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AV1: A Modern, Open Codec

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80
293•CharlesW•6h ago•132 comments

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive

https://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineerin...
150•mikelabatt•5h ago•109 comments

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-i-have-been-writing-a-niche-history
41•benbreen•11h ago•9 comments

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/
118•spartanatreyu•6h ago•17 comments

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/after-40-years-of-adventure-games-ron-gilbert-pivots-to-ou...
28•mikhael•3d ago•9 comments

Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void

https://askmike.org/articles/blogging-in-2025-screaming-into-the-void/
29•askmike•3h ago•16 comments

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards

https://blog.neurips.cc/2025/11/26/announcing-the-neurips-2025-best-paper-awards/
68•ivansavz•5h ago•9 comments

Netflix in exclusive talks to buy HBO

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/media/netflix-paramount-wbd-bidding-war-warner-bros-discovery
45•mikeweiss•1h ago•32 comments

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai
162•anjneymidha•7h ago•61 comments

Fast trigram based code search

https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt
14•cv_h•2h ago•0 comments

CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/CUDA-L2
97•dzign•9h ago•11 comments

Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rats-are-snatching-bats-out-of-the-air-and-eating-them-...
6•bookofjoe•1h ago•0 comments

Multivox: Volumetric Display

https://github.com/AncientJames/multivox
256•jk_tech•13h ago•34 comments

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again

https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/04/the-ofcom-files-part-4-ofcom-rides-again/
60•parliament32•5h ago•16 comments

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership

https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership
399•ibobev•16h ago•190 comments

CSS now has an if() conditional function

https://caniuse.com/?search=if
82•aanthonymax•5d ago•30 comments

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5633444/trump-content-moderation-visas-censorship
37•seattle_spring•1h ago•11 comments

StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels

https://github.com/StardustOS
53•transpute•7h ago•2 comments

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
532•50kIters•21h ago•518 comments

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/
578•delichon•12h ago•809 comments

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/
289•yurivish•8h ago•325 comments

What's the Deal with Euler's Identity?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-eulers-identity
7•surprisetalk•5d ago•4 comments

Fighting the age-gated internet

https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/
199•geox•16h ago•180 comments

Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later

https://onlyrecipeapp.com/?url=https://www.allrecipes.com/turkish-pasta-recipe-8754903
149•AwkwardPanda•15h ago•126 comments

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
449•todsacerdoti•18h ago•211 comments

Django 6

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/releases/6.0/
285•wilhelmklopp•9h ago•130 comments

PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners

https://github.com/SJRiz/pytogether
78•indigodaddy•12h ago•20 comments

Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing

https://www.browserbuddy.com/
40•alien0006•13h ago•29 comments

What is better: a lookup table or an enum type?

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/lookup-table-or-enum-type/
24•todsacerdoti•6h ago•9 comments

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

https://www.aitradearena.com/research/we-ran-llms-for-8-months
221•cheeseblubber•7h ago•182 comments
Open in hackernews

What's the Deal with Euler's Identity?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/whats-the-deal-with-eulers-identity
7•surprisetalk•5d ago

Comments

xeonmc•43m ago
Never liked that form of the Euler's formula. I prefer the following:

    (-1)ˣ = cos(πx) + i sin(πx)
badlibrarian•18m ago
That's not the point of the Identity. You exponentiated the beauty right out of it.
rmunn•29m ago
Personally, I prefer the version with tau (2 times pi) in it rather than the one with pi:

e^(i*tau) = 1

I won't reproduce https://www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto here, but I'll just mention one part of it. I very much prefer doing radian math using tau rather than pi: tau/4 radians is just one-fourth of a "turn", one-fourth of the way around the circle, i.e. 90°. Which is a lot easier to remember than pi/2, and would have made high-school trig so much easier for me. (I never had trouble with radians, and even so I would have had a much easier time grasping them had I been taught them using tau rather than pi as the key value).

badlibrarian•20m ago
Which would be e^(i*tau) - 1 = 0 if you wanted to honor the spirit of the Identity.