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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
99•theblazehen•2d ago•22 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
654•klaussilveira•13h ago•189 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
944•xnx•19h ago•549 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
119•matheusalmeida•2d ago•29 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
38•helloplanets•4d ago•38 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
47•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
227•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
13•kaonwarb•3d ago•17 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
219•dmpetrov•14h ago•113 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
327•vecti•16h ago•143 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
378•ostacke•19h ago•94 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
487•todsacerdoti•21h ago•240 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•20h ago•181 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
285•eljojo•16h ago•167 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
409•lstoll•20h ago•275 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
21•jesperordrup•3h ago•12 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
87•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
59•kmm•5d ago•4 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
3•speckx•3d ago•2 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
31•romes•4d ago•3 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
250•i5heu•16h ago•194 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
15•bikenaga•3d ago•3 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
56•gfortaine•11h ago•23 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1062•cdrnsf•23h ago•443 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
143•SerCe•9h ago•133 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
180•limoce•3d ago•97 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
287•surprisetalk•3d ago•41 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
147•vmatsiiako•18h ago•67 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
72•phreda4•13h ago•14 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
29•gmays•9h ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

Sangaku Puzzle I Can't Solve

https://samjshah.com/2025/08/05/sangaku-puzzle-i-cant-solve/
41•speckx•4mo ago

Comments

shiandow•4mo ago
I knew inversion must have had something to do with it. Seeing it spelled out like that makes it pretty clear.

Sending the point where all three outer circles meet to infinity you get two parallel lines (they only touch at infinity) and one orthogonal line since inversion preserves angles and it's clear that the two semicircles are orthogonal. Then you are left with two circles that meet all three lines and it becomes easy to figure out their exact position and radius.

Sadly that is where my knowledge of inversion stops, but if I had to I suppose I could reconstruct the equations from first principles.

jansan•4mo ago
What is the green line in the large diagram? I am pretty sure it does not go through the touch point of the small circle and the large one with the center at bottom left. And the pink line seems to be wrong too. Don't they all (green, pink and light blue) have to go through the small circle's center?

If you know that the lines must go through the small circle's center, it becomes a fairly simple geometrical problem with three Pythagorean equations and three variables (x, y, r).

yorwba•4mo ago
The green line is the x=y diagonal. My guess is that the author tried to eyeball the diagram by moving the points G, H, I around on their respective circles, but when the point I was close to the diagonal, it got snapped to this position, which means that the circle through the three points isn't exactly tangent to the other three circles.

It's basically the equivalent of a rough sketch on paper, not an exact construction.

rossant•4mo ago
My grandpa used to refer to these types of problems as grandpa's geometry.
smokel•4mo ago
If you like this kind of thing, have a look at Project Euler, especially problem 143, "Torricelli Triangles".

https://projecteuler.net/problem=143

JKCalhoun•4mo ago
Some funniness in here.

"Anyway, I’m not going to let him Liebniz my Newton here."

I like the idea of a whole series of Sangaku puzzles done in stained glass (but, yeah, these mathematicians need to refine their stained glass skills — I suggest trying to make the next piece 2 × s). I propose that the element you are trying to find an answer for (here, the small circle here whose radius is a mystery) be the only element in color in order to draw attention to the unknown. (I can already see a small red circle floating in a sea of white shards … not unlike the Japanese flag I suppose if the flag were square.)

alyxya•4mo ago
Here's how I solved it:

Let the square be a unit square with vertices at (0, 0), (1, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1), and let the center of the small circle be (x, y) and the radius be r. Each of the 3 circular arcs can be used to form an equation relating to the distance from the centers of the circular arcs to the center of the small circle:

(0.5 - x)^2 + y^2 = (0.5 + r)^2

x^2 + (y - 0.5)^2 = (0.5 - r)^2

(1 - x)^2 + y^2 = (1 - r)^2

These equations can be rewritten as:

x^2 + y^2 - r^2 = r + x

x^2 + y^2 - r^2 = y - r

x^2 + y^2 - r^2 = 2x - 2r

Equating the linear expressions on the right sides of those equations gives x = 3r and y = 5r, and substituting this into the quadratic expression gives 33r^2 = 4r.