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Floats Don't Agree with Themselves

https://docs.merca.earth/blog/floats-dont-agree-with-themselves
20•cremer•1d ago

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adampunk•1d ago
Makes you wish everyone agreed on extended precision!
jmalicki•1d ago
I love seeing a Shewchuk citation other than my ML background of learning conjugate gradient! He is truly a great educator!
cremer•1d ago
his predicates paper opens with "Computational geometers despise floating-point arithmetic" same trick as the CG title: write the sentence a frustrated reader would write, then aren it.. if you like those the Triangle paper is the third one in the same key
stuaxo•35m ago
Not sure if this was written with AI assistance of not, but I've become allergic to linguistic triples as LLMs use them so much, reading "Same code. Same input. Different answer" makes me not want to read the rest.
jan_Inkepa•14m ago
a tricolon crescens ^^ https://latinaadvitam.blogspot.com/2007/02/poetry-device-of-...

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach
668•stefanpie•12h ago•409 comments

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/
785•PriorityLeft•14h ago•513 comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/
546•psxuaw•11h ago•294 comments

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
655•flipped•15h ago•265 comments

Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html
32•razorbeamz•3h ago•22 comments

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release
71•Borkdude•3h ago•21 comments

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/
659•speckx•20h ago•320 comments

The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs

https://sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation
21•FailMore•1d ago•8 comments

Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/
163•cemsakarya•1d ago•73 comments

A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings

https://ivanpleshkov.dev/blog/polynomial-autoencoder/
49•timvisee•2d ago•15 comments

Dithering with CSS

https://ikesau.co/blog/dithering-with-css/
19•speckx•3d ago•6 comments

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/
474•bsuh•18h ago•235 comments

Floats Don't Agree with Themselves

https://docs.merca.earth/blog/floats-dont-agree-with-themselves
20•cremer•1d ago•5 comments

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders
287•instagraham•16h ago•97 comments

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

https://github.com/antirez/ds4
402•tamnd•19h ago•114 comments

Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

https://github.com/graemeg/blaise
51•peter_d_sherman•6h ago•17 comments

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/
297•berlianta•19h ago•123 comments

Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard...
211•wslh•17h ago•183 comments

Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/singapore-caning-school-bullies
194•rustoo•2d ago•284 comments

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-hum...
108•hhs•11h ago•42 comments

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up
81•foltik•10h ago•37 comments

Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
203•HieronymusBosch•18h ago•94 comments

AI slop is killing online communities

https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
678•thm•16h ago•579 comments

Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066418/
35•signa11•6h ago•3 comments

How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device

https://zknill.io/posts/everyone-said-sse-token-streaming-was-easy/
34•zknill•1d ago•7 comments

Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/
102•jruohonen•15h ago•22 comments

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
633•jeromechoo•1d ago•308 comments

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-...
158•hhs•11h ago•53 comments

Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/from-ghost-particle-to-cosmic-messenger
34•LAsteNERD•1d ago•3 comments

I want to live like Costco people

https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/
296•speckx•19h ago•608 comments