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awahab92on Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission

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awahab92on FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

fast enough for a million users on a $4 budget.

When you get to 1% of the world population, you can switch to rust/go

awahab92on FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

The only two langauges that have better error handling are golang and rust.

but not having to context switch from python to another language is worth it for 95% of applications.

awahab92on Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902205 - saw this a few months ago, was going to make like 6 for 3 robots to build legos or playdough sculptures or something

awahab92on Ask HN: Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?

get a - roomba create 3 for 400 - arm built of dynamixel servos for 200 - camera for 100-500 (stereoscopic will set you back but its worth it) - nvidia jetson nano orin nx (500)

for about 2k, you can make a robot that can clean your house and is probably smarter than a dog/cat

awahab92on AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level

magnus carlsen basically quit because computers ruined chess. As did kasparov.

Fischer was probably the last great player who was unassisted by tools.

awahab92on The Origin of Emacs in 1976

would it be a bad idea to rewrite the emacsLisp interpreter and other OS parts in a multi-core friendly language like preferably GO but rust would work too?

my reasoning is that it would add another 100 years to the shelf life of emacs. its good enough i dont have any reason to switch, but if the single threaded perf i s still a bottleneck in 5 years i'd probably switch to ZED.

awahab92on Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

GOLANG, TAILWIND, and HTMX

awahab92on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

closed source will always fuck you in the ass

awahab92on I am starting an AI+Education company

i think kids would be self-motivated with the right system.

I got a lot more motivated to learn when i learned programming.

during the pandemic, the world was in shock, so of course kids are going to play video games when their parents are anxious and filled with cabin-feever.

awahab92on Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

subscriptions should just be illegal

so sick of these bottom feeder apps praying on users forgetting that they are subscribed so they can keep extracting life-essence from your empty husk of a corpse

awahab92on Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers

what do people use instead of twilio today? they make 2dcp verifications take too long

awahab92on AI's $600B Question

there were probably people who doubted electricity, vaccines and indoor plumbing.

awahab92on Apple poised to get OpenAI board observer role as part of AI pact

"conglomerate" would be a good fit.