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A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-renaissance-gambling-dispute-spawned-probability-theory/
38•sohkamyung•2d ago

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skywal_l•1h ago
> a French gambler and intellectual socialite enlisted the help

Imagine Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat teaming together to solve your problem.

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

https://github.com/russellromney/honker
95•russellthehippo•3h ago•15 comments

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
669•bumbledraven•10h ago•335 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
1945•Kaibeezy•22h ago•649 comments

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/
265•tobr•2d ago•90 comments

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-p...
252•mentalgear•2h ago•67 comments

Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/10755/blogpost/124992/modern-board-games-and-why-you-should-play-them
31•maayank•2d ago•19 comments

A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-renaissance-gambling-dispute-spawned-probability...
38•sohkamyung•2d ago•1 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages...
711•cdrnsf•18h ago•174 comments

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)

https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/
60•tosh•5h ago•18 comments

Work with the garage door up

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up
42•jxmorris12•1d ago•34 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
809•danpinto•21h ago•236 comments

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring

https://jiga.io/about-us/
1•grmmph•2h ago

The Onion to Take over InfoWars

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
343•lxm•2d ago•139 comments

Isopods of the world

https://isopod.site/
68•debesyla•2d ago•31 comments

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
718•zdw•3d ago•146 comments

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
162•maxloh•12h ago•56 comments

The end of responsive images

https://piccalil.li/blog/the-end-of-responsive-images/
6•OuterVale•1h ago•2 comments

Raylib v6.0

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/6.0
68•rydgel•2h ago•3 comments

Our newsroom AI policy

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/
116•zdw•9h ago•83 comments

A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/
140•Prof_Sigmund•2d ago•24 comments

Spam in conversational replies to blog posts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/sneaky-spam-in-conversational-replies-to-blog-posts/
69•ColinWright•3h ago•49 comments

US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxd0xxp0jko
61•kaycebasques•1h ago•46 comments

Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary

https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
391•pella•21h ago•229 comments

An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road

https://bookdna.com/best-books/silk-road
54•bwb•2d ago•19 comments

Website streamed live directly from a model

https://flipbook.page/
353•sethbannon•20h ago•92 comments

Highlights from Git 2.54

https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/
75•ingve•2d ago•39 comments

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html
296•theorchid•22h ago•78 comments

Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-playe...
151•wslh•23h ago•214 comments

Parallel agents in Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents
257•ajeetdsouza•21h ago•140 comments

Books are not too expensive

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/no-books-are-not-remotely-too-expensive
87•herbertl•2d ago•104 comments