Show HN: Hacker News on a Train Station Style Flip Board
The top 20 stories on Hacker News on a split-flap departures board, with rank, score and title on flap cells. Each story row is RANK · POINTS · TITLE. Rank uses HN orange, score color changes with points, and the title is trimmed to fit. Each page has a blank lead row, ten stories, a […]
Om
Om died two days ago, after a long battle against a bum heart. Om and I often sat next to each other at Apple keynotes. This was not at all surprising or odd, insofar as we’d been friends for 20 years. Folks at Apple PR knew that we were close, and would often pair us […]
U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
The US government Friday lifted its block on Anthropic’s powerful Claude Mythos 5 AI model, allowing the company to release it to more than 100 US institutions, including major companies and government agencies. The decision, in a letter sent Friday afternoon to Anthropic, is a major de-escalation in the confrontation between the Trump Administration and […]
Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
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AI in mathematics is forcing big questions
In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. My research focused on simulating how special light waves interact in liquid crystals and using simple equations to approximate and understand those […]
A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing
A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing The hopscotch-map library is a C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using open-addressing and hopscotch hashing to resolve collisions. It is a cache-friendly data structure offering better performances than std::unordered_map in most cases and is closely similar […]
The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Interactive plot of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index for open and closed frontier models. I have seen a version of the above plot going around Twitter and wanted to dig a bit deeper into it. What the plot above is showing is the gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs. We measure this […]
We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer […]
Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory
Hit Run on any sample — it executes right in your browser, no install. Gossamer’s VM is compiled to WebAssembly. Forward pipes Web routing Goroutines ADTs and Matching fn double(x: i64) -> i64 { x * 2 } fn add(a: i64, b: i64) -> i64 { a + b } fn clamp(lo: i64, hi: i64, […]
What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?
What is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? A nomogram or nomograph is a diagram that provides an easy, graphical way of calculating the result of a mathematical formula. Sometimes also called an alignment chart, a nomogram consists of a set of numbered scales, usually one for each variable in the formula, arranged […]