calmer news

  1. Lewis Carroll Computed Determinants (johndcook.com)
  2. Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations (utah.edu)
  3. Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)
  4. LearnixOS (learnix-os.com)
  5. C/C++ Embedded Files (2013) (4rknova.com)
  6. Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" (simonwillison.net)
  7. FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub (twitter.com/ffmpeg)
  8. Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode (nullprogram.com)
  9. Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago (acadlisp.de)
  10. Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines (github.com/valdanylchuk)
  11. ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0 (railsatscale.com)
  12. The Algebra of Loans in Rust (nadrieril.github.io)
  13. Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape (nytimes.com)
  14. Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast (github.com/pwnfunction)
  15. High School Student Discovers 1.5M Potential New Astronomical Objects (smithsonianmag.com)
  16. Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI (skyview.social)
  17. TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models (github.com/thu-ml)
  18. A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Em-Dash (nawaz.org)
  19. Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core (nytimes.com)
  20. My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL (reddit.com)
  21. An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99% (nature.com)
  22. Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video] (youtube.com)
  23. Bedlam Cube Solved (ALL 19,186 solutions) (scottkurowski.com)
  24. Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players (gamingcouch.com)
  25. Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith (catalinionescu.dev)
  26. The First Web Server (homeip.net)
  27. ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests (community.openai.com)
  28. Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] (douira.dev)
  29. How to Reproduce This Book with LaTeX (github.com/benjamingor)
  30. MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming (minimaxi.com)