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Understanding Motion and Relativity with Spacetime Diagrams

https://steuard.github.io/spacetime/intro.html
5•Steuard•1h ago

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Steuard•1h ago
I'm a physics professor who regularly teaches about special relativity in my Modern Physics course. I've made a web app for drawing spacetime diagrams (technically, two-observer Minkowski diagrams), which are one of the best ways I know for building intuition about how relativity works. The link points to an introduction to the diagrams, including a brief explanation of some key relativity concepts based on diagram illustrations. (It's meant to be at least halfway understandable to people who haven't studied physics before, though it'll be clearer the more you already know.)

Read through the linked page if you want the basics, or if you're eager to just jump straight in, follow the links to use the main app and play with that. (It has multiple predefined scenarios that you can load, each with a brief explanation, but you can design your own scenarios as well.)

[Aside: I feel really good about the UI I've got for this so far, but my last significant JavaScript work before this project was back in 2005 or so. I've had to learn a LOT.]

Poland invokes NATO's Article 4 after Russian drone incursion [video][4 mins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uylu7YQWkY
2•Bender•3m ago•0 comments

Pg_DuckDB Version 1.0

https://motherduck.com/blog/pg-duckdb-release/
1•tanelpoder•4m ago•0 comments

You and Your Local Gradient

https://whybyfire.net/ultraleverage
1•cosmicecho•5m ago•0 comments

XNEdit – fast and classic X11 text editor

https://www.unixwork.de/xnedit/
1•Mr_Minderbinder•7m ago•0 comments

Browser.js

https://github.com/HeyPuter/browser.js
2•ent101•9m ago•0 comments

ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V) – The Changelog

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10858-arm-is-great-arm-is-terrible-and-so-is-risc-v
4•todsacerdoti•11m ago•0 comments

Possibilities for Low-Fidelity Mind Uploading

https://zaira.blog/blog/possibilities-for-low-fidelity-mind-uploading/
1•cosmicecho•12m ago•0 comments

Tesla Solar Roof Costs $6-8 per Watt vs. $3 Traditional

https://www.fistsolar.com/tesla-solar-roof-costs-6-8-per-watt-vs-3-traditional
2•billm950•13m ago•0 comments

Many Hard LeetCode Problems Are Easy Constraint Problems

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/many-hard-leetcode-problems-are-easy-constraint/
1•tannhaeuser•17m ago•2 comments

The Rise of Political Violence and Targeting of Lawmakers in the U.S.

https://time.com/7294891/political-violence-rise-america/
2•mgh2•17m ago•0 comments

How Much Math Is Knowable? (Scott Aaronson Santa Fe Institute Talk) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQC7AIT91_g
1•maartenscholl•18m ago•0 comments

Membrane Biology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane_biology
1•rolph•21m ago•0 comments

Tesla Doors Can Trap People Desperate to Escape

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tesla-dangerous-doors/
3•mgh2•21m ago•1 comments

Hetzner Storage Boxes

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/
2•kblissett•23m ago•1 comments

Database Entity Recognition with Data Augmentation and Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19372
1•PaulHoule•31m ago•0 comments

RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/rss-co-creator-launches-new-protocol-for-ai-data-licensing/
1•twapi•31m ago•0 comments

Racintosh Plus – custom rack mounted classic Mac

http://www.identity4.com/2025-racintosh-plus/
1•MBCook•31m ago•0 comments

Intel's E2200 "Mount Morgan" IPU at Hot Chips 2025

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/intels-e2200-mount-morgan-ipu-at
4•ingve•32m ago•0 comments

Ted Cruz Proposes Sandbox Act to Waive Federal Regulations for AI Developers

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/sen-cruz-unveils-ai-policy-framework-to-strengthen-america...
1•Improvement•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Rules Manager – Package manager for AI coding assistant rules

https://github.com/jomadu/ai-rules-manager
8•jomadu•36m ago•3 comments

Knots and π-Calculus (2010)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2107
2•photonthug•39m ago•0 comments

Alignment Bears

https://www.alignmentbears.com
1•sethbannon•43m ago•4 comments

Cat Age Calculator

https://dogcatagedcalculator.com/
2•yangyiming•44m ago•1 comments

Real-Time Detection of Hallucinated Entities in Long-Form Generation

https://www.hallucination-probes.com/
1•mattzcarey•45m ago•0 comments

Shape Checking for Annotated Tensor Names

https://github.com/samanklesaria/sizecheck
1•samanklesaria•46m ago•0 comments

The 4p Developer: The Missing Layer in Platform Thinking

https://www.davidpoll.com/2025/09/the-4p-developer-the-missing-layer-in-platform-thinking/
1•depoll•48m ago•0 comments

You're a Slow Thinker. Now What?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/youre-a-slow-thinker-now-what
4•sebg•51m ago•0 comments

Phospholipid head govern area per lipid and emergent elasticity of bilayer(2018)

https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(22)00733-0#
1•rolph•52m ago•2 comments

AI School Is in Session

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/podcasts/hardfork-education-alpha-school.html
2•wjb3•52m ago•1 comments

Rpsduel.com – Live Rock Paper Scissors with Instant ELO Matchmaking

https://rpsduel.com/
1•iCeGaming•53m ago•1 comments