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speckx
an hour ago
Fedware: Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban
The White House app ships with a sanctioned Chinese tracking SDK, the FBI app serves ads, and FEMA wants 28 permissions to show you weather alerts....
12 HOURS AGO
MLYSK
I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
12 HOURS AGO
SEBZUDDAS
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models
5 DAYS AGO
KLAUSSILVEIRA
Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)
3 DAYS AGO
MRALEX94
15 Years of Forking
A DAY AGO
PJMLP
C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
2 DAYS AGO
LUU
Hardware Image Compression
2 DAYS AGO
EMERSONMACRO
Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
3 HOURS AGO
ARKADIUSS
Show HN: A 3D Body Scan for Nine Cents – Without SMPL
4 DAYS AGO
PAULHOULE
The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar
6 HOURS AGO
RAPNIE
Euro-Office Wants to Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Office
DiffTheEnder
6 hours ago
Bird brains (2023)
A kea parrot in New Zealand learned to drag traffic cones onto a highway so cars would stop and humans would feed it. That sent me down a rabbit hole on how we actually measure bird intelligence.
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isaacfrond
4 days ago
In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?
The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to formalize everything in the computer program Lean....
gnabgib
4 hours ago
FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against OkCupid and its affiliate Match Group Americas over allegations OkCupid deceived users of its dating app by sharing their personal infor...
jsunderland323
4 hours ago
Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents
Localhost service isolation and orchestration for git worktrees. - coast-guard/coasts...
Ivoah
a day ago
Build123d: A Python CAD programming library
A python CAD programming library. Contribute to gumyr/build123d development by creating an account on GitHub....
paulpauper
2 days ago
Seeing Like a Spreadsheet
How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America...
zaikunzhang
8 hours ago
Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name popularly given to a broad spectrum of computer tools designed to perform increasingly complex cognitive tasks, including many that used to solely be...
mihau
3 days ago
Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
Siri Shortcuts Programming Language 🍒. Contribute to electrikmilk/cherri development by creating an account on GitHub....
https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
toomuchtodo
2 hours ago
New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson recently signed a law that makes noncompete agreements illegal statewide....
sorenvrist
6 hours ago
The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle
This is a lightly edited transcript of a talk I gave at QCon London on 17 March 2026. AI is approaching perfection on exactly the tasks that used to comprise the first decade of an engineeri...
cokernel_hacker
15 hours ago
VHDL's Crown Jewel
How VHDL preserves determinism In this post, I would like to talk about VHDL’s crown jewel: how it preserves determinism in a concurrent language. Here is a figure of how it works:...
tosh
3 days ago
Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed
a small build system with a focus on speed. Contribute to ninja-build/ninja development by creating an account on GitHub....
hydrolox
5 days ago
Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code
Douglas Lenat's AM (Automated Mathematician) from SAIL archives circa 1977 - white-flame/am...
arch1e
2 days ago
From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab
Why we started running our office lab on FreeBSD with Sylve, and how a simpler stack ended up fitting our workflow better. ...
Philadelphia
18 hours ago
Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation....
walterbell
a day ago
Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle
Long security lines at airports are driving people crazy as Congress and President Donald Trump try to work out a budget stalemate....