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388 points by esbudylin | 63 comments
YouTube video of Donald Knuth's 2024 Stanford Christmas lecture on strong and weak components in graphs, posted by Stanford Online.
683 points by _alternator_ | 510 comments
Timothy Gowers's blog post describing how ChatGPT 5.5 Pro produced PhD-level mathematical research in about an hour with little input from him.
324 points by todsacerdoti | 50 comments
Documentation for Knotty, a Racket domain-specific language for writing and manipulating knitting patterns.
382 points by mooreds | 205 comments
Blog post by Michael Heap recounting an SVP who refused the details of a failure, arguing that explanations make problems seem reasonable so they recur.
908 points by doppp | 281 comments
GitHub repository for peon-ping, a tool that plays Warcraft III Peon voice lines as notifications when Claude Code needs attention.
432 points by simonw | 305 comments
Simon Willison's blog post describing undocumented upgrades to ChatGPT's code container: running Bash, Node.js and other languages, pip/npm installs via proxy, and file downloads.