However, OpenBLAS still links to the reference LAPACK in Fortran, because it's mostly made fast by linking it to a good BLAS implementation. It could be rewritten, or converted to C with f2c. Although there's a long tail of useful but often niche Fortran software, some in Fortran 90 that f2c can't convert. Having a fortran compiler is still useful, and covers all of them at once. Potentially that compiler could compile to another language, to cover more and future platforms all at once (like f2c does). It looks like that's what's going on here, compiling fortran to wasm.

Deutsche Welle (DW) is funded by German taxes and has materials for learning German: https://learngerman.dw.com/ as well as regular new materials aimed at learners, such as the news spoken slowly https://learngerman.dw.com/de/langsam-gesprochene-nachrichte... -- although I found it easier to listen to the normal news (e.g. tagesschau) slowed down slightly. (W-h-e-n p-e-o-p-l-e s-p-e-a-k s-l-o-w-l-y i-t c-a-n b-e h-a-r-d-e-r t-o l-i-s-t-e-n t-o!)

Not state-funded, but I recommend https://www.easygerman.org/ -- they have lots of good youtube material, a nice podcast, and an app I've not used. Most of the material is free with bonus materials for supporters.

https://github.com/adrianjav/pogo — POGO: A Proximal One-step Geometric Orthoptimizer

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14656 — An Embarrassingly Simple Way to Optimize Orthogonal Matrices at Scale; Adrián Javaloy, Antonio Vergari

Lots of past HN discussion... https://hn.algolia.com/?q=you+suck+at+excel

That video was before the introduction of xlookup, which I believe is now worth considering over index and match.

As usual, Ubuntu backported fixes and didn't upgrade to a new version. Whether or not they also backported regressions in edge cases that afflict the latest rsync, I don't know. Pinning the Ubuntu package may prevent getting further regressions, but is preventing you getting any future such backported security fixes.

Which has been discussed previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=The+IPv6+mess

It seemed strange that the need for CGNAT wasn't mentioned until after the MIT story. The "Nothing broke" claim in that story seems unlikely; I was on a public IP at University at the end of the 90s and if I'd suddenly been put behind NAT, some things I did would have broken until the workarounds were worked out.

> The May 1799 test at Oakengates carried a party of investors aboard the vessel, who nearly suffocated before they could be freed.

(!) ...and eventually they built a flight of nineteen locks instead, with a steam-powered pump to return water. The lift locks (and Falkirk Wheel) are a really impressive and elegant solution in comparison.

The wheel is a one-of-a-kind, but there are other ways of avoiding having a ladder of flood locks, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_lift

I really liked this one in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_Lift_Lock Built as a real working lift lock (originally 1904), rather than as a tourist attraction. Powered by a little bit of extra water in one of the buckets to tip the balance and drive the pistons.

A site that has used neural nets to classify go moves that good players would probably make that weaker players (of varying ranks) would probably not: https://neuralnetgoproblems.com/ (code available on github)

https://ai-sensei.com/challenge (behind login wall, and in future possibly a pay wall) is a similar idea, but the difficulty of evaluating the position is determined by how users of the site perform in practice.

And more generally, but relevant to your comment:

Players can play humans at an appropriate rank on OGS https://online-go.com/ (not as popular as the Eastern servers, but probably popular enough) -- or against calibrated rank "human-like" AI players by painfully setting up the right katago models themselves, or by paying for a subscription on ai-sensei.com

A go education site that's currently largely by and pitched at Westerners: https://gomagic.org/ for leveling up from the basics.

And a lot of books are now available easily and electronically in English (and some in German): https://gobooks.com/ --- I'd recommend "graded go problems for beginners", "tesuji", and "attack and defense".

Some good sites aren't (fully) available in English, like https://www.101weiqi.com/ -- but there are chrome and firefox extensions to translate just enough of it to make it usable.

[To help search engines: go is also known as weiqi and baduk]

The main thing I got out of it was the footnotes, in particular: https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/algorithms/matmul/ is a really nice post on fast matrix multiplication, and is a chapter of what looks like a nice online book.

Detecting and preventing unargmaxable outputs in bottlenecked neural networks, Andreas Grivas (2024)

When I was an undergrad I had an audio file for each digit and a winamp playlist for each of my frequently dialed numbers. I'd hold my (landline) phone against the computer speakers and double-click the playlist to dial. I'm sure I spent more time setting this up than it ever saved, but it was somehow pleasing that this ridiculously over-powered speed dialer worked.