Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Entanglement
Nearly a century ago, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger called attention to a quirk of the quantum world that has fascinated and vexed researchers ever since. When quantum particles such as atoms interact, they shed their individual identities in favor of a collective state that’s greater, and weirder, than the sum of its parts. This phenomenon […]
Windmill (YC S22) Hiring Rust and TypeScript Eng #3 in Paris
Looking for a senior, passionate and “cracked” engineer to work on the open-source developer platform Windmill: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill We are open to less senior candidates but a high-degree of autonomy and initiative will be expected after a ramp-up period. We are building the next generation infra software, to deploy Windmill on your Kubernetes cluster or big […]
What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]
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Why Medieval Women Sometimes Fought in Bloody Trials by Combat
Tucked within the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Bavarian State Library in Munich, rare medieval manuscripts depict something unusual, even for the Middle Ages—a man and woman fighting in a trial by combat. The man is drawn waist-deep in a hole armed with an edged club, while the woman circulates above, flinging what […]
The Case for Hypochondria
“The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times,” the journalist Tom Scocca wrote in a recent article in New York magazine. Whoever has health one day can be deprived of it the next. Scocca was writing at the time about stunning changes to his own […]
Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer?
Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer? 41 points by hopa 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 27 comments I’m a recent grad looking to keep improving. I’ve read Clean Code, Game Programming Patterns, and Architecture Patterns with Python, and I feel I learned / improved […]
Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
Forcing customers to replace an entire system just because the cheapest component failed might be really profitable, I have no idea… But I do know that it annoyed me enough to make me want to fix it myself. While I understand that what I do next is beyond a large number of Advantage Air customers, […]
Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims
Developer reports that most (but not all) of the claims in the GitHub Copilot lawsuit have been dismissed with prejudice by the judge. Judge Jon Tigar’s ruling, unsealed last week, leaves only two claims standing: one accusing the companies of an open-source license violation and another alleging breach of contract. This decision marks a substantial […]
Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase
Skip brings Swift app development to Android. It is a tool that enables developers to use a single modern programming language (Swift) and first-class development environment (Xcode) to build genuinely native apps for both iOS and Android. Watch Video Get Started Your browser does not support the video tag. How Skip Works As you build your Swift and SwiftUI […]
Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite 200 SQL statements per webpage is excessive for client/server database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server. But with SQLite, 200 or more SQL statement per webpage is not a problem. SQLite can also do large and complex queries efficiently, just like client/server databases. But SQLite can do […]