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Creating and Defeating Hexhunt

adamzweiger.github.io
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The Rectangular Cows of UK Art (2018)

artuk.org

Spending time among the thousands of paintings on Art UK often throws up questions. What is...
Spending time among the thousands of paintings on Art UK often throws up questions. What is a sun fish? Why is there a painting of the Queen with Robert Burns? What makes this tie hot? For a while, I’ve been wondering about a mystery I shall call ‘the rectangular cows of Art UK’. Some time ago, I came across dozens ...

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Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails

trailimap.com
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The Case Against Quantum Computing (2018)

ieee.org

Quantum computing is all the rage. It seems like hardly a day goes by without some...
Quantum computing is all the rage. It seems like hardly a day goes by without some news outlet describing the extraordinary things this technology promises. Most commentators forget, or just gloss over, the fact that people have been working on quantum computing for decades—and without any practical results to show ...

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The meme-ification of the "Demon Core"

doomsdaymachines.net

On May 21, 1946, the Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was demonstrating to several other Los Alamos...
On May 21, 1946, the Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was demonstrating to several other Los Alamos scientists how to do a criticality experiment. Slotin wasn’t really doing an experiment at the time, in the sense of taking careful scientific measurements — he was simply showing how one would do them, because he was ...
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Vercel acquires Grep

vercel.com
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Here's why you should only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming

tomsguide.com

I test keyboards for a living, as a staff writer for Reviews at Tom's Guide. This...
I test keyboards for a living, as a staff writer for Reviews at Tom's Guide. This means I get through a LOT of gaming keyboards, determining which ones I genuinely would recommend.Lately, I've noticed the tide shifting — the only truly great gaming keyboards are magnetic. Big name manufacturers are all racing to put...
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Scientific computing with confidence using typed dimensions

laurentrdc.xyz

I have performed non-trivial scientific calculations, in university and beyond, for almost 15 years. Until the...
I have performed non-trivial scientific calculations, in university and beyond, for almost 15 years. Until the end of undergraduate school, this was mostly done by hand. Optimizing the trajectory of a heavy ball or solving the heat equation are problems with analytical solutions, and thus can be solved with pen(cil)...
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A binary tree of all Pythagorean triples

richardt.io
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Handle.com (YC W19) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com

Simplifying Payments and Compliance for Construction SuppliersApply to Handle.com and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups...
Simplifying Payments and Compliance for Construction SuppliersApply to Handle.com and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile.Apply to role ›Who We Are Handle.com is a Y Combinator-backed technology company focused on revolutionizing how money flows through the $1.5 trillion U.S. constructio...
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Personality Basins

near.blog

Personality basins are the mental model that I use to reason about humans within their environment....
Personality basins are the mental model that I use to reason about humans within their environment. They are an elucidating way to think about many concepts: from modelling why people are they way they are, how they change over time, how mental illnesses and addiction function along with how we should look for their...
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Fastest Branchless Binary Search

mhdm.dev

c++coding
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How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?

danluu.com
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You Exist in the Long Context

thelongcontext.com
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PHP 8.4 Released

php.net
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JM Coetzee on Zbigniew Herbert

telegraph.co.uk

Herbert’s verdict on his own life comes in a pair of poems from 1983, “Mr Cogito...
Herbert’s verdict on his own life comes in a pair of poems from 1983, “Mr Cogito and the Imagination” and “To Ryszard Krynicki – A Letter” in which, crucially, he identifies his prime virtue as a moral being – namely, his steady, undeceived vision of the world – as also his prime limitation as a poet. “Mr Cogito’s i...

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A common urban intersection in the Netherlands

wordpress.com

Can urban intersections be designed in such a way that motor traffic, cycling and walking flow...
Can urban intersections be designed in such a way that motor traffic, cycling and walking flow smoothly and that the potential conflicts of these very different types of traffic crossing each other’s paths are made less complicated and less dangerous? In my opinion the answer is “yes”. Intersections are most importa...
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Removing global state from LLD, the LLVM linker

maskray.me

ccls llvm
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Wave Network: An Ultra-Small Language Model

arxiv.org
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Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips

pcgamer.com

When you've been following PC gaming hardware for as long as I have, there are certain...
When you've been following PC gaming hardware for as long as I have, there are certain norms that have been around for so long, that it's difficult to shake them off. For example, in the CPU market, traditional wisdom when I was younger was that AMD was often the plucky underdog, snipping at Intel's heels.Over the p...
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Hyrum's Law in Golang

abenezer.org
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Show HN: Convolution Solver and Visualizer

ybouane.com
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Why one would use Qubes OS? (2023)

dataswamp.org
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U.S. Proposes Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly

nytimes.com

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When...
SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.In a landmark antitrust case, the government asked a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser.Listen to this article · 6:24 min Learn mor...
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