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Marcelo de Gomensoro Malheiros

@mgmalheiros.bsky.social
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Patterns. Simulation. Graphics. Compilers. Creative Coding. mgmalheiros.github.io PhD in Computer Science. Academic researcher at UEM - Maringá, Brazil. Also at mathstodon.xyz/@mgmalheiros

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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 5h
Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand | Discussion
autodidacts.io
Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
Sticks tongue out at AI
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields | Discussion
notoriousbfg.com
Hole Punch
Punch black holes in space and sling a ship home round them.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026
Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)
All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Things That Apparently Cause Cancer | Discussion
breakthroughjournal.org
Things that Apparently Cause Cancer
What does this methodology measure anyway?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 03/10/2026
Visualising the distribution of substrings in the genomes of different organisms. Going up to depth eight by recursively splitting into quadrants, we get these fractal-like pictures.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why | Discussion
science.org
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Henry Segerman @henryseg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New video, on a surprising linkage motion that showed up when I was playing with chains of bevel gears. youtu.be/ujEZUFNgf50
youtu.be
A mysterious extra movement
YouTube video by Henry Segerman
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tiny Brutalism | Discussion
placeholders.itch.io
Tiny Brutalism by Placeholders
A Cozy Brutalism Sandbox Game
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now | Discussion
arstechnica.com
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
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Banana Bytes @bananabytes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sophstar is currently 50% off on Steam during the Seasonal Sale! If you enjoy arcade shmups, now is a great time to grab it. store.steampowered.com/app/1410440/...
store.steampowered.com
Save 50% on Sophstar on Steam
A vertical arcade shoot'em up with an inventive teleport system, lots of fast-blazing action and explosions, tons of boss fights, a risk/reward based score system and a proper challenge for both veter...
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Protopop @protopop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cozy Country is like Photoshop for landscapes. Paint hills, forests and rivers, then walk through the world you create❤️🌳 Update 2.6 adds a new river system and lots of player requested features. And it's 20% off for the Steam Autumn Sale. store.steampowered.com/app/4690240/...
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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Fast blur with animated radius", examines various blurring techniques with an emphasis on varying blur radius and non-uniform horizontal & vertical blur. Includes WebGPU sample to showcase the techniques. aras-p.info/blog/2026/10...
aras-p.info
Fast blur with animated radius · Aras' website
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Jendrik Illner @jendrikillner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 457 - September 27th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
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Breathing Retro @breathing-retro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ReverseEngineering NovaLogic's Comanche Terrain Maps #retrogaming #retrocomputing #demoscene #msdos #gamedev #programming
pikuma.com
Reverse Engineering NovaLogic's Comanche Terrain Maps
This article explains the process of reverse engineering the terrain map files from Comanche: Maximum Overkill, developed and published by NovaLogic for MS-DOS in 1992.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience | Discussion
56k.rip
56k.rip
The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.
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Paul Nicholas @liquidream.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗢⬩𝟭𝗞 𝗝𝗔𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 has now finished 🏁 👨‍💻 We had 83 awesome entries (a new record!) 🏅 Please check them out: 🌐 itch.io/jam/pico-1k-... A mix of 🕹️ Games, 📺 Demos & 🛠️ Tools. All done in #Pico8 (or #Picotron), using ≤ 1KB of 🗜️ code Congrats everyone! 👏🤓 #Pico1k #GameJam #Demoscene #Sizecoding
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns | Discussion
bookofshapes.com
Book of Shapes
A curated gallery of generative patterns. Discover, customize, and download unique algorithmic art.
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Zed @zed.dev · 30/09/2026
🚀 Zed v1.22 is out! Zed's agent can now spawn subagents with different models on the fly. Each subagent card shows which model it's using. Thanks itsfuad!
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Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed @winterbloed.be · 29/09/2026
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? | Discussion
prospect.org
Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/09/2026
I really like how @reckless.bsky.social described this: "The people do not yearn for automation" www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...
theverge.com
BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN
Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.
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Alexandre B A Villares @villares.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An L-System plant with rule F -> F[+F-F+FB]F[-F+F-FL], the B and L symbols make red ("Bloom") and green ("Leaf") circles. The sketch-a-day archives and tip jar are at: abav.lugaralgum.com/sketch-a-day Code for this: github.com/villares/sketch-a-day/tr……
An L-System plant with rule F -> F[+F-F+FB]F[-F+F-FL], the B and L symbols make red ("Bloom") and green ("Leaf") circles.
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...
undark.org
AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem
Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.
