Stories by ColinWright

Legendre's constant

Poll: Help my MVP: do you value the discussion or the links more?

Holding a Program in One's Head (2007)

Sunk by Windows NT - When a divide by 0 error paralyzed a ship

Learning for pleasure

Three things we have to teach in schools

Breath test could identify trapped disaster victims

Bad spelling opens up security loophole

Poll: Here at HN, what do you value more highly - the discussion or the links?

Weight of pencil

One-electron universe

Harvesting the sun's energy with antennas

Duff's device

Nuclear fusion 'will work' (auto-starting audio)

MOO

Patents: Can the giants protect the minnows?

A brief introduction to Rational Trigonometry

Set Theory: Should You Believe?

Penn Jillette: How Politics Is Like Magic

A Beginners Course in Algebraic Topology