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Aaron Diaz
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Aaron Diaz writes Dresden Codak, a personal blog at dresdencodak.com about culture, science and design. Since 2008, 62 different Hacker News readers have linked it 79 times, most often “Caveman Science Fiction”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
An Illustrated Celebration of Science, Death and Human Folly
Most-linked posts?
- Caveman Science Fiction15 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2009-10-06
- Caveman Science Fiction9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2023-01-30
- /2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/7 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2012-05-22
- Dresden Codak - Great comics by Aaron Diaz3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-10-21
- /2010/06/03/dark-science-01/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-02-01
- Stall10.jpg (900×688)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-20
- A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-08
- /2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-29
- /2009/02/16/exorcising-laplaces-demon/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-29
- /2007/02/08/pom/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-16
What Hacker News says?
Obligatory: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Comment linking /2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
on “Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles”Submitted Artificial Flight and Other Myths as a story · 57 points
HN discussionComic with a similar twist: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
Comment linking /2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
on “Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?”Submitted The Best Anti-SOPA/PIPA I've Seen Yet as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt reminds me of http://dresdencodak.com/2009/04/19/onald-creely/ , which meant a lot to me when I was younger for no reason that I can explain.
Comment linking /2009/04/19/onald-creely/
on “Don't Waste the Good Days”Submitted Tomorrow is Pretend to be a Time Traveller Day as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSure--the reason the US has such a strong image of the Nazis burned into its cultural psyche, is that, in our minds , we were almost them. Totalitarian eugenics was the zeitgeist among the progressives of the 1930s and 40s, growing directly from the just-recently-settled implications of Darwin; and America, as in many other intellectual movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, was one of the central participants in…
Comment linking /2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
on “My deadly disease was just a 23andme bug”Submitted A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere are plenty of sci-fi stories where scientists meddle with forces beyond their understanding and get burned. That's not evidence of anything except the fact that people enjoy those sorts of stories. See also: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Comment linking /2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
on “Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes”Submitted Grand Unified Field Theory (geeky guest comic by Dresden Codak) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionspin = audience_size * ((renown + defamation) / skeleton_mass https://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/10/dark-science-02/
Comment linking /2010/06/10/dark-science-02/
on “U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine”Submitted Dresden Codak is Back With a Vengeance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnd "The Last Answer", which ironically ends with a question while "The Last Question" ends with an answer. And a bunch of others that aren't quite similar except that they're short, provocative scifi. Here's my list of favorites: * Ted Chiang - Understand - http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm * Ted Chiang - Exhalation - http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/Exhalation%20-%20Te... * Ted Chiang - Hell…
Comment linking /2007/02/08/pom/
on “The Egg”Submitted Caveman Science Fiction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt seems very similar to the "I will do science to it" image from Dresden Codak, also from 2008 https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ff/c8/73/ffc8... http://dresdencodak.com/2008/05/02/copan/
Comment linking /2008/05/02/copan/
on “Facebook’s Piracy Problem”Submitted Stall10.jpg (900×688) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes. http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
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on “Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice”Submitted Dresden Codak: M.A.D.E.M.O.I.S.E.L.L.E. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJudging from what some other webcomics do, it would be beautiful. This webcomic shows how much freedom can be had with paneling, and how detailed the art can be: http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/
Comment linking /2010/07/10/dark-science-03/
on “Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? He Just Did”Submitted Enough is Enough: A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWould fitness landscapes help for part of it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_landscape They're typically used for reasoning about other things, but there's a few useful intuitions you can draw. Notably, you can't optimize to a point that is not on the fitness landscape in the first place... so the following comic can't happen: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ Which doesn't mean ther…
Comment linking /2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
on “‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)”Submitted Dresden Codak - Great comics by Aaron Diaz as a story · 1 points
HN discussion“ You like the Sportland Sports? They made so many points last game! ” http://dresdencodak.com/2008/10/22/the-end/
Comment linking /2008/10/22/the-end/
on “NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal”Submitted Caveman Science Fiction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAbsolutely fantastic stuff. The Kurzweil and FM-2030 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030 ) nod in the third strip ( http://dresdencodak.com/2007/04/07/rule-110/ ) is hardly subtle, but amusing.
Comment linking /2007/04/07/rule-110/
on “Figures: They Speak For Themselves (mildly NSFW)”- as · 2008-03-20
Submitted Love, Singularity, and Airships as a story · 1 points
HN discussion Aaron Diaz is amazing. The time travel/transhumanism comic Hob is greatly recommended ( http://dresdencodak.com/2007/02/08/pom/ ).
Comment linking /2007/02/08/pom/
on “Figures: They Speak For Themselves (mildly NSFW)”Taleb's position in a nutshell: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Comment linking /2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
on “Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)”http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
Comment linking /2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
on “Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007”Like this one? http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
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on “Scientists discover second code hiding in DNA”
