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What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?
posted on Sat Nov 12 14:17:37 UTC 2022 by vslira | view on HN
The article discusses the benefits of exercise for cognitive decline and how it is better than sudoku or other activities.
posted on Fri Nov 11 21:12:48 UTC 2022 by findhorn | view on HN
The German School of Lisp (2011)
posted on Sat Nov 12 11:08:30 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN
The article discusses the differences between browsers and how they have changed over time.
The NetHack Learning Environment
posted on Sat Nov 12 09:49:53 UTC 2022 by Emigre_ | view on HN
The NetHack Learning Environment (NLE) is a Reinforcement Learning environment presented at NeurIPS 2020. NLE is based on NetHack 3.6.6 and designed to provide a standard RL interface to the game, and comes with tasks that function as a first step to evaluate agents on this new environment.
ZFSBootMenu – A boot loader to manage ZFS boot environments for Linux
posted on Sat Nov 12 09:50:10 UTC 2022 by nixcraft | view on HN
The ZFSBootMenu is a Linux bootloader that attempts to provide an experience similar to the FreeBSD bootloader.
posted on Sat Nov 12 11:57:40 UTC 2022 by remrem | view on HN
The article discusses how the way we write and think about CSS has changed significantly since the web's beginning, how managing and organizing CSS has always been challenging, and how various CSS best practices have emerged and changed over time.
The Fediverse is inefficient but that's a good trade-off
posted on Thu Nov 10 07:34:38 UTC 2022 by ericblues | view on HN
The article discusses how the Fediverse is inefficient, but this is not a problem because of the many benefits it provides.
Gzip exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days
posted on Sat Nov 12 07:58:57 UTC 2022 by polygot | view on HN
The article is about a man's experience with a strange error while trying to decompress a gzip file, and his journey to find the cause of the error.
How T.S. Eliot’s therapeutic practice produced The Waste Land
posted on Sat Nov 12 06:47:13 UTC 2022 by notagain | view on HN
David Barnes lectures in English Literature at Trinity College, Oxford and has written The Venice Myth: Culture, Literature, Politics 1800 to the Present.
LeanQt – GUI is here, Widgets are near
posted on Sat Nov 12 13:21:50 UTC 2022 by Rochus | view on HN
The article discusses the release of LeanQt, which is a smaller version of Qt that only includes the modules that are actually needed.
Tell HN: Domain fronting to be blocked on Azure
posted on Sat Nov 12 12:22:37 UTC 2022 by wicroshoff | view on HN
FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
posted on Sat Nov 12 05:30:55 UTC 2022 by janmo | view on HN
CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies.
posted on Sat Nov 12 14:33:42 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN
The article is about the ancient city-state in Mesopotamia.
The Quiet Invasion of 'Big Information'
posted on Sat Nov 12 14:47:06 UTC 2022 by kjhughes | view on HN
The article discusses how RELX, a company that is not as well known as the Big Five tech companies, is actually a bigger player in the world of data and information, and how this company knows all about you.
Turn Raspberry Pi’s GPIO into an FM Transmitter
posted on Sat Nov 12 13:36:35 UTC 2022 by tambourine_man | view on HN
The article explains how to use the Raspberry Pi to create an FM transmitter.
Svix, the Enterprise Ready Webhook Service (YC W21) Is Hiring (Remote)
posted on Sat Nov 12 12:00:48 UTC 2022 by tasn | view on HN
The company, Svix, is looking for individuals that are smart, high-energy, and fast learning, enjoy having developers as their users, and share the company's values.
posted on Thu Nov 10 10:53:02 UTC 2022 by dnetesn | view on HN
From my high school days of growing food and medicine in garden beds on some asphalt outside a trailer where we met for afterschool programming, to years of learning, working, and teaching in agriculture, my mind opened to the possibilities of how gardening can benefit health.
Reverse Engineering an EV Charger
posted on Fri Nov 11 17:50:00 UTC 2022 by hoppla | view on HN
The article discusses how the author reverse engineered the Zaptec Pro charger, an electric vehicle charger found in many parking lots and apartment buildings around Norway.
posted on Sat Nov 12 05:19:44 UTC 2022 by initramfs | view on HN
The article is discussing the potential consequences of creating a branch with a name that is already being used as a tag.
Show HN: We made metadata-secure video conferencing that's easy to use
posted on Fri Nov 11 23:03:17 UTC 2022 by barathr | view on HN
The article is about how people's conversations are their own, and no one else's.
posted on Sat Nov 12 10:53:53 UTC 2022 by ddevault | view on HN
Plan 9 is an operating system designed by Bell Labs that is the most interesting operating system that you’ve never heard of.
Taler Systems SA is looking for investors for development of GNU Taler
posted on Sat Nov 12 06:11:27 UTC 2022 by pabs3 | view on HN
The article discusses the GNU Taler project, which is a payment system developed as part of the GNU project for the GNU operating system.
posted on Sat Nov 12 01:56:10 UTC 2022 by app4soft | view on HN
The article discusses the challenges of creating a parametric model for a bent pipe, where two important dimensions are not given and have to be calculated.
posted on Thu Nov 10 09:49:53 UTC 2022 by tannhaeuser | view on HN
The article discusses how a View Transitions API has the potential to improve the web, but points out that there is a bigger issue to address first, which is that browsers cannot communicate using JSON without JavaScript.
Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp
posted on Sat Nov 12 01:17:42 UTC 2022 by aleixrodriala | view on HN
This library lets you tunnel TCP data through two Whatsapp accounts, which can be useful for accessing the internet in restricted areas.
The Cost of Exception Handling
posted on Fri Nov 11 03:31:47 UTC 2022 by boyter | view on HN
The article discusses how exception handling can impact optimizations in modern C++, and how this can lead to a lot of pressure on the compiler.
Ghostly is a simple, lightweight, and fast full-stack framework for Golang
posted on Sat Nov 12 06:26:52 UTC 2022 by tomcam | view on HN
The article discusses the features of the Ghostly framework for the Golang programming language, including ORM, authentication, templating, caching, session management, and more.
Ask HN: Programming Without a Build System?
posted on Sat Nov 12 15:50:08 UTC 2022 by mikewarot | view on HN
posted on Sat Nov 12 16:45:25 UTC 2022 by marban | view on HN
Homeland Security Reaches the Anus (2007)
posted on Sat Nov 12 14:26:52 UTC 2022 by daenney | view on HN
The article is about a man with a fistula-in-ano who was searched by immigration officials when he arrived in the USA and had his seton (a length of suture material knotted to form a loop which lies in the fistula track) removed.