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Take Back the Em Dash–and Your Voice

https://spin.atomicobject.com/take-back-em-dash/
1•ingve•19s ago•0 comments

Show HN: 289x speedup over MLP using Spectral Graphs

https://zenodo.org/login/?next=%2Fme%2Fuploads%3Fq%3D%26f%3Dshared_with_me%25253Afalse%26l%3Dlist...
1•andrespi•1m ago•0 comments

Teaching Mathematics

https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~spurny/doc/articles/arnold.htm
1•samuel246•3m ago•0 comments

3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg
2•downboots•4m ago•0 comments

Abstractions Are in the Eye of the Beholder

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/08/29/abstractions-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
2•whack•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Routed Attention – 75-99% savings by routing between O(N) and O(N²)

https://zenodo.org/records/18518956
1•MikeBee•4m ago•0 comments

We didn't ask for this internet – Ezra Klein show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY
1•softwaredoug•5m ago•0 comments

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-cen...
2•geox•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw
1•ssslvky1•8m ago•0 comments

I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/
2•jerpint•8m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•10m ago•0 comments

I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading Greek/Latin texts. Would love feedback

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
2•breadwithjam•13m ago•1 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•13m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•16m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•17m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
2•phi-system•17m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
2•vkelk•18m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
2•mmoogle•18m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
3•saikatsg•19m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
2•ykdojo•24m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•24m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•26m ago•1 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
2•mariuz•26m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
2•RyanMu•30m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•33m ago•0 comments

Go-busybox: A sandboxable port of busybox for AI agents

https://github.com/rcarmo/go-busybox
3•rcarmo•34m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation for NVFP4 Inference Accuracy Recovery [pdf]

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVFP4-QAD-Report.pdf
2•gmays•35m ago•0 comments

xAI Merger Poses Bigger Threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-02-03/musk-s-xai-merger-poses-bigger-threat-to-op...
2•andsoitis•35m ago•0 comments
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The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-repetition-in-art-pleases-the-brain/
68•prismatic•5mo ago

Comments

sans_souse•5mo ago
My first thought upon seeing the first picture and the header; [https://youtu.be/IyVj9sKldWg](Max Cooper - Repetition)
vok•5mo ago
Corrected link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO9aot9RgQc
copypasterepeat•5mo ago
In a somewhat similar vein: https://youtu.be/0S43IwBF0uM (The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar)
gilleain•5mo ago
An interesting feature of repetitive geometric art that took me a long time to appreciate is that the discipline of getting an even cover of paint in a highly repetitive painting is surely very difficult.

Take Bridget Riley - we are so used to how mechanical painting (that is, 'printing') makes getting such even cover, and straight lines trivial that doing it by hand seems no more impressive.

https://www.moma.co.uk/how-to-paint-like-bridget-riley/

knuckleheads•5mo ago
Relatedly, I didn't "get" Rothko's paintings until I saw one in real life last year. Easy to look at through a screen and not get the effect that it has, what with everything on the screen being so pixel perfect. For me, looking at those Rothko's in real life had me thinking there was a pattern in the color somewhere just out of reach for me, that if I looked closer I could see a pixel or catch a line somewhere that would tell me what was really driving all the colors. It drew me in in person in a way that it simply could not via the screen or some sort of other reproduction. What he did with colors is magical and the stories around others calling it easy or trivial to do and then failing hard themselves are also fun to consider afterwards.
gilleain•5mo ago
Totally agree. I used to really dislike Rothko paintings as I fell into the same trap of thinking there was 'nothing to it'. Well, try actually painting something with so few colours, and essentially no geometry. It's really hard to make something that looks good!
knuckleheads•5mo ago
Hahah just realized you could talk about Rothko’s basilisk as a mental trap of sorts the same way you could for Roko’s basilisk.
Xmd5a•5mo ago
I still dislike Richard Serra's work, because you know when you travel to the other side of the word and find that 40% of this famous museum space has been emptied for a piece of scrap metal, like the past 3 museums you visited during the last decade, well, you know what I mean bites fist
TheOtherHobbes•5mo ago
Vasarely was the master of this. Absolutely insane technical skill required to calculate and sketch the geometry, and mix and paint shades so precisely.

And it never even crosses your mind, because you're too busy looking at the image.

https://www.wikiart.org/pt/victor-vasarely

sjkeyser•5mo ago
Repetition in the arts may well be the repurposing of a separate cognitive function evolutionarily installed to enhance survival. I’m thinking of Robert Zajonc’s “mere exposure“ phenomenon proposed by the social psychologist in 1968. That seems to be the origin of the link between repetition and pleasure. Consequently, artists, co-opting it for their own purposes, are able to add pleasure to their Works the way a MasterChef might add spices to a recipe.
IAmBroom•5mo ago
It's deeper than cognition.

You have special nerves that link multiple receptors in your eyes, specifically to recognize lines. There are more in the vertical than horizontal, so you can more readily see vertical lines ("Watch out for that tree!").

Repetition is deeply integral to our visual experience.