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Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
10•networked•1h ago

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lubujackson•48m ago
Surprisingly deep and seems quite in line with the underlying concept of Zen gardens.

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
195•rdmuser•2h ago•88 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
299•Philpax•5h ago•77 comments

Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
69•jgx0•2h ago•46 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
105•ishan0102•3h ago•30 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
92•E-Reverance•4h ago•13 comments

AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment

https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551
21•bryan0•1h ago•11 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
43•ibobev•2h ago•6 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
197•outlier99•4h ago•152 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
28•ibobev•2h ago•3 comments

Worth Building

https://armstr.ng/writing/worth-building
32•colinarms•2h ago•19 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
10•networked•1h ago•1 comments

Is mathematics over, or just graduating?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTSh-pyNP3Gi99WMmsinnLmE9V5CDI0HEm6WGbIPMNt3V5SGlClHF...
27•nvtop•13h ago•28 comments

An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
16•leecoursey•2d ago•0 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
479•tosh•14h ago•221 comments

Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort

https://smyck.net/2026/10/03/holocron-the-backup-of-last-resort/
58•hukl•1d ago•57 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
113•vinhnx•2d ago•24 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
27•greyface-•1d ago•2 comments

Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning

https://almostimplemented.github.io/jazz-pianist-style/
12•ishan0102•2h ago•1 comments

Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf]

https://nivdayan.github.io/dostoevsky.pdf
15•ibobev•2h ago•0 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
28•walrus01•1d ago•5 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
530•emptybits•19h ago•451 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
10•stratts•2h ago•7 comments

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/
78•01-_-•3h ago•6 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
130•Vosporos•10h ago•32 comments

The Future of Mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/
94•smilelamp•5h ago•50 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
125•farslan•11h ago•63 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
201•maguay•15h ago•182 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
94•mkornaukhov•11h ago•21 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
175•0xedb•17h ago•115 comments

The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
64•rbanffy•4d ago•58 comments