Hacker News with Generative AI: Binary

Inserting a 0 bit in the middle of a value (wordpress.com)
Inserting a 0 bit in the middle of a value is not hard to do: we can split the original value into the bits below and at or above the target bit position, shift the top bits left by 1 more unit to make space, then reassemble everything together:
Binary and the Jacquard Mechanism [video] (youtube.com)