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Twenty years of Valgrind
Twenty years of Valgrind
Mullvad is now available on Amazon
Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up
Emoji Kitchen
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The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton
Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range
Finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, C/C++, Awk, Rust, and more
Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid
Hello, HN - I wanted to share this puzzle game I made during my vacation.<p>I'm rather fond of the pipes puzzle where your goal is to restore a scrambled network of connections by rotating tiles. It's usually played on a grid of squares and this all started when I decided to make a programmatic solver for that kind of puzzle. Then I realized that with some minor changes the solver could generate new puzzle instances. I thought about what kind of puzzle to make and someone suggested a hexagonal grid. Adapting the generator wasn't too hard but then I had to create a way to play this variant. So I did just that =).<p>I find hexagonal pipes a bit more difficult than the square variant because there's a larger variety of possible tile shapes. For an extra challenge I implemented wrap mode where the board can connect to itself (right to left and top to bottom), so there are no convenient outer walls to start from.<p>The site is made with Svelte Kit, its code is available on github at <<a href="https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes</a>>.<p>Hope you enjoy playing =).
The Case for C# and .NET
Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
As someone who is intellectually curious and has had great success finding articles on sites like Hacker News and blogs like kottke.org, I haven’t yet figured out where to find the most interesting content on YouTube. Let me know in the comments if you have found certain channels and creators to be particularly rewarding to follow, or if there are other ways you’ve found to consistently track down good content.
It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy
Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on deliberate fraud
Hexaflexagons [video] (2012)
Hexaflexagons [video] (2012)