How RC2's π table was made(khalidhamadeh.com)
5 points by KhalidH | 1 comments
A research note reconstructing how the 256-byte PITABLE in Ron Rivest's RC2 cipher key schedule was derived from π, using a card shuffle with π's digits as dice.
#pi on Hacker News
10 stories tagged pi, newest first.
What is Codemode(lucumr.pocoo.org)
138 points by Tomte | 60 comments
Armin Ronacher blog post explaining Codemode and why Pi 1.0 added MCP support through it, revisiting his earlier argument that agents should use code over tools.
Pi 1.0(earendil.com)
1618 points by sergiotapia | 553 comments
Earendil announces the 1.0 release of Pi, a hardened, minimal, extensible AI agent harness used by hundreds of thousands of people weekly.
Pi Durable(earendil.com)
474 points by paulsmith | 65 comments
Earendil announcement of Pi 1.0 alongside Pi Durable, an experimental package for long-running, durable, malleable AI agents that can run anywhere.
You said no MCP(earendil.com)
641 points by yarapavan | 351 comments
Earendil Engineering post explaining why their Pi coding agent, previously opposed to MCP, now supports the Model Context Protocol.
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage(earendil.com)
487 points by luispa | 257 comments
Earendil post arguing that Pi, a minimal AI coding harness, gains performance and cost advantages by avoiding the complexity of larger agent tools.
πFS(github.com)
906 points by helterskelter | 197 comments
GitHub repository for πfs, a joke 'data-free' filesystem that stores files as offsets into the digits of pi.
The number pi has an evil twin(mathstodon.xyz)
553 points by pkaeding | 200 comments
A Mastodon thread by John Carlos Baez explaining the lemniscate constant ϖ, an analogue of pi tied to the lemniscate curve and its sl and cl functions.
A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g(roitman.io)
465 points by signa11 | 311 comments
A blog post explaining why π² is approximately equal to g (9.81 m/s²), tracing the connection to the historical seconds-pendulum definition of the metre.
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Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video](media.ccc.de)
563 points by robin_reala | 161 comments
Video of an MCH2022 conference talk by Luke Gotszling exploring what happens to the Doom game engine when the value of pi is changed.