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A Mathematical Approach to Life: Visualizing Mortality to Optimize Time

https://lifeecalendar.com
2•zemil•9h ago

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zemil•9h ago
Problem:

Tech founders obsess over optimizing code, startups, and KPIs but rarely their own finite time. Humans default to wasting weeks because we’re bad at intuiting 4,000 weeks (avg. lifespan).

Solution:

Life Calendar turns your lifespan into a 52x90 grid (1 square = 1 week). It’s a Trello/Spreadsheet for mortality - a visual, data-driven tool to:

- Prioritize ruthlessly (e.g., "Only 100 squares left with my parents")

- Eliminate procrastination loops (see "spent 12 squares scrolling TikTok")

- Align daily actions with long-term goals (engineers love systems; this is a system for time).

Why Now?

With rising burnout and FOMO, tech workers crave tools to quantify time not just track tasks. (See success of "Your Life in Weeks" WaitButWhy, viewed 10M+ times.)

Death of Hedviga Golik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Hedviga_Golik
1•marcodiego•1m ago•0 comments

Research reveals the brain's 'dimmer switch' fine-tunes arousal and attention

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-reveals-brain-dimmer-fine-tunes.html
1•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

Study finds pattern of Israeli attacks on areas marked safe for Gaza civilians

https://frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/updates/attacks-following-evacuation-orders-in-areas-where-civilians-were-directed-to
2•lr0•7m ago•1 comments

My secret productivity app when I worked at Stripe

https://tanin.nanakorn.com/use-programmable-tooltip-to-save-you-millions-of-clicks/
2•tanin•7m ago•0 comments

Microsoft is updating Notepad with text formatting and Markdown support

https://www.theverge.com/news/677474/microsoft-windows-notepad-bold-italic-text-formatting-markdown-support
3•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

Rust: Extending Lifetimes

https://docs.rs/unique-pointer/0.0.0/unique_pointer/unique_pointer/struct.UniquePointer.html#method.extend_lifetime
1•gfalcao•9m ago•0 comments

Gaming Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies: Integrity Crisis in Global Uni. Rankings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06448
1•rntn•9m ago•0 comments

Replication is Recursion; or, Lambda: the Biological Imperative (2015) [pdf]

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/018804v1.full.pdf
1•sargstuff•13m ago•0 comments

T-Series, Swayam, and Android Zoom Pro taught me to stop pirating software

1•rainygoodwill•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 3 Times Meet – Proactive AI Meeting Facilitator

https://3xmeet.net
1•Co_d012•15m ago•0 comments

Will Larson – My desk setup in 2025

https://lethain.com/desk-setup-2025/
1•gpi•15m ago•0 comments

Sarvam-Translate: Open-Weights Model for Translating Across 22 Indian Languages

https://www.sarvam.ai/blogs/sarvam-translate
1•meetpateltech•16m ago•0 comments

Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/self-host-self-independence/
3•articsputnik•16m ago•0 comments

Lambda-DNA programming language (2024)

https://xtao.org/blog/ldna.html
1•sargstuff•16m ago•0 comments

HitchBOT Was a Literal Pile of Trash and Got What It Deserved (2015)

https://deadspin.com/hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503/
1•yieldcrv•18m ago•0 comments

Sipeed NanoCluster is a tiny device for creating clusters of 7 Compute Modules

https://liliputing.com/sipeed-nanocluster-is-a-tiny-device-for-creating-clusters-of-up-to-7-compute-modules/
1•ndsipa_pomu•18m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare became my Gateway Drug for free and fast hosting

https://tech.dreamleaves.org/cloudflare-gateway-drug/
3•joshguthrie•21m ago•1 comments

Deep dive: How 125 multimodal AI models fuse vision and language

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2506.04788
1•ajs7270•22m ago•1 comments

2026 Volvo EX60 Debuts New Seatbelt Design That Adapts to You

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64970457/volvo-smart-seatbelt-revealed/
1•pseudolus•23m ago•0 comments

Pikuma: Learn the fundamentals of computer science and mathematics

https://pikuma.com/
1•ibobev•25m ago•0 comments

Top Coder Challenge Reverse-engineer a 60-year-old travel reimbursement system

https://github.com/8090-inc/top-coder-challenge
2•indy•25m ago•0 comments

Faulhaber Polynomials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulhaber%27s_formula
1•perihelions•28m ago•0 comments

Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/world/europe/china-russia-spies-documents-putin-war.html
7•duxup•30m ago•1 comments

HDMI on Gaming Consoles

2•sdrawkcabsti•30m ago•0 comments

I learnt the Infinite Sum Game in SF from India (and I can't stop playing)

https://nmn.gl/blog/infinite-sum-game
2•namanyayg•31m ago•1 comments

I'm Wirecutter's Water-Quality Expert. I Don't Filter My Water

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/know-your-water-quality/
16•rufus_foreman•35m ago•9 comments

Logos

https://tonsky.me/design/
1•behnamoh•36m ago•0 comments

On finding time to write (this is not productivity advice)

https://passo.uno/how-i-write-about-tech-writing/
2•theletterf•37m ago•0 comments

How the U.S. became highly reliant on Elon Musk for access to space

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/07/nx-s1-5425266/spacex-musk-trump-starlink-starship
2•rolph•39m ago•0 comments

Quantum Expert Insight: Peter Shor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qD9XElTpCE
1•ibobev•42m ago•0 comments