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31. I mathematically proved the best "Guess Who?" strategy [video]
The story of how I proved the optimal "Guess Who?" strategy in my 2016 paper and how it differs from pure binary search. **Links**https://marimo.app/l/noa32s...
32. Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
33. The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (EWD 1094)
34. Fabric Project
Node Creative Coding / 3D / Image Processing tool inspired by Quartz Composer - Fabric-Project/Fabric
35. Good engineers write bad code at big companies
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36. Electron vs. Tauri
Electron is the most popular framework for building desktop apps using web technologies. In this article, we'll discuss a newer alternative, Tauri, and weigh some of the pros and cons between the two frameworks.
37. The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days.
38. C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS
Demo After a long break from working on my hobby operating system, I finally got back into it and finished a very important milestone: a working w...
39. JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas
An accessible guide to understanding the confusing terminology around JSON Schema. What are schemas, dialects, vocabularies, and metaschemas, and how do they all fit together?
40. Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
41. The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy
42. Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes
The European aerospace giant said it had found that intense radiation from the Sun could corrupt data crucial to flight controls.
43. Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
44. GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user data.
45. SQLite as an Application File Format
46. Effective harnesses for long-running agents
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
47. How to get Pandoc to respect custom table styles in Word templates
TL;DR: If you want to customize your tables and you don’t want to start with Pandoc’s default reference.docx template, you need to create your own new table style, name it Table, and modify that style to do whatever you want tables to do. I’m helping automate a documentation process at work, and the last step involves converting a Markdown file to .docx. The team we’re helping sent over a reference file with all their custom “styles” (in quotes here because none of the formatting they want to use is a style in the Word sense of the word).
48. Show HN: Ray-BANNED, Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras. Ray-BANNED - NullPxl/banrays
49. Comments on "Glauert's optimum rotor disk revisited"
50. Meta hiding $27B in debt using advanced geometry
FSG LLC’s preliminary rating explains how a data center and selective eyesight create a perfectly legal accounting miracle.
51. Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
Open-Source-Software bildet heute das Fundament großer Teile der digitalen Infrastruktur – in Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Forschung und im täglichen Leben. Selbst im aktuellen Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung wird Open-Source-Software als elementarer Baustein zur Erreichung digitaler Souveränität genannt. Dennoch wird die Arbeit, die tausende Freiwillige dafür leisten, in Deutschland steuer- und förderrechtlich nicht als Ehrenamt anerkannt. Dieses Ungleichgewicht zwischen gesellschaftlicher Bed
52. KDE going all-in on a Wayland future
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.
53. Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code
Rust Linux-compatible kernel. Contribute to hexagonal-sun/moss-kernel development by creating an account on GitHub.
54. Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes
Catch PCB schematic mistakes before fabrication
55. A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution
56. A Tale of Four Fuzzers
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
57. The Great Downzoning
It was once legal to build almost anything, anywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the West banned densification.
58. The GitHub Infrastructure Powering North Korea's Contagious Interview NPM Attack
Socket Threat Research maps a rare inside look at OtterCookie’s npm-Vercel-GitHub chain, adding 197 malicious packages and evidence of North Korean op...
59. If You Must Use Signal, Use Molly
While I’m critical towards the Signal messenger, I understand that network effects are strong and even though many people would much rather prefer a different platform, it’s not easy to get friends and family onto something better. In this brief write-up, I’ll introduce an alternative Signal client to make using Signal at least slightly less troublesome.
60. TigerStyle: Coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, dev experience
Tiger Style is a coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, and developer experience.