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Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person Than in th... on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:02AM (#50084556)

A tenth of 6 euros is 60 cents, not 6 :)

Re:Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @03:50PM (#46518494)

Google have just released a numerical solution to that one!

https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-deepmind/alp...

Arthur Stone's "The Flexatube"

Posted by murkle on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @02:56PM
from the origamiheaven.com dept.

https://www.origamiheaven.com/historyoftheflexatube.htm

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Compile Javac into a WASM Module

Posted by murkle on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @05:19AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-demos/tree/master/native-image/wasm-javac

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Re:A simple way to generate random points on a sphere on Sunday August 24, 2025 @02:48AM (#45001950)

Yes, that does work basically. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001593

Re:A simple way to generate random points on a sphere on Sunday August 24, 2025 @02:48AM (#45001949)

Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001593

Re:A simple way to generate random points on a sphere on Sunday August 24, 2025 @02:46AM (#45001943)

Nice! Quick demo https://www.geogebra.org/m/fxmk3t6q

Computer Algebra Independent Integration Tests (2024)

Posted by murkle on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:11AM
from the 12000.org dept.

https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports/summer_2024/index.htm#indexchapter1.htm

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Re:Generating (almost) equally-spaced points along a parabola on Monday July 14, 2025 @05:07AM (#44557874)

Works well for flat parabolas. For "tall" ones you can get a big jump just after the peak https://www.geogebra.org/m/eft5vqbd

Re:A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up on Thursday June 26, 2025 @11:07AM (#44388164)

You need 100% infill to ensure it's working for the right reason.

I've got one mostly working with quite a lot of sanding

Re:0.9999 ≊ 1 on Monday June 02, 2025 @03:30AM (#44156477)

Exactly, add them up and divide by 2. What's the answer?

Re:Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest [pdf] on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:21AM (#44124336)

.STl files are available to download and print here:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RestingBodies/suppl...

Putting Rigid Bodies to Rest [pdf]

Posted by murkle on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:21AM
from the cs.cmu.edu dept.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RestingBodies/PuttingRigidBodiesToRest.pdf

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CMA to investigate Apple and Google's mobile ecosystems in the UK

Posted by murkle on Thursday January 23, 2025 @05:49AM
from the gov.uk dept.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-to-investigate-apple-and-googles-mobile-ecosystems

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Re:Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort st... on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:50PM (#42333745)

Where do you see that? I see "No significant associations were found for milk chocolate intake" and "Intake of milk, but not dark, chocolate was positively associated with weight gain."

Re:Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:48PM (#42188910)

Sorry, this one is really terrible (also I asked for no audio) https://math-gpt.org/?video_id=6f622c5b-ccf3-408f-9db1-56d63...

Facilitating high-level interactions between WASM modules and JavaScript

Posted by murkle on Thursday July 04, 2024 @04:23AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen

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Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to ... on Friday June 28, 2024 @08:03AM (#40819774)

Oh, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272004 looks promising

"All Wasm GC features are implemented, and the feature can be enabled once typed funcrefs (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272003) are enabled"

Re:Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to ... on Thursday June 27, 2024 @11:06AM (#40811358)

When will Safari have WasmGC?

Re:QiYi Smartcube Protocol on Friday June 21, 2024 @03:56AM (#40747200)

All messages sent to/received from the cube are encrypted using AES128 in ECB mode with the fixed key 57b1f9abcd5ae8a79cb98ce7578c5108 ([87, 177, 249, 171, 205, 90, 232, 167, 156, 185, 140, 231, 87, 140, 81, 8])

QiYi Smartcube Protocol

Posted by murkle on Friday June 21, 2024 @03:56AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/Flying-Toast/qiyi_smartcube_protocol

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Re:Libg203lightsync: Lib for interacting with the Logitech G203 LS mouse on Sunday June 09, 2024 @09:08AM (#40624186)

Cool! Could it work with WebHID instead?

Re:Affordable Wheel Based Refreshable Braille Display on Saturday March 16, 2024 @01:14PM (#39727672)

Did that come to anything?

Re:Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:35AM (#37672766)

https://github.com/evanw/OES_texture_float_linear-polyfill

Re:Reasons to not use your own domain for email on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @08:51AM (#37480381)

... and if you die when your domain has one year left?

OpenSAFELY is a secure, open-source platform for analysis of health records data

Posted by murkle on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:28PM
from the opensafely.org dept.

https://www.opensafely.org/about/#core-design-features-for-privacy-transparency-and-open-working

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Re:Decimal to Fraction on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @10:39AM (#37134542)

Here's a good algorithm: https://web.archive.org/web/20111027100847/http://homepage.s...

Algorithm To Convert A Decimal To A Fraction by John Kennedy Mathematics Department Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 http://homepage.smc.edu/kennedy_john/DEC2FRAC.PDF

Re:Does there exist a complete implementation of the Risch algorithm? on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @04:13AM (#37131448)

Why not try the WebAssembly version? https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/xcasen.html

Re:Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute i... on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:13PM (#37102231)

... and a quick example with a very cheap USB Dance Mat https://murkle.github.io/utils/webhid/dance_mat.html

Re:Show HN: Tetris, but the blocks are ARM instructions that execute i... on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:28AM (#37086372)

Magic, thanks! Which model mat do you have?

It might be worth trying with WebHID instead of the GamePad API. Quick example with a joystick :)

https://murkle.github.io/utils/webhid/logitech_attack3.html