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The Legend of von Neumann [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf
27•suopspaces•1h ago

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SimplyUnknown•41m ago
For a longer read, I can highly recommend the book "The Man from the Future" by Ananyo Bhattacharya. It's quite an easy read and extensively discusses the life and discoveries by John von Neumann in chronological order.
laserson•27m ago
I read this last year and also recommend!
chasd00•9m ago
Not sure what just happened but like 10 comments just vanished. Anyway, here's a wiki link to "The Martians" which was a group of Hungarian scientists and Von Neuman was a member.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

"The Martians" (Hungarian: "A marslakók") were a group of prominent scientists (mostly, but not exclusively, physicists and mathematicians) of Hungarian Jewish descent who emigrated from Europe to the United States in the early half of the 20th century.[1]

Leo Szilard jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars."

Betelbuddy•9m ago
Hungarian high school science fair projects...

The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

https://yuka.dev/blog-2026-10-02-linux-m4.html
1•signa11•2m ago•0 comments

AI Performance Engineering

https://github.com/wafer-ai/gpu-perf-engineering-resources
2•bogdiyan•2m ago•0 comments

An operating system that belongs to Europe

https://euro-os.eu/en/
2•NexRebular•3m ago•0 comments

'Explosion of melt rates': 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/01/switzerland-glacier-loss-fossil-fuel-pollutio...
1•bookofjoe•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fougere – Typescript backend framework, inside your app or on its own

https://github.com/chok/fougere
1•harchibald•5m ago•0 comments

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/were-missing-a-key-reason-why-americans
2•abe94•5m ago•0 comments

Feature flags with one Postgres table

https://mazeez.dev/posts/feature-flags/
3•mazeez•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bise – a multi-agent harness, made for humans

https://bise.dev/
2•gvergnaud•6m ago•0 comments

EL Negocio DE Las IA

1•donsolo•6m ago•0 comments

Venus' mysterious haze is cosmic dust

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/venus-mysterious-haze-is-actually-cosmic-dust/
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Latest Safari Blocks ID Resolution Services

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1•robflaherty•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Arrowproof – check an LLM-drawn architecture diagram against your code

https://github.com/ahmtsahin/arrowproof
1•impala64•7m ago•0 comments

Do not build the LLM torture factory

https://www.seangoedecke.com/do-not-build-the-llm-torture-factory/
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: dishlist – an iPhone app for foodie founders near Dogpatch

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dishlist-restaurant-dishes/id6790264813
1•coopers•8m ago•0 comments

Jev Decision Layer: Save Frontier Tokens on Closed Decisions

https://github.com/qualixar/jev-decision-layer
2•vpbhardwaj•9m ago•0 comments

The Dot and the Swarm

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-and-the-swarm
1•bluepeter•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I think the AI terminology needs a reset

2•ddaniel10•11m ago•0 comments

AI Agents Need an Undo Button

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/ai-agents-need-an-undo-button/
1•tradertanmay•11m ago•0 comments

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI–until now

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ai-finally-beat-the-best-stratego-player-in-history-and-d...
1•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

Hanami, Why?: Bits and Bobs

https://aaronmallen.me/writing/hanami-why-bits-bobs
1•aaronmallen•14m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk to advise Pentagon on future of war

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/01/elon-musk-return-his-attention-government-advi...
4•nothrowaways•15m ago•3 comments

A tool for checking noise near SF addresses

https://earshotsf.com
1•islgreen•16m ago•0 comments

Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/02/fortinet-sounds-the-alarm-over-actively-exploited...
2•sbulaev•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Game where you control a swarm

https://nohope.io
1•levmiseri•20m ago•0 comments

Local LLM Won't Stop Talking? It's Not the Model

https://www.nobodywho.ai/posts/when-chat-templates-go-wrong/
2•nikolovv•20m ago•0 comments

The things I wanted to make

https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/personal/phish/software/2026/10/02/the-things-i-wanted-to-ma...
2•azhenley•21m ago•0 comments

The Brain Sandwich

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/
1•matheusml•21m ago•0 comments

Can Jev be trusted when it is confident? Half a million API calls say not always

https://www.synthpop.ai/resources/does-a-decision-model-know-when-it-is-guessing-post-1
3•kumaranvpl•23m ago•0 comments

The x86 CPU: From 4004 to 486

https://pikuma.com/blog/history-of-x86-4004-to-486
3•ibobev•23m ago•0 comments

Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261001-57/?p=112747/
1•ibobev•23m ago•0 comments