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Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by Bartosz Ciechanowski | get Floating Point Debugging Tool → | tags: ieee 754, floating point, binary32

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4-bit floating point FP4 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by John Cook | get FP4 Floating Point Emulator → | tags: fp4, floating point, neural networks

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It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | get Floating-Point Comparison Guide → | tags: floating-point, epsilon-comparison, ieee 754

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Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | get Marine Navigation Chart Kit → | tags: antarctic deep water, hybrid antarctic float observing system, polarstern expedition

35.

Mark's Magic Multiply (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | get Magic Multiplication Puzzle Game → | tags: floating-point multiplication, embedded processors, ieee 754

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Tiny Robots Reveal Hidden Ocean Chemistry in Low-Oxygen Waters (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-07 | get Underwater Microbot Kit → | tags: tiny robots, ocean chemistry, robotic floats

37.

Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-04 | by Julia Desmazes | get Floating Point Number Kit → | tags: floating point, computer architecture, hardware

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Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required (techspot.com)

2026-04-03 | get AI Smartphone App → | tags: google, gemma 4, nvidia h100

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Hitachi and MOL plan to turn retired ships into floating data centers (techspot.com)

2026-04-02 | get Floating Data Center Kit → | tags: hitachi, mol, floating data centers

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Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes (futurism.com)

2026-04-02 | by Joe Wilkins | get Marine Research Dock → | tags: deep-sea research platform, open-sea floating island, shanghai jiao tong university

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Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-31 | get Floating Point Error Corrector → | tags: herbie, floating point, accuracy

42.

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XVIII: How Does FPU Detection Work? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-28 | by Posted On | get FPU Detection Tool → | tags: fpu detection, intel 8086, 286 cpu

43.

6 ways I’m already using Android 17’s app bubbles to multitask better (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-27 | get Android 17 App Bubbles Kit → | tags: android 17, app bubbles, floating window

44.

Quantization from the Ground Up (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | by Sam Rose | get Deep Learning Quantization Kit → | tags: ngrok, qwen-3-coder-next, large language models

45.

Google Keep’s latest test ruins its airy interface (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-25 | get Google Keep Silicone Case → | tags: google keep, material 3, floating action button

46.

Avoiding Trigonometry (2013) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-12 | by Inigo Quilez | get Calculus → | tags: const, const float, cross

47.

NaN Is Weird (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-08 | get Smartwatch → | tags: nan, python, float

48.

Converting Binary Floating-Point Numbers to Shortest Decimal Strings (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-07 | get Binary-to-Decimal Converter → | tags: rust, binary floating-point, shortest decimal

49.

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

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

50.

The Google Photos redesign we’ve been waiting for is finally here (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-13 | get Google Photos app → | tags: android, authority, floating

51.

I'm building a clarity-first language (compiles to C++) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-11 | get Language → | tags: float, language, list

52.

Shades of Halftone (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-10 | get Halftone Generator → | tags: circle, color, dots

53.

Writing an optimizing tensor compiler from scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-31 | by Mykhailo Moroz | get Tensor Compiler → | tags: cost, float, inputs

54.

Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | get Compiler → | tags: fast, fast path, floating

55.

Instead of fixing WoW’s new floating house exploit, Blizzard makes it official (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-11 | get World of Warcraft → | tags: blizzard, float, game

56.

Tiny Robot Lost Under Antarctic Ice for 8 Months Comes Back With Rare Data (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-09 | get Microchip → | tags: amazing, amazing story, enormity

57.

Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-06 | get Kernel Float → | tags: float, float unlocking, gpu programming

58.

Cherry's iconic MX switches aren't enough to save the company from steep losses (techspot.com)

2025-11-28 | get Switches → | tags: advantage, advantage thanks, afloat

59.

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