Results from the ASIC puzzle(blog.janestreet.com)
90 points by eru | 43 comments
Jane Street blog post by Benjamin Devlin and Anish Singhani discussing the results and submissions from their ASIC design puzzle.
#puzzles on Hacker News
9 stories tagged puzzles, newest first.
Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT(thill.me)
31 points by luu | 13 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author solved a 3D-printed corn-shaped piece-packing puzzle using the CP-SAT constraint solver.
Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge(jestoph.com)
394 points by anitil | 87 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author solved Jane Street's "Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?" challenge over a month-long effort.
1D Chess(rowan441.github.io)
941 points by burnt-resistor | 155 comments
A browser-playable one-dimensional chess variant by Rowan Monk where the player plays white against an AI on an eight-square board.
“Are you the one?” is free money(blog.owenlacey.dev)
451 points by samwho | 105 comments
A blog post analyzing the dating reality show "Are You the One?" mathematically, arguing contestants could reliably find all matches and win the prize money.
Square Theory(aaronson.org)
691 points by aaaronson | 128 comments
Adam Aaronson's blog post introducing "square theory," an idea about wordplay structures that emerged from the Crosscord crossword Discord community.
Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
461 points by greghn | 103 comments
Blog post describing solving every Advent of Code 2024 puzzle in pure SQL, with a full recursive-query solution for one day shown as an example.
GPU Puzzles(github.com)
345 points by cgadski | 35 comments
GitHub repository by Sasha Rush offering interactive puzzles in a notebook for learning CUDA GPU programming.
Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?(puzzling.stackexchange.com)
1314 points by robin_reala | 212 comments
A Puzzling Stack Exchange question asking whether a Duplo train track layout built by the poster's kids can close without excessive tension.