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Show HN: How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date

https://tinkerandsee.com/weekday/
52•yang140•13h ago

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seanhunter•11h ago
It's pretty bad form to give the doomsday algorithm and not give credit to John H. Conway who invented it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
atestu•11h ago
He’s well credited in the article…
seanhunter•10h ago
Pretty sure he was not when I posted my comment. It currently says "more on him at the end" and that bit seems not to have been written yet. Also there are two mathematicians called "John Conway" so it's good form to say "John H Conway".
yang140•9h ago
Author here, good call! I credit Conway in the center of the article, the content for "more on him at the end" was hidden after reader finish the challenge in part 6. I guess it worth to show it by default, updated already.

I'd also need to thanks for Dr. Arthur Benjamin. I saw his "That math show" with my 9 years old where he introduced this Doomsday rule, I thought it was really cool and try to create some interactive tutorial for it. Would love to see if this can help other kids or adults https://www.thatmathshow.com/

anas008•6h ago
he did
zeech•7h ago
Cool site! When I do this trick I prefer using Bob Goddard's 'first Sunday' method [0]. It minimises the number of operations you need to do and makes it so you only need to keep track of one running total.

[0] https://firstsundaydoomsday.blogspot.com/2009/12/quick-start...

navaed01•5h ago
V. Cool - thank you for building and sharing
mattdeboard•3h ago
This is amazing! What a cool website.
_dark_matter_•2h ago
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mrheosuper•24m ago
>The trick = nearest squad date → leftover → walk from the Doomsday.

When i do the 31/OCT, the solution show 10/10 as nearest squadday, i though 11/7 is the nearest ?

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm
322•K7PJP•6h ago•78 comments

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
782•tosh•13h ago•529 comments

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/
618•ComputerGuru•13h ago•243 comments

Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents

https://www.laude.org/updates/headlong-a-microharness-for-persistent-agents
12•lbw1215•55m ago•4 comments

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html
54•gmays•3h ago•52 comments

Moon (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/
127•simonebrunozzi•6h ago•20 comments

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
1140•l-one-lone•15h ago•679 comments

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://sf.thijs.gg/
395•centrosphere•11h ago•130 comments

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf
63•arbayi•5h ago•24 comments

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/
43•neom•3h ago•44 comments

Nostr is an inclusive communication commons

https://nostr.org/
47•Bluestein•2d ago•4 comments

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/
192•herbertl•11h ago•409 comments

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

https://tarjan.itch.io/thoreaubasic
22•Gorsefound•1d ago•7 comments

Ox-Alpha Is GLM?

https://dejan.ai/blog/ox-alpha/
35•jitbit•12h ago•11 comments

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32•subset•14h ago•0 comments

Training AI to Paint with Code

https://surya.website/rling-qwen-to-paint-with-code
47•Tiberium•1d ago•5 comments

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/
196•inputmice•12h ago•91 comments

What's new in Emacs 31.1

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-311
60•geospeck•15h ago•9 comments

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/
70•signor_bosco•7h ago•16 comments

Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

https://github.com/tobi/walgit
45•matallo•14h ago•6 comments

Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3

https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2
32•ovenpasta•12h ago•14 comments

Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2026/august/thomson-reuters-leverages-its-world-...
49•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•15 comments

Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-are-some-octopuses-so-smart-the-answer-might-lie-in...
111•bookofjoe•10h ago•86 comments

Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?

10•foota•1h ago•2 comments

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-their-host-machines-by-exploiting-inference-engines
113•zdw•9h ago•58 comments

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344538
113•brandonb•14h ago•68 comments

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4
1•adawg4•10h ago

Oceans hit highest temperature on record

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o
464•tcp_handshaker•9h ago•376 comments

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

https://proofcraft.systems/news-2026/#2026-08-21
176•snvzz•17h ago•38 comments

Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/08/could-we-dredge-the-netherlands-without-fossil-fuels
43•at1as•13h ago•48 comments