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DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER
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DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER is a personal blog at dynomight.substack.com about science and philosophy. Since 2022, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 151 times, most often “Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-11-14
- Why doesn't advice work?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-11
- Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-09-24
- Will the explainer post go extinct?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-09
- Integer programming easily encloses horse3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-15
- Underrated reasons to be thankful3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-24
- AI 2027 and Forecast Modeling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-30
- The Midwit Smart Home2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-12
- Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics III2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-19
- Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-23
What Hacker News says?
Found one: Blog of Scott Aaronson. E.g. this post https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10046 Also: Substack posts don't seem to show the reader symbol immediately, often only after switching tabs or a page refresh, e.g. posts linked here: https://dynomight.substack.com/
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on “Hang on to Your Firefox”Submitted Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess as a story · 696 points
HN discussionThe author had caffeine "90% of the time", see this comment: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/theanine/comment/98488776
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on “My 16-month theanine self-experiment”Submitted Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative? as a story · 579 points
HN discussionNote: the possibility is not mentioned in the article but rather in the comments [1]. I had to click a bit to see it. The fact that the one closed source model is the only one that plays well seems to me like a clear case of the interface doing some of the work. If you ask ChatGPT to count until 10000 (something that most LLMs can't do for known reasons) you get an answer that's clearly pre-programmed. I'm sure the…
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on “Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess”Submitted Why doesn't advice work? as a story · 320 points
HN discussion3.5 turbo instruct is a huge outlier. https://dynomight.substack.com/p/chess Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138289
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on “Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit”Submitted Underrated reasons to be thankful as a story · 183 points
HN discussionWas actually a great article on this last week: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832938
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on “Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers”Submitted The real data wall is billions of years of evolution as a story · 156 points
HN discussionthis was the article I had in mind, when writing this: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/chess
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on “Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch”Submitted Thoughts on Seed Oil as a story · 137 points
HN discussionYeah I was not precise; it was `gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct`, other variants weren't trained on it apparently. https://dynomight.substack.com/p/chess
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on “Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch”Submitted How much information is in DNA? as a story · 89 points
HN discussion> I think it's insanely good for what it is. Oh totally! I think that the progress made in NLP, as well as the surprising collision of NLP with seemingly unrelated spaces (like ICPC word problems) is nothing sort of revolutionary. Nevertheless I also see stuff like this: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/chess To me this suggests that this out-of-domain performance is more like an unexpected boon, rather than a guara…
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on “DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC”Submitted Things That Don't Work as a story · 50 points
HN discussionPossibly of interest: What heritability actually means https://dynomight.substack.com/p/heritable > I couldn’t help but notice that there’s near-universal confusion about what “heritable” means. Partly, that’s because it’s a subtle concept. But it also seems relevant that almost all explanations of heritability are very, very confusing. For example, they say speaking Turkish isn’t heritable but speaking English is.…
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on “Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy”Submitted Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology as a story · 48 points
HN discussionThat's right. I was digging through the comments on the substack version of the post and he confirmed it: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/noise/comment/17817515
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on “My stupid noise journey (2023)”Submitted The Midwit Smart Home as a story · 36 points
HN discussion>$10 "inching" timer plug Thanks, I didn't know these existed. Another useful "midwit" device to add to the list. https://dynomight.substack.com/p/midwit-home https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859437
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on “Fixing a broken smart cat feeder with ESP32”Submitted I am offering mentoring: In which I help you as a story · 28 points
HN discussionGreat article on programmed aging as a tradeoff of telomeres versus cancer: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver
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on “Aging may be a program, not a breakdown”Submitted Please show me lots of digits as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIronically one of the most popular ones is an article they wrote about why advice doesn't work: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/advice I guess maybe mentoring is different because the mentee is actively seeking out advice.
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on “I am offering mentoring: In which I help you”Submitted Limits of Smart: Molecules and Chaos as a story · 18 points
HN discussionOh, you are looking for interesting tech related blogs? I think you have not read the whole thing and missed the link: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/horse > I guess that what really bothers me is living in such a disordered universe. Did you know that this is the most compact known way to pack 11 squares together into a larger square? > [ a picture of really disordered 11 squares inside of a larger one] > Really…
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on “I swear the UFO is coming any minute”Submitted EU prohibited paying for plasma – shortage met by buying plasma from US as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThere are various reasons to believe Aspartame is pretty safe: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/aspartame-brouhaha
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on “Dramatic rise in cancer in people under 50”Submitted I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion as a story · 8 points
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