Stories by ColinWright

Flipping pancakes with mathematics

Reverse Engineering the Z80′s 16-bit Increment/Decrement Circuit

Bramble: easily update and test your package.json against the latest versions

Space Images: The Day the Earth Smiled

Microwave signals turned into electrical power

Mailcheck.js: The Javascript library and jQuery plugin that suggests a domain

Getting website registration completely wrong

Proving Pi is Irrational: a step-by-step guide using only high school calculus

What is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

'Oral sex' definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools

Richard Feynman: How computers think

The astounding athletic power of quadcopters (video)

The Irksome Tuesday Boy Problem

UK cops officially detained David Miranda for thoughtcrime

Apollo 13's Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a real problem

"i" was made up to solve sqrt(-1). Don't we need something new for sqrt(i)?

Tell HN: HNSearch still not updating

Tell HN: HNSearch appears not to be updating

Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research

Hash Table Denial of Service Attacks, Revisited