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Fearing paper on evolution might get them deported, scientists withdrew it
Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/10/evolution-research-deportation-fears/
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Firecracker Entropy for VM Clones
Article URL: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main/docs/snapshotting/random-for-clones.md
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Amazfit activity tracker and watch face asset generation
Article URL: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/04/11/amazfit-activity-tracker-and-watch-face-asset-generation/
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What the Hell Happened in 2024?
Article URL: https://howtomarketagame.com/2025/01/15/what-the-hell-happened-in-2024/
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Show HN: Teaching a Dinosaur to Jump: Rust, WebAssembly, and Neural Evolution
What began as a lightweight programming experiment quickly transformed into a deeply engaging technical exploration into the realms of neuroevolution, game physics, and browser-based simulation. My original goal was modest: replicate the "Chrome Dino" game using a performant and modern web stack. However, the project evolved far beyond expectations. The twist? I wanted the dinosaur to teach itself to jump.
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Ubiquitous Computing at Xerox PARC: The computer for the 21st century (1991)
Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/329124.329126
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John Peck, Underground Cartoonist Known as the Mad Peck, Dies at 82
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/arts/john-peck-dead.html
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Postgres MCP (model context protocol) with Cursor
Article URL: https://github.com/crystaldba/postgres-mcp
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RobotActions
Article URL: https://www.robotactions.com/
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OPM Reply: Automate Your Weekly OPM Accomplishments Email
Article URL: https://www.opmreply.com/
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Palantir Is Helping Doge with a Massive IRS Data Project
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/
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Zen and the Art of Workflow Automation
Article URL: https://joshfonseca.com/blogs/zen-and-the-art-of-workflow-automation
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You might not need WebSockets
Article URL: https://hntrl.io/posts/you-dont-need-websockets/
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James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/in-praise-of-floods-james-c-scott-book-review
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Nostr 101: A Beginner Guide to the Decentralized Social Network
Article URL: https://soapbox.pub/blog/nostr101/
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A next-generation Certificate Transparency log built on Cloudflare Workers
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/azul-certificate-transparency-log/
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Lovebyte 2025: Mini Writeups
Article URL: https://marqueedesign.demoscene.com/blog/blog_lb2025.html
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available in GitHub Copilot
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-11-copilot-chat-users-can-use-the-gemini-2-5-pro-model-in-public-preview/
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I think I know why Collatz does that thing it does
The normal term for this is "manic delusion of grandeur", so please help me out: 3n walks congruence classes +1 steps each one out of alignment /2 never changes that fact
Accumulating co-primeness is the "memory" that stops n from repeating. This is invariant under 2^k, which allows it to make forward progress through the chaos. Exhausting congruence classes mod 3 forces n to a power of 2; game over.
I asked AI to prove those things, and it did. I assume.
The only question then would be if 1.5n can grow the residue vector quickly enough to outrun the exhaustive walk. I asked AI that too, and got back a one page p-word. I'm not even going to type it.
I can sweet-talk AI into agreeing with damned near anything, so I'm stuck. This is the only forum I know with consistently thoughtful conversation, and I can't think my way out of this one, and I have real work to do.
Is there a mathematician in the house? The p-word is in a comment.
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People Are Using Camera Filenames to Make Midjourney More Photorealistic
Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2025/04/07/people-are-using-camera-filenames-to-make-midjourney-more-photorealistic/
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