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posted on Tue Oct 11 13:15:41 UTC 2022 by bmer | view on HN
The article discusses how to install the Pie programming language onto a computer.
Show HN: Open-Sourcing InboxSDK (YC S11) – Build Apps in Gmail
posted on Tue Oct 11 15:55:09 UTC 2022 by alooPotato | view on HN
Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots
posted on Tue Oct 11 11:58:08 UTC 2022 by solene | view on HN
The article is about the NILFS file system, which has a unique system of continuous checkpoint creation.
Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships
posted on Fri Oct 07 22:25:24 UTC 2022 by zeristor | view on HN
The UK is at the forefront of developing hybrid aircraft, which could play an important role in transitioning to cleaner forms of aviation, according to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng.
/r/StableDiffusion – Mod here – My side of the story
posted on Tue Oct 11 16:10:10 UTC 2022 by BudaDude | view on HN
The article is about a person's experience with being a moderator for the Stability Discord server and subreddit, and how they were removed from their position.
Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe
posted on Tue Oct 11 15:36:20 UTC 2022 by prostoalex | view on HN
The article discusses how Einstein's theory of entanglement has been proven by experiments and how it relates to black holes.
Ali Cehreli Introduces Dlang at Northeastern U
posted on Sat Oct 08 23:09:13 UTC 2022 by WalterBright | view on HN
Researchers develop thermoformable ceramics, 'a new frontier in materials'
posted on Fri Oct 07 17:15:49 UTC 2022 by PaulHoule | view on HN
Northeastern professor Randall Erb and Ph.D. student Jason Bice have discovered an all-ceramic that can be compression-molded into complex parts, which has the potential to transform the design and construction of heat-emitting electronics.
Blender: Wayland Support on Linux
posted on Tue Oct 11 10:26:53 UTC 2022 by TangerineDream | view on HN
The article discusses the process of adding Wayland support to Blender and the challenges that come with it.
Never pay for online dating (2010)
posted on Tue Oct 11 14:43:14 UTC 2022 by skanderbm | view on HN
The article is about how the business model for sites like Match.com and eHarmony is broken and how the sites have a unique incentive to profit from their customers' disappointment.
Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018)
posted on Tue Oct 11 12:10:22 UTC 2022 by fagnerbrack | view on HN
This article is about the JavaScript library that enables the detection of faces in images.
Can we end megafires? These companies are trying to
posted on Fri Oct 07 15:21:17 UTC 2022 by billclerico | view on HN
The article discusses how the combination of thinning out trees and conducting prescribed burns is the most effective way to prevent destructive wildfires.
Show HN: My book for programmers called “Junior to Senior” was published today
posted on Tue Oct 11 15:18:44 UTC 2022 by dglass | view on HN
This book is about the soft skills needed to thrive as an engineer, which are often neglected.
Geothermal may beat batteries for energy storage
posted on Tue Oct 11 09:21:43 UTC 2022 by rbanffy | view on HN
The article discusses how geothermal systems could be used to store excess wind and solar power in the form of hot water or steam, and bring up that heat when wind and solar aren’t available, to turn turbines for electricity.
AmigaOS 4.1: Introduction to the Software Development Kit v54.16, part 1
posted on Tue Oct 11 13:53:44 UTC 2022 by doener | view on HN
The AmigaOS 4.1 Software Development Kit (SDK) V54.16 is a software development package that allows developers to compile programs in the C programming language and run them on the AmigaOS 4.1 operating system.
Reflect (YC S20) is hiring a software engineer
posted on Tue Oct 11 12:00:56 UTC 2022 by fitzn | view on HN
Reflect is a cloud-based platform that translates manual end-to-end web tests into automated tests, which is the fastest tool for creating tests and the easiest way to maintain them.
Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs
posted on Tue Oct 11 11:56:15 UTC 2022 by charlieirish | view on HN
The article is about the podcast.ai, which is a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence.
Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid
posted on Tue Oct 11 16:38:41 UTC 2022 by clairity | view on HN
The article discusses how the author used negative margins to make selected elements on their site wider than the page content area, and how it worked well.
posted on Mon Oct 10 18:13:27 UTC 2022 by _Microft | view on HN
The article discusses a disinfection technique that could have good public health effects on the current coronavirus, on influenza spread, and on future outbreaks of both bacterial and viral diseases.
Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
posted on Tue Oct 11 16:05:22 UTC 2022 by mozillamaxx | view on HN
Firefox Relay is a privacy-first product that hides your real email address to help protect your identity and has a new user-requested feature to protect personal phone numbers.
Eliminating Format from Lisp (2003)
posted on Tue Oct 11 11:59:50 UTC 2022 by susam | view on HN
The article discusses how Lisp's syntactic extensibility can be both a good and bad thing, as it can lead to programmers making silly mistakes when they forget to follow the two basic rules.
Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics
posted on Tue Oct 11 06:58:10 UTC 2022 by denysvitali | view on HN
The article discusses the idea of changing the semantics of for loop variables to be per-iteration instead of per-loop, and how this change would be implemented so that it only affects packages whose go.mod file says "go 1.30" or later.
Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White [audio]
posted on Tue Oct 11 16:07:38 UTC 2022 by dillonkearns | view on HN
Vendr, a software procurement startup, has raised $150 million at a unicorn valuation.
posted on Tue Oct 11 02:39:42 UTC 2022 by babuskov | view on HN
The article discusses the official PyTorch implementation of the paper "Human Motion Diffusion Model".
Time-restricted eating reduces visceral fat and improves metabolic syndrome
posted on Tue Oct 11 09:43:14 UTC 2022 by nabla9 | view on HN
The article discusses a clinical trial that compared the efficacy of weight loss and improvement of metabolic parameters of an LCD, 8-h TRE, and their combination in adults with MetS.
Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
posted on Tue Oct 11 01:38:40 UTC 2022 by teilo | view on HN
The article is about Vectis IP, a UK-based IP and technology licensing company, announcing a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.
France looks into increasing uranium enrichment capacity
posted on Tue Oct 11 15:10:25 UTC 2022 by PaulHoule | view on HN
The French National Commission for Public Debate has announced it is relaunching a consultation on the Georges Besse II uranium enrichment plant to consider increasing the plant's capacity from 7.5 to 11 million SWU per year.
The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy
posted on Sat Oct 08 21:01:47 UTC 2022 by fortran77 | view on HN
The article is about the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911.
Ask HN: Best free text-to-speech plugins for browsers?
posted on Tue Oct 11 14:26:17 UTC 2022 by ducktective | view on HN
Command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving application
posted on Sat Oct 08 05:40:47 UTC 2022 by damir | view on HN
The article discusses the features and benefits of the command line application .