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Peacock. A New Programming Language

1•hashhooshy•4m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
2•bookofjoe•5m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•10m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•10m ago•0 comments

AI overlay that reads anything on your screen (invisible to screen capture)

https://lowlighter.app/
1•andylytic•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Seafloor, be up and running with OpenClaw in 20 seconds

https://seafloor.bot/
1•k0mplex•12m ago•0 comments

Tesla turbine-inspired structure generates electricity using compressed air

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-tesla-turbine-generates-electricity-compressed.html
2•PaulHoule•13m ago•0 comments

State Department deleting 17 years of tweets (2009-2025); preservation needed

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•sleazylice•13m ago•1 comments

Learning to code, or building side projects with AI help, this one's for you

https://codeslick.dev/learn
1•vitorlourenco•14m ago•0 comments

Effulgence RPG Engine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQOUe9S7dU
1•msuniverse2026•15m ago•0 comments

Five disciplines discovered the same math independently – none of them knew

https://freethemath.org
3•energyscholar•16m ago•1 comments

We Scanned an AI Assistant for Security Issues: 12,465 Vulnerabilities

https://codeslick.dev/blog/openclaw-security-audit
1•vitorlourenco•17m ago•0 comments

Amazon no longer defend cloud customers against video patent infringement claims

https://ipfray.com/amazon-no-longer-defends-cloud-customers-against-video-patent-infringement-cla...
2•ffworld•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Medinilla – an OCPP compliant .NET back end (partially done)

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2•rhcm•20m ago•0 comments

How Does AI Distribute the Pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6157066
1•dkga•21m ago•1 comments

Resistance Infrastructure

https://www.profgalloway.com/resistance-infrastructure/
2•samizdis•25m ago•1 comments

Fire-juggling unicyclist caught performing on crossing

https://news.sky.com/story/fire-juggling-unicyclist-caught-performing-on-crossing-13504459
1•austinallegro•26m ago•0 comments

Restoring a lost 1981 Unix roguelike (protoHack) and preserving Hack 1.0.3

https://github.com/Critlist/protoHack
2•Critlist•27m ago•0 comments

GPS and Time Dilation – Special and General Relativity

https://philosophersview.com/gps-and-time-dilation/
1•mistyvales•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Witnessd – Prove human authorship via hardware-bound jitter seals

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1•davidcondrey•31m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a clawdbot that texts like your crush

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2•IsruAlpha•33m ago•2 comments

Scientists reverse Alzheimer's in mice and restore memory (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251224032354.htm
2•walterbell•36m ago•0 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cymatica – an experimental, meditative audiovisual app

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1•_august•38m ago•0 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
9•martialg•38m ago•1 comments

Horizon-LM: A RAM-Centric Architecture for LLM Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04816
1•chrsw•39m ago•0 comments

We just ordered shawarma and fries from Cursor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WALQOiugbWc
1•jeffreyjin•40m ago•1 comments

Correctio

https://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/C/correctio.htm
1•grantpitt•40m ago•0 comments

Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
2•crescit_eundo•44m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo

https://thenumb.at/QMC/
143•zote•6mo ago

Comments

hnhg•6mo ago
This feels like a crash course for people already very familiar with it all. For everyone else, Steve Brunton's courses cover a lot of the foundational stuff here on probability and stats and might be a lot more accessible: https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve
seanhunter•6mo ago
Strong agree. He's an amazing teacher. Working through his course on dynamic systems and differential equations is some of the most fun I've ever had while learning.
FredPret•6mo ago
Thanks for this link. I've never heard of Eigen Steve but his channel looks amazing, which is to be expected from a name like Eigen Steve.
seanhunter•6mo ago
One thing to check out is he has a great series on "Data Driven Science and Engineering" to go alongside his book and the website has all the code and links to all the videos for each chapter. https://databookuw.com/
FredPret•6mo ago
Very cool! Will check it out - thanks!
fithisux•6mo ago
Wow! Thank you.
thevillagechief•6mo ago
Nice coincidence! I'm going through his course as a review of FFT and SVD fundamentals. He's really good.
trutz•6mo ago
Great recommendation. Anyone knows how he creates those videos where he seems to stand before a blackboard made of glass where he can also add a screen share from his laptop? Great technique I haven’t seen before on YouTube.
seanhunter•6mo ago
Cool article.

A couple of things which might not be obvious to people who haven't used monte carlo simulators in practise.

1) The fact that a prng is weak[1] and that the MC is deterministic given a particular seed is almost always a good thing. You want the thing to be as fast as possible and you're going to run a lot of paths. Secondly you very often need repeated runs to give the same result. For example say you're using an MC method to price something, you want exactly the same price every time otherwise you'll get some p&l noise every day arising purely from the difference in the random sequence. That's not what you want.

2) Low-discrepancy sequences like Sobol sequences take this one step further because they don't even pretend to be random, because they give better coverage of the search space for a given number of paths so you can use fewer paths. However, if your path evaluation is cheaper than generating the Sobol sequence then you probably just want to use a normal PRNG and more paths rather than a Sobol sequence. Say there is a bullseye hidden somewhere in a circle and to find the circle you need to throw a dart at it and if the dart lands near to the bullseye you get some feedback. One approach would be to precisely divide the circle into squares and carefully aim each dart to land in a different square (this is a low-discrepancy sequence). But another way is just to throw a lot of darts quickly and not really care where they go (this is the lots of paths approach).

[1] in the Cryptographic sense. Generating even weak random variates is slow especially if you need them to satisfy some property like being distributed in a particular way. Say you're trying to simulate the path of the snp 500. For each path you're simulating 500 stocks so you might be running say a million paths and each path will need 500*x random numbers. That computation time adds up pretty quickly. Cryptographically random numbers are extremely expensive computationally and you don't care about any of the strong cryptographic properties for this.

FredPret•6mo ago
You'd also have to account for the covariances among all 500 stocks, as well as many subgroups. Almost impossible to do properly given the contact area between even one of these 500 organizations and a universe full of random events, never mind one another
clickety_clack•6mo ago
I seem to be in the minority, but I don’t think you should use a fixed seed in the MC runs you use for decision making. It gives a false sense of the accuracy of process as the answers stay the same. I think a decision maker should be exposed to the effects of the standard error.

That said, I know sometimes the point of analysis is more about narrative building than decision making, and changing numbers make it harder to maintain trust in a narrative.

Ntrails•6mo ago
Agree - in one context if your decision is different due to a change in seed -> change in output, then frankly it isn't an input you should be using to decide?

On the other hand once you're happy with the error bars wrt seeding it is imo useful to have consistency in reporting.

rainworld•6mo ago
extremely expensive

No. CSPRNGs can be pretty competitive these days: https://github.com/google/randen

Yes, in some cases that’s still (a bit) too slow or too much code but best to benchmark first.

unixhero•6mo ago
It is maybe a good intro. Way too mathematical for me.