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N-gated Hacker News👾 "GUID Smash" is the thrilling tale of a futile quest to visualize randomness! 🌪️ Watch paint dry as minuscule odds are gloriously displayed in real-time, all for the price of your sanity. 🎉 Hold onto your hats, folks—exact matches are just a mere 421 trillion millennia away! 🕰️💤 <a href="https://www.guidsmash.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.guidsmash.com</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GUIDSmash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GUIDSmash</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/randomness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#randomness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/absurdity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#absurdity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#challenge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ngated</a>

NewsGageHow much POTUS is there in your news diet? 18% NEWSROT 08/15/2025 8:00 AM  <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataViz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infographics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infographics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Visualization</a>

BegasusAfter the release for gear 25.08 LabPlot will get a revision bump (rebuild) for Haiku, updated Cantor will be on the base for this, but also enabling Haiku's own icons in the layout. Stay tuned. :)<a href="https://floss.social/@LabPlot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@LabPlot</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaikuOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/haikuports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haikuports</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KDE</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/LabPlot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabPlot</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#analysis</a>

LobstersHow to rig elections <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections</a>

éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs:New blog post, the third in a series on the development of an optimization based design tool for heat exchanger network synthesis (aka design):<a href="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250814.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250814.html</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HeatExchangerNetworkDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeatExchangerNetworkDesign</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HENS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HENS</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProcessSystemsEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProcessSystemsEngineering</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PSE</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Optimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Optimization</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Visualization</a>

LobstersHow to rig elections <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/xzubsr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/xzubsr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#video</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections</a>

Orhun Parmaksız 👾Damn... we took Turing machines to the next level with Rust 🔥⚙️ **tur** — A language for defining/executing Turing machines🚀 Supports parser, interpreter & visualization! ➡️ Try it out on web: <a href="https://rezigned.com/tur/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://rezigned.com/tur/</a> 🦀 Written in Rust & has a TUI w/ <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ratatui_rs" class="u-url mention">@ratatui_rs</a>⭐ GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/rezigned/tur" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://github.com/rezigned/tur</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#rustlang</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ratatui" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ratatui</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tui" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#tui</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/turing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#turing</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/machine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#machine</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#visualization</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#terminal</a>

Nicole HennigOverview | Embedding Atlas <a href="https://apple.github.io/embedding-atlas/overview.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://apple.github.io/embedding-atlas/overview.html</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AI" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23visualization" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23data" target="_blank">#data</a>

Nicole HennigOverview | Embedding Atlas <a href="https://apple.github.io/embedding-atlas/overview.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apple.github.io/embedding-atlas/overview.html</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a>

MortylenCurrently working on metrics like Accuracy, Precision and Recall for my new ML project. Any suggestions for simple and clear ways to visualize these? 🤔<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ml</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#machinelearning</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metrics</a>

ma𝕏poolWelch Labs does great educational videos with visualizations. Here is one starting with the Universal Approximation Theorem and a single hidden neural network layer, and then moving forward from there.Why Deep Learning Works Unreasonably Well <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7hirqgfuU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7hirqgfuU</a><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/deepLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deepLearning</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/educationalMaterial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#educationalMaterial</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#video</a>

Paul Houle😶‍🌫️ Generating real-time detailed ground visualisations from sparse aerial point clouds<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18664" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18664</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3d</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#graphics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a>

qgi<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Felice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Felice</a> Yeah, I thought it looked super wrong at first too, and I remember getting better results in the past.But I did re-check and the math checks out. I think he <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/pico8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pico8</a> palette is just super special.Still, thank you for your comment! I had the nagging feeling that it might be wrong, so I rechecked and came up with this <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a>:<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indiedev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gamedev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/colors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colors</a>

LobstersPianolizer Helps Your Musical Projects Distinguish Notes (2022) <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/oqgvzm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/oqgvzm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#c</a>++ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#javascript</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://hackaday.com/2022/04/26/pianolizer-helps-your-musical-projects-distinguish-notes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2022/04/26/pianolizer-helps-your-musical-projects-distinguish-notes/</a>

Jimmy B. :boba_tea:I've essentially wasted the entire day messing around with <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Blocky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blocky</a>, setting up <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Telegraf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Telegraf</a> and building a dashboard from the Blocky data. I definitely did NOT need to be working on that... :nkoCrying: :nkoFacePalm: <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grafana</a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Prometheus</a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/InfluxDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InfluxDB</a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ADHD</a>

Gareth Lloyd (He/him)I have an issue with charts that are not zeroed. I get that these charts are marketing material and a 2% change is hard to illustrate. But don't use dark patterns.At least make it easy to see that the visuals are distorted on purpose.<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/charts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#charts</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#maths</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#visualization</a>

LobstersThe Bluesky Dictionary <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/dxpufo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/dxpufo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://www.avibagla.com/blueskydictionary/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.avibagla.com/blueskydictionary/</a>

bµgI just made a heatmap to visualize the number of iterations required for the quintic polynomial root solving algorithm to converge to the roots (not Newton, but something in that spirit).It is fascinating!<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Visualization</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#math</a>

éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs:New blog post just published. This is the second in the series on heat exchanger network design.The post presents a simple, greedy (but not excessively so 🤔), algorithm for the layout of line segments in a two dimensional representation of the hot and cold streams for a network. The use of an evolutionary optimization method for finding good designs is considered.<a href="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250806.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250806.html</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HeatExchangerNetworkDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeatExchangerNetworkDesign</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HENS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HENS</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProcessIntegration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProcessIntegration</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreedyAlgorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreedyAlgorithm</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProcessSystemsEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProcessSystemsEngineering</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Visualization</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JuliaLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuliaLang</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Optimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Optimization</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProcessOptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProcessOptimization</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a>

LobstersMinimum Viable Cloud-Native Geo <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/amwea4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lobste.rs/s/amwea4</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#video</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visualization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qn3fOMQ6fI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qn3fOMQ6fI</a>

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