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No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html
14•signa11•1d ago

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j16sdiz•20m ago
yes. that's why many number crunching app ships / vendors their own math library

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
184•royfish•6h ago•81 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
420•jttnr•10h ago•179 comments

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography
98•cainxinth•4h ago•47 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
37•subset•1d ago•1 comments

Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
214•edent•8h ago•39 comments

Tattoos you can turn on and off

https://www.livescience.com/technology/cool-chemistry-trick-allows-new-tattoos-to-turn-on-and-off
39•MortyDev•7h ago•11 comments

Doory – Open-Source Canva

https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
39•acley•3h ago•3 comments

No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html
14•signa11•1d ago•1 comments

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
334•albertzeyer•8h ago•502 comments

Illustration Beyond Proof

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/illustration-beyond-proof/
47•smilelamp•5h ago•0 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
350•Anon84•15h ago•396 comments

Vectorized CLZ and CTZ

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/vectorized-clz-and-ctz/
27•zX41ZdbW•1d ago•3 comments

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/google-datacentres-finland-temporary-halt-envi...
268•heyimada•6h ago•71 comments

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/
44•TedHaley•4h ago•8 comments

Passkeys are a trap

https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
403•laurex•6h ago•229 comments

Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)

https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1
93•rafael859•10h ago•14 comments

Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos

https://www.cell.com/matter-light/fulltext/S3117-5848(26)00119-5
35•Bluestein•19h ago•4 comments

So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion?

https://theonion.com/archivehunt/
281•mooreds•9h ago•39 comments

Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence

https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/
84•hardmaru•6h ago•44 comments

I guess I'm using WebP now?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/08/i-guess-im-using-webp-now
94•Brajeshwar•2d ago•95 comments

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel
402•gregsadetsky•10h ago•197 comments

500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter

https://momo5502.com/posts/2026-10-09-game-decompilation/
186•davikr•1d ago•134 comments

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

https://betterwispr.com/
178•kartik017•16h ago•103 comments

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw
75•tosh•11h ago•16 comments

FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE

https://tommyb3ll.github.io/FlowCE/
40•jgx0•1d ago•20 comments

HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo

https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary
57•vmatsiiako•4h ago•12 comments

ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol

https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-c
21•saisrirampur•5h ago•1 comments

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
151•verdagon•16h ago•80 comments

Shredding JSON columns gave Logfire up to 1000x faster queries

https://pydantic.dev/articles/dynamic-shredding-2026-01-26
13•acossta•6h ago•8 comments

Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside

https://shnatsel.github.io/safe-simd-in-rust-even-on-the-inside/
51•ravenical•1d ago•2 comments