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ACAVJW4H | 2 months ago | on: Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap

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.

ACAVJW4H | 4 months ago | on: Show HN: Duper – The Format That's Super

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.

ACAVJW4H | 7 months ago | on: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

Wondering What happens when we peer through a microscope or telescope?

ACAVJW4H | 8 months ago | on: Fun with uv and PEP 723

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.

ACAVJW4H | 11 months ago | on: Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation

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.

ACAVJW4H | 1 year ago | on: HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025

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.

ACAVJW4H | 1 year ago | on: Can we make a camera see behind walls? [video]

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/>

ACAVJW4H | 2 years ago | on: MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?

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.

ACAVJW4H | 2 years ago | on: MacOS in QEMU – ARM edition [pdf]

KVM Forum 2023 Day 2 10:15 AM https://youtu.be/hyrw4j2D6I0?t=4684

ACAVJW4H | 3 years ago | on: Hush, a modern shell scripting language

https://xon.sh/ has an impressive approach merging python and shell

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: A PCIe network interface card that adds full router capabilities to your servers

STH has a bit more information on the card

https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-ccr2004-1g-2xs-pcie-is...

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: Fifty Years Later, Curators Unveil One of Last Sealed Apollo Samples

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

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: AWS Private 5G

Open Source software stack to run private LTE/5G with SDR https://github.com/srsran/srsRAN

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots

https://www.calligraphr.com/en/docs/tutorial2/

How about this?

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: The Carbon Footprint Sham – A 'successful, deceptive' PR campaign

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

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers

Apple and Google need to give people a chance to manage their own data.

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: Designing a Dataflow Editor with TypeScript and React

These look relevant if anyone is interested in developing node based tools with react

https://reactflow.dev https://flume.dev

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: Mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines

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?

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected

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?

ACAVJW4H | 4 years ago | on: Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript

It would be awesome if sharp (https://github.com/lovell/sharp) would implement this algorithm