AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
deepmind.google — AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry teams SOLVES, 1
Fear of over-engineering has killed engineering altogether
fika.bar — In the last 20 years, we have seen how engineering has become out of fashion. Developers must ship, ship, and ship, but, sir, please don’t bother them; let them cook! FEAR, 2
Ask HN: Best resources to learn about Search and Information retrieval
news.ycombinator.com — Hello, BEST, 3
NASA Graphics Standards Manual
standardsmanual.com — Designed by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn, Danne & Blackburn, 1975 NASA, 4
Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas
news.ycombinator.com — Hi HN, we’re building Haystack Editor (https://haystackeditor.com/), a canvas-based IDE that automates the boring stuff (plumbing, refactoring, and finding code) so that you can focus on the exciting parts of software development! You can see a quick overview of Haystack at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2uZnR5D_cc! HAYSTACK, 5
Ask HN: Could experienced developers have near 0 online prescence?
news.ycombinator.com — The conventional wisdom for getting job leads as a new grad and early career is to go to job fair, have a portfolio and open a LinkedIn account. These things allow the prospective employers to see your work or to reach out to you. COULD, 6
A hash table by any other name
lwn.net — The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! HASH, 7
When British Railways Deliberately Crashed a Train
therailwayhub.co.uk — In 1984, British Railways and the Central Electricity Generating Board deliberately destroyed a train to prove the safety of nuclear fuel flasks. Here’s how the crash was reported on in the October 1984 issue of The Railway Magazine. BRITISH, 8
Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects
github.com — Deep inspection of Python objects WAT, 9
A Swiss Town Banned Billboards. Zurich, Bern May Soon Follow
bloomberg.com — To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot. SWISS, 10
Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)
rein.pk — When we started Segment, we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcomplicated spreadsheet we used to manage grocery bills as roommates, we really had no experience in finance when we started the company. STARTUP, 11
LLMs will not automate work
noahpinion.blog — “I may live badly, but at least I don’t have to work to do it!” — Slacker LLMS, 12
My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding (2018)
rcoh.me — Finding the median in a list seems like a trivial problem, but doing so in linear time turns out to be tricky. In this post I’m going to walk through one of my favorite algorithms, the median-of-medians approach to find the median of a list in deterministic linear time. Although proving that this algorithm runs in linear time is a bit tricky, this post is targeted at readers with only a basic level of algorithmic analysis. FAVORITE, 13
Defense of Lisp macros: The automotive field as a case in point
mihaiolteanu.me — Replacing Lisp's beautiful parentheses with dozens of special tools and languages, none powerful enough to conquer the whole software landscape, leads to fragmentation and extra effort from everyone, vendors and developers alike. The automotive field is a case in point. DEFENSE, 14
Applied Machine Learning for Tabular Data
aml4td.org — Welcome! This is a work in progress. We want to create a practical guide to developing quality predictive models from tabular data. We’ll publish materials here as we create them and welcome community contributions in the form of discussions, suggestions, and edits. APPLIED, 15
Generating sudokus for fun and no profit
tn1ck.com — Once upon a time, I decided to create a complete Sudoku application as my grandma wanted to play some Sudokus on her computer, and I wasn't satisfied with the free offers available. The project went on for some years and finally led to sudoku.tn1ck.com - a free and open source Sudoku app without any tracking. While working on it, I went down the rabbit hole of generating Sudokus of a specified "human perceived" difficulty and accidentally created a quite thorough analysis of it. GENERATING, 16
Pongamia trees grow where citrus once flourished
phys.org — This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: PONGAMIA, 17
Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript
github.com — Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. NODE.JS, 18
Real-Time Procedural Generation with GPU Work Graphs [pdf]
gpuopen.com — REAL-TIME, 19
Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration
asleson.org — NOTE: This content is from an internal talk I gave, thus the reason it may read like a presentation BCACHEFS, 20
Mapping Hacker News to find who knows what in the HN community
wilsonl.in — After the semantic map from the previous post, where I embedded 40 million posts and comments from Hacker News, I saw how the community not only supported the project with encouraging suggestions but also discovered how quickly the community shrinks from across the world into real life relationships. Robert (robg) reached out and we began discussing his work in the neural basis of semantic knowledge and how he built social semantic algorithms way back in 2008. Despite the intervening 16 years, we're amazed that social networks, even Hacker News, don't compute and display the trusted voices across topics. Instead of prioritizing pages based on content, social networks could prioritize the people behind the content. The semantic map of the community, in effect, breaks down to computable regi... MAPPING, 21
Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
codisec.com — It is a very difficult task for a human to notice subtle patterns in large amounts of binary data, however, us humans are very good at finding patterns in images. Statistical visualizations let you find the important bits in a sea of binary data - all at a glance. VELES, 22
Reverse Engineering for Everyone
0xinfection.github.io — Wikipedia defines it as: Reverse engineering, also called backwards engineering or back engineering, is the process by which an artificial object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, code, or to extract knowledge from the object. It is similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is conducted into a natural phenomenon. Whew, that was quite a mouthful, wasn't it? Well, it is one of the main reasons why this tutorial set exists. To make reverse engineering as simple as possible. REVERSE, 23
Five Little Languages and How They Grew: Talk at HOPL (1993)
bell-labs.com — Although I have the introductory remarks by the session chair, Brent Hailpern, and also the transcript of the Q&A session that followed, I've omitted these parts. I'll leave the parts others said for the book (which I recommend). The transcript below is quite close to what I intended to say according to my notes, though there were some on-the-fly additions (especially in the opening--not surprisingly, there were more than a few barbs thrown). In cooperation with the volume's editors, particularly Tim Bergin (to whom great thanks are due), my own language glitches have been cleaned up well, but it still retains some informality, as well as showing some of the time pressure on the presentation. DMR, March 2002 FIVE, 24
A Clone of Deluxe Paint II Written in Python
github.com — A usable pixel art paint program written in Python CLONE, 25
Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers
news.ycombinator.com — Hey HN! We’re Josh and Tom from Undermind (https://www.undermind.ai/). We’re building a search engine for complex scientific research. There's a demo video at https://www.loom.com/share/10067c49e4424b949a4b8c9fd8f3b12c?..., as well as example search results on our homepage. LAUNCH, 26
Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
thinkst.com — Would your rather observe an eclipse through a pair of new Ray-Bans, or a used Shade 12 welding helmet? Undoubtably the Aviators are more fashionable, but the permanent retinal damage sucks. Fetch the trusty welding helmet. UNFASHIONABLY, 27
A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee
theconversation.com — Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University CHEMIST, 28
Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
jordaneldredge.com — In January of 2021 I was exploring the corpus of Skins I collected for the Winamp Skin Museum and found some that seemed corrupted, so I decided to explore them. Winamp skins are actually just zip files with a different file extension, so I tried extracting their files to see what I could find. INVESTIGATING, 29
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager onesignal.com
Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring MechEs to build robots that build solar farms ycombinator.com
Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Senior Front End Engineers (US+Canada) ashbyhq.com