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John Ternus to become Apple CEO

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to...
1732•schappim•11h ago•881 comments

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again

https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic
159•jmsflknr•4h ago•87 comments

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform

https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-plat...
134•bishwasbh•4h ago•56 comments

Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/62176/r-i-p-louis-zocchi-the-godfather-dice
30•sgbeal•2h ago•7 comments

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

https://longwoodgardens.org/blog/2023-05-17/beauty-bonsai-styles
53•lagniappe•4h ago•14 comments

How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter

https://zef-lang.dev/implementation
158•pizlonator•7h ago•21 comments

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely

https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gives-salmon-wanderlust
17•1659447091•3h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness

https://mediator.ai/
53•sanity•17h ago•26 comments

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview
618•mfiguiere•18h ago•326 comments

How a subsea cable is repaired

https://www.onesteppower.com/post/subsea-cable-repair
60•slicktux•4d ago•12 comments

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier
253•Alifatisk•13h ago•21 comments

Types and Neural Networks

https://www.brunogavranovic.com/posts/2026-04-20-types-and-neural-networks.html
13•bgavran•2h ago•2 comments

A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection

https://aadamjacobscollection.org/
11•wise_blood•2h ago•1 comments

Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prediction-markets-are-breaking-the-news-and-becoming-their-own...
38•gnabgib•6h ago•39 comments

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
220•icorbrey•11h ago•104 comments

Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits

https://prismml.com/news/ternary-bonsai
140•nnx•3d ago•40 comments

Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee

https://www.timdavis.com/blog/probabilistic-engineering-and-the-24-7-employee
31•kiyanwang•1d ago•12 comments

Air is full of DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2
87•howrude•2d ago•18 comments

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/
408•thomasp85•19h ago•80 comments

Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blossom-database-scientist.html
96•caycep•3d ago•11 comments

Using Changesets in a polyglot monorepo

https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/changesets-polyglot-monorepo/
7•lwhsiao•2h ago•3 comments

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/
219•hasheddan•15h ago•78 comments

Monero Community Crowdfunding System

https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/
89•OsrsNeedsf2P•11h ago•52 comments

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-min...
215•axbyte•23h ago•108 comments

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64

https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64
122•adunk•12h ago•31 comments

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-an...
1215•ramonga•18h ago•1005 comments

Modern Rendering Culling Techniques

https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/
141•krupitskas•2d ago•33 comments

Corner-Case RCU Implementations

https://people.kernel.org/paulmck/stupid-rcu-tricks-corner-case-rcu-implementations
6•luu•1d ago•1 comments

Kefir C17/C23 Compiler

https://sr.ht/~jprotopopov/kefir/
149•conductor•3d ago•14 comments

WebUSB Extension for Firefox

https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb
239•tuananh•20h ago•207 comments
Open in hackernews

Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/62176/r-i-p-louis-zocchi-the-godfather-dice
29•sgbeal•2h ago

Comments

guyzero•1h ago
More than just the d100 he was a pioneer of being very exacting when it came to making polyhedral dice. See http://www.1000d4.com/2013/02/14/how-true-are-your-d20s/
sgbeal•1h ago
> More than just the d100 he was a pioneer of being very exacting when it came to making polyhedral dice.

Absolutely, but i couldn't fit all of that into the subject line ;) and he's best known for the d100. Many of us remember the articles and ads from the 1980s describing the effort he put into that particular die.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF•1h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zocchihedron

I didn't see a picture of Zocchi's d100, Wikipedia has one

pcblues•28m ago
Interesting they had to redistribute the numbers to take account of its natural bias.
pcblues•28m ago
I just throw 17d6 and subtract 2.

Problem solved.

(I am joking!)

benj111•21m ago
I've never played any games that require this, but the Wikipedia page makes reference to percentage rolls, but wouldn't you need 101 sides to get 0% and 100% for that?
sgbeal•15m ago
> but wouldn't you need 101 sides to get 0% and 100% for that?

There is no 0% in d100/d-percentile roles. Every "how to interpret these dice" paragraph in games which use them will tell you to interpret 0-0 on 2d10 as 100, not 0. Or, hypothetically (but i don't recall having ever seen this), they'll have a stated range of 0 to 99 (inclusive). Either way, the numeric range spans precisely 100 digits.