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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
359•nar001•3h ago•177 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
92•bookofjoe•1h ago•79 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
411•theblazehen•2d ago•151 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
77•AlexeyBrin•4h ago•15 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
10•thelok•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
767•klaussilveira•19h ago•240 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
33•samasblack•1h ago•18 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
49•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
25•vinhnx•2h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1019•xnx•1d ago•580 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
155•alainrk•4h ago•190 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
158•jesperordrup•9h ago•56 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
8•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
16•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
10•mellosouls•2h ago•8 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
102•videotopia•4d ago•26 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
7•simonw•1h ago•1 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•41 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
260•isitcontent•19h ago•33 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
34•matt_d•4d ago•9 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
273•dmpetrov•19h ago•145 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
15•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjg98vmzjo
98•tartoran•1h ago•25 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
544•todsacerdoti•1d ago•262 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
415•ostacke•1d ago•108 comments

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

https://vecti.com
361•vecti•21h ago•161 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
61•helloplanets•4d ago•64 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
332•eljojo•22h ago•205 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
456•lstoll•1d ago•298 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
370•aktau•1d ago•194 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.