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Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser

https://pavel-krivanek.github.io/The-Analog-Thing-Simulator/public/
12•adamnemecek•2d ago

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sans_souse•43m ago
This is so rad!

“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
197•ent101•2h ago•120 comments

People Holding Up the Internet

https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet
40•simjue•34m ago•7 comments

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
823•sfkgtbor•13h ago•403 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html
152•Muhammad523•2d ago•31 comments

A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew

https://github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew
62•cachebag•3h ago•38 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
1278•muglug•10h ago•142 comments

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image...
146•pavel_lishin•2d ago•54 comments

The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
39•shahidhussain•3d ago•17 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
130•gumby•11h ago•56 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)
125•djoldman•1d ago•22 comments

Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser

https://pavel-krivanek.github.io/The-Analog-Thing-Simulator/public/
12•adamnemecek•2d ago•1 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
593•joshuawright11•13h ago•304 comments

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome
537•AshleysBrain•19h ago•352 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/
464•SpeakingOfBrad•15h ago•131 comments

In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
85•gumby•13h ago•12 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
218•saikatsg•13h ago•103 comments

A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

https://carette.xyz/posts/minimal_swift_kernel_on_qemu/
63•surprisetalk•1d ago•10 comments

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/
140•speckx•12h ago•65 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1273•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1441 comments

ENIAC Programmers (2011)

https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html
13•adunk•2d ago•0 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
339•turrini•16h ago•61 comments

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
293•nill0•15h ago•181 comments

How machines learned precision

https://glinscott.github.io/how-machines-learned-precision/
149•glinscott•1d ago•61 comments

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/
195•librasteve•18h ago•182 comments

Anti-patterns in software blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/
264•ilreb•18h ago•135 comments

Brownian Motion

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/04/22/brownian-motion/
57•signa11•1d ago•8 comments

A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here

https://tidesdb.com/articles/tidesdb-now-available-for-mysql/
55•alexpadula•2d ago•23 comments

If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261005-00/?p=112755/
55•ibobev•1d ago•25 comments

Wood Tape (2004)

http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm
180•NaOH•2d ago•27 comments

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-seven-vices-of-highly-effective-victorians/
138•karakoram•16h ago•225 comments