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smoothbrains.net is a personal blog at smoothbrains.net about science and philosophy. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Interface design in the age of qualiatech: Do you want to be a button?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
5HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a proposed experiment on DMT-altered vision, a web visual stimulus meant to show computation (a graph cut) via colour input and hallucinated depth. The post is cited as the full explanation.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Interface design in the age of qualiatech: Do you want to be a button?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. cube_flipper · 2024-09-26
    I propose an experiment which demonstrates computation on the (DMT-altered) human visual system. It is a simple visual stimulus/web application which when viewed while on DMT should solve a graph cut problem, using colour as input and hallucinated depth perception as output (see blog post for full explanation): https://smoothbrains.net/experiments/tilespace/index.html?ra... I hope. I haven't tested it yet. Prior art…

    Comment linking /experiments/tilespace/index.html?ratio=1.2&scale=80&stroke=0.5&saturation=0.5&glow=0&contrast=0.5&lighting=-1,1,1&overlay=0&colors=6,0,7,5,2,3,4,1&state=0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-1,0

    on “Software development for the DMT headspace”
  2. sebg · 2025-06-19

    Submitted Estrogen: A Trip Report as a story · 165 points

    HN discussion
  3. cube_flipper · 2024-09-26

    Submitted Software development for the DMT headspace as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  4. cube_flipper · 2024-07-21

    Submitted Interface design in the age of qualiatech: Do you want to be a button? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. eatitraw · 2026-07-27

    Submitted If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. rjknight · 2024-07-24

    Submitted Interface design in the age of qualiatech: Do you want to be a button? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. bil7 · 2022-09-22

    Submitted How to use DMT without going insane as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. eatitraw · 2026-04-15

    Submitted Xenon and nitrous oxide: Noble and ignoble anaesthetics as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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