Stories by amichail

Is employment essentially a form of slavery?

Ask HN: How do you come up with names for your apps/services?

"Gravity Tractor" Could Deflect Earth-Bound Asteroids (2005)

Should games like The Sims be banned?

The Angry Evolutionist

Could one build a social news site on top of Google Wave?

Film producer Katz used fMRI brain scans to measure scariness of horror movie.

New business model: code is free but only if you can understand it.

Biology is boring for most people... unless viewed as algorithm design?

Surprises in Mathematics and Theory

How to listen to audio books while working without missing anything important?

Checkers Is Solved [2007]

Are top CS theorists nice people? Would they even talk with you? (comment 25)

The case for making computers more difficult to use in certain contexts.

Does technology greatly diminish human creativity by slowing memetic evolution?

On Michael Jordan: "It's not enough for him to beat you. He wants you dead."

Does maintaining your product for years feel like a routine programming job?

How to identify thoughts that you could have had using a game.

"...exposure to green products can...license us to act immorally."

Scribblenauts: taking emergent gaming to the extreme