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I'm not a gamedev, but there's a more insidious issue with the CA "Stop Killing Games" legislation that was just passed --- namely, a Ship of Theseus problem. Pick your favorite ga…

They are, though. [1] But maybe that's insufficient. Hugo[2], one of the most widespread static site generators in existence, supports Pandoc markdown flavors as well as general GF…

> Maybe 5 people and their friends use Pandoc The pandoc repository[1] has nearly 45k stars and 4k forks. It's embedded in Jupyter notebooks, which are used by data scientists the …

They're not defending it as an established workflow pattern or some kind of best practice. The usage of "exhibit a pattern consistent with..." is just describing what it looks like…

> If we assume that there will be an AI that is perfect in terms of ability to find vulnerabilities ...so if we assume a halting oracle?

> TBQH it's crazy to have 2,100 distinct choices. It's crazy to have 2100 distinct municipalities? The site isn't showing "here are 2100 different email hosts that municipalities i…

The linked post points to OEIS A014233[1] for establishing their set of Miller-Rabin[2] bases, though it's actually possible to find smaller sets. I remember asking about this on S…

This might not be something entirely obvious to people outside of academia, but the vast majority (which I'm only weakening a claim of "totality" in order to guard against unknown …

It's interesting to see Quanta make a foray into print publishing. I've long-wished for a print form of Quanta math articles in a monthly magazine, so maybe there is some hope for …

I remember reading a book on web usability well over a decade ago, and one of the things it pointed out was how Google ensured that the links you wanted to click were "above the fo…

> There's always an error rate. DocBots are almost certainly wrong more frequently, but they're also almost certainly much much faster than reading the docs. A lot of the discourse…

The article doesn't explicitly state it in this manner in one concise place, but the way I would always think about A* from a "practical/easy-to-remember" perspective back when I w…

The [Drunken Bishop]( https://www.jfurness.uk/the-drunken-bishop-algorithm/ ) algorithm works well for this purpose, without needing a GPU. :)

This is cool data! ...however, I must ask --- where does the data come from? HN certainly has a side that loves open-source data, but it also has a privacy-loving side. Focusing on…

There are three buttons that act as sorting directions at the top of the answers section: "Votes," "Oldest," and "Active." The "Active" option sorts by most recently modified, whic…