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ipnon
2 hours ago
What's a Mathematician to Do?
I have to apologize because this is not the normal sort of question for this site, but there have been times in the past where MO was remarkably helpful and kind to undergrads with similar t...
A DAY AGO
RBANFFY
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
4 DAYS AGO
SPECKX
I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
16 HOURS AGO
THATXLINER
Show HN: Rust but Lisp
4 DAYS AGO
RSECORA
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
18 HOURS AGO
VMG12
Surfel-based global illumination on the web
2 DAYS AGO
ANONYMOUSIAM
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
4 DAYS AGO
RAWGABBIT
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
4 DAYS AGO
TOMTE
What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
jandeboevrie
2 hours ago
Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Stephen Brennan's personal website and blog.
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surprisetalk
4 days ago
We see something that works, and then we understand it
“We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper insight than it seems. Young people spend years in school learning the reverse: understanding happen...
hiAndrewQuinn
3 hours ago
Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
Note for numberphiles: all numbers have been rounded to their first significant digit, because I’m a fan of Rob Eastaway’s “zequals” method of getting to the point when it comes to estimatio...
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a day ago
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro,...
ukd1
an hour ago
9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring
9 Mothers Jobs...
gmays
10 hours ago
Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
Updates to the Gemini API File Search tool makes building efficient, multimodal file retrieval systems easier for developers....
surprisetalk
3 days ago
The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback
In North America’s Great Lakes region, river otters are coming back from the brink thanks to decades of effort on both sides of the border....
imtomt
10 hours ago
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
MacOS Web Server written entirely in ARM64 assembly - imtomt/ymawky...
https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
marcingas
20 hours ago
Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms
Almost Clojure written in Go. Contribute to nooga/let-go development by creating an account on GitHub....
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3 days ago
From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle
Bending the needle with geometric probability...
okey
5 hours ago
LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models
LLMorphism is the biased belief that human cognition works like a large language model. I argue that the rise of conversational LLMs may make this bias increasingly psychologically available...
ggallas
20 hours ago
CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully. On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 we...
kohlschuetter
3 days ago
The Serial TTL connector we deserve
Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers....
ndr42
3 hours ago
"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn
"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married w...
Cider9986
15 hours ago
France moves to break encrypted messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise....
muse900
a day ago
EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems....