Stories by henning

Most claims about "irreducible complexity" are completely factually incorrect

Usenet history: the first "worst episode ever" post

Leonard vs. PepsiCo, Inc.

A physical explanation of the "Cheerios effect"

BRIC: the four developing countries that could be economic leaders by 2050

Harmony search: a metaheuristic inspired by musical improvisation

Mathematics writer Martin Gardner has died

Tell HN: Today is Mother's Day. Consider taking appropriate action.

Video: autonomous (computer-controlled) acrobatic helicopter flight

Self-taught learning: using unlabeled data to improve supervised learning

Training a deep belief network on a GPU with 100 million free parameters

Calculated Bets: how a CS prof developed a winning sports gambling system

Detecting malicious URLs: papers and a downloadable 700 MB data set

OCRopus: high-quality open source OCR sponsored by Google and used by reCAPTCHA

Hugin: open source panoramic photo stitching and HDR merging

STD Wizard: a web-based expert system for recommending STD treatments

Weebly (YC 07) is having a US$10k theme design contest

Karl Rove's book vs. Rework - what the American People need to know

Project Cybersyn: real-time computer control of a planned economy (1970-1973)

The Robustness of CAPTCHAs: A Security Engineering Perspective

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