vismit2000

The hardest ever problem in Advent of Code involved an octree! https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/23

Becomes all the more relevant after watching the latest Veritasium video on xz utils backdoor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

Manim

Second edition is available now: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...

This is really nice but I see this works only for the current issue i.e. #8 and not for previous issues.

That's why this course is so important: https://missing.csail.mit.edu

For someone interested to try this out algorithmically: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/17

Earlier on HN, much more detailed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719829

Honorary mention: https://github.com/pytries/marisa-trie

Hey, I have been using this on whatsapp, and I got mindblown first time I used it, and really love its personality. I use it for all sorts of reminders nowadays. Only thing is I was facing some latex formatting issues last time I used but I don’t know maybe that’s a Whatsapp rendering issue

Qordinate - Another personal AI assistant: https://www.qordinate.ai

Lecture 2: Command-line Environment of Missing Semester 2026 released today! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccBGsPedE9Q

You can try VSCode Speech to Text extension that works decently well in Github Copilot chat as part of Microsoft accessibility suite.

Colossus & Bletchley Park - Computerphile: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9HH-asvLAj4

PDF: https://people.duke.edu/~charvey/Teaching/697_2024/ML.pdf

'A Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37975558

Google Testing blog: https://testing.googleblog.com/2025/10/simplify-your-code-fu...

Tintin - Tibet, Black lotus, Cigars of the Pharaoh, Seven Crystal Balls

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is: https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/ Beautiful translation and purports on one of the most widely read and revered text in India.

Lectures archive: https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures

Honorary mention: https://www.welchlabs.com/blog/2015/8/28/imaginary-numbers-a...

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