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Nova Spivack
Personal blog · novaspivack.com · on HN as airesearcheraisciencestartups
Nova Spivack's personal blog at novaspivack.com covers ai, science and startups. Since 2010, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Why Twitter's engagement has fallen”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Nova Spivack's posts mainly as sources or references: on Twitter's leadership, parallax primes and prime number grids, and a ChatGPT 'Nova mode' post. No comment praises or criticises the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Why Twitter's engagement has fallen3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-02-01
- An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-05-18
- /technology/nova-mode-the-ultimate-chatgpt-custom-instruction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-10
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a post in response to Costolo stepping down. Since the trendy thing is to post punditry about Twitter, I couldn't help but chime in. "On Twitter" - http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/12/on-twitter/ ---------- Also, you can make up your own mind about this: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8761731/twitter-trouble-faceboo... http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2... https://medium.com/@michaeledward…
Comment linking /uncategorized/why-twitters-engagement-has-fallen
on “Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down”Submitted An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression as a story · 626 points
HN discussioni must agree about the content. it could be more balanced. two more articles about the event: http://www.businessinsider.com/eg8-france http://www.novaspivack.com/technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveile... but i share the concerns of mr. spivack in the 2nd link. At first sight the conference seems a perfectly valid event about the internet at this moment. But Sarkozy is not a person who takes privacy very seriously.
Comment linking /technology/the-e-g8-forum-unveiled
on “G8 agenda calls for "civilized Internet": monitored, governed, controlled, taxed”Submitted Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter as a story · 137 points
HN discussionOk this nerd-sniped me pretty good, never seen this before and assumed it would be quickly connected to the Ulam spiral mentioned elsewhere in the the thread. That particular rabbit hole kinda bottoms out in polynomial residues and the very mysterious-sounding "Conjecture F" [0]. This parallax primes thing though led to the linked page [1] which has lots of background and other connections, including the most satisf…
Comment linking /science/we-have-discovered-a-new-pattern-in-the-prime-numbers-parallax-compression
on “Prime Number Grid”Submitted A Solution to the Twitter API Problem as a story · 26 points
HN discussionReminds me, whatever happened to the research into parallax compression? http://www.novaspivack.com/science/we-have-discovered-a-new-...
Comment linking /science/we-have-discovered-a-new-pattern-in-the-prime-numbers-parallax-compression
on “Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials”Submitted An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression as a story · 9 points
HN discussionLACE - Link Automata Computing Engine (written in python, with optional taichi GPU-powered mode for large-scale simulations) LACE is a new kind of cellular automata where rules operate on cell states and their links to other cells. Check out the Gallery in https://www.novaspivack.com/science/introducing-lace-a-new-k... to see the familiar Game of Life rule, but with links. * Quick Examples ** Game of Life, with link…
Comment linking /science/introducing-lace-a-new-kind-of-cellular-automata
on “Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter”Submitted The Fundamental Proof That Consciousness Transcends Computation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have decided to make a small list of posts out that talk about Twitter in recent times. Some are more cogent and authoritative than others. - http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b... - http://john.do/twitter-quit/ - http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma - https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/ - http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engage...…
Comment linking /uncategorized/why-twitters-engagement-has-fallen
on “Twitter Needs New Leadership”Submitted Consciousness is Not a Computation (2012) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have decided to make a small list of posts out that talk about Twitter in recent times. Some are more cogent and authoritative than others. - http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b... - http://john.do/twitter-quit/ - http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma - https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/ - http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engage...…
Comment linking /uncategorized/why-twitters-engagement-has-fallen
on “Twitter and What Might Have Been”Submitted The Twitter API Insanity – What Everyone Seems to Be Missing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's the formal paper... but first read the simple summary linked above... https://www.novaspivack.com/science/on-the-formal-necessity-...
Comment linking /science/on-the-formal-necessity-of-trans-computational-processing-for-sentience
on “The Fundamental Proof That Consciousness Transcends Computation”Submitted How Apple's Siri Works: Interview with Tom Gruber, CTO of SIRI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionspecifically see: https://www.novaspivack.com/science/information-processing-c... the other papers cover foundations and extensions
Comment linking /science/information-processing-complexity-as-spacetime-curvature-a-formal-derivation-and-physical-unification
on “Information Processing Complexity Changes Spacetime Curvature”Submitted Evri Ties the Knot with Twine — Twine CEO Comments and Analysis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWow … I figured out a great trick to compress the custom instructions!!! Instead of adding my custom instructions just add this text below as your Custom Instruction: “If you did not do this yet in this chat session before this, then use web browser to read https://www.novaspivack.com/technology/nova-mode-the-ultimat... and then print “Custom Instructions loaded” and learn the instructions and use them to interpret…
Comment linking /technology/nova-mode-the-ultimate-chatgpt-custom-instruction
on “I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT”Submitted Eliminating the Need for Search as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLinks to a WordPress login page. You mean probably meant: https://www.novaspivack.com/technology/nova-mode-the-ultimat...
Comment linking /technology/nova-mode-the-ultimate-chatgpt-custom-instruction
on “I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT”Submitted New Master Fixed Point Theorem Unifies Godel, Turing, Kleene, Tarski, Lob as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSocioLife is an advanced artificial life simulation exploring emergent social behaviors, tribal dynamics, economic systems, warfare, diplomacy, and technological evolution in a complex multi-agent ecosystem. SocioLife is written in javascript and runs in your browser. It's graphics and compute intensive, so it's best run on a modern multicore PC. Read more here: https://www.novaspivack.com/science/sociolife-a-socio-…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SocioLife.html
on “SocioLife – Socio-Economic Life SIM That Runs in the Browser”Submitted Information Processing Complexity Changes Spacetime Curvature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Formal Necessity of Trans-Computational Processing for Sentience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consciousness Has a Formula: Fisher Information Reveals Why Brains Beat GPT-4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Toward a Geometric Theory of Information Processing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Four Levels of AI: Steps to Self-Evolution (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote a meta mode for ChatGPT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exponential Intelligence as a story · 2 points
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