Hacker News: wise_blood

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

wise_blood — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:18:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864056

Points: 222

# Comments: 75

A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection

wise_blood — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:12:41 +0000

Article URL: https://aadamjacobscollection.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845187

Points: 19

# Comments: 4

There Are Three Aardvarks (2024)

wise_blood — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:25:05 +0000

Article URL: https://freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2024/02/there-are-three-aardvarks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804726

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wise_blood in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

wise_blood — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:03:19 +0000

has the whole youtube been indexed?

New comment by wise_blood in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

wise_blood — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:01:22 +0000

Oh man

My first distro was a live cd with Knoppix.

It had this game, I played so much. This, and Kobo deluxe.

So many good memories

New comment by wise_blood in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

wise_blood — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:11:39 +0000

If you want a list of common points among traditions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Points_Unifying_Therav%C...

some may be more difficult to comprehend, but it's all there

New comment by wise_blood in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

wise_blood — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:07:42 +0000

https://suttacentral.net/mn22/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain...

New comment by wise_blood in "ARC-AGI-3"

wise_blood — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:43:14 +0000

> . Once they beat these tests, new ones will pop up. They'll beat those, and people will invent the next batch.

that's exactly the point! once we cannot invent the next batch (that is easy for humans to solve), that will be AGI

New comment by wise_blood in "World Happiness Report 2026"

wise_blood — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:23:04 +0000

that's also why I much prefer the HDI (Human Development Index), it tracks more meaningful metrics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

New comment by wise_blood in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

wise_blood — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:02:47 +0000

If we include tasks in the physical world, yes we are.

for abstract tasks (like ARC-AGI), who knows?

New comment by wise_blood in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

wise_blood — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:17:15 +0000

the ARC definition is the one I like the best, something like:

"it is AGI when we can no longer come up with tasks easy for humans to solve but hard for computers"

New comment by wise_blood in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

wise_blood — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:41:37 +0000

I feel like I could've wrote this word-for-word.

I'm Pierre Menard

Flexible Schemas Are the Mindkiller (2024)

wise_blood — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:26:58 +0000

Article URL: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/flexible-schemas-are-the-mindkiller/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218348

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wise_blood in "Japanese Woodblock Print Search"

wise_blood — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:07:59 +0000

good job! I tried with a image of a Uniqlo t-shirt and it worked great

image: https://image.uniqlo.com/UQ/ST3/WesternCommon/imagesgoods/48...

result: https://ukiyo-e.org/upload/ac8aa7d9-d1c7-414d-b6d9-849371c88...

New comment by wise_blood in "The Perils of ISBN"

wise_blood — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:18:32 +0000

TMDB is the best metadata provider for my home media server, they just have everything.

Two great features are: season names and episode groups. The other day there was a thread about Babylon 5, where seasons have names and the watching order is different from the airing order. Perfect application of both

Epstein Files: if you change the extension to .mp4 you can view the videos

wise_blood — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:06:05 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1r1dkrf/comment/o4orail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000632

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by wise_blood in "Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin"

wise_blood — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:29:12 +0000

I just wish Library of America published the Earthsea books

New comment by wise_blood in "Slop Terrifies Me"

wise_blood — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:26:02 +0000

Ikea is great, though

After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs

wise_blood — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:20:29 +0000

Article URL: https://linuxiac.com/after-years-of-waiting-jellyfin-finally-lands-on-samsung-tizen-tvs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853689

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wise_blood in "Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram (2018)"

wise_blood — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:33:24 +0000

time to re-read Cryptonomicon and all the "if I decrypt this message and act on it, they will know that I decrypted it and change the code"