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Matthew Shlian @matthewshlian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Woven Vessel 22 with Ink Wash on Pashmina Grey Paper 26” x 12” x 12” #shlian #paper #art #vessel #sculpture
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 28/09/2026
The 9th entry of my "How The Heck?" series is out! 🔒 It's all about how locks work, from ancient Egyptians nailing the design to why the perfect lock doesn't exist. It was a fun rabbit hole to go down, and challenging to get the visuals right.
perthirtysix.com
How The Heck Do Locks Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
An interactive exploration of how locks work: from pin tumbler mechanics and shear lines to wrong keys, picking, bumping, and better lock designs.
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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 28/09/2026
This is damn well put. graybearding.bearblog.dev/the-religion...
graybearding.bearblog.dev
The Religion of Speed
At some point, “moving fast” stopped being a practical concern and became a moral position. You see it damn near everywhere now. How fast can we ship this...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
nyti.ms
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? | Discussion
blog.codinghorror.com
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted: Hey Jeff, Hope you and your family are doing well. Just jogging
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake | Discussion
pikuma.com
C's Flexible Integer Sizes were Not a Design Mistake
Word sizes, strange machines, and why <strong>int</strong> was never meant to mean 32 bits. C's flexible integer types were how the language achieved portability in a world of 12, 18, 36, and 60-bit computers.
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Alexandre B A Villares @villares.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
``` regras = { 'X': '@X[-FFFL][+FFFL]FFX', 'Y': 'YFFX[+YFFB][-YFFB]', } axioma = 'Y' passo = 3 angulo = 52 iteracoes = 5 ``` The sketch-a-day archives and tip jar are at: abav.lugaralgum.com/sketch-a-day Code for this: github.com/villares/sketch-a-day/tr……
L-System generated plant with red circles.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day 12 and a half years ago I saw the coolest ever iceberg. Never seen one like it since. Fellsfjara, Jökulsárlón, #Iceland
A six-foot (ish) high turquoise iceberg with a small friend on a black sand beach. Grey rainy day with some of the turquoise reflected in the blank sand, and long exposure smooth waves breaking.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Evolving programming languages in the AI era | Discussion
dashbit.co
Evolving programming languages in the AI era - Dashbit Blog
What happens to programming languages when humans are no longer writing most of the code?
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC | Discussion
righto.com
Reverse-engineering the vintage Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
I hope you're not tired of the 8087, because I have another article about Intel's floating-point chip. 1 In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087...
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えいいち(E.C.H) @ech0903.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
dailycoding - 20260926 / graphic #p5js #javascript #Processing #generativeart #creativecoding #dailycoding code : openprocessing.org/@u277028/302...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Marcelo de Gomensoro Malheiros @mgmalheiros.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bad, very bad indeed...
keepandroidopen.org
Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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Zeno Rogue @zenorogue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And a "hypersian rug" version.
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Alexandre B A Villares @villares.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
```python regras = { 'X': '[-FY][+FY]FY', 'Y': 'YF[+XFB][-XFB]X', 'F': '[-F+FL]FF' } axioma = 'Y' passo = 7 angulo = 45 iteracoes = 5 ``` One more #LSystem sketch :) The sketch-a-day archives and tip jar are at: abav.lugaralgum.com/sketch-a-day Code for this: github.co…
An L-System generates "fractal plant" with black lines, green circles, and red circles.
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Red Blob Games @redblobgames.com · 17/09/2026
New blog post: www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09... I was looking at assigning "a" vs "an" articles for English nouns (for procgen purposes), and fell into a rabbit hole …
Diagram showing the first two letters of English words, and whether that word would get the "a" or "an" article in front of it
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians | Discussion
terrytao.wordpress.com
We’re gonna need a lot more mathematicians
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…
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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interactive webpage: csprofkgd.github.io/video-tubele...
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"so this is fun, and exactly what i wanted, but now lets try one that actually is educational" This is actually pretty impressive. It kept the constraint of multiple genres but did a nice job explaining recursion, in its programming meaning, in an interesting and accessible way.
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs | Discussion
discourse.haskell.org
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
Are you steering towards AI burnout? Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account? Disappointed about the code quality in your projects, or worse in “your” own code? This is for you. There are significant and legitimate ethical concerns about frontier LLMs run by big tech companies, these have been discussed at length, I’m aware and agree, this post is not about them. Please don’t mistake me for a pro-LLM techbro. Al...
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でんか @k-hermit.com · 26/09/2026
全方向つるすべ
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Plan mode is dead | Discussion
aymannadeem.com
Plan mode is dead
Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How do you explain recursion? This one is pretty fun. I had Claude Opus 5.5 make: "A video explaining recursion, where every explanation about recursion has a radically different video style, make this self-referential & clever & fast moving." All code, no images. Nine genre shifts, one prompt...
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