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IBM Replaced HR Workers with AI

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ibm-ceo-ai-replaced-hundreds-of-human-resources-staff/491341
1•geox•1m ago•0 comments

Dataflow Programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming
2•badmonster•3m ago•0 comments

Observations from People Watching

https://skincontact.substack.com/p/21-observations-from-people-watching
1•jger15•7m ago•0 comments

Xogot at Pax East

https://blog.la-terminal.net/xogot-at-pax-east/
1•ghuntley•9m ago•0 comments

Tips for Better Interactions

https://staysaasy.com/saas/2025/03/16/interactions.html
1•thisismytest•13m ago•0 comments

What Happened to WWW.?

https://hackaday.com/2025/05/05/what-happened-to-www/
3•matthieucan•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Fictional business books like The Goal

2•jimnotgym•30m ago•0 comments

Scala 3.7.0 Released

https://www.scala-lang.org/news/3.7.0/
1•truth_seeker•31m ago•0 comments

The Mercury Language

https://mercurylang.org/
1•droideqa•31m ago•1 comments

Staff and Line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_and_line
1•aragonite•34m ago•0 comments

A database of 85k+ UGC brands and 150k+ contacts (emails)

https://www.linkeddit.com/ugc-brands-database
1•OmPatel5•34m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How do you organize your business ideas?

1•codazoda•35m ago•0 comments

Google agrees to pay Texas $1.375B over data-privacy claims

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/google-texas-data-privacy-settlement
1•chrisjj•38m ago•0 comments

Stop Cramming Everything into Postgres

3•saisrirampur•38m ago•1 comments

AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/10/ai-firms-urged-to-calculate-existential-threat-amid-fears-it-could-escape-human-control
3•billybuckwheat•47m ago•1 comments

Vibemoder – a vibecoded songwriting inspiration tool

https://vibemoder.pages.dev/
1•zachgray•48m ago•0 comments

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/sierpinski-triangle-in-my-bitwise
28•guiambros•56m ago•7 comments

Mixture-of-Transformers: Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04996
2•mfiguiere•58m ago•0 comments

Producing useful commands on the go using C++ and AI

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/05/10/producing-useful-commands-on-the-go-using-c-and-ai/
2•mfiguiere•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What do you think of this idea for a two color Rubik's Cube variant?

1•amichail•1h ago•1 comments

What are some app ideas that you think would benefit people on a perosnal level?

1•gwcodes•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass

https://github.com/danielcota/LoopMix128
9•the_othernet•1h ago•1 comments

Tons of Telephone Intercept Recordings

https://thisisarecording.com
2•jbledsoe2112•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Experimental Postgres-to-SQLite Sync via Logical Replication

https://github.com/PgOutput2Json/PgFreshCache
1•enadzan•1h ago•0 comments

What Was the Fact?

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact
4•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/everyone-is-cheating-their-way-through-college/ar-AA1EjCRk
20•zdw•1h ago•5 comments

High tariffs become 'real' for Adafruit with first $36K bill for import duties

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/10/0715216/high-tariffs-become-real-for-adafruit---with-their-first-36k-bill-just-for-import-duties
8•MilnerRoute•1h ago•0 comments

Decimal Classification

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59073/pg59073-images.html
1•andsoitis•1h ago•0 comments

DateTimeFormats: Parse date time by examples (no EEEE VV zzz)

https://github.com/google/mug/wiki/Parsing-Date-Time-Should-Be-10x-Easier
1•byjy•1h ago•1 comments

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters
8•colinbartlett•1h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

I wrote a book: Through the Geek's Lens

https://github.com/marcmagransdeabril/throughthegeekslens
1•m0rc•3d ago

Comments

m0rc•3d ago
What do a crowded airport in Beijing, parenting, the risk-return frontier, and micromanaging bosses have in common? Everything—if you look at the world through the right lens.

In Through the Geek’s Lens, you’ll embark on a personal, humorous, and yet thought-provoking journey through some fundamental trade-offs and models from mathematics, psychology, economics, and engineering. Through the eyes of a textbook lover, Through the Geek’s Lens opens unexplored mental horizons and connects the dots between accumulated scientific knowledge and our private and professional lives.

The book introduces and explains complex subjects, their factual basis, and their limitations by contextualizing them within a specific time and place—a moment in the author's personal life. Each section offers a small dose of actionable insight. Among the many topics explored are the trade-off between freedom and security, the diminishing returns faced by particle accelerators and large machine-learning models, and the No Free Lunch Theorem, which explains why a self-confident explorer like the author can get lost in an unknown forest. It applies paraconsistent logic to interpret Eastern philosophies and uses unbiased statistical sampling to show how to see your loved ones. It discusses the Law of Small Numbers and why it’s just as important as the Law of Large Numbers, the determination of Service Level Agreements using basic probability inequalities, and the Shannon-Hartley Theorem to decide when to shout (or not) at your kids. And that’s just the beginning—there’s much more to discover when you look your day to day through a geek’s lens.

Feedback is highly apreciated ;)

hackerbobtas•1d ago
The free sample is good reading and makes me want to read more. However Amazon has only made the book available as a free Kindle download (to Kindle devices) or as a $$$ paperback. As author, can you ask Amazon to make the book available as a downloadable PDF?
m0rc•1d ago
Author here.

I appreciate the feedback and I'm glad you like it.

As far as I know, it is not possible to sell PDF through Amazon KDP. As a promotion, Kindle was free for 5 days.

I will perhaps publish free of charge in one year or two from now.