When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?
10 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News.
10 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing
4 by Townley | 2 comments on Hacker News.
A relative of mine recently suffered a serious injury to their dominant (right) arm, which will have a long recovery period (likely several months). Ideally finger movement will be restored sooner, but even if so it might not be comfortable to keep the injured arm in an ergonomic typing position. So I wanted to prepare some options for one-handed typing that they can review. At first glance, it looks like solutions fall into one of three categories: - Trainings on how to effectively use a keyboard with one hand - Keyboard remappings on existing hardware to use alternative key layouts that favor the keys on the left side - Specialty keyboards that are intended to be used with one hand. Some of these seem promising but also shockingly expensive. Any thoughts on what solutions you've seen work / you might pursue in a similar situation?
4 by Townley | 2 comments on Hacker News.
A relative of mine recently suffered a serious injury to their dominant (right) arm, which will have a long recovery period (likely several months). Ideally finger movement will be restored sooner, but even if so it might not be comfortable to keep the injured arm in an ergonomic typing position. So I wanted to prepare some options for one-handed typing that they can review. At first glance, it looks like solutions fall into one of three categories: - Trainings on how to effectively use a keyboard with one hand - Keyboard remappings on existing hardware to use alternative key layouts that favor the keys on the left side - Specialty keyboards that are intended to be used with one hand. Some of these seem promising but also shockingly expensive. Any thoughts on what solutions you've seen work / you might pursue in a similar situation?
Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within
1 by dineshgowda24 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
An Alfred workflow that lets you instantly open Google Cloud services or search GCP resources—fast, simple, and right from your Alfred.
1 by dineshgowda24 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
An Alfred workflow that lets you instantly open Google Cloud services or search GCP resources—fast, simple, and right from your Alfred.
Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?
17 by kamaraju | 15 comments on Hacker News.
17 by kamaraju | 15 comments on Hacker News.
CVE-2024-47081: Netrc credential leak in PSF requests library
16 by jupenur | 4 comments on Hacker News.
16 by jupenur | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server - AirPlay to an iOS Device
16 by neon443 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I made AirAP because I wanted a simple way to play sound from my Mac Mini when my speaker broke. But it’s got a ton of other uses too, like testing how audio sounds like on different devices, or repurposing old wired speakers. This was incredibly fun to make - can’t wait for you all to see it!
16 by neon443 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I made AirAP because I wanted a simple way to play sound from my Mac Mini when my speaker broke. But it’s got a ton of other uses too, like testing how audio sounds like on different devices, or repurposing old wired speakers. This was incredibly fun to make - can’t wait for you all to see it!
Technical Guide to System Calls: Implementation and Signal Handling in Modern OS
11 by signa11 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
11 by signa11 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Yoshua Bengio Launches LawZero: A New Nonprofit Advancing Safe-by-Design AI
15 by WillieCubed | 3 comments on Hacker News.
15 by WillieCubed | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring Senior Back End and AI Search Engineers(Onsite, MV)
1 by davidbuniat | 0 comments on Hacker News.
1 by davidbuniat | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Oh fuck! How do people feel about robots that leverage profanity?
13 by rolph | 13 comments on Hacker News.
13 by rolph | 13 comments on Hacker News.
A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
6 by hardmaru | 0 comments on Hacker News.
6 by hardmaru | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
69 by chmaynard | 5 comments on Hacker News.
69 by chmaynard | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Show HN: Gradle plugin for faster Java compiles
8 by sgammon | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, We've written a pretty cool Gradle plugin I wanted to share. It turns out if you native-image the Java and Kotlin compilers, you can experience a serious gain, especially for "smaller" projects (under 10,000 classes). By compiling the compiler with native image, JIT warmup normally experienced by Gradle/Maven et al is skipped. Startup time is extremely fast, since native image seals the heap into the binary itself. The native version of javac produces identical outputs from inputs. It's the same exact code, just AOT-compiled, translated to machine code, and pre-optimized by GraalVM. Of course, native image isn't optimal in all cases. Warm JIT still outperforms NI, but I think most projects never hit fully warmed JIT through Gradle or Maven, because the VM running the compiler so rarely survives for long enough. Elide (the tool used by this plugin) also supports fetching Maven dependencies. When active, it prepares a local m2 root where Gradle can find your dependencies already on-disk when it needs them. Preliminary benchmarking shows a 100x+ gain since lockfiles prevent needless re-resolution and native-imaging the resolver results in a similar gain to the compiler. We (the authors) are very much open to feedback in improving this Gradle plugin or the underlying toolchain. Please, let us know what you think!
8 by sgammon | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, We've written a pretty cool Gradle plugin I wanted to share. It turns out if you native-image the Java and Kotlin compilers, you can experience a serious gain, especially for "smaller" projects (under 10,000 classes). By compiling the compiler with native image, JIT warmup normally experienced by Gradle/Maven et al is skipped. Startup time is extremely fast, since native image seals the heap into the binary itself. The native version of javac produces identical outputs from inputs. It's the same exact code, just AOT-compiled, translated to machine code, and pre-optimized by GraalVM. Of course, native image isn't optimal in all cases. Warm JIT still outperforms NI, but I think most projects never hit fully warmed JIT through Gradle or Maven, because the VM running the compiler so rarely survives for long enough. Elide (the tool used by this plugin) also supports fetching Maven dependencies. When active, it prepares a local m2 root where Gradle can find your dependencies already on-disk when it needs them. Preliminary benchmarking shows a 100x+ gain since lockfiles prevent needless re-resolution and native-imaging the resolver results in a similar gain to the compiler. We (the authors) are very much open to feedback in improving this Gradle plugin or the underlying toolchain. Please, let us know what you think!
Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer
7 by dangle1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
7 by dangle1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Show HN: Ephe – A Minimalist Open-Source Markdown Paper for Today
15 by unvalley | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I built Ephe, open-source markdown paper for daily todos and thoughts. No sign-up, no ads, no subscriptions, no AI. ## Why I made this We have plenty of Markdown editors. And too many overwhelming to-do apps.But few tools combine both in a way that’s lightweight and focused.I thought that all I need is a single page to organize today. So I built Ephe. It uses CodeMirror v6, React(v19, React Compiler) and Vite with rolldown. ## What makes it different “Ephe” comes from ephemeral. The main goal is to organize what you need to do today.It isn’t for teams. It’s a quiet space for your own priorities. Give it a spin if that sounds useful to you.
15 by unvalley | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I built Ephe, open-source markdown paper for daily todos and thoughts. No sign-up, no ads, no subscriptions, no AI. ## Why I made this We have plenty of Markdown editors. And too many overwhelming to-do apps.But few tools combine both in a way that’s lightweight and focused.I thought that all I need is a single page to organize today. So I built Ephe. It uses CodeMirror v6, React(v19, React Compiler) and Vite with rolldown. ## What makes it different “Ephe” comes from ephemeral. The main goal is to organize what you need to do today.It isn’t for teams. It’s a quiet space for your own priorities. Give it a spin if that sounds useful to you.
Human Brain Cells on Chip for Sale – First biocomputing platform hits the market
21 by mdp2021 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
21 by mdp2021 | 4 comments on Hacker News.