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Cognition: A New Antisyntax Language Redefining Metaprogramming

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The Lisp programming language is known for its powerful syntax and metaprogramming capabilities. However, it also has some limitations, such as the need for prefix notation and the fact that some syntax is unchangeable. The Brainfuck programming language is a concatenative language that also has some limitations, such as the need for look-ahead and the introduction of the left and right ...

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

The job postings are for various positions in different companies. Here's a summary of the positions and their requirements: 1. AuxHealth: REMOTE, USA - Full-time - Backend SDE I & II 2. Spacelift: REMOTE, Europe - Full-time - Senior Software Engineer 3. Happy Scribe: Onsite & Hybrid (Barcelona, Spain) - Engineer, Designer, ML 4. Overleaf: Full-time - Senior Full Stack Engineer 5. Aha!: ...

César Aira's Magic

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César aira is a renowned argentinian writer. he has published more than 100 books, many of them in buenos aires - and still going strong – despite the economic downturn in the country... el mago (the magician) is an allegory for the career of air, who has the gift of writing but is too self-indulgent to dedicate himself to the profession. air

New startup sells coffee through SSH

# use the command below to order your delicious 12oz bag of Nil Blend coffee terminal.shop ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIEzsOgEiuiTQEUZnMORRmhMHDSAo8VBUl/g55Ec6ZaKM

A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal

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The arrival of teotihuacanos to the maya city of tikal on 11 eb 15 mak (16 january ad 378) is recorded in post-factum textual documents and in the archaeological evidence of their presence or influence at the site at around this time. the storming of the bastille stimulated an intense moment of structural disjunction in people's minds, allowing them to see their world in a moment' of punct

ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents

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The eSpeak NG is a compact open source software text-to-speech synthesizer for Linux, Windows, Android and other operating systems. It supports more than 100 languages and accents. It is based on the eSpeak engine created by Jonathan Duddington. eSpeak NG uses a "formant synthesis" method. This allows many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear, and can be used ...

How A NASA Probe Solved a Scorching Solar Mystery

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The Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, has collected data that shows how small-scale magnetic activity within the solar atmosphere heats the corona. The sun's magnetic engine, called the solar dynamo, drives solar activity, which waxes and wanes over periods of roughly 11 years. The Parker Solar Probe has found that magnetic fields at small scales are responsible for coronal heating.

Not all Graphs are Trees

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The article discusses the challenges of representing non-tree structures in query languages, such as self-joins, which require inlining or let-binding. Inlining involves duplicating the expression being referenced, while let-binding allows for recursion. The article also explores the use of lambda abstractions and fixpoint operators to represent graphs containing cycles. Datalog is mentioned ...

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

Researchers using NASA's Curiosity rover discovered high levels of manganese in lakebed rocks in Gale Crater on Mars, indicating the presence of a river, delta, or shoreline of an ancient lake. The results suggest that the sedimentary rocks explored by the rover are a mix of sands, silts, and muds, with sandy rocks being more porous and allowing for easier groundwater percolation. The ...

mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours

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Researchers at the University of Florida have developed an mRNA cancer vaccine that quickly reprograms the immune system to attack glioblastoma in a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients. The vaccine uses the patient's own tumor cells to create a personalized vaccine and harnesses an engineered complex lipid particle (LP) delivery mechanism, generating multi-lamellar LP ...

Researchers detect a new molecule in space

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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's and . have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: New research from the group of MIT Professor Brett McGuire has revealed the presence of a previously unknown molecule in space. The team's open-access paper, "Rotational Spectrum and First Interstellar Detection of 2-Methoxyethanol ...

Mongoose IM 6.2.1 – Erlang Solutions robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server

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MongooseIM is Erlang Solutions' robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server, aimed at large installations. Specifically designed for enterprise purposes, it is fault-tolerant and can utilise the resources of multiple clustered machines. - Release MongooseIM 6.2.1 · esl/MongooseIM

Mux (YC W16) is hiring a Senior Product Designer that's excited about devtools

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Mux is video for developers. Our mission is to democratize video by solving the hard problems developers face when building video: video encoding and streaming (Mux Video), video monitoring (Mux Data), and more. Video is a huge part of people’s lives, and we want to help make it better. We’re committed to building a healthy team that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. We ...

Ask HN: Modern Day Equivalent to HyperCard?

The article discusses the author's experience with teaching their 11-year-old son basic programming concepts using Scratch. The author reflects on their own experience with HyperCard in the late 80s/early 90s and wonders if a modern equivalent exists. They mention Livecode, Python with QT support, Google's Blockly, and other options. The author also discusses their own experience with Python ...

An alternative to cursor pