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cartucho1

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Philosophy PhD from Argentina. https://arielroffe.quest/
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cartucho1··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Perhaps this is an obvious reference, but did you check out https://app.undermind.ai/ ?
cartucho1··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I made an HN filter for substacks and blogs: https://hnsubstacks.com/

It allowed me to explore a serverless deployement (on CF workers) with a toy project, that I wanted to make for myself.

Repo here: https://github.com/ariroffe/hnsubstacks/

cartucho1··on Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?
Sorry for the shameless plug, but I just did something similar for displaying only substacks: https://hnsubstacks.com/. I'm pretty sure something like this can be adapted to filtering out AI news, repo here: https://github.com/ariroffe/hnsubstacks/
cartucho1··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
An academic conference manager (website, cfp, submissions, reviews, scheduling, book of abstracts, etc.), for small- to medium-sized events.

It's available here: https://congressin.com/

6-min demo video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hr7my0QR5c

cartucho1··on How to be a good conference talk audience member (2022)
For academic conferences in particular (I'm in philosophy, things may vary in other fields), I would add some (perhaps more cynical) advice.

For instance, it is true that the main goal of a presentation at a conference is to test and improve ideas before sending them to publication, by showing them to a specialized audience. But, congresses are also (very importantly) about networking and PR, and making yourself known in the field. A conference brings together specialists in a subject, who will be future editors, reviewers, and professional contacts in general.

I tell my students things like:

- Whenever you can, ask (pertinent) questions. This is important beyond helping the speaker, it is also a way of advancing your own career.

- Think about possible questions while listening to the presentation instead of waiting until the talk is over to start thinking about what to ask.

- If possible, raise your hand as soon as the q&a session begins. At some conference sessions there is little time for questions, and some members of the audience who want to may not get to ask.

- Even when that is not the case, you can help avoid a moment of silence right after the talk has ended, which (as a speaker) can be uncomfortable. The worst outcome for a speaker is for nobody to engage.

- It is useful for the speaker to hear many different questions and points of view. Do not give parallel presentations in the questions. Questions should be concise and to the point. Formulating your question should not take more than a minute.

cartucho1··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://arielroffe.quest/

It's a Pokémon-style minigame. Past HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30656961

cartucho1··on Carnap – A formal logic framework for Haskell
For something similar, but in Python, I made this a while ago:

https://logics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

GUI here:

https://taut-logic.com/

cartucho1··on Implementing Logic Programming
Not really logic programming, but a while ago I made this, also in Python: https://github.com/ariroffe/logics (mainly for educational purposes). Parts of the implementation kind of reminded me of it.
cartucho1··on Infinite Craft
I got Atlantis + Spongebob = Atlantis Squarepantis :D
cartucho1··on The Psychology of Poverty: Where Do We Stand? [pdf]
Related: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-experience-of-be...
cartucho1··on Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president
Civil union is a legal figure (approved in 2002) that grants less rights than marriage. Same sex marriage was legalised in 2010. What she is proposing is taking a step backwards in terms of rights.
cartucho1··on Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president
On climate change:

https://www.infobae.com/politica/2023/10/08/que-opina-javier...

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/javier-milei-en-el-se...

cartucho1··on Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president
This is true, my mistake. Still, comparing homosexuality to zoophily is at least a bit insensible.

His vice did though: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv7Sy1aA8LL/

cartucho1··on Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president
His vicepresident has strong ties to the military (specifically to the sectors that made the last coup in the 70s). He has publicly opposed abortion rights, same-sex marriage, feminism in general, publicly denies climate change, is against gun control, and a large etc... He is not only economically but also socially on the far right of the polítical spectrum here.
cartucho1··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2022)
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, HTML/CSS/JS, Git

Languages: Spanish (native), English (advanced), Portuguese (basic)

Résumé/CV: https://arielroffe.quest/CV.pdf

Email: ariroffe ҩ hotmail · com

PhD Philosophy researcher & software developer from Argentina, with a strong background in mathematical logic. Looking to transition from academia into a fullstack web dev role, in search of new challenges. I am mostly self-taught in the programming world, so you may consider me a junior developer, but I can research and learn new technologies quickly.

Personal website: https://arielroffe.quest/ (was featured on the cover of HN a while ago)

GitHub: https://github.com/ariroffe/

cartucho1··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022)
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, HTML/CSS/JS, Git

Languages: Spanish (native), English (advanced), Portuguese (basic)

Résumé/CV: https://arielroffe.quest/CV.pdf

Email: ariroffe ҩ hotmail · com

PhD Philosophy researcher & software developer from Argentina, with a strong background in mathematical logic.

Looking to transition from academia into a fullstack web dev role, in search of new challenges. I am mostly self-taught in the programming world, so you may consider me a Jr developer, but I can research and learn new technologies quickly.

Personal website: https://arielroffe.quest/ (was featured on the cover of HN a while ago)

GitHub: https://github.com/ariroffe/

cartucho1··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
Recently posted it as a Show HN, but here it is again:

https://arielroffe.quest/

It is a pokemon-style RPG made with Phaser3.

cartucho1··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2022)

  Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Remote: Yes (preferred)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: 
    Proficient: Python, Django, HTML/CSS/JS, Git; 
    Familiar: Rust, Julia, Docker, Phaser3
  Languages: Spanish (native), English (advanced), Portuguese (basic)
  Résumé/CV: https://arielroffe.quest/CV.pdf
  Email: ariroffe@gmail.com
PhD Philosophy researcher from Argentina, with a strong background in mathematical logic. Looking to transition from academia into a software dev role, in search of new challenges. Proficient in the Python/Django stack, but also open to roles outside web development.

Personal website: https://arielroffe.quest/ (was recently featured on the cover of HN)

GitHub: https://github.com/ariroffe/

cartucho1··on Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?
For a more sociological view of what happened to logical empiricism in the US (and I'd argue, to analytic philosophy in general), George Reisch's "How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic" is awesome.
cartucho1··on Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?
Philosopher here as well. I'd strongly recommend Thomas Kuhn's "The Copernican Revolution". It's a beautiful book that shows how ancient astronomy, cosmology and philosophy were interwoven, with valuable lessons for how science works even today.

From the classics I'd also recommend Hume. The "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is short, very well written and argues, among other things, that causality is an illusion :)

cartucho1··on Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
Added! Thanks for the suggestion!
cartucho1··on Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
Fixed! Thanks for the report.
cartucho1··on Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
For the most part, no. See the repo in the description for the credits and links.
cartucho1··on Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
I'm glad it helped. I don't know anyhthing about React, but here are some more resources I found useful on the Phaser side:

- I started out with this guide: https://medium.com/@michaelwesthadley/modular-game-worlds-in...

- The Pokemon Revolution Online discord has a channel with mapping introductions that is pretty nice.

- The Phaser 3 website has a good documentation and lots of examples, and I also found the "Notes of Phaser 3" site by RexRainbow very useful: https://rexrainbow.github.io/phaser3-rex-notes/docs/site/

- This little tile extruder will help avoid tile bleeding: https://github.com/sporadic-labs/tile-extruder

cartucho1··on Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
Thanks for the bug report. Are you using Firefox? I knew this happens in FF and couldn't find a fix for it.

As for structuralism, the general idea is that it is a way to axiomatize empirical theories using formal logic and set theory. More specifically it postualtes that scientific theories have a typical logical structure, that you should be able to find in theories of many different fields (from physics to biology to sociology). And people have "reconstructed" (i.e. axiomatized) theories from all those fields. So, in a sense, it is like a theory about theories and how they are structured. Hope this helps ;)

cartucho1··on Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
Oh my, I didn't actually know that lol.
cartucho1··on Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
Ha, that's just a generic nemesis character. But, there are other characters based on real people (and inside jokes with them), like the girl who speaks of the mayo in the sample freezer or, weirdly, the guy with the killer robots :)
cartucho1··on Show HN: I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 3
Thanks for the heads up. Right now I can't seem to replicate the bug, but I'll look into it.
cartucho1··on If English was written like Chinese
This was fun to read, it reminded me of Arrival a bit.
cartucho1··on Show HN: I made a tool to create product tutorials
Hey, cool project! Congrats! A few more comments that I believe could help improve it:

1.If you click on a box with a step on the left side of a tutorial, it should take you to that step. At least that is how I tried to use it initially. Right now, you can only control going forward/backward through scrolling the page.

2. In the landing page the "View Examples" and "View a Tutorial" buttons look off in Firefox (the text overflows).

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