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Crimes with Python's pattern matching
95 points by signa11 | view on HN
The article discusses how one can use Python's Abstract Base Classes to do weird things with pattern matching, like creating non-monotonic types or hijacking a pattern match.
Show HN: Personal productivity workspace for busy people
8 points by chernobai | view on HN
Show HN: PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting
50 points by erulabs | view on HN
The PiBox is a server that is designed for hackers, tinkerers, and self-hosters, and does not require the use of KubeSail software to operate.
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
42 points by memorable | view on HN
The article discusses the development of the xv6 operating system and how it was ported to RISC-V for a new undergraduate class.
A Love Letter to Geocities Sites
49 points by martialg | view on HN
This person never planned on making a website, but they did it anyway and they are always changing it.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
125 points by whoishiring | view on HN
9 points by mxtihvb | view on HN
The article discusses how Jane Street, a quantitative prop-trading firm, uses a poker chip challenge to test out applicants' probability chops and measure their risk awareness, which is important for traders.
4 points by Hooke | view on HN
U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained – Part 1 (2013)
89 points by BonoboIO | view on HN
The article discusses the fallacies of the arguments against the U.S. Army's Phase IV Camouflage Improvement Effort.
Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy for industrial vehicles
16 points by stefan8r | view on HN
Dolphin Intelligence: 3 Early Dolphin Experiments Funded by the U.S. Navy (2006)
16 points by Thevet | view on HN
Three early dolphin experiments from the sixties, funded by the U.S. Navy, showed minimal indicators of dolphin mental abilities, as a product of the times.
Equivalence of Unicode strings is strange
4 points by greghn | view on HN
The article discusses how the author initially thought that adding support for collations would be simple, but life is unfortunately much more complex.
AlphaFold's Database Grows over 200x to Cover Nearly All Known Proteins
12 points by OnlineInference | view on HN
The hardest people for founders to hire are so called C-level executives
98 points by ilamont | view on HN
The article is informing the reader that they need to have JavaScript enabled in order to use twitter.com.
People Spend Too Much Time on Decisions with Equally Satisfying Outcomes
11 points by Bostonian | view on HN
The article discusses a study that found people spend too much time choosing between options with roughly equal utility, which is irrational.
When Engineers Think Cooking/Recipes Could Be More Enjoyable
20 points by nathanfromny | view on HN
This article is about how the author believes that the world needs to change its relationship with food, and that we can do this by making it more transparent and easy to access.
36 points by protontypes | view on HN
The Soil Spectroscopy project and data authors take care while collecting and compiling the data, but the data is provided “as is” without any warranties.
Aussieplusplus: Programming Language from Down Under
6 points by brendanfalk | view on HN
The article discusses a programming language called "Boomerang" that is entirely comprised of Australian lingo and slang.
Juris Hartmanis 1928–2022 – Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
15 points by sizzle | view on HN
Juris Hartmanis, a professor in Cornell’s computer science department since 1965, passed away this morning. He won the 1993 Turing Award with Richard Stearns for their 1963–1965 paper “On the Computational Complexity of Algorithms.”
20 points by pxeger1 | view on HN
The "cat gap" is a period in the fossil record of approximately 2. 5 million to 18.5 million years ago in which there are few fossils of cats or cat-like species found in North America.
63 points by arkj | view on HN
The article is about the different types of platform subsystems and how they are categorized.
Mosquitoes at Disney World: why do you (almost) never see them?
44 points by dom96 | view on HN
The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped
11 points by RachelF | view on HN
Annotated Version of Boole's Algebra of Logic from 1847 [pdf]
27 points by auggierose | view on HN
Game engines could help construction
10 points by noplsbecivil | view on HN
The article discusses how the company Esri is using game engines to create more immersive environments for their users by pairing the accuracy of their real-time geospatial data with the fidelity of Unreal.
Light through the ages: Ancient Greece to Maxwell (2002)
11 points by susam | view on HN
Thomas Young's experiments on the interference of light between 1797 and 1799 in Cambridge provided major evidence in favor of the wave theory.
PicnicHealth (YC S14) is hiring product engineers to improve patient care
1 points by troyastorino | view on HN
The talented and humble people at Picnic sold the author on the company and Picnic's consistent values make them always do right by patients.
Cardpunch: Punch a Punched Card
4 points by susam | view on HN
Particle Physicists Puzzle over a New Duality
38 points by kzrdude | view on HN
The article discusses the discovery of the antipodal duality by Lance Dixon and his team, which is a hidden connection between two different phenomena that couldn't be explained by our current understanding of physics.
Markov Chains for Queueing Systems
4 points by kqr | view on HN
\(\mu\)) to meet the needs of the customer. The article explains how to analytically figure out the state probabilities of a queueing system, which is the probability of the system being in each state (for example, the probability of the system being idle, the probability of the system having one request being processed, the probability of both servers being busy at the same time, and the probability of the holding space being used), given \(\lambda\) and \(\mu\).