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rel··on Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
I've been trying to migrate over the zed and think they're Agent Client Protocol[1] is pretty neat, I wonder how much memory pressure Claude Code exerts if it is going through that mechanism instead

1: https://zed.dev/acp

rel··on PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
I’ve had incredible success with testcontainers for local unit-testing
rel··on Paper Apps
Found these a couple weeks ago and bought the golf PDF for my <7y/o nephew and he was initially hesitant but then thrilled once he understood the basic premise. Didn’t have the heart to start teaching him A* and manhattan distance, that’ll come later.

I’m glad the creator made this and am looking forward to seeing more of these

Side note, these reminded me of pocket mod which I absolutely loved using 15 years ago https://pocketmod.com/

rel··on Don't Say Velcro (2017)
Reminds me tangentially of this great recreation of a deposition: https://youtu.be/PZbqAMEwtOE
rel··on Epicycle Clock
I love these! I’ve seen them referred to as “hand in hand” clocks and there are a handful of physical manifestations that you can 3d print or make yourself

https://ytec3d.com/hand-in-hand-clock/ https://www.tindie.com/products/ekaggrat/hand-in-hand-clock-...

rel··on Uber Eats Canada Ran Production in a MacBook Air
I was just reading in "Losing the Signal"[1] about how Blackberry's relay service of the late 1990s was sometimes run on a sysadmins laptop just because they needed anything to help deal with the traffic they weren't equipped to deal with.

[1] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250096067/losingthesignal

rel··on How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021)
Great video showing the process of learning the technique https://youtu.be/hbWeSHbL-rM
rel··on Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Just want to give a quick shout out to coauthor Tom Griffiths for being an amazing educator; I attended his class before this book was published and was delighted when this book covered the general ideas covered. I’m always happy to recommend it to others looking to understand more about computer science in an approachable way
rel··on Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?
Meshcentral is fantastic and cross-platform. Hosting it yourself is really simple. One of my favorite open source projects. https://meshcentral.com/info/
rel··on Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader
MIT policy on sexual harassment was found to be violated.

https://news.mit.edu/2014/lewin-courses-removed-1208

rel··on How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
There seems to be quite more to the article than that. Maybe if being critical of everything on the internet, the comment section may not be for you.
rel··on G is for Google
Congratulations to Sundar!
rel··on Artificial Killing Machine
I think an answer to this is raw data. Data is data and you can of course massage the information to do what you want[1] and it can also be argued that it's been misinterpreted and improperly reported since the beginning of time. The truth is that the only "true" judgement that can be made is by the person who reads and interprets the raw data. If we make more "actualizations" like this where it takes a raw information stream and leaves it to the viewer to interpret, it will become less exploitable.

Akin to a thermometer, there are reporters and newscasters who can tell you the weather outside and we hope they are not deceitful but if you look at a thermometer, you have the raw data and you can make that judgement yourself.

[1]http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/lie-factor.php

rel··on Artificial Killing Machine
Visualizations like these are incredible and I want to see more like them. We're at a time where data wealth and transparency is becoming more and more sought out and computers/microcontrollers are incredibly cheap.

An installation like this one would be thought provoking in an art gallery or event space, especially if it's pulling raw data. The silence, or even onslaught of noise, would be deafening. Presentations like these give a much more tangible understanding than points on a graph.

rel··on Berkeley CS 61AS – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Self-Paced
It is definitely beneficial to learn multiple languages. I felt bad for my friend because she had taken the two concurrently.
rel··on Berkeley CS 61AS – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Self-Paced
As much as I love racket/scheme/lisp, I truly believe that the 61A (sans-s) where python is taught, helped me much more for my career/future just because it was taught in python. For programming fundamentals, either works great, but I think working with python is more helpful for future environments.

One example of this is when a classmate of mine was taking an artificial intelligence class at Berkeley (Cog Sci 131) and was at a loss because she was taking 61as which was taught in strictly scheme, and the artificial intelligence class was taught in strictly python.

Both classes are wonderful and I can proudly say that it has made me a better computer scientist. http://cs61a.org/

rel··on Generating Magic cards using deep, recursive neural networks
How long before the neural network draws Shring the Artist?
rel··on Time Warner Cable Shareholders Approve Sale to Comcast
Living in the east bay (Berkeley) means your options are pretty limited in terms of service, but we have a local company (www.lmi.net) which has incredible service. When there was an outage, they sent the technician 2 hours after I called and I've never had any trouble with them.
rel··on Google killer-robots.txt
I enjoy their http://www.google.com/humans.txt
rel··on How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in Python (2010)
Yeah, I too instantly thought of the 61a project.
rel··on Coding the Movies – Don’t Fake It
Tron was pretty amazing in not faking it. A post that bubbles up to the front page usually several times in a year is Joshua Nimoy's write up for the effects he did for tron (http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178)

Incredible stuff and an enjoyable read.

rel··on CodeCombat (YC W14) Wants You To Learn To Code By Playing Games
Weren't they the ones that got picked up during startup school office hours?
rel··on Letter-heads
Worked surprisingly well on mobile!
rel··on Gmail was down
Interestingly the page says that it has no problem but I can't log into mail.Google.com or send any mail from my phone.
rel··on Kevin Rose’s idea for a new blogging platform called Tiny
I really like this idea and especially like the idea of making it more of a "live event"

At a recent hackathon I was documenting how I was feeling and rough progress reports on the hack but that's just text with a time stamp. If Tiny could use my webcam to record what i'm doing and then create a cinemagraph-like loop of myself it would create much more of an acceptable reading for family and friends than just a markdown file.

Where I really see Tiny shining is the mobile aspect though. Tiny seems like it will be a vine competitor in the future where you can access posts and see a quick video in the background of a concert or travelling through some landscape. While reading you'd see the blurred movie in the background and you could click out of focus of the post the movie would come in focus.

rel··on New Pirate Bay address
Just like a cartoon where one hole gets plugged and another leak forms.
rel··on NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Transmissions to and from Moon
I worked at NASA (AMES) on a project to put small mobile robots on the moon. Our biggest goal was to create a tele-operated mode where from earth we could actively roam around the moon. The hardest part was that factoring in a 4 second delay from our commands to the network stacks to the rover on the moon, and then that video from the moon back to our computers and then creating good judgement. A 4 second delay seems insignificant but is in fact detrimental to intuitive controlling.
rel··on Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead
Just because people aren't "approving" the project doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Chrome started as a 20% project and it wasn't approved until it was way into development.
rel··on Show HN: Chardin.js, beautiful instructions for apps
Simple and elegant, very nice :)
rel··on Ask HN: Developer Laptops
Yeah, I've never bought anything off ebay because i've been uncertain about trusting the sellers there. I think I may go with something off of ebay though. Thanks for your help :]
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