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Michail Rybakov
Personal blog · rybakov.com/blog · on HN as spythonaidesignculture
Michail Rybakov's personal blog at rybakov.com covers ai, design and culture. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “Zuckerberg Emojis”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about how people draw horses, and it was posted on HN as a companion to gradient.horse. The one comment only links the post and asks whether an omission was deliberate, so it does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Art, AI and human bodies
Most-linked posts?
- Zuckerberg Emojis3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-19
- Open tabs are cognitive spaces2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2018-03-25
- Visualizing Complexity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-11
What Hacker News says?
I just tried using primitive on video frames - i has a nice effect, but somewhat jittery. I blended some frames together to avoid it. Here it is, with the bash scripts: http://rybakov.com/blog/primitive/ upd: used a better video example and cleaned up the scripts.
Comment linking /blog/primitive/
on “Show HN: Primitive Pictures”Submitted Open tabs are cognitive spaces as a story · 45 points
HN discussionLast time primitive was posted I wrote some bash scripts to make it work on video using ffmpeg - https://rybakov.com/blog/primitive/
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on “Show HN: Primitive for macOS”Submitted Pixel Piranhas as a story · 39 points
HN discussionA bit of a reply to all who wrote me: prints go out around May 12, as I had to order some packaging and wait for it to arrive. Also, if you haven't got a message from me, please check your spam folder! P.S. this is how it looks printed on Hahnemühle Daguerre Canvas (colors are a bit more saturated irl): https://rybakov.com/files/unix1.jpg https://rybakov.com/files/unix2.jpg https://rybakov.com/files/unix3.jpg
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on “The Unix Magic Poster”Submitted Zuckerberg Emojis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://rybakov.com/ About art, AI, technology and human bodies. Based on Hugo.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted The everyday movement of the technologically extended body (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote about creating adaptive streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) using ffmpeg and mp4box before [1]. It is nice to see that ffmpeg is incorporating more and more of the same features. Has anybody got ffmpeg to create HLS out of mp4 fragments as well? It would save some conversion time and space, since the same MP4 fragments could be used with the two different manifest files, DASH and HLS. Mp4box is not quite there y…
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on “Learn FFmpeg the hard way”Submitted I Am Sitting in AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGlad to see the concept of work spaces realized quite thoroughly - I wrote about the need for such an approach before: https://rybakov.com/blog/open_tabs_are_cognitive_spaces/ I am intrigued, though, how well the browsing history concept scales up to dozens of tabs. In my experience, I only use the newest tab on mobile, while the other open tabs become some kind of living bookmarks.
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on “Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser”Submitted I Applied Mark Zuckerberg's Face to Facebook Emojis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOr you could use a (quite affordable) ultrasonic machine designed for gentle cleaning of jewelry, dentures, glasses.. I've used one to extract fragrance from biological material for an artistic project[0], and it worked really well. Instead of having to wait for a few weeks for a tincture to finish, you put the same tincture (alcohol and material you want to extract fragrance from) into a plastic bag for just 15 min…
Comment linking /blog/smelling_cz/
on “Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation”Submitted Zuckerberg emojis: adding human body to digital expression as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI used a similar concept to repeatedly upscale and zoom in on an image with different AI-based super resolution algorithms. At some point only the idiosyncrasies of the algorithm remain: https://rybakov.com/project/im_sitting_in_ai/
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on “Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image”Submitted What else do people draw on gradient.horse? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNo, but I have generated the look at Mark Zuckerberg's face as he was writing it: https://rybakov.com/images/hiq/sadmark4.jpg
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on “Statement from Mark Zuckerberg”Submitted Seeing and Smelling the Critical Zone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm not tluyben2 and really interested in his secret, but here's what helped me most: – not taking what my inner critic says too literal. I imagine someone else saying such critical things to me – it would be ridiculous and I'd tell them to go to hell. So I just accept that something fuels my inner critic and take care of it in a different way. – enjoying the little things in front of me instead of obsessing about p…
Comment linking /blog/being_an_octopus/
on “So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain”Submitted Visualizing complexity (Ernst Haeckel's illustrations via neural style transfer) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAlso, Pixel Piranhas: https://rybakov.com/blog/pixel_piranhas/
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on “Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos”Submitted Open browser tabs are cognitive spaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://rybakov.com/ Built with hugo and using mpeg-dash with shaka player for videos (so that they load only when in viewport and pause and stop loading as they leave viewport).
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted How to hug yourself, and why as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEspecially with the "top sites" or "highlights" feature of contemporary browsers, that in essence show different doors, invite into other worlds as soon as you open a new tab. So instead of going where you wanted to go you get disoriented by all the offerings. Can't not link to my blog post Open tabs are cognitive spaces [0] that deals with the browser as the place you externalize your cognition to. [0] https://ryba…
Comment linking /blog/open_tabs_are_cognitive_spaces/
on “The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room”Submitted Visualizing Complexity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've recently had fun using VQGAN + CLIP, combined with slowly zooming in, for an art project on ecology: https://rybakov.com/project/metamorphosis/
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on “The Weird and Wonderful World of AI Art”A few years ago I've argued that a tab is the wrong metaphor, wrong unit of interaction: https://rybakov.com/blog/open_tabs_are_cognitive_spaces/ I am currently working on a new and fun approach to managing this kind of cognitive spaces, hopefully to be published this month.
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on “Overcoming Tab Overload”I do speculative product design, using techniques borrowed from artistic research. I can take a look at your product and propose approaches that meet the needs of the user on a human scale, not blinded by technological conventions. Imagine https://rybakov.com/blog/open_tabs_are_cognitive_spaces/ but for your product. Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JS, Arduino, Processing…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)”I am using this technique to lazy load and unload videos on my site[1]. Since there are many videos that autoplay on scroll, some mechanism is needed to stop loading a video that has been scrolled over. I am using onScreen which I found more efficient than alternative solutions. [1] http://rybakov.com/blog/ [2] https://github.com/silvestreh/onScreen
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on “Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport”
