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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

(www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/)

411 points by pr337h4m 18 hours ago | loading comments

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

(statecharts.dev/)

20 points by sph 2 hours ago | loading comments

Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

(www.edenai.co)

45 points by muzzy19 3 hours ago | loading comments

The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

(techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things)

459 points by milkglass 5 hours ago | loading comments

I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards

(www.npmjs.com/package/ooko)

28 points by okovooo 3 days ago | loading comments

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

(freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/)

250 points by chiefalchemist 11 hours ago | loading comments

Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame

(blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-gaussian-splat-into-a-videogame/)

23 points by yak32 3 days ago | loading comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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301 points by _-x-_ 10 hours ago | loading comments

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

(fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html)

344 points by gwerbret 13 hours ago | loading comments

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Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

(ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/)

35 points by subset 4 hours ago | loading comments

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GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

(lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html)

81 points by zdkaster 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Mahjong: A Visual Guide

(themahjong.guide/)

104 points by iamwil 2 days ago | loading comments

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Quirks of Human Anatomy

(www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm)

40 points by gurjeet a day ago | loading comments

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The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement

(asteriskmag.com/issues/14/shall-we-play-a-game)

35 points by jger15 3 days ago | loading comments

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Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)

(www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/DY7BCZU-applied-ai-strategist-market-intelligence-health)

1 points by kyriakosel 4 hours ago | loading comments

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OpenAI Privacy Filter

(openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/)

220 points by tanelpoder 3 days ago | loading comments

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The Free Universal Construction Kit

(fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/)

325 points by robinhouston 4 days ago | loading comments

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Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

(petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/)

180 points by Nrbelex 4 days ago | loading comments

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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

(blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/)

278 points by speckx 19 hours ago | loading comments

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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

(juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/)

196 points by gasull 8 hours ago | loading comments

21.

Cheating at Tetris

(chalkdustmagazine.com/features/cheating-at-tetris/)

3 points by t-3 4 days ago | loading comments

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The Joy of Folding Bikes

(blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes)

183 points by pavel_lishin 4 days ago | loading comments

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Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]

(mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@sophie/116467789133733136)

22 points by robin_reala 4 hours ago | loading comments

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The Knight Programming Language

(github.com/knight-lang/knight-lang/tree/master)

12 points by tosh 4 hours ago | loading comments

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough

(oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-Unlock-a-150-Gigawatt-Energy-Revolution.html)

114 points by sleepyguy 16 hours ago | loading comments

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Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

(miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html)

120 points by signa11 3 days ago | loading comments

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The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)

(fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/)

70 points by offbyone42 11 hours ago | loading comments

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Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

(dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3669940.3707274)

59 points by tosh 3 days ago | loading comments

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Hokusai and Tesselations

(dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/)

114 points by srean 18 hours ago | loading comments

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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

(blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/)

154 points by thehappyfellow 18 hours ago | loading comments