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Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)

35•djoldman•1d ago

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user3939382•1h ago

Caall me nao babiez

DavidSJ•37m ago

The page states:

In late 2023, a Reddit user known as "evilscientist311" conducted a comprehensive analysis of Cleo's activity patterns and interactions with other Stack Exchange accounts.

However, I and others were on the scent at least as far back as April, 2023. See for example: https://x.com/TheDavidSJ/status/1650957407902658571

professorseth•6m ago

Edit the wiki and add it!

lelandfe•1m ago

Blew up on Reddit yesterday. Interesting comment:

> Wild to see a story I played a major part in on the front page… The first post outlining the theory and evidence was made by me a few years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wyzrji/comm...

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5

708•sfkgtbor•8h ago•349 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

840•muglug•5h ago•97 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...

81•pavel_lishin•2d ago•39 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)

35•djoldman•1d ago•4 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/

520•joshuawright11•8h ago•271 comments

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

https://bigwords.page/

382•SpeakingOfBrad•11h ago•113 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/

65•gumby•6h ago•25 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html

11•Muhammad523•2d ago•1 comments

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome

497•AshleysBrain•15h ago•325 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent

187•saikatsg•8h ago•86 comments

A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

https://carette.xyz/posts/minimal_swift_kernel_on_qemu/

32•surprisetalk•1d ago•5 comments

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

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/

111•speckx•8h ago•56 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

25•gumby•8h ago•3 comments

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

https://tidesdb.com/articles/tidesdb-now-available-for-mysql/

38•alexpadula•2d ago•16 comments

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

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261005-00/?p=112755/

45•ibobev•1d ago•16 comments

Brownian Motion

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/04/22/brownian-motion/

41•signa11•1d ago•2 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/

303•turrini•11h ago•58 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/

1240•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1412 comments

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144

262•nill0•11h ago•162 comments

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/

165•librasteve•13h ago•161 comments

How machines learned precision

https://glinscott.github.io/how-machines-learned-precision/

112•glinscott•1d ago•57 comments

Wood Tape (2004)

http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm

164•NaOH•1d ago•21 comments

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/

287•speckx•7h ago•284 comments

Anti-patterns in software blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/

215•ilreb•13h ago•121 comments

Google Playground: Create and play custom games

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/playground-experimental-gaming-platform/

123•acossta•14h ago•201 comments

Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

https://www.classaction.org/news/visa-mastercard-major-banks-facing-new-litigation-over-anticompe...

491•DeepLogin•11h ago•357 comments

SynthID Detector

https://synthid.com/

97•ilreb•12h ago•84 comments

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-seven-vices-of-highly-effective-victorians/

104•karakoram•11h ago•175 comments

The art of defusing a second world war bomb

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/06/it-could-knock-a-whole-street-down-th...

117•sandebert•23h ago•90 comments

God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

https://github.com/snuri00/psp-web-recomp

161•sn001•15h ago•88 comments