Deconstructing the “Whimsical Animations” landing page
Introduction For the past few months, I’ve been hard at work on my upcoming third course, Whimsical Animations. For each course, I create a custom landing page, and for a course about whimsical animations, I knew the landing page needed to be very extra. It took longer than I’d care to admit, but the course’s […]
Harnessing orbital Hall effect in spin-orbit torque MRAM
Abstract Spin-Orbit Torque (SOT) Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) devices offer improved power efficiency, nonvolatility, and performance compared to static RAM, making them ideal, for instance, for cache memory applications. Efficient magnetization switching, long data retention, and high-density integration in SOT MRAM require ferromagnets (FM) with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) combined with large torques enhanced by […]
What do people see when they’re tripping? Analyzing Erowid’s trip reports
Noah discusses what analyzing Erowid’s trip reports can tell us about psychedelics and human vision. The existence of synesthesia blew Sean Noah’s mind the first time he learned about it in high school biology class. He found it fascinating that, for synesthetes, sounds could generate images, and that some drugs, including psychedelics, could elicit that […]
Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers
Optifye.ai is a dystopian company backed by Y Combinator. They’re using AI to further dehumanise and abuse individual factory workers and treat them like disposable automatons. See a now deleted post where they show how it works: https://hachyderm.io/@YvanDaSilva/114063748264591929 The founders look to be a couple of rich kids with little world and work experience: > […]
US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’s conviction
A US court upheld the conviction of the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars while operating her failed blood-testing startup, once valued at $9bn, rejecting her multi-year appeal. The court also upheld the conviction of Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, once Holmes’s romantic partner and president of Theranos. A […]
Detecting Noise in Canvas Fingerprinting
In a previous blog post, we talked about canvas fingerprinting, a technique commonly used to detect fraudsters and bots. In this post we’ll go deeper on how fraudsters can forge or create fake canvas fingerprints to stay under the radar for typical device fingerprinting techniques. Plus cover some techniques for detecting this. Quick reminder: a […]
Awesome DeepSeek Integrations
DeepChat DeepChat is a fully free desktop smart assistant, with a powerful DeepSeek large model, supporting multi-round conversations, internet search, file uploads, knowledge bases, and more. Quantalogic QuantaLogic is a ReAct (Reasoning & Action) framework for building advanced AI agents. Chatbox Chatbox is a desktop client for multiple cutting-edge LLM models, available on Windows, Mac […]
Ask HN: Any recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?
I’m new to game dev and struggling with my first project, Space Zero. I’d love recommendations for resources (books, tutorials) to learn game design—especially after my demo flopped. For context, I shared it on Hacker News, Reddit, and Product Hunt recently, and here’s why I’m making it, plus what I learned. I grew up in […]
Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering
Vibe coding (or vibeware) is making rounds on X now. To the best of my knowledge Andrej Karpathy started the “meme” in this X entry. I find it well written and hilarious and it seems to have taken off. “I Accept All” always, I don’t read diffs anymore. l o l Obviously a meme has […]
Failure Theory for Materials Science and Engineering – Richard M. Christensen
Overview Three dimensional failure criteria are given for various materials classes. These include both isotropic and anisotropic material symmetries, and are applicable for macroscopic homogeneity. In the isotropic materials form, the properly calibrated failure criteria can distinguish ductile from brittle failure for specific stress states. Although most of the results are relevant to quasi-static failure, some are for […]