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Conway's Game of Life, in real life

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/conways-game-of-life-in-real-life
29•surprisetalk•2h ago

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vunderba•1h ago
Nice. A friend of mine just picked up a Linnstrument, and I’m very tempted to create a Conway’s Game of Life-based musical visualization for it.

https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument

fwipsy•26m ago
I don't want to build this or pay for it, but I really want to mess with it for an hour.
PetitPrince•4m ago
My Alma matter has a jumbo version of this, in which the game if life is one of several available mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWall

A sufficiently detailed spec is code

https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-spec-is-code
183•signa11•4h ago•73 comments

Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code

https://rjcorwin.github.io/cook/
131•staticvar•4h ago•27 comments

Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe

https://gitlab.com/IsolatedOctopi/nvidia_greenboost
252•mmastrac•3d ago•50 comments

Warranty Void If Regenerated

https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
279•Stwerner•10h ago•158 comments

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/18/austins-surge-of-new-housing-con...
465•matthest•6h ago•509 comments

OpenRocket

https://openrocket.info/
491•zeristor•3d ago•89 comments

Conway's Game of Life, in real life

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/conways-game-of-life-in-real-life
29•surprisetalk•2h ago•3 comments

Autoresearch for SAT Solvers

https://github.com/iliazintchenko/agent-sat
93•chaisan•6h ago•19 comments

Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html
911•vismit2000•20h ago•429 comments

We Have Learned Nothing

https://colossus.com/article/we-have-learned-nothing-startup-pundits/
29•lukestevens•3h ago•7 comments

LotusNotes

https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusnotes.html
42•TMWNN•3d ago•17 comments

RX – a new random-access JSON alternative

https://github.com/creationix/rx
59•creationix•6h ago•20 comments

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

https://susam.net/wander/
250•susam•23h ago•65 comments

Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-czech-man-used-this-stone-in-his-barns-foundations-it...
36•bookofjoe•2d ago•4 comments

Nvidia NemoClaw

https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw
285•hmokiguess•15h ago•203 comments

What 81,000 people want from AI

https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews
64•dsr12•1h ago•41 comments

Framework doesn't matter

https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/02/19/your-framework-may-not-matter/
11•zdw•4d ago•0 comments

The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-explains-why-bell-curves-are-everywhere-20260316/
99•ibobev•2d ago•60 comments

Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149

https://cyberinsider.com/mozilla-to-launch-free-built-in-vpn-in-upcoming-firefox-149/
63•adrianwaj•3h ago•34 comments

Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

213•bblcla•13h ago•274 comments

Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste

https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg-backgrounds-and-patterns/
231•visiwig•14h ago•49 comments

Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks

https://mlbenchmarks.org/00-preface.html
111•jxmorris12•4d ago•6 comments

An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn

https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-03-15-uxn/
26•dcre•3d ago•5 comments

Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps

https://borderhold.io/play
15•sgolem•2d ago•10 comments

CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2026/03/17/cve-2026-3888-important-snap-f...
120•askl•15h ago•69 comments

What’s on HTTP?

https://whatsonhttp.com/
52•elixx•8h ago•24 comments

OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

https://om.co/2026/03/17/openai-has-new-focus-on-the-ipo/
205•aamederen•19h ago•172 comments

Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends

https://github.com/ndroo/freeciv.andrewmcgrath.info
69•verelo•11h ago•29 comments

Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol
168•bpierre•15h ago•71 comments

Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m

https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news
356•tamnd•4d ago•143 comments