Hacker News with Generative AI: Metaphors

Ohmaps: your image montage is a resistor network (hunsley.io)
Occasionally there’s a lovely moment when I’m working on a problem and I realise I’m also looking at some other thing that seems completely unrelated. It’s like a metaphor made flesh.

Image Manipulation, Art, Programming, Metaphors

78 points by occular 21 days ago | 28 comments

Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery (lcamtuf.substack.com)

Electric Chainsaws, Metaphors, Writing

39 points by zdw 119 days ago | 71 comments

We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology Essays (aeon.co)

Biology, Philosophy, Metaphors, Science

9 points by rbanffy 144 days ago | 1 comments

'It's like I drew a door and disappeared through it' (2021) (meduza.io)

Metaphors, Art, Personal Experiences, 2021, Russia

105 points by NaOH 149 days ago | 13 comments

The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think) (novum.substack.com)