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N-gated Hacker News<p>👾 "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! 🕰️💤<br><a href="https://www.guidsmash.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">guidsmash.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GUIDSmash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GUIDSmash</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/randomness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>randomness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/absurdity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>absurdity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>challenge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
NewsGage<p>How much POTUS is there in your news diet?
</p><p>18% NEWSROT 08/15/2025 8:00 AM

</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataViz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infographics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infographics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Visualization</span></a></p>
Begasus<p>After 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. :)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@LabPlot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LabPlot</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/HaikuOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaikuOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/haikuports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haikuports</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/LabPlot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LabPlot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon-belgium.be/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analysis</span></a></p>
Lobsters<p><strong>How to rig elections</strong></p> <p><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"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fed.brid.gy/r/https://media.cc</span><span class="invisible">c.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections</span></a></p>
éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs:<p>New blog post, the third in a series on the development of an optimization based design tool for heat exchanger network synthesis (aka design):</p><p><a href="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250814.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/b</span><span class="invisible">log/20250814.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HeatExchangerNetworkDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatExchangerNetworkDesign</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HENS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HENS</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProcessSystemsEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProcessSystemsEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PSE</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Optimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Optimization</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Visualization</span></a></p>
Lobsters<p>How to rig elections <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/xzubsr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lobste.rs/s/xzubsr</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a><br><a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how-to-rig-elections" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">media.ccc.de/v/why2025-218-how</span><span class="invisible">-to-rig-elections</span></a></p>
Orhun Parmaksız 👾<p>Damn... we took Turing machines to the next level with Rust 🔥</p><p>⚙️ **tur** — A language for defining/executing Turing machines</p><p>🚀 Supports parser, interpreter &amp; visualization!<br />➡️ Try it out on web: <a href="https://rezigned.com/tur/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">rezigned.com/tur/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br />🦀 Written in Rust &amp; has a TUI w/ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ratatui_rs" class="u-url mention">@<span>ratatui_rs</span></a></span></p><p>⭐ GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/rezigned/tur" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/rezigned/tur</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rustlang</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ratatui" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ratatui</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tui" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tui</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/turing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>turing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/machine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>machine</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>terminal</span></a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Overview | 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> </p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Overview | Embedding Atlas <a href="https://apple.github.io/embedding-atlas/overview.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apple.github.io/embedding-atla</span><span class="invisible">s/overview.html</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a></p>
Mortylen<p>Currently working on metrics like Accuracy, Precision and Recall for my new ML project.<br>Any suggestions for simple and clear ways to visualize these? 🤔</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ml</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/metrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metrics</span></a></p>
ma𝕏pool<p>Welch 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.</p><p>Why Deep Learning Works Unreasonably Well <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7hirqgfuU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=qx7hirqgfuU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/deepLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deepLearning</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/educationalMaterial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>educationalMaterial</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a></p>
Paul Houle<p>😶‍🌫️ Generating real-time detailed ground visualisations from sparse aerial point clouds</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18664" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2507.18664</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3d</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graphics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a></p>
qgi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Felice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Felice</span></a></span> Yeah, I thought it looked super wrong at first too, and I remember getting better results in the past.</p><p>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">#<span>pico8</span></a> palette is just super special.</p><p>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">#<span>visualization</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/indiedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/colors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colors</span></a></p>
Lobsters<p>Pianolizer Helps Your Musical Projects Distinguish Notes (2022) <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/oqgvzm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lobste.rs/s/oqgvzm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>c</span></a>++ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>javascript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a><br><a href="https://hackaday.com/2022/04/26/pianolizer-helps-your-musical-projects-distinguish-notes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2022/04/26/pianol</span><span class="invisible">izer-helps-your-musical-projects-distinguish-notes/</span></a></p>
Jimmy B. :boba_tea:<p>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">#<span>Blocky</span></a>, setting up <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Telegraf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telegraf</span></a> and building a dashboard from the Blocky data. I definitely did NOT need to be working on that... :nkoCrying: :nkoFacePalm: </p><p><a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grafana</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/Prometheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prometheus</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/InfluxDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfluxDB</span></a> <a href="https://selfhosted.cafe/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a></p>
Gareth Lloyd (He/him)<p>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&#39;t use dark patterns.</p><p>At least make it easy to see that the visuals are distorted on purpose.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/charts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>charts</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>visualization</span></a></p>
Lobsters<p>The Bluesky Dictionary <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/dxpufo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lobste.rs/s/dxpufo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a><br><a href="https://www.avibagla.com/blueskydictionary/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">avibagla.com/blueskydictionary/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
bµg<p>I 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).</p><p>It is fascinating!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Visualization</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>math</span></a></p>
éric 🚲 🇪🇺 :emacs:<p>New blog post just published. This is the second in the series on heat exchanger network design.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250806.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/b</span><span class="invisible">log/20250806.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HeatExchangerNetworkDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatExchangerNetworkDesign</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatExchangerNetworkSynthesis</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HENS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HENS</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProcessIntegration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProcessIntegration</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreedyAlgorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreedyAlgorithm</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProcessSystemsEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProcessSystemsEngineering</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Visualization</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JuliaLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JuliaLang</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Optimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Optimization</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ProcessOptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProcessOptimization</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a></p>
Lobsters<p>Minimum Viable Cloud-Native Geo <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/amwea4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lobste.rs/s/amwea4</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qn3fOMQ6fI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=4Qn3fOMQ6fI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>