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Confusingly, both articles do indeed mention each other for me.

Noticed it kept using the term 'resonator' or 'resonance', decided to navigate to a page for 'resonance cascade' as a joke, and discovered this fantastically broken article: https:…

Hear, hear! I honestly think the obsession with cryptography and security has caused us to lose much of what is simply fun about technology. We have grown so used to the assumption…

The concept is interesting, but I'm getting a lot of red flags from this - there's no experimental data or proof-of-concept work at all, which makes this feel more like a blue-sky …

> Write-Only Code is not a prediction about what we should want. It is a description of what happens when software production scales beyond human attention. Have we considered whet…

I primarily use it as a toy, but it's also come in genuinely handy for me as a scripting language and calculator (but a calculator that also works with strings). The terseness isn'…

"Directed energy weapon" is essentially the more technical way of saying "death ray". Lasers, microwaves, particle beams, that sort of thing.

It seems very unlikely - the researchers estimate a lifetime for phosphine of just thousands of years in the more temperate parts of the atmosphere, and just thousands of seconds n…

the energy flux available in ambient radio waves passing through something the size of a handheld is microscopic , pretty much.

While on the subject of FORTH for the 6502, I can't resist mentioning Eloraam's now-defunct (but huge in its heyday) Minecraft mod Redpower 2! It included fully-functional computer…

I think what they're doing with those sculptures is that they're taking three sine waves of different frequencies A, B, and C, and that the sculpture is the path that the point (co…

Does Hacker News have a "Report" button?

Perhaps I'm missing something, but ... this malware's initial infection vector is via email. If your computer is connected to email, it cannot possibly be air-gapped, unless I'm se…

Obviously, like everyone, I'm a little concerned about "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" and I don't really believe that Microsoft are suddenly "the good guys". But I don't, ultimately…

Given that that story, with that specific wording , has been a running joke circulating around the Internet for years, I suspect your co-worker's kid has never said any such thing.…

These are very interesting! The Legible Mathematics one also made me think of APL, which is very hard to read - but specifically it's hard to read for the same reason that traditio…

With all due respect (which is not much), this is complete nonsense.

See also APL, which was designed as a concise algorithmic notation first and only adopted as an actual language afterwards. (Hence the use of custom symbols) Although unlike this n…

I don't think this is fair. I have ADHD. It is not an exaggeration to say that I can't function without drugs - I have trouble doing literally any task that requires switching focu…

The point of doing an operating system UI in a game engine is so that you can use that operating system UI within games written in that engine! There's several examples - Simulacra…

It's not supposed to be a a real utility, or run real applications! It's intended for use in computer games; there's several such games that use a virtual "OS" as their framing dev…

I'm not sure if you realize, but this isn't intended as a "real OS" for practical use. It's intended for use inside of computer games; whether for simulation of using computers ins…

> I wonder if one can arrange such conduits (6-way connected pipes and chambers) to replicate a feed forward neural network. If it can be done with light... It actually can't be do…

This is a large part of why (at least in the deep learning field, which I'm more familiar with) scientific publishing takes place more or less exclusively through ArXiv, because th…

This is true! I was trying to simplify things a bit for a basic explanation, but I fear I oversimplified. I just meant that the generally used math breaks down; if you're aware of …