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Burn Rate hot sauce (wrapped in a real $100 bill, for $13.99)

https://burnrate.cash/

1•nycdatasci•1m ago•0 comments

Pico-Banana-400K: A Large-Scale Dataset for Text-Guided Image Editing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19808

1•salkahfi•3m ago•0 comments

South Korea's fishermen keep dying. Is climate change to blame?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg924nrgd3o

1•blondie9x•7m ago•0 comments

Some Notes on Nix Flakes

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/11/notes-on-nix-flakes/

1•n3t•9m ago•1 comments

Treasure Trove of Shipwrecks Along China's Coast

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/treasure-trove-of-shipwrecks-along-chinas-coast-reveals-ho...

1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Astronomers discover skyscraper-size asteroid hidden in sun's glare

https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/astronomers-discover-skyscraper-size-asteroid-hidden-...

1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

AI is changing our understanding of earthquakes

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/ai-is-changing-understanding-of-...

1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Interest Survey: Copilot for Exchange Server (On-Premises)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/interest-survey-copilot-for-exchange-server-on-...

1•asimops•17m ago•0 comments

If AI "slop" scares you, your PR reviews are broken

https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/pr-review-ai-slop/

1•ronbenton•23m ago•0 comments

Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon 'likely written' by AI

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/22/detection-firm-finds-82-of-herbal-remedy-books-on-a...

2•pogue•24m ago•1 comments

Paternal exercise confers endurance to offspring through sperm microRNAs

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(25)00388-2

3•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments

Blind User's Experience with Smart Glasses

https://abilitymagazine.com/meta-ray-bans-blind-users-experience-with-smart-glasses/

2•geox•26m ago•0 comments

Alaska Airlines, experiencing an IT outage, issues a ground stop

https://twitter.com/AlaskaAirNews/status/1981501224605405238

2•gnabgib•28m ago•1 comments

Unicode Footguns in Python

https://pythonkoans.substack.com/p/koan-15-the-invisible-ink

2•meander_water•28m ago•0 comments

Boa release v0.21 – a new release of Boa, a JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://boajs.dev/blog/2025/10/22/boa-release-21

1•birdculture•31m ago•0 comments

First Verifiable AI Architecture Analysis – Zero Source Files Read

https://github.com/mirzahusadzic/cogx

1•mirza_husadzic•33m ago•1 comments

Finding a Successor to the FHS

https://lwn.net/Articles/1032947/

2•baobun•33m ago•0 comments

Alaska Airlines issues temporary ground stop

https://mynorthwest.com/chokepoints/alaska-airlines-3/4146461

1•tobinfekkes•34m ago•0 comments

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity – Paul Kingsnorth

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025/10/the-prophecies-of-paul-kingsnorth

1•pseudolus•36m ago•0 comments

MAINdial – Find any landline instantly with GPS/AI

https://dial-wise-60854cc8.base44.app/

1•Conceiver•37m ago•0 comments

Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/two-federal-judges-say-use-ai-led-errors-in-us-court-rul...

3•bbzjk7•38m ago•0 comments

Is Terminal Lucidity Real?

https://preservinghope.substack.com/p/is-terminal-lucidity-real

2•paulpauper•39m ago•0 comments

The System Skill Pattern

https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/the-system-skill-pattern

3•mercat•49m ago•1 comments

Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall

https://www.polygon.com/counter-strike-cs-player-economy-multi-billion-dollar-freefall/

19•perihelions•56m ago•2 comments

Emacs: Write to Minibuffer

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36118899/inserting-text-into-an-active-minibuffer

3•gfalcao•58m ago•0 comments

Mario Creator Shigeru Miyamoto Might Be Right About the Future of Gaming

https://comicbook.com/gaming/feature/shigeru-miyamoto-gaming-future/

3•mikhael•1h ago•0 comments

Antidepressants: Physical side-effects vary depending on the drug type

https://theconversation.com/antidepressants-physical-side-effects-vary-depending-on-the-drug-type...

1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, report says

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/american-e-waste-causing-hidden-tsunami-southeast-asia-report-...

2•clumsysmurf•1h ago•1 comments

AI Sidebar Spoofing Puts ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Other Browsers at Risk

https://www.securityweek.com/ai-sidebar-spoofing-puts-chatgpt-atlas-perplexity-comet-and-other-br...

3•botanicals6•1h ago•0 comments

HekateForge Construct 8/8 entropy

https://hekateforge.com/

1•Compulytics•1h ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

Dots and Boxes

https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Games/dots&boxes.html

2•gregsadetsky•3h ago

Comments

gregsadetsky•3h ago

This is very random, but as a teenager, I participated in monthly C programming contests that were run by the MacTech magazine.

One of the contests was specifically to program an algorithm to play a game called "Dots and Boxes".

My own entry was actually a port of ... the JavaScript code on this very page (that I'm posting here)..!

http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.17/17.09/Se...

I also remember playing this game a lot in high school with pen and paper. It's super fun. Cheers