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Re:GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card
on Friday July 03, 2026 @10:48PM (#48782231)
What’s the actual objection to it being vibe-coded? Would it somehow be more respectable if someone had wasted precious human hours hand-coding this silly thing?
Re:Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:05PM (#46361977)
Related: pnut.sh https://github.com/udem-dlteam/pnut just released. It’s a self-compiling C->POSIX shell transpiler that outputs readable shell, aimed at live-bootstrap and reproducible build chains. The shell edition is auditable and can bootstrap a native compiler from just POSIX sh + coreutils. Very much in the spirit of stage0 / compile-from-nothing work.
Re:Show HN: Duper – The Format That's Super
on Saturday November 01, 2025 @10:07PM (#45787304)
Nice work this actually looks great. Of course, it’s only a matter of time before someone drops the XKCD about standards proliferation, so I’ll save them the trouble. Pre-emptive XKCD #927 deployed.
Re:Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:35PM (#44800328)
Wondering What happens when we peer through a microscope or telescope?
Re:Fun with uv and PEP 723
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @04:14PM (#44370555)
finally feels like Python scripts can Just Work™ without a virtualenv scavenger hunt.
Now if only someone could do the same for shell scripts. Packaging, dependency management, and reproducibility in shell land are still stuck in the Stone Ages. Right now it’s still curl | bash and hope for the best, or a README with 12 manual steps and three missing dependencies.
Sure, there’s Nix... if you’ve already transcended time, space, and the Nix manual. Docker? Great, if downloading a Linux distro to run sed sounds reasonable.
There’s got to be a middle ground simple, declarative, and built for humans.
Re:Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B ...
on Monday April 14, 2025 @07:32PM (#43687425)
Quick search shows Altera held 30% of the FPGA market. That puts AMD’s $50B acquisition of Xilinx (which holds ~50% of the market) in an awkward light. Using some extremely crude math, Xilinx’s fair market value might now be closer to ~$15B.
Did AMD massively overpay, or has the FPGA market fundamentally shifted? Curious to see how this new benchmark ripples into AMD’s stock valuation.
Re:HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025
on Saturday December 14, 2024 @04:58PM (#42419748)
There’s an interesting middle-ground worth mentioning: a 2-in-1 connector https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Rego-Electronics/845-00... that can take both HDMI and DisplayPort cables, which could be a neat solution for devices juggling both standards.
Here’s a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpHizpZSPQ showing a PC with this connector in action.
Maybe not a game-changer, but it’s an interesting idea to reduce port clutter without forcing a winner in the format war just yet.
Re:Can we make a camera see behind walls? [video]
on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:03PM (#42320122)
This reminds me of MIT’s work on femto-photography to see around corners. They used ultrafast laser pulses to bounce light off walls, capturing the reflections from hidden objects. By analyzing the time-of-flight data, they could reconstruct 3D shapes of objects not in direct view.
<https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/cornar/>
Re:MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the ...
on Saturday November 25, 2023 @06:57PM (#38417963)
Finally, LLMs have brought us to the threshold of ancestral simulation. It's like the universe hit 'retry' on humanity, but this time with AI as the dungeon master.
Re:macOS in QEMU (ARM edition) [pdf]
on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:27AM (#36889283)
KVM Forum 2023 Day 2 10:15 AM https://youtu.be/hyrw4j2D6I0?t=4684
Re:Hush, a modern shell scripting language
on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:31PM (#31163662)
https://xon.sh/ has an impressive approach merging python and shell
Re:A PCIe network interface card that adds full router capabilities to...
on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:41PM (#30832432)
STH has a bit more information on the card
https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-ccr2004-1g-2xs-pcie-is...
Re:Fifty Years Later, Curators Unveil One of Last Sealed Apollo Samples
on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:12AM (#30799997)
There is an amazing video by Destin from Smarter Every Day about the Moon Samples Lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZ_iPldGtI&t=647s
Re:AWS Private 5G
on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:41PM (#29394972)
Open Source software stack to run private LTE/5G with SDR https://github.com/srsran/srsRAN
Re:Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
on Monday September 20, 2021 @01:00AM (#28590511)
https://www.calligraphr.com/en/docs/tutorial2/
How about this?
Re:The Carbon Footprint Sham – A 'successful, deceptive' PR campaign
on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @10:22AM (#28289242)
Is properly burying waste plastic underground and ensuring it doesn’t pollute water streams or break down into micro plastic a good way of long term carbon storage?
Liquifying or turning it into syngas seems counter intuitive as we’re releasing a long chain carbon store back into atmospheric co2
Re:Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google...
on Monday July 05, 2021 @11:21PM (#27743942)
Apple and Google need to give people a chance to manage their own data.
Re:Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React
on Friday July 02, 2021 @01:41PM (#27714466)
These look relevant if anyone is interested in developing node based tools with react
3D Printed Compressed Air Wankel Engine
Re:Mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines
on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:36PM (#27157184)
When can we reasonably expect the “cyclist gets banned from tour de france after committee finds athlete installed enteric oxygenation device in the saddle” headline?
Re:DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected
on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:13PM (#26951074)
I tried to find if there are any concrete ideas how to clean this mess. Can anyone point me to research on how these deep sea barrels can be lifted back and properly handled?
How does one destroy DDT? Is there any way it can be burned safely?
Re:Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:11PM (#26840433)
It would be awesome if sharp (https://github.com/lovell/sharp) would implement this algorithm
Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment finds strong evidence for new physics
Re:US Is One Step Closer to Having Program to Study Blocking Sun
on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:43AM (#26620705)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
>One proposed sunshade would be composed of 16 trillion small disks at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point, 1.5 million kilometers above Earth. Each disk is proposed to have a 0.6-meter diameter and a thickness of about 5 micrometers. The mass of each disk would be about a gram, adding up to a total of almost 20 million tonnes. Such a group of small sunshades that blocks 2% of the sunlight, deflecting it off into space, would be enough to halt global warming, giving ample time to cut emissions back on Earth.
> Such a group of sunshades would need to occupy an area of about 3.8 million square kilometers if placed at the L1 point. The deployment of the flyers is an issue that requires reusable rockets. With 100t LEO booster a single launch per day would allow to release the required number of sails within 20 years.
Re:Sole – Artificial Sun by Quiet Ensemble
on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:40AM (#26618638)
Not quite the same but a similar interesting artificial sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw
NASA Analysis: Earth Is Safe from Asteroid Apophis for 100-Plus Years
Re:An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan's grapes fresh all winter
on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:21AM (#26593179)
I once heard in central Anatolia people used to store grapes on the vine. They would trim the end of the vine, pluck one of the fresh grapes and stick it on the trimmed end. Finally vines would be hanged from the ceiling of a cool cellar.
My grandfather told me that the nutrients and moisture within that one grape would keep the others alive for longer.