Articles by pncnmnp
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Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster (inverse.com)

9

Maia-3: free and open source (lichess.org)

1

The dirty secret that makes speedrunning on 'SpongeBob' a lot faster (inverse.com)

4

Timing Wheels (pncnmnp.github.io)

2

Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919) (umn.edu)

1

The Birth of Social Security (ibm.com)

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Culinary arts and Computer Science (2019) [pdf] (stanford.edu)

2

Are We There Yet? The Jetsons and the City of the Future (2023) [pdf] (usc.edu)

3

Charles Babbage and deciphering codes (1864) (st-andrews.ac.uk)

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Harry Potter and the Anatomy of a Speedrun (2024) (alexbeals.com)

4

3D Simulation of the Bombe Machine (virtualcolossus.co.uk)

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Show HN: I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (github.com/pncnmnp)

1

Does anyone remember the floppy disk punch/notcher? (2019) (webcommand.net)

3

How a Mosquito Operates (wikipedia.org)

1

Apocrypha Redux (2008) (quipu-strands.blogspot.com)

10

The IBM 650: An appreciation from the field (1986) [pdf] (ed-thelen.org)

1

An Afternoon with SMT, Trim, and Smart (pncnmnp.github.io)

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Why is my CPU usage always 100%? (downtowndougbrown.com)

1

Tinker Postman Collector Scribe (pncnmnp.github.io)

1

Creativity and Competition: The Beatles (2006) [pdf] (researchgate.net)

1

The DNA Data Storage Model (2023) [pdf] (ieee.org)

2

E. Allen Emerson has died (acm.org)

1

The Mystery of the AFIPS Orphans (2006) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)

2

Gadsby: Wikip_dia's Lost Lipogram (2015) [pdf] (core.ac.uk)

6

TLS Callbacks (2012) (octopuslabs.io)

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TLS Callbacks (2012) (thelegendofrandom.com)

3

Turing and the Primes (2016) [pdf] (bris.ac.uk)

4

Makerfaire Ottawa: Rule 110 (2015) (tahnok.me)

11

Io_uring and seccomp (2022) (0x74696d.com)

28

We'll buy back your Typewriter for Uncle Sam (pncnmnp.github.io)

2

Working Set Size Estimation (2018) (brendangregg.com)

18

In the land of LLMs, can we do better mock data generation? (neurelo.substack.com)

1

Discover the possibilities of the /proc directory (2008) (linux.com)

1

Algorithms for the 21st Century (2006) (yaccman.com)

2

In the land of LLMs, can we do better mock data generation? (dev.to)

1

The Census of 1900 (1900) [pdf] (archive.org)

27

IBM 305 RAMAC and the 1960 Winter Olympics (pncnmnp.github.io)

1

Two traps in iostat: %util and svctm (2014) (brooker.co.za)

1

Hrtimers and Beyond: Transforming the Linux Time Subsystems (2006) [pdf] (kernel.org)

1

Linux Kernel Scheduler (2015) (helix979.github.io)

12

Tangoing with a Martin Gardner Word Game (pncnmnp.github.io)

1

The Candidates in 13 Graphs (chessenginelab.substack.com)

2

A walk through the SA-IS Suffix Array Construction Algorithm (zork.net)

20

[flagged] How short can Git abbreviate? (2013) (cuviper.com)

1

Optimization – Making Rust Code Go Brrrr (2020) (aspenuwu.me)

3

One Billion Row Challenge in Rust (curiouscoding.nl)

1

Elo ratings vs. Machine learning: Predicting chess game results (2022) (pawnalyze.com)

6

Application of Locality Sensitive Hashing to audio fingerprinting (santhoshhari.github.io)

1

Why Mathematicians Now Care About Their Hat Color (2001) (nytimes.com)

12

History of Uniform Random Number Generation (2017) [pdf] (informs-sim.org)

4

A Parabel (1973) (utexas.edu)

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Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999) (princeton.edu)

2

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Q&A – Under the Hood (2006) (gamespot.com)

4

Roaring Bitmaps (pncnmnp.github.io)

5

The Lincoln TX-2 Computer Development (1957) [pdf] (acm.org)

1

Michael Mitzenmacher: Worst Case Analysis – Our Strength Is Our Weakness [video] (youtube.com)

9

Bitboards and Connect Four (github.com/denkspuren)

1

Bitboards and Connect Four (github.com/denkspuren)

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Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000) (pncnmnp.github.io)

2

Encounter with the Woz (2006) (meatfighter.com)

18

Introduction to Thompson Sampling: The Bernoulli Bandit (2017) (gdmarmerola.github.io)

1

Breaking the Curse of Cardinality on Bitmap Indexes (2008) (osti.gov)

1

Tangoing with a Martin Gardner Word Game (pncnmnp.github.io)

1

Lichess: Year in Review 2023 (lichess.org)

1

An Evening with Berferd in Which a Cracker Is Lured, Endured, and Studied [pdf] (cheswick.com)

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Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing (pncnmnp.github.io)

1

Screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey (imsdb.com)

2

Bao, a learned system for query optimization (pncnmnp.github.io)

1

Imagine: A "1971" Beatles Album (2013) (american-wolf.blogspot.com)

1

1984 Through the Looking Glass (2013) (appletothecore.me)

1

Introduction to Thompson Sampling: The Bernoulli Bandit (gdmarmerola.github.io)

2

Before advanced-flight simulators, there was Navitrainer (pncnmnp.github.io)

1

Algorithm for Finding Tactic Puzzles from Chess Games (chess.com)

2

Analysis of “Shut the Box” (durangobill.com)

11

Before Xerox, there was Addressograph (pncnmnp.github.io)

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Before Xerox, there was Addressograph (pncnmnp.github.io)

2

Gaddag (pncnmnp.github.io)

1

Where's George? (wikipedia.org)

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Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist (atlasobscura.com)

2

Edsger W. Dijkstra's Interview on Dutch TV (pncnmnp.github.io)

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Grain Weevil Robot (grainweevil.com)

2

Ruff: One Python linter to rule them all (jerrycodes.com)

2

Mutmut (2019) (nedbatchelder.com)

1

A World Chess Championship Without the World’s Best Player (nytimes.com)

1

Generating random images in Python with randimage (renatobudinich.com)

2

Remarks on the ancient Chess-men discovered in the Isle of Lewis p. 203 (1832) (archive.org)

2

Pirahã Language (wikipedia.org)

1

Show HN: Grammatical – A CLI spelling and grammar corrector using ChatGPT (github.com/pncnmnp)

1

The Alien Voice (1967) (researchgate.net)

3

Playing Twenty Questions with ChatGPT (pncnmnp.github.io)

2

What Motivates the RAM Model? (cs.stackexchange.com)

2

ATC Manager 2 (esstudio.site)

1

Document Production: Visual or Logical? (1987) [pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)

1

The Short, Impressive Life of the First Presidential-Election Video Game (2015) (newyorker.com)

1

GPL Quiz (gnu.org)

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"The Making of the First Microprocessor" by Federico Faggin (2009) (ieee.org)

3

What do Kirchhoff, Cayley, and Carroll have in common? And who is Kahrimanian? (pncnmnp.github.io)

2

What do Kirchoff, Cayley, and Carroll have in common? And who is Kahrimanian? (pncnmnp.github.io)

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The Greenblatt chess program (1967) [pdf] (acm.org)

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How the cover art of Defender of the Crown (1986) was made (2013) (spelpappan.se)