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ablaba··on India just built first hydrogen plant that runs on nuclear heat
The Copper-Chlorine (Cu–Cl) thermochemical cycle allows heat to be directly used to drive chemical reactions bypassing the need to first convert heat into electricity
ablaba··on The flaws in India's AI plans
https://archive.is/20260217160410/https://www.economist.com/...
ablaba··on A Mathematician's Lament [pdf]
discussed before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6187014
ablaba··on Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago
posted 4 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441730
ablaba··on A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481441
ablaba··on Pythonista 3.4 for iOS with Python 3.10 is out
New in 3.4 Pythonista now supports Python 3.10, so you can use structural pattern matching, assignment expressions (added in 3.8), and many other new language features and improvements in the standard library.

Python 2.7 is no longer included. The official PSF support for Python 2.7 has ended in 2020, so it simply made no sense to update it in 2023.

Shortcuts integration: You can now use Pythonista scripts as actions in Apple's Shortcuts app, without launching the app. The shortcuts module has additional functions to accomodate handling input/arguments passing data to other Shortcuts actions.

Improved documentation with modernized layout, dark mode, and additional content about third-party libraries.

Fixed an issue with the up/down arrow keys not working correctly in the editor.

Improved support for the Magic Trackpad (and other pointer devices) on iPadOS.

New text selection gestures in the editor for iOS 13+ (closer to system text gestures).

Added pandas and updated various other third-party modules to more recent versions.

Pythonista now requires iOS 12 or later.

ablaba··on iOS Pythonista with Python 3.10 and support for pandas
Pythonista 3 3.4 (340006) is ready to test on iOS.

What to Test:

New in 3.4: * Support for Python 3.10 * Removed Python 2.7 support * Shortcuts integration: You can now use Pythonista scripts as actions in Apple's Shortcuts app, without launching the app. * Improved documentation with modernized layout, dark mode, and additional content about third-party libraries. * Added pandas and updated various other third-party modules to more recent versions. Please see "What's New in Pythonista" in the in-app documentation for more detailed release notes.

ablaba··on Tell HN: Looks like Quordle is now owned by Merriam-Webster.com
Merriam-Webster acquires popular Wordle clone, Quordle https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/22/23566622/merriam-webster-...
ablaba··on Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
Succinct Data Structures https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring12/scribe/L17.pdf
ablaba··on OpenTrees: A data visualisation of publicly maintained trees around the world
Here is a similar site for trees in Bangalore. https://sites.google.com/site/ramanarunachalamhome
ablaba··on Ask HN: How many of you have used Orkut?
https://venturebeat.com/2016/08/05/orkut-founder-launches-he...
ablaba··on French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals
Relevant article: Open Access and ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/4/226357-open-access-and...
ablaba··on Ask HN: What are the best HN related websites?
reddit subgroup mirroring hacker news https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/
ablaba··on Drawing better-looking Bézier curves
Have you seen the shadertoy implementation? https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsX3zf He refers to the following paper. http://hhoppe.com/ravg.pdf
ablaba··on An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]
This fourier transform simulation example from shadertoy is good.

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltKSWD

ablaba··on An animated introduction to the Fourier Transform [video]
This fourier transform simulation example from shadertoy is good. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltKSWD
ablaba··on Ask HN: What ideas in programming languages do you find difficult to code?
How about esterel? It seems to be a nice language based on FSM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esterel
ablaba··on Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
“Tutorial: Blockchains and Databases” at the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) in Munich on 29 August 2017: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7lNUaak0bK1ZDhkak05VHA0d00...
ablaba··on What's so hard about histograms?
The History of Histograms (vldb paper) http://www.vldb.org/conf/2003/papers/S02P01.pdf