Nova Spivack
novaspivack.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Nova Spivack, an entrepreneur and technologist, writes about AI, consciousness, math patterns in primes, cellular automata, and the tech industry.
What HN saysHN links it for his speculative posts such as parallax compression in prime numbers and a ChatGPT custom instruction, with commenters noting the content could be more balanced.
24HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression4 people · 635 points · first shared 2018 · 179 comments on HN
- 2Why Twitter's engagement has fallen3 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 3A Solution to the Twitter API Problem2 people · 28 points · first shared 2012 · 7 comments on HN
- 4Nova mode the ultimate chatgpt custom instruction2 people · first shared 2023
- 5Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter1 people · 137 points · first shared 2025 · 63 comments on HN
- 6Toward a Geometric Theory of Information Processing1 people · 6 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Eliminating the Need for Search1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 8The Twitter API Insanity – What Everyone Seems to Be Missing1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9The Fundamental Proof That Consciousness Transcends Computation1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · 5 comments on HN
- 10How Apple's Siri Works: Interview with Tom Gruber, CTO of SIRI1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
- 11Evri Ties the Knot with Twine — Twine CEO Comments and Analysis1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 12Consciousness is Not a Computation (2012)1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 13New Master Fixed Point Theorem Unifies Godel, Turing, Kleene, Tarski, Lob1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 14The Formal Necessity of Trans-Computational Processing for Sentience1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Exponential Intelligence1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
airesearcher · 2025-11-23
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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-economic-artific…
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photonthug · 2025-08-19
Ok 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 satisfying part, which turned out more geometric [2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral#Explanation [1] https://www.novaspivack.com/science/we-have-discovered-a-new-pattern-i… [2] https://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Arithmetic/PrimesFromTriangle.…
philipswood · 2023-12-10
Links to a WordPress login page.
You mean probably meant:
https://www.novaspivack.com/technology/nova-mode-the-ultimate-chatgpt-…
eganist · 2018-09-08
Reminds me, whatever happened to the research into parallax compression?
http://www.novaspivack.com/science/we-have-discovered-a-new-pattern-in…
rivd · 2011-05-24
i 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-unveiled
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.
signaler · 2015-05-07
I 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-billion-dol…
- 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-engagement-has-f…
- http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twi…
getdavidhiggins · 2015-06-12
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/
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Also, you can make up your own mind about this:
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8761731/twitter-trouble-facebook-twtr
http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2/
https://medium.com/@michaeledwards/re-imaging-twitter-ea4e1139fe12
http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engagement-has-f…
https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/
http://blog.higg.im/twitters-self-immolation/
http://john.do/twitter-quit/
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twi…
http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dol…