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root.cern 2y ago

ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically

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www.operation-endgame.com 2y ago

Operation Endgame

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github.com 2y ago

Eavesdropping on Security Camera via Unintentional RF Emissions

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advsys.net 2y ago

Ken Silverman's Voxlap Engine

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github.com 2y ago

RAD Debugger by Epic Games

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mudit.blog 4y ago

Poly Network Hack: Detailed Analysis

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Prolog Meta-Interpreters

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homepages.cwi.nl 5y ago

Pascal Implementation

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en.wikipedia.org 5y ago

Refal

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mudit.blog 6y ago

Rust Tips and Tricks

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mudit.blog 6y ago

Free blockchain storage – Tale of a bug in Substrate's FRAME runtime

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devblogs.microsoft.com 6y ago

F# 5

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Resources for Systems Programming in Lisp

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news.slashdot.org 6y ago

Who killed America's demoscene? (2019)

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Resources on Cryptanalysis?

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Ask HN: Good framebuffer interfaces for software rendering for various platforms

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advsys.net 6y ago

Ken Silverman's Voxlap Engine

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Getting into low level audiovisual codecs and graphics

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Ask HN: Reading Recommendation for Hackers?

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root.cern.ch 6y ago

Root: CERN's scientific data analysis framework for C++

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phrack.org 7y ago

Exploiting Logic Bugs in JavaScript JIT Engine

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

PepsiCo sues 4 Indian farmers for $150k each

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risacher.org 7y ago

How to design, build and test liquid rocket engines

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c0de517e.blogspot.com 7y ago

Rendering does not matter anymore?

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nostarch.com 7y ago

Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games [Book]

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Ask HN: Is anyone struggling with their browsers?

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Ask HN: The state of core software development?

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neopythonic.blogspot.com 7y ago

What to do with your computer science career

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thebeez.home.xs4all.nl 7y ago

The 4tH compiler

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Getting started with pcg, computational art and demoscene?

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Resetting Xbox 17 days ago

Also dazzling graphics has been mostly visual instead of experiential, that is, with the advances in GPU capabilities, we do get beautiful effects, but the intractability with the said infra is seems to be stagnant (and in some cases regressed)

The way things interact in the game world peaked around mid 2000s, just in time when CPUs started to not follow moors law.

As of now, interactive environments are still almost as good as half life 2 from 2004. Gaming is all about the feel of it, which also includes the visual component.

Could be but all across different regions across the subcontinent where the Vedas are orally recited, except for some technical tones and notes (which is the mechanical part of Vedic Sanskrit) there is little difference.

There are serious attempts made to write down the vedas. The thing is, historically, very few people learned all 4 vedas by heart; Instead different families recited very small part and passed the recitation as heirloom.

If you meet all those families and compile their recitation, it exactly matches to what we have from different earlier efforts of canonisation.

Leviathan (1651) 4 months ago

The question is not what state humans arein, but what state other humans would be when interacting with them. In other words, are other humans nice to me? I like it when they are nice to me. In return, I will also be nice to them.

There is another way. Irrationality. People spend a lot on religion. Like a whole lot.

What if there was a faith system of ultimatley going to interstellar medium. You have faith, you automatically pay, like the rest of the people and you dont question it. You get tax breaks. It will help you in the end of times or something.

Just decide the ultimate goal to be interstellar medium touching in all directions.

You are a farmer? Well now you continue to farm to feed budding spacers. You are a game dev? Well, people are going to get bored in space, continue developing games for the ultimate goal.

"Is this what you can conjure Saruman?"

I have a strong belief that new mathematical tools and methods can be developed that can make it "easy" to break a lot of modern cryptography primitives without ever using a quantum computer.

I think cryptanalysis as a discipline is not massively funded. All of the cryptography is only as strong as the collective failure of all human intelligence so far to break it.

Most people consider cryptography as a "solved" problem, but I don't think it is. I am sure if enough cryptologists try algorithmic methods and are well compensated for it, they will likely find algorithmic weaknesses (and invent new kinds of mathematics) that can bring down complexity of solving such schemes, even before we have real and functional Shor machines.

DirectX12 is still much better to use than Vulkan.

Natively supports Xbox and PC. Can run on Linux with Proton. The Playstation API functionally resembles DX12.

Vulkan is extension management hell (but has gotten much better, I concede)

Human 1 year ago

Do pure logic machine use some kind of higher order prolog, which currently does not exist?

Hannibal determined that Rome received strength through the Socii, the allied city states of Rome. He wanted to isolate Rome and bring terms.

However, he 1) Failed to turn most of the socii to his side. 2) Ignored the western roman allies who were slowly eating away at Iberia.

Most of the developers of the microcomputer revolution era programmed in Non-Unix environments.

Even in workstation space, the cool lisp/smalltalk/... developers hated unix, but the small market was filled with unixes.

Even today, most of the native developers use windows!

In turn I will raise you the following: Why are GPU ISA trade secrets at all? Why not open them up like CPU ISAs, get rid of specialized cores and let compiler writers port their favorite languages to compile into native GPU programs? Everyone will be happy. Game devs will be happy with more control over the hardware, Compiler devs will be happy to run haskell or prolog natively on GPUs, ML devs will be happier, NVIDIA/AMD will be happier with taking the MainStage.

A slope has two ends, even when it's slippery. People want to claim submarines swim, but they do not.

There were a million Doom clones, none of which were as good as Doom

Sure, but there were some "Doomlikes" I would still rate as better than doom; like Build Engine games Duke Nukem and Blood/Blood 2 and other IdTech based games like Hexen.

On paper. But it is easier to get influenced by intelligent "Subject Matter Experts" and they usually know how to nudge the public representatives their way.

This is a known and accepted flaw of rotating leadership in democracies.

Subculture wise, SF is barely represented in computer graphics or high performance optimization circles, like gamedev or demoscene, arguably a class of field that produces top quality software engineers.