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Demjan Vester
Personal blog · vester.si/blog · on HN as vesterdeaiprogramming
Demjan Vester's personal blog at vester.si covers ai and programming. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Demjan Vester's Bodily Oddities pages describing unusual bodily conditions such as Alice in Wonderland syndrome, exploding head syndrome and proctalgia fugax, plus a post on dance with his dance tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal blog of Demjan Vester, a coder and dancer — writing about code, AI, dance, and the tools where they meet.
What Hacker News says?
I have this toy I’ve enjoyed building immensely, for composing video effects. https://vester.si/motion/
Comment linking /motion/
on “Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141”Submitted Show HN: Bodily Oddities as a story · 341 points
HN discussionStill trying to get a Play Store page with stats onto my AI Impact page, but if their numbers are anything like Apple's (and they're likely much higher), then it's a tough life for them right now: https://vester.si/ai-impact/appstore/
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on “The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week”Submitted The Nature of Dance as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSuch a great idea and implementation! I found out I had Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a child, after being sick with a 107+ fever - https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/alice-in-wonderla... . It lasted for a few years, occasionally recurring. I guess this was teleopsia, although my experience was that I could not tell what the distance was to an object. Very odd feeling, and pretty scary. Nobody I told about…
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”Submitted Our Elements: My questions and answers about the periodic table as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCould it be that both noise _and_ flash are in your head, and like me you have Exploding Head Syndrome? https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/exploding-head-sy...
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”Submitted AI Impact – A Collection of Stats as a story · 4 points
HN discussionProctalgia fugax ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/proctalgia-fugax/ ), also known as "shooty arse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USB90D7ywiE
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”Submitted I am not ambitious enough as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt should be illegal to publish AI horrors like this: https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/gleeking/ Life in prison (at least) But more on topic, this site is a cool idea but with the lamest execution ever. Whatever effort you might have put into collecting these phenomenon is overshadowed by the lazy AI slop. It doesn't seem like you're earning anything from this, so you just donated money to Anthropic/OpenAI…
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”Submitted Show HN: Motion – play with video effects in the browser (WebGPU) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>if I’m about to fall asleep and I happen to hear a loud noise nearby, https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... >I also see a flash of light with my closed eyelids. You might want to talk to a optician about that. It can be a sign of issues with your retina. I see flashes in a dark room when I wake up, because I have PVDs (posterior vitreous detachment) in both eyes. Edit: I just re-read your…
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”Submitted I think AI use is reflected in GitHub stats at least a bit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting site. I get the occasional Hypnopompic auditory illusion ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... ). This is when you think you hear a sound as you wake up. For me it is normally an illusory door bell. It is very convincing. You rush down to the door and there is no-one there and my wife heard nothing. Maybe happens 2 or 3 times a year. I also get the occasional weird nerve shock…
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”Submitted Motion (Realtime Motion Detection for Dance Purposes) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightma... > One hypothesis joins the two.
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”Rare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything. https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”How is supertasting considered "rare" if it is 25% of people? https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/kinds/rare-ability/
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on “Show HN: Bodily Oddities”I found quite interesting the apps the author created for dancing: https://vester.si/blog/dance-tools/ However I could not figure out which partner dances he focuses on, I would be curious to know.
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on “The Nature of Dance”I while back I made a page that showed the impact of AI just on GitHub stats (PRs, commits, etc...) which I liked because it showed that they are getting absolutely hammered. Since then, I've wanted to see more graphs that are seemingly going vertical because of AI. But also going vertical downward (StackOverflow) because of AI. So I found some primary data sources and packed them tight onto this page: https://veste…
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on “AI Impact – A Collection of Stats”Hah this is the 3rd fun app like this I've seen lately. I really like yours! I also built one! In mine you can compose effects using a graph, I've gotten carried away and now I keep wanting to bring more TouchDesigner concepts into it. It's far off, but so much fun! The best feedback on these kinds of apps is if you put it in camera mode and on a TV, and let a kid dance around in front of it. https://vester.si/motio…
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on “Show HN: Fuzzy Studio – Apply live effects to videos/camera”
