Show HN: Low Cost Mini PCs
HP Desktop i5 Computer Mini Pc Up To 16GB RAM 1TB SSD/HDD Windows 10 Pro Wi-Fi (Customizable) $304 Intel Core i5 6th Gen 16 GB 1 TB SSD Windows 10 Used DisplayPort, Ethernet, USB-C, VGA, Wifi 🔥Intel NUC Mini Pc Core i5, Up to 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD Windows 10 Pre Install (Customizable) $279 intel […]
Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish
TL; DR: we are deprecating the pandas and dask backends and will be removing them in version 10.0. There is no feature gap between the pandas backend and our default DuckDB backend, and DuckDB is much more performant. pandas DataFrames will still be available as format for getting data to and from Ibis, we just […]
Show HN: turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)
About Turn videos into ASCII pixel art! Use your webcam feed or upload a video, then use the controls to adjust the colors, resolution, text style, etc… You can create a video export to save and/or share your animation afterwards. This tool is completely free, open source (MIT license), without any paywalls or premium options. […]
Show HN: Homemade Automated Solar Concentrator
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OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code
While browsing the Internet for inspiration, I came across an interesting-looking component. I thought the block with the running ASCII art looked cool, but I couldn’t quite figure out how it was implemented, so I started looking at the source code. I found the code that looked like it might be doing the job, but […]
Two Dots Too Many – a tragic consequence of the failure to localize cell phones
Two Dots Too Many April 22, 2008 @ 12:41 am · Filed by Bill Poser under Writing systems « previous post | next post » The Turkish newspaper HĂĽrriyet reports a tragic consequence of the failure to localize cell phones. Ramazan Çalçoban sent his estranged wife Emine the text message: Zaten sen sıkışınca konuyu deÄźiĹźtiriyorsun. […]
UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
When it emerged that the engineer was employed by SYSTRA, which works with Network Rail, Hendy told his officials to “write directly to their CEO” with “a request for disciplinary action as this is a serious and completely unproven allegation.” He followed up his email a week later, asking officials “How did we deal with […]
Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit (2018)
This article is by Rahul Vohra, the founder and CEO of Superhuman — a startup building the fastest email experience in the world. We’ve all heard that product/market fit drives startup success — and that the lack thereof is what’s lurking behind almost every failure. For founders, achieving product/market fit is an obsession from day […]
I spent an evening on a fictitious web
I saw https://websim.ai a couple of weeks ago but didn’t quite get it, and then during some research on the creator and web developer ecosystems I came back to it and my mind was blown. I spent the evening exploring a web that is full of applications and sites and only limited by URLs that […]
Escaping from Anaconda’s Stranglehold on macOS
If you teach a course that requires Python, you’ve encountered students on macOS who are trapped by Anaconda. Typically, they were told to install Anaconda in a first course on Python or data analytics. After that course is over, they discover that they can’t get an official version of Python to run. Many of these […]