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There's a 2014 game that is just that. Lim Rocket: slingshot around planets while also avoiding crashing. https://dan-ball.jp/en/m/pc_lim/

You should probably say somewhere that the questions are US-centric. For example, "the death penalty should remain legal" doesn't make sense in places where it isn't.

The President of Colombia https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8xg1jve73o

You can't realistically target anyone outside the US with this.

Hi! This is part of Jewish religious purity law and not usually taken as part of the rules that govern most Christian denominations. For example, women who are menstruating are usu…

Hi! Great work! Could you add support for other amounts of measures such as 3/4?

You could store UTF-8 encoded data inside the hidden bytestring. If some of the UTF-8 encoded smuggled characters are variation selector characters, you can smuggle text inside the…

> Obviously, nobody steals things while the train is in motion. Something interesting: I live near a train line where the doors are not automatic (they have to be opened manually o…

It would be interesting to see the opposite of this; which papers are really interesting and look useful, but did not end up having a significant impact?

Happy new 2025 = (20 + 25)^2 = (2 + 0!)^2*5 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2 = 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 + 9^3

I'm not Barry Jay, but I found it here: https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/typed_tree_calculus/bl...

Legalese is just obfuscated English

This is correct, for ext2 at least. See [0], bytes 26 and 27 [0] https://wiki.osdev.org/Ext2#Inode_Data_Structure

I used to use this frequently, but unfortunately at some point my /8 IP range was blocked from uploading files. Most likely because bot traffic outweighs legitimate traffic, since …

Note: This just says that any GoL pattern that can be constructed by a universal constructor can be constructed from 15 gliders. A universal constructor is a GoL pattern that can c…

Unfortunately, robots that kill people already exist. See: semi-autonomous war drones

I asked ChatGPT to craft a story to maximize the amount of bullshits. This is the result: https://pastebin.com/raw/zM9h6Cau , with 9 BSs, 36 bullshits, and 20 bullfuckingshits

You might find this interesting, if you didn't know about it already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm) . In 2005 someone wrote an XSS worm in MySpace that made ev…

This was the injected JS code: document.getElementById('name-input').value = document.getElementById('yay').outerHTML; setName(); console.log('yay') The ` ` tag I used was wrapped …

I wrote an XSS worm that turns people's names into "yay" (and the worm code) but made myself immune to it. Now someone will have to figure out how to write a counter-worm to remove…

Old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927010

As soon as ChatGPT got released, I tried to make it solve IMO-style problems. It failed. If this is legit, this is huge. Finding geometric proofs means proving things, and proving …