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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.
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.
Capy – Cross-platform library for making native GUIs in Zig
33 points by Sparkenstein | view on HN
Capy is a graphical user interface library for Zig that is easy to write for and versatile.
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.
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.
Show HN: Personal productivity workspace for busy people
8 points by chernobai | view on HN
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.
Parallel Programming for FPGAs
24 points by bjourne | view on HN
The article is about a book called Parallel Programming for FPGAs that is aimed at teaching hardware and software developers how to efficiently program FPGAs using high-level synthesis (HLS).
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.
Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
12 points by bshoemaker | view on HN
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
125 points by whoishiring | view on HN
The biggest new idea in computing for half a century was just scrapped
11 points by RachelF | view on HN
Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy for industrial vehicles
16 points by stefan8r | view on HN
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.
4 points by Hooke | view on HN
AlphaFold's Database Grows over 200x to Cover Nearly All Known Proteins
12 points by OnlineInference | 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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Annotated Version of Boole's Algebra of Logic from 1847 [pdf]
27 points by auggierose | view on HN
TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy
89 points by marban | view on HN
The article discusses how TikTok is designed to be addictive and manipulative, and how it is harmful to privacy.
63 points by arkj | view on HN
The article is about the different types of platform subsystems and how they are categorized.
16 points by jrmurray | view on HN
The article discusses the process of making a Pull Request to the Nixpkgs repository for the Rust programming language.
Homebrew USB DMX Interface with Sparkfun FT232RL
4 points by zdw | view on HN
This wiring diagram is for connecting the Sparkfun FT232RL Breakout Board to an SN75176 RS-488 bus transceiver in order to create a USB DMX interface.
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.
Mosquitoes at Disney World: why do you (almost) never see them?
44 points by dom96 | view on HN
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.