Points: 2

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New comment by rifish in "The woman with a strange 'second sight'"

rifish — Mon, 01 May 2017 15:14:11 +0000

It can be read alongside this article which explains more of the science: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150925-blindsight-the-stra...