DRAKON
This article is about the programming language. For other uses, see Drakon (disambiguation). DRAKON Paradigm Visual Developer Academician Pilyugin Center, Ministry of General Machine Building First appeared 1996 Scope Computer-aided software engineering Website drakon.su/start Major implementations GRAFIT-FLOKS (1996), IS Drakon (2008), DRAKON Editor (2011), DrakonHub (2018), Drakon.Tech (2019) Influenced by PROL2, DIPOL, LAKS Influenced QReal DSM […]
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers
About us: We’re a digital caregiver that helps older & disabled adults avoid retirement communities and age well in their own homes. We tailor on demand APIs from companies like Uber and Instacart to the needs of people living with cognitive, visual, mobility and dexterity impairments. We’re operating profitably with millions in revenue and growing […]
Distributed Locks with Redis
A distributed lock pattern with Redis Distributed locks are a very useful primitive in many environments where different processes must operate with shared resources in a mutually exclusive way. There are a number of libraries and blog posts describing how to implement a DLM (Distributed Lock Manager) with Redis, but every library uses a different […]
Maps Mania: How the World Powers Itself
You can learn a lot about how the world powers itself from the Global Energy Monitor’s Power Tracker. This interactive map shows the locations of nearly 18,000 power stations in 200 countries around the world, categorized by power sector. Using the map’s filter controls it is possible to explore where different types of power stations […]
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM, Dutch and Euractiv, English). And this wasn’t the first time either something like this has happened (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this article with their feedback, […]
Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping
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Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models in local LLM
Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to answer a given prompt using tool(s) it knows about, making it possible for models to perform more complex tasks or interact with the outside world. Example tools include: Functions and APIs Web browsing Code interpreter much more! Tool […]
Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes
Leila Ais cuts a sample from a book cover to test for toxic dyes. Credit: Kristy Jones If you come across brightly colored, cloth-bound books from the Victorian era, you might want to handle them gently, or even steer clear altogether. Some of their attractive hues come from dyes that could pose a health risk […]
Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
Hey HN! We’re Max, Alex, and Austin, the team behind Sorcerer (https://sorcerer.earth). Sorcerer builds weather balloons that last for over six months, collecting 1000x more data per dollar and reaching previously inaccessible regions. In 1981, weather disasters caused $3.5 billion in damages in the United States. In 2023, that number was $94.9 billion (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series). The […]
The Katsuification of Britain
Good morning and welcome to Vittles. Each Monday we publish a different piece of writing related to food, whether it’s an essay, a dispatch, a polemic, a review, or even poetry. This week, Tim Anderson writes about the phenomenon of katsuification — the process under which everything in Britain has become katsu curry — and […]