Project Euler has been taken down after a security breach. There is no indication of when — or even if — the site will return. All that’s left is the following message: What sort of lowlife scumbag would attack a site like this?
Author: phil
HackerRank W3 — where was everyone?
The latest HackerRank weekly challenge attracted 71 entries from the US and 387 from India, but only four from the UK. I think this is the lowest turnout so far. Maybe the good weather had something to do with it. But anyway,…
Untrusted
Untrusted is a Javascript adventure game where the only way you can win is by rewriting parts of its source code as you go along. For example, in the very first level, your character (a simple “@” character) is imprisoned…
CipherSaber
I recently learned about an encryption protocol called CipherSaber, which was developed in 2001 by author, consultant and Star Wars fan Arnold G. Reinhold in retaliation against government plans to restrict access to strong cryptographic techniques. CipherSaber is based on…
Unlocking a car with your brain
A marvellous bit of science here from professor Roger Bowley:
How Slartibartfast got his name
At half past ten tonight (about ten minutes from now) it will be exactly 36 years since the first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broadcast. To mark the occasion, the BBC is not only repeating the…
Wolfram Language
I don’t think I’ve ever found the arrival of a new programming language worth getting excited about. But this really does look interesting: If anyone ever gets round to creating a real Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this is the…
Subpixel-aware image scaling
Subpixel rendering is the technique your computer uses to make text on the screen as readable as possible even at small font sizes. In a typical LCD monitor, each pixel is represented by a combination of three separate light-emitting elements,…
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Get notified when a website comes back online
B3ta.com has been offline all evening. This is not such bad news, as there are other things I should really be doing right now. It would be nice, however, if my computer could let me know when the site comes…
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