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Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by nabla9 »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #17

An article about some species of octopuses that have a relatively high IQ, but since the parents die before their offspring comes to life, every generation have to relearn everything from scratch. IIRC, the lack of inter-generational communication deprived this species from developing to the level its IQ permits. I wish I can find that piece again!

They also live very short lifespans. Typically 2 years. Giant octopuses can live as long 3-5 years.

It does not matter how smart you are if you can't learn from parent and have only few years to gain life experience.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by martin_ »

This is less one that I read, but more one that I wrote. Sometime ~mid 2012 I wrote an Ask HN looking to meet people and find co-working space in the bay area, 6 years later I find myself living here (due to folks I met via that thread). Unfortunately, it was on a separate account and I've never been able to find it

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by teddyh »

snailmailman wrote: post #21

Not a "interesting thought" really, but I thought someone posted a link to a site for "un-mangling" text. would fix all the formatting issues like &amp, and other various issues caused by copy/pasting text from place to place. I forget what I was doing recently but I thought "I should use that site" and couldn't find it anywhere after lots of searching. I should have bookmarked it :-/

You probably mean this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16103356

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by BoppreH »

tosh wrote: post #44

A slide deck on compatibility and incompatibility of various Lego bricks.

Would that be "Stressing The Elements"[1], an unofficial guide of what connections are considered "illegal" because they are unstable or stress the parts?

[1] http://bramlambrecht.com/tmp/jamieberard-brickstress-bf06.pd...

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by jackpirate »

gojomo wrote: post #40

Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship. Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success…

I remember that story, but I sadly can't point you to a link. If you liked that story, you might also like The Egg [], though, which I also found via HN.

[] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by rlander »

gojomo wrote: post #40

Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship. Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success…

This book? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32109569-we-are-legion-w...
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