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What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/whats-the-entropy-of-a-random-integer/
15•sebg•4d ago

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buredoranna•8m ago
one of my favorites

https://xkcd.com/221/

MIT Living Wage Calculator

https://livingwage.mit.edu/
41•bear_with_me•49m ago•10 comments

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
548•x01•6h ago•546 comments

Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock

https://github.com/jim11662418/ESP8266_WiFi_Analog_Clock
284•tokyobreakfast•4h ago•99 comments

Luce: First Electric Ferrari. Designed by LoveFrom

https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/auto/ferrari-luce
50•kaizenb•1h ago•36 comments

Why is the sky blue?

https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/
248•udit99•5h ago•87 comments

Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
104•aleyan•3h ago•145 comments

Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/gba-audio-interpolation/
37•ibobev•2h ago•5 comments

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript

https://codeberg.org/smnx/promethee
161•ananas-dev•6h ago•80 comments

Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM

https://defusedcyber.com/ivanti-epmm-sleeper-shells-403jsp
99•waihtis•5h ago•33 comments

The Markets of Old London (2024)

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/06/20/the-markets-of-old-london-i/
31•zeristor•2h ago•4 comments

Information Is Beautiful

https://informationisbeautiful.net/
66•surprisetalk•5d ago•5 comments

Thoughts on Generating C

https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c
163•ingve•6h ago•42 comments

The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/traffic-mimes-of-colombia
61•IgorPartola•4d ago•16 comments

Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth

https://alltheviews.world
323•tombh•10h ago•132 comments

Another GitHub outage in the same day

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
113•Nezteb•1h ago•83 comments

What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?

https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/whats-the-entropy-of-a-random-integer/
15•sebg•4d ago•1 comments

Sandboxels

https://neal.fun/sandboxels/
47•2sf5•5h ago•10 comments

Testing Ads in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
129•davidbarker•1h ago•155 comments

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

https://znah.net/graphs/
129•znah•1d ago•19 comments

Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-monks-wrote-over-a-copy-of-an-ancient-star-cat...
60•bookofjoe•5d ago•41 comments

Art of Roads in Games

https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games/
555•linolevan•23h ago•182 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

231•david927•1d ago•792 comments

An articulated archer automaton [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc0bIpDVEa8
6•Teever•1h ago•0 comments

GitHub is down again

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/54hndjxft5bx
402•MattIPv4•4h ago•361 comments

AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/senator-says-att-verizon-blocking-release-salt-typ...
224•redman25•6h ago•55 comments

Eddie Bauer, venerable outdoor apparel retailer, declares bankruptcy

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eddie-bauer-bankrupt-outdoor-apparel/
50•mgh2•2h ago•31 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
57•ibobev•6h ago•14 comments

Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/jnidzwetzki/pg-dev-container
8•mariuz•4d ago•2 comments

Nobody knows how the whole system works

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/nobody-knows-how-the-whole-system-works/
239•azhenley•15h ago•161 comments

Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000649
121•Brajeshwar•6h ago•49 comments