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New comment by voxleone in "What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames"

voxleone — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:17:47 +0000

It’s almost suspiciously elegant: focus on transformations and their composition, and the structure takes care of itself.

Ask HN: Should Repo Hubs Split Content into AI/Non-AI?

voxleone — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:32:30 +0000

Because AI involvement is becoming an important dimension for evaluating repositories.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630267

Points: 2

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New comment by voxleone in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

voxleone — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:58:40 +0000

We're heading to a future where (when) friction is a luxury. Anyways, I thank the organizers for the rare opportunity. Long live Blogosphere.app, long live blogs.

New comment by voxleone in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

voxleone — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:12:03 +0000

We went from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Power of Ten rules to ‘have you tried restarting Microsoft Outlook?’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...

Artemis Mission Reeks of Musk

voxleone — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:21:34 +0000

Article URL: https://unherd.com/2026/04/artemis-mission-reeks-of-musk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614903

Points: 3

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New comment by voxleone in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

voxleone — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:48:57 +0000

This. My personal style have always been llm-like, including the generous use of em-dashes, and "not-only-this-that" style mannerisms. It' increasingly difficult to retain reputation.

Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Weather App?

voxleone — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/03/why-is-it-so-hard-to-make-a-good-weather-app/686362/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453695

Points: 2

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New comment by voxleone in "Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata"

voxleone — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:07:38 +0000

That’s a very good objection, and it’s pointing at a real pressure point in our framework.

Short answer: it’s close, but incomplete. It’s not that time organizes a log of reality; rather, reality is the accumulation of committed transitions. What you’re calling a ‘log’ it’s the ontological structure itself.

I gather you're basically saying: what we see as a transition ≠ what’s actually happening at the fundamental level. This is a legitimate and deep problem.

You’re right that observed transitions may not compose cleanly. In the Functional Universe, composition is a property of fundamental transitions. What we observe are often coarse-grained projections of many underlying transitions, which can obscure compositional structure.

New comment by voxleone in "Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata"

voxleone — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:49:52 +0000

Neural cellular automata are interesting because they shift learning from “predict tokens” to “model state evolution.” That feels much closer to a transition-based view of systems, where structure emerges from repeated local updates (transitions) rather than being encoded explicitly.

I'm working on a theoretical/computational framework, the Functional Universe, intended for modeling physical reality as functional state evolution. i would say it could be used to replicate your CA process. Won't link it here to signal my good faith discussing this issue - it's on my GH.

New comment by voxleone in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

voxleone — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:26:53 +0000

>> An LLM can't even learn mid-conversation.

There’s an implicit assumption that scaling text models alone gets us to human-like intelligence, but that seems unlikely without grounding in multiple sensory domains and a unified world model.

What’s interesting is that if we do go down that route successfully, we may get systems with something like internal experience or agency. At that point, the ethical frame changes quite a bit.

New comment by voxleone in "Dark Matter as Gravitational Memory: A Causal Rail for Wave Function Collapse"

voxleone — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:58:50 +0000

If the comment missed the mark, I’d genuinely like to know where. I was trying to connect the “active archive” idea to history-dependent bias in collapse. Dismissing without engaging doesn’t really move the discussion forward.

New comment by voxleone in "Dark Matter as Gravitational Memory: A Causal Rail for Wave Function Collapse"

voxleone — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:22:29 +0000

This is a very interesting direction. The idea that dark matter could be a record of past decoherence events that then feeds back into future structure formation reminds me of a more general principle: history-dependent dynamics. In your “active archive” picture, the gravitational field is encoding where previous quantum selections occurred, and then biasing where future ones are likely to happen. That effectively introduces a kind of “inertia in configuration space,” where past realizations constrain future possibilities without fully determining them.

What I find particularly compelling is that this connects to a broader class of ideas where gravity (or dark matter) behaves like an information/entropy-related phenomenon rather than a particle sector, similar in spirit to approaches like emergent gravity.

New comment by voxleone in "Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]"

voxleone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:07:19 +0000

>>Where does engineering go?

Up the abstraction ladder; we conceive axioms and constraints; we define actors and objects; we direct rules, flows, sequences and say when and how each one of them lives and dies.

May you live interesting times (some say this is a curse)

'Another internet is possible': Norway rails against 'enshittification'

voxleone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:09:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397483

Points: 47

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New comment by voxleone in "Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro"

voxleone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:02:01 +0000

There are great mid-sized towns along the the route, especially in Parana and Sao Paulo. I'd have liked to read about any impressions.

New comment by voxleone in "I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion"

voxleone — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:04:47 +0000

I've been coding since I was about 15 and still love it. These days I mostly build tailored applications for small and medium companies, often alone and sometimes with small ad-hoc teams. I also do the sales myself, in person. For me, not using LLMs would mean giving up a lot of productivity. But the way I use them is very structured. Work on an application starts with requirements appraisal: identifying actors, defining use cases, and understanding the business constraints. Then I design the objects and flows. When possible, I formalize the system with fairly strict axioms and constraints.

Only after that do LLMs come in, mostly to help with the mechanical parts of implementation. In my experience it's still humans all the way down. The thinking, modeling, and responsibility for the system are human. The LLM just helps move the implementation faster.

I also suspect the segment I work in will be among the last affected by LLM-driven job displacement. My clients are small to medium companies that need tailored internal systems. They're not going to suddenly start vibe-coding their own software. What they actually need is someone to understand the business, define the model, and take responsibility for the system. LLMs help with the implementation, but that part was never the hard part of the job.

New comment by voxleone in "The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects"

voxleone — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:46:39 +0000

These scans seem perfect for fabrication experiments.

I’ve been trying a workflow where the mesh is inverted and used to generate a 3D-printed mold, then I gelcast zirconia ceramic into it and sinter it. The result is a dense ceramic version of the sculpture.

If you downscale the models they work well as small desktop statues or relief friezes, and ceramic casting can preserve surprisingly fine detail from the scan.

Save the Student Essay

voxleone — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:32:29 +0000

Article URL: https://openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/save-the-student-essay

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353402

Points: 2

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Functional Universe – Physics as Composable Functional Transitions

voxleone — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:27 +0000

Article URL: https://voxleone.github.io/FunctionalUniverse/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336505

Points: 2

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New comment by voxleone in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

voxleone — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:43:51 +0000

I rank with those who think human-like intelligence will require embeddings grounded in multiple physical sensory domains (vision, touch, audio, chemical sensing, etc.) fused into a shared world representation. That seems much closer to how biological intelligence works than text-only models. But if this path succeeds and produces systems with something like genuine understanding or sentience, there’s a deeper question: what is the moral status of such systems? If they have experiences or agency, treating them purely as tools could start to look uncomfortably close to slavery.