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Cryptids

https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids
47•frozenseven•1w ago

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jmclnx•2h ago
Very nice, not what I expected and worth a read!
jbaber•2h ago
Your comment hinted I'd actually want to read it. Thanks!
echelon•49m ago
> Cryptids are Turing Machines whose behavior (when started on a blank tape) can be described completely by a relatively simple mathematical rule, but where that rule falls into a class of unsolved (and presumed hard) mathematical problems. This definition is somewhat subjective (What counts as a simple rule? What counts as a hard problem?). In practice, most currently known small Cryptids have Collatz-like behavior. In other words, the halting problem from blank tape of Cryptids is mathematically-hard.
tigereyeTO•40m ago
I had no idea what this was talking about and followed links to a blog post that explained the first one ("Bigfoot"): https://www.sligocki.com/2023/10/16/bb-3-3-is-hard.html

This blog post made the "cryptids" make a lot more sense to me, so I thought I'd share that post here in case others were also wondering "what the **"

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
89•tymscar•2h ago•38 comments

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39•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

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148•speckx•1d ago•91 comments

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43•Matrixik•1h ago•31 comments

Cryptids

https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids
47•frozenseven•1w ago•4 comments

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8•zknill•4d ago•2 comments

Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring

https://www.mvp.express/
76•mands•6d ago•27 comments

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21•nand2mario•3h ago•4 comments

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506•guiand•22h ago•260 comments

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1•jstreebin•2h ago

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128•simonw•2d ago•42 comments

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123•shinryuu•6d ago•27 comments

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Go Proposal: Secret Mode

https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
84•enz•3d ago•23 comments

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https://quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html
97•rundef•5d ago•50 comments

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

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66•bikenaga•2d ago•11 comments

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64•gaocegege•5d ago•10 comments

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16•phrasecode•5d ago•6 comments

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301•remywang•22h ago•70 comments

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62•selvan•5d ago•29 comments

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366•ano-ther•22h ago•136 comments

Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100

187•ggm•10h ago•49 comments

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514•simonw•19h ago•297 comments

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177•trj•20h ago•11 comments

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6•wozzio•3h ago•4 comments