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Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-26 | tags: manticore, knn, hnsw

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An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-01 | get AI Math Problem Solver → | tags: openai, erdős conjecture, ai mathematics

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AI cracks 80-year-old mathematics challenge — researchers are astonished (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-22 | by Castelvecchi | get Mathematics Puzzle Book → | tags: openai, ai chatbot, algebraic number theory

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iPhone Straining Your Eyes? This Feature Could Help (cnet.com)

2026-04-15 | by See Full Bio | get Blue Light Blocking Glasses → | tags: iphone, screen distance, apple

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How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | get Nintendo Switch Console → | tags: digital games, long-distance couples, intimacy

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Investigating How Long-Distance Couples Use Digital Games to Facilitate Intimacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | get Couples' Long-Distance Gaming Kit → | tags: digital games, long-distance couples, intimacy

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Jax's true calling: Ray-Marching renderers on WebGL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | get WebGL Ray Marching Shader → | tags: jax, webgl, ray-marching

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A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-11 | get Signed Distance Field Renderer Kit → | tags: signed distance fields, inigo quilez, mercury demoscene

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4-Body Problem: Astronomers Spot the Most Tightly Packed Quadruple Star System Yet (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-03 | get Star system → | tags: distance, distance equal, equal

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Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-27 | by Red Blob Games | get Neural Style → | tags: sdf fonts, msdfgen, stb_truetype

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Accurate predictions of disordered protein ensembles with STARLING (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-18 | by Novak | get STARLING → | tags: distance, ensemble, ensembles

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Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-15 | get Database → | tags: binary, distance, hamming

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Discord Distances Itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-15 | get Palantir → | tags: age verification, discord, discord distances

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A header-only C vector database library (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-14 | get Database Library → | tags: const, cosine, database

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Long-lived remote ion-ion entanglement for scalable quantum repeaters (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-02 | by Liu | get Quantum Repeater → | tags: distances, efficient, entanglement

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Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-24 | get Calculator → | tags: distance, km mph, solar

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Soft biodegradable implants for long-distance and wide-angle sensing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-07 | by Lan | get Smart Implants → | tags: biodegradable, deep, deep tissue

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Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-04 | get Machine Learning Algorithm → | tags: basic, basic linear, direction

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After nearly fifty years, Voyager 1 spacecraft approaches one light-day milestone — 25.9 billion km distance from Earth ensures one day of latency for commands (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-28 | by Jowi Morales | get Spacecraft → | tags: distance, satellite, solar

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Pixel Watch not measuring walks correctly? It could all come down to stride (androidauthority.com)

2025-11-27 | get Smartwatch → | tags: authority, distance, google

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Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-27 | by Ryan Kaplan | get Light Field Display → | tags: distance, float, light

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Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-27 | by Ryan Kaplan | get Neural Network → | tags: distance, float, light

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Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-26 | get Galaxy X → | tags: distance, image, light

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Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from earth (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-26 | get Galaxy Telescope → | tags: distance, image, light

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Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-19 | by Finkelstein | get Neuralink → | tags: causal, causal connectivity, connectivity

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How to Follow the Trajectory of Comet 3I/Atlas (wired.com)

2025-11-07 | by Jorge Garay | get Comet Atlas → | tags: atlas, broadcasts, comet

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Ex-Meta global affairs chief says tech should stay out of politics (cnbc.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jaures Yip | get Meta Quest → | tags: clegg, data, distance

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Understanding Deflate (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo → | tags: code, data, distance

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Procedural Island Generation (III) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Chema Guerra | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: distance, e_, elevation

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Folks, we have the best π (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: circle, distance, lvert