Hacker News with Generative AI: Challenges

Advantages and Challenges of Nuclear-Powered Data Centers (energy.gov)
Nuclear power has the potential to be a great partner for data centers but there are some hurdles to clear.

Nuclear Power, Data Centers, Energy, Sustainability, Challenges

3 points by mpweiher 12 days ago | 0 comments

Doing the Prospero-Challenge in RPython (pypy.org)
Recently I had a lot of fun playing with the Prospero Challenge by Matt Keeter. The challenge is to render a 1024x1024 image of a quote from The Tempest by Shakespeare. The input is a mathematical formula with 7866 operations, which is evaluated once per pixel.

Programming, Challenges, Python, Image Processing, Shakespeare

29 points by tekknolagi 17 days ago | 2 comments

Decomposing factorial of 300K as the product of 300K factors larger than 100K (blogspot.com)
A few days ago, Terence Tao proposed a challenge to decompose the 300K! as the product of 300K factors larger than 100K.

Mathematics, Factorials, Challenges

97 points by gus_massa 18 days ago | 9 comments

Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) (dorithegiant.com)
Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circles, I decided to give myself a design challenge.

Design, Art, Twitter, Social Media, Challenges

662 points by jihadjihad 24 days ago | 108 comments

The Prospero Challenge (mattkeeter.com)
prospero.vm is a plain-text file containing 7866 math expressions.

Mathematics, Programming, Challenges

106 points by jstanley 33 days ago | 39 comments

Show HN: I Made an Escape Room Themed Prompt Injection Challenge (pangea.cloud)

Security, Prompt Injection, Web Development, Hacking, Challenges

8 points by planetpr 45 days ago | 1 comments

The Bellingcat Open Source Challenge Is Back (bellingcat.com)
At the end of last year, Bellingcat released a set of online challenges that we hoped would test the skills of our audience and the wider open source investigator community.

Challenges, Bellingcat

16 points by gessha 49 days ago | 0 comments

The JIT Calculator Challenge (ochagavia.nl)
Advent of code has come and passed, what should I do now with so much free time? Fear not! The JIT calculator challenge is here.

Programming, Challenges

13 points by azhenley 62 days ago | 3 comments

The APL Challenge (dyalog.com)
The deadline for the current round (2025.1) is Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 09:00 UTC.

Programming, Challenges, Competitions

87 points by bjarteaarmolund 80 days ago | 21 comments

Making a Website Is Hard (cathoderaydude.com)

Web Development, Technology, Programming, Challenges

16 points by todsacerdoti 125 days ago | 9 comments

The $5000 Compression Challenge (2001) (patrickcraig.co.uk)
Mike Goldman makes another offer: I will attach a prize of $5,000 to anyone who successfully meets this challenge. First, the contestant will tell me HOW LONG of a data file to generate. Second, I will generate the data file, and send it to the contestant.

Data Compression, Challenges, Prizes

181 points by ekiauhce 153 days ago | 185 comments

Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one? (saytheprime.com)
We're attempting to get a collection of humans to say every digit of the newly-discovered (and currently largest-known prime number) Mersenne prime M136279841, and hope to achieve this before another larger prime is discovered.

Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Challenges, Community Projects

314 points by robinhouston 174 days ago | 146 comments

The invisible problem with sending people to Mars (theverge.com)

Space Exploration, Mars, Challenges

7 points by amichail 252 days ago | 1 comments

The invisible problem with sending people to Mars (theverge.com)

Space Exploration, Mars, Challenges, Technology

3 points by croes 252 days ago | 1 comments

Taking the Drizzle Challenge (ben.mk)

Food, Challenges, Online Communities

18 points by monssoen 261 days ago | 13 comments

BB(5) = 47,176,870 (bbchallenge.org)