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From Pentagons to Pentagrams

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/from-pentagons-to-pentagrams/
13•surprisetalk•2d ago

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yepyoukno•1d ago
Great article on stellated forms! I almost missed it due to the subtle unintuitive title!
fbu•59m ago
The Great Dodecahedron is my favorite polyhedron, and it's possible to build one out of paper. Give it a try when you get a chance !

https://www.polyhedra.net/en/model.php?name-en=great-dodecah...

red_trumpet•11m ago
The fact that f(L^2) is positive can be seen without inspecting coordinates: after all it is the length of e_i', hence positive.

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep
277•reaperducer•10h ago•77 comments

DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260625-00/?p=112467
21•ibobev•2h ago•1 comments

Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
67•ludicrousdispla•7h ago•43 comments

OpenRA

https://www.openra.net/
751•tosh•1d ago•142 comments

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/main/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md
163•jakogut•11h ago•51 comments

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium
844•binyu•21h ago•328 comments

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

https://github.com/itsthelore/wayfinder-router
79•handfuloflight•7h ago•31 comments

More evidence of life on Mars but still no life

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/more-evidence-of-life-on-mars-but-still-no-life-1.7649645
9•pseudolus•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

https://decomp-academy.dev
144•jackpriceburns•11h ago•57 comments

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html
190•pawal•14h ago•68 comments

Engineering for Bounded Cognition

https://shapeofthesystem.com/posts/2026/02/03/bounded-cognition
64•supermatt•1d ago•11 comments

Fintech Engineering Handbook

https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/
597•signa11•1d ago•183 comments

A stray "j" ruined my evening

https://napkins.mtmn.name/posts/stray-jay.html
24•birdculture•4d ago•12 comments

Reflecting to optimise

https://magnusross.github.io/posts/reflecting-to-optimise/
29•magni121•1d ago•2 comments

Instantiating UI Components with Distinguishing Variations [pdf]

https://static.barik.net/barik/publications/chi2026/vaithilingam_celestial_chi26.pdf
4•azhenley•4d ago•0 comments

From Hallmark to neon signs: A look at Jim Parkinson's career in letter art

https://typographica.org/on-typography/jim-parkinson-1941-2025/
12•whiteblossom•1d ago•0 comments

Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

https://californiasciencecenter.org/about-us/samuel-oschin-air-and-space-center/go-for-stack
71•uticus•1d ago•13 comments

Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/23/regex-everywhere/
68•ColinWright•3d ago•25 comments

WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

https://clickhouse.com/blog/walrus-postgres-backups-in-rust
90•saisrirampur•12h ago•5 comments

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

https://cauenapier.com/blog/townsquare_release/
257•eustoria•19h ago•110 comments

AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design
245•Brajeshwar•3d ago•158 comments

Experimenting with Random() in CSS

https://polypane.app/blog/experimenting-with-random-in-css/
20•kilian•3d ago•6 comments

The case for physical media ownership

https://dervis.de/physical/
452•cemdervis•1d ago•309 comments

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X26000476
211•bushwart•3d ago•129 comments

From Pentagons to Pentagrams

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/from-pentagons-to-pentagrams/
13•surprisetalk•2d ago•3 comments

The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams

https://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chief
274•herbertl•10h ago•151 comments

Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
249•tosh•22h ago•85 comments

Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022)

https://the.scapegoat.dev/turning-music-into-a-chore-is-what-made-me-an-artist/
51•herbertl•11h ago•17 comments

Enhancing x11 Application Security with LXC (2025)

https://dobrowolski.dev/article/enhancing-x11-application-security-with-lxc/
71•shirozuki•14h ago•45 comments

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-expor...
250•bogdiyan•23h ago•180 comments