Hacker News with Generative AI: Life

On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots (hedgehogreview.com)
Last summer, in Greensboro, North Carolina, at a retrospective exhibition of my work, a photographer introduced himself and asked a question no one had ever asked me.

Photography, Memories, Art, Life, Culture

294 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 316 comments

How to live an intellectually rich life (utsavmamoria.substack.com)
Go to the main page of Wikipedia.

Life, Personal Development, Intellectual Growth, Knowledge

582 points by TheLadyParadox 7 days ago | 320 comments

Barlow's Principles of Adult Behaviour (mail-archive.com)
FINALLY, A LITTLE GIFT FOR US ALL... I didn't think I would live to 30 either. I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to find myself on the eve of my 30th birthday, weirdly alive. In this, I was quite out of step with most of my friends to that point, more than half of whom were already back in the sweet realm of infinity and love. Chickenshits.

Life, Humor, Mortality

85 points by josht 13 days ago | 50 comments

Scientists find 'strongest evidence yet' of life on distant planet (bbc.com)
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

Exoplanets, Astronomy, Life, Science, Biology

14 points by vinni2 22 days ago | 1 comments

The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death (nautil.us)
At the dawn of microbiology, scientists glimpsed unseen worlds and stumbled into a philosophical purgatory

Microbiology, Philosophy, Science, Life

87 points by dnetesn 22 days ago | 49 comments

Telescope finds promising hints of life on distant planet (bbc.com)
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

Astronomy, Exoplanets, Life, Science

15 points by anaclet0 22 days ago | 2 comments

Exoplanet K2-18B: Alien ocean world likely 'teeming with life' (thetimes.com)

Exoplanets, Astronomy, Space Exploration, Life

5 points by kapkapkap 22 days ago | 1 comments

Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount (news.arizona.edu)
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like "sand," its topography has long fascinated scientists and invited speculation on whether lifeforms might lurk beneath the moon's thick, hazy atmosphere.

Saturn, Moons, Space Exploration, Life, Science

61 points by geox 31 days ago | 42 comments

What We Knew Without Knowing (newyorker.com)
I said I wasn’t sure where we left off, Dr. MacKinnon said why not begin where you are now. I said I wasn’t sure where I was now, life seemed rather scattered, we had not seen Quintana but had talked to her, she had seemed on the occasions we spoke in generally good spirits, fairly upbeat. Still, I found myself worrying, waiting for the bad news to kick in.

Personal Essays, Life, Relationships, Uncertainty

42 points by apollinaire 36 days ago | 4 comments

Don't compete (invertedpassion.com)
The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations, someone else is raising funds, and another person is winning awards. Essentially, everyone around you is succeeding while you do spend your days as the nature intended – sleeping, eating, smiling, chatting with friends, and spending time with your cat.

Life, Success, Comparison

41 points by paraschopra 48 days ago | 15 comments

Ask HN: How are you having fun? (ycombinator.com)
Curious what hobbies/activities/projects are keeping life light & fun for you in 2025?

Life, Hobbies, Fun, Activities, Projects

15 points by throwaway24124 53 days ago | 12 comments

The quiet rebellion of a little life (caitlynrichardson.substack.com)
hello.

Personal Growth, Life, Substack

78 points by durmonski 109 days ago | 129 comments

The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe (nautil.us)
Why are we here? Is there life on other planets? The renowned scientists who share a name share their answers to life’s big questions.

Science, Philosophy, Space, Cosmology, Life

24 points by dnetesn 138 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: What AI tools changed your work/life? (ycombinator.com)
New shiny AI tools and apps appear daily. Many of them are trash, but some are gems, and can change work or life drastically.

Artificial Intelligence, Work, Life, Tools

22 points by divan 155 days ago | 22 comments

Things I learned from my own cancer – Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
I've got cancer but it's probably (almost certainly, really) okay. Within a very short period I will no longer have cancer (at least for now). This is the best kind of cancer to have – the kind that is caught early and treated easily – but I've learned a few things on the way that I want to share with you.

Cancer, Health, Personal Experience, Learning, Life

9 points by sundarurfriend 178 days ago | 0 comments

Uranus' moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface (phys.org)
A new study suggests Uranus' moon Miranda may harbor a water ocean beneath its surface, a finding that would challenge many assumptions about the moon's history and composition and could put it in the company of the few select worlds in our solar system with potentially life-sustaining environments.

Astronomy, Moons, Oceans, Solar System, Life

39 points by geox 187 days ago | 7 comments

Serious fun (scattered-thoughts.net)
It's easy to think of being serious and having fun as opposite sides of a spectrum.

Philosophy, Life, Humor

75 points by luu 195 days ago | 10 comments

On Working with Your Passion (datagubbe.se)
Cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground.

Work, Passion, Life

11 points by 082349872349872 201 days ago | 1 comments

All We Have in This World Is Ourselves (rxjourney.com.ng)
Earlier this week, one of my colleagues lost her father. It's really startling how much can happen within a 24-hour period. I'm not exaggerating when I say that something could happen in the next 24 hours that might drastically change your life, either positively or negatively.

Life, Mortality, Loss, Reflection, Personal Growth

67 points by chistev 211 days ago | 52 comments

Life, death, and retirement (wordpress.com)
I haven’t been blogging much lately, and it turns out there is a very good reason.

Life, Death, Retirement, Blogging

319 points by david2ndaccount 219 days ago | 165 comments

Problem-solving matter: Is life a complex computational process? (aeon.co)
This problem-solving perspective is radically altering our knowledge of the Universe. Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process.

Philosophy, Science, Computation, Life

4 points by debo_ 230 days ago | 1 comments

Jeremy Couillard's video games capture what it's like to be alive (artbasel.com)
New York-based artist Jeremy Couillard began his career as a high-school Spanish teacher, but outside the classroom he would spend hours creating intricate comics and ink drawings.

Art, Video Games, Life

75 points by RobertJaTomsons 244 days ago | 63 comments

The Fun Trap (radarblog.substack.com)

Psychology, Life, Personal Development

4 points by 0x002A 245 days ago | 0 comments

You Don't Have Time to Read Books That Won't Change Your Life (aethermug.com)

Self-Improvement, Reading, Life

16 points by mrcgnc 246 days ago | 24 comments

Life Without Hard Steps? (overcomingbias.com)

Life, Psychology, Decision Making

6 points by paulpauper 254 days ago | 0 comments

If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention (theconvivialsociety.substack.com)