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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next

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Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I did a livestream where I talked about some of my plans. And in fact I’ve just had the most productive five years of my life. Five years ago everything was going well, and making steady progress. Five years ago there wasn’t really anything that made me need to do something big and new.

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)

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If you want to work on operating production critical databases in the cloud on k8s + write data-driven algorithms for autoscaling, consider applying! Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

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What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton?

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And somehow theres an arc of progress thats formed. But are there what amount to laws of innovation that govern that arc of progress? There are some exponential and other laws that purport to at least measure overall quantitative aspects of progress (number of transistors on a chip; number of papers published in a year; etc.).

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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But what I coveted most was the largest physics book collection there: a series of five plushly illustrated college textbooks. This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3.

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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

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They have the lowest regional levels in the world and I expect the variance amongst those growers to not have significant impact. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe. This seemed like a solvable problem. All results are published openly.

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