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Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4074962/foreign-hackers-breached-a-us-nuclear-weapons-plant-via...
108•zdw•2h ago•27 comments

Fallout from the AWS Outage: Smart Mattresses Go Rogue and Ruin Sleep Worldwide

https://quasa.io/media/the-strangest-fallout-from-the-aws-outage-smart-mattresses-go-rogue-and-ru...
155•jerlam•1h ago•144 comments

The Greatness of Text Adventures

https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures
49•ibobev•1h ago•27 comments

Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs

https://kyutai.org/next/codec-explainer
232•karimf•5h ago•72 comments

LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"

https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/
123•tamnd•3h ago•64 comments

The Programmer Identity Crisis

https://hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis/
39•imasl42•1h ago•38 comments

ChatGPT Atlas

https://chatgpt.com/atlas
203•easton•58m ago•215 comments

StarGrid: A Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025

https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2025-10-21-stargrid-has-arrived,-a-brand-new-palm-os...
157•capitain•6h ago•28 comments

Flexport Is Hiring SDRs in Chicago

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/5690976?gh_jid=5690976
1•thedogeye•1h ago

Public trust demands open-source voting systems

https://www.voting.works/news/public-trust-demands-open-source-voting-systems
142•philips•2h ago•110 comments

Build Your Own Database

https://www.nan.fyi/database
27•nansdotio•1h ago•2 comments

Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust

https://github.com/bilinearlabs/rs-merkle-tree
83•bibiver•5h ago•21 comments

Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI

https://asciinema.org/a/Lbxa2w9R5IbaJqW3INqVrbX8E
80•rickcarlino•5h ago•26 comments

Katakate: Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec: K8s+Kata+Firecracker

https://github.com/Katakate/k7
36•gbxk•2h ago•14 comments

Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/apple-alerts-exploit-developer-that-his-iphone-was-targeted-wit...
114•speckx•2h ago•56 comments

Diamond Thermal Conductivity: A New Era in Chip Cooling

https://spectrum.ieee.org/diamond-thermal-conductivity
108•rbanffy•7h ago•30 comments

Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage

75•kinj28•2h ago•18 comments

AI Is Making Us Work More

https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/ai-work-more
153•elcapithanos•2h ago•170 comments

AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020
2180•kondro•1d ago•1973 comments

The Emulator's Gambit: Executing Code from Non-Executable Memory

https://redops.at/en/blog/the-emulators-gambit-executing-code-from-non-executable-memory
12•thewavelength•4d ago•6 comments

Do not accept terms and conditions- the game

https://www.termsandconditions.game/
11•halflife•3d ago•7 comments

UA 1093

https://windbornesystems.com/blog/ua-1093
177•c420•4h ago•76 comments

Language Support for Marginalia Search

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_126_multilingual/
151•Bogdanp•11h ago•12 comments

Binary Retrieval-Augmented Reward Mitigates Hallucinations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17733
9•MarlonPro•2h ago•0 comments

RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers

https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/
29•shortformblog•3h ago•21 comments

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect
329•snthd•1w ago•142 comments

Weekend projects: Chicken Squisher 3000

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/weekend-projects-chicken-squisher
50•robinhouston•1w ago•9 comments

Quantum dynamics on your laptop? New technique moves us closer

https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2025/10/quantum-dynamics-on-your-laptop.html
53•ceolin•1w ago•16 comments

Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia

https://detective.wiki/
276•jasonsmiles•4d ago•41 comments

Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor

https://github.com/pleumann/pasta80
102•mariuz•10h ago•17 comments
Open in hackernews

Calendar Puzzle "Rhombus"

https://praxispuzzles.com/calendar_puzzle_rhombus
52•xyzzy_plugh•1w ago

Comments

rawling•1w ago
Have they made it so impossible dates are impossible, I wonder?
xyzzy_plugh•1w ago
Doesn't seem like it. Using the interactive board on the website I was able to produce a solution that only revealed numbers.
peterpuzzle•8h ago
Creator here. No, you can arrange the puzzle pieces to make dates that don't exist, like Monday February 31. Actually there may be "impossible" dates, because I didn't check for them, but I guess all combinations of days of the week, day of the month and month are possible. And also many non-dates, like 1, 2, 3. But good point: alle possible dates have at least 1 solution. Disclaimer: I sell these puzzles for a little more than the raw material.
seanhunter•6h ago
Looks like a really nice puzzle. Congrats.
legedemon•6h ago
Great puzzle. Do you ship internationally?
yapyap•5h ago
not OP but yes
slig•6h ago
So nice! Do you create them entirely algorithmically, or do you use the solver just to verify that every date is possible?
peterpuzzle•5h ago
I wrote 2 solvers in Python. One that loops through all possible dates and searches for a solution. And one that loops through all solutions and checks if they form a date or not. And luckily both gave the same answers.
drivebyhooting•2h ago
How did you select the piece shapes to ensure there was always a solution?
peterpuzzle•1h ago
Actually I tried a lot of different combinations of piece shapes to find the "hardest" set of pieces that can still solve all possible dates. "Hard" is subjective, but I mean pieces with multiple protrusions.
zvr•5h ago
I have the "A Puzzle A Day" https://www.dragonfjord.com/product/a-puzzle-a-day/ since a few years and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.

All dates are possible and most (all?) have multiple solutions.

spencerflem•2h ago
Was just about to link to this one!
Y_Y•5h ago
Those particular rhombuses are typically known as "squares"
dfee•2h ago
I thought the same thing, but it seems that certain dates would make it so there is one square ("rhombus") and one (non-square) rectangle (e.g. Feb 15).

So rather than 3 rhombuses – or 3 squares – perhaps it's 3 squares of 1 square and 1 rectangle. (Perhaps the positions of the puzzle pieces make it such that it truly is 3 squares)!

RyanOD•1h ago
Announcing new Diamond Shreddies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bccNH82DIo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_2yHXD_CU

(and...neat puzzle...nice job, creator!)

ky_vulnerable•4h ago
That's really creative. Did the creator come up with the design himself?
seszett•3h ago
Nice, but it's only available in English sadly, there's a link that says "see kalenderpuzzel "Ruit" for the Dutch version" (I'd prefer French but Dutch would do as well) but that page says "De maanden en dagen van de week zijn in het Engels".

The "square" one is in Dutch but sold out and the Rotterdam one in English only.

But I like that idea, apparently it's not the first puzzle of this kind but I didn't know about them.

nonethewiser•2h ago
Seems pretty hard! Even the easy example.
racl101•2h ago
Ooh, nice white elephant gift idea for work. I never know what to give.