Public-key cryptography (2018)(idea-instructions.com)

31 points by animal_spirits 3 years ago | 2 comments

Everything Picolisp can do, and more(picolisp.com)

86 points by damir 1 year ago | 8 comments

Wazero: Zero dependency WebAssembly runtime written in Go(wazero.io)

233 points by ingve 3 years ago | 61 comments

Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source(matijacniacki.com)

159 points by zggf 7 months ago | 68 comments

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex(werwolv.net)

245 points by carlos-menezes 1 month ago | 46 comments

Story Behind Hackathon Photo(frantic.im)

98 points by imadj 3 years ago | 41 comments

IKEA – 3D Guide(sael.net)

170 points by punnerud 6 days ago | 68 comments

An interactive 3D web guide that animates step-by-step assembly of IKEA furniture like the BILLY bookcase and LACK table alongside the manual pages.

The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing(computerwebsite.net)

596 points by arithmoquine 2 years ago | 56 comments

An illustrated explainer of the Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi (GJK) algorithm for determining whether two convex shapes overlap.

A page looks innocent: the algorithms behind a typeset page(news.speedata.de)

11 points by patrickg 8 days ago | 1 comments

A blog post by Patrick Gundlach walking through the algorithms behind a typeset page, from page layout down to PDF bytes, using speedata Publisher and boxesandglue.

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?(ikea.com)

436 points by NaOH 2 months ago | 308 comments

IKEA Sweden customer service FAQ explaining how the company names its products and the rules behind the naming system.

Simply explained: How does GPT work?(confusedbit.dev)

326 points by nitnelave 3 years ago | 279 comments

A blog post from Confused bit giving a simple explanation of how GPT language models like ChatGPT work, starting with their probabilistic approach.

FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm(github.com)

339 points by rickcarlino 2 years ago | 107 comments

GitHub wiki page for fsrs4anki explaining the basics of FSRS, a spaced repetition scheduling algorithm by Jarrett Ye intended to replace Anki's SM2.