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pr337h4m
17 hours ago
Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses...
3 DAYS AGO
JGRODZISKI
Rediscovering the Handcart
17 HOURS AGO
THEHAPPYFELLOW
Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
4 DAYS AGO
ZDW
What async promised and what it delivered
5 DAYS AGO
PEARSONZERO
Per-image PCA characterization of the Kodak image suite (PDF and JSON)
milkglass
4 hours ago
The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
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jger15
3 days ago
The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement
Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement....
robinhouston
4 days ago
The Free Universal Construction Kit
Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability betw...
gasull
6 hours ago
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
A technical look at the EU age verification reference app — the gap between marketed and shipped cryptography, relay attacks the protocol can't stop, and why the 'privacy-preserving' system ...
kyriakosel
3 hours ago
Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)
What this role actually is This is not “market research.” No 60‑page decks. No generic “digital health is big” observations. This is a continuous loop: market → signal → implication → deci...
Nrbelex
4 days ago
Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
Flickr was among the first online communities designed to address that dilemma, and it remains one of the best....
speckx
18 hours ago
Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to get a working project....
iamwil
2 days ago
Mahjong: A Visual Guide
Learn mahjong in five minutes. A visual guide for total beginners — tiles, winning hands, wall mechanics, and turn actions....
https://themahjong.guide/
tosh
3 hours ago
The Knight Programming Language
The Knight Programming Language. Contribute to knight-lang/knight-lang development by creating an account on GitHub....
pabs3
5 hours ago
AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice
This article discusses a current-headlines situation regarding Affero General Public License, version 3, Section 3, paragraph 4 (AGPLv3§7¶4.). I begin however with an explanation of the prob...
NaOH
3 days ago
The Long Reply
How long is too long to write back?...
calcifer
a day ago
New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto th...