Building a USB to Mac ADB keyboard adapter
Jan 13, 2024 QMK ADB Mac Keyboard Atmega32u4 Pro Micro Electronics About a year ago I started a new job as a Staff Engineer with a larger FinTech. Plenty of upside, and I’m enjoying myself a lot, but the downside is that I’m obliged to work on a Mac. I kind of hate Macs. Not […]
Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor
Hi HN we’re David, Sam and Philipp and we’re building Univerbal (https://univerbal.app). We’re an AI language learning app where you talk to your AI Tutor, just like you would with a human one. Here’s a short demo of what that looks like in an actual conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IukKGc00juY We actually started as a Show HN over […]
Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
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JetBrains CEO Transition
News The 1st of February 2024 will mark the 24th birthday of JetBrains. For more than two decades, JetBrains has gone from a company with a single product and one office, to a multinational entity with over 2000 people spread across 40 locations, and more than 30 products and services. As we move towards a […]
Square Kilometre Array prototype ‘scope achieves first light
Reg In Space One of the radio telescope designs to be used by the Square Kilometre Array has achieved first light. Known as SKAMPI, the ‘scope was designed by a team whose members hailed from ten nations and built in China. The model tested last week was assembled in 2018 in the Karoo region of […]
Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
Published: May 13, 2022. Filed under: Django, Python. This is the first in hopefully a series of posts I intend to write about how to build/manage/deploy/etc. Python applications in as boring a way as possible. So before I go any further, I want to be absolutely clear on what I mean by “boring”: I don’t […]
Ryzen 8000G review: An integrated GPU that can beat a graphics card, for a price
Enlarge / The most interesting thing about AMD’s Ryzen 7 8700G CPU is the Radeon 780M GPU that’s attached to it. Andrew Cunningham Put me on the short list of people who can get excited about the humble, much-derided integrated GPU. Yes, most of them are afterthoughts, designed for office desktops and laptops that will […]
Hopes for Finding Mars Life After Rover’s Ground-Penetrating Radar Discovery
An aerial photo shows the remains of a delta where a water source once fed an ancient lake at the Jezero crater on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Ground-penetrating radar reveals eons of environmental changes, offers hope that soil samples hold traces of life. Ground-penetrating radar onboard Science Advances, a team led by
The Apparent Simplicity of RGB Rendering
The primary goal of physically-based rendering (PBR) is to create a simulation that accurately reproduces the imaging process of electro-magnetic spectrum radiation incident to an observer. This simulation should be indistinguishable from reality for a similar observer. Great care was taken to not use the words human and colour (or even light) in the previous […]