💬 Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
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🎨 Marble Fountain: A Procedural Kinetic Sculpture
An inspiring blend of computational creativity and engineering, showing how procedural design can extend beyond code into tangible, artistic forms.
Will Morrison details the making of ‘Marble Fountain,’ a 3D-printed kinetic sculpture generated through procedural algorithms. The post explores challenges like pathfinding, motion modeling, and CAD-based support design, refined through months of iteration and simulation. The final result was showcased as a fully functional, algorithmically designed artwork.
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⚖️ Montana Enshrines the ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law
A groundbreaking step toward recognizing digital autonomy as a civil right, setting a precedent for future AI legislation and individual tech freedoms.
Montana has passed the first U.S. ‘Right to Compute’ Act, legally protecting citizens’ ability to access and use computational and AI technologies. The law positions computation as a fundamental right alongside free speech and property, while defining safety and regulatory standards for AI infrastructure. The move has drawn national attention and may inspire similar efforts across other states.
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🐧 Rust-Based `du` Command Reports Wrong Sizes on Ubuntu 25.10
A reminder that even modern re-implementations of mature UNIX tools must earn reliability through rigorous testing and parity validation with their predecessors.
Users have found that the Rust-based ‘uutils coreutils’ version of the `du` command reports different disk usage values than GNU coreutils on Ubuntu 25.10. The inconsistency suggests potential bugs or differences in how file sizes are aggregated in the new implementation.
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🔐 Inside KeePassXC’s Code Quality and AI Contribution Policy
A thoughtful model of responsible AI use in open-source security projects, balancing innovation with rigorous human accountability.
The KeePassXC team outlined their quality control process and updated policies on AI-assisted code. While limited use of tools like GitHub Copilot is allowed for trivial tasks, all AI contributions undergo full review, testing, and transparent labeling. The project maintains strict human oversight and confirms it will not integrate AI features directly into KeePassXC.
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📧 Email Verification Protocol: Verified Autofill
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🦀 How Many Options Fit Into a Boolean?
A clever mix of programming trivia and personal storytelling that captures Rust’s charm and the author’s creative connection to software craftsmanship.
A Rust developer humorously examines how Rust handles memory optimization for `Option<bool>` and `Result<bool, bool>`, revealing subtle compiler efficiencies. The post also touches on syntax quirks like the ‘turbofish’ and blends personal reflections on moving to Seattle and engaging with the Rust community.
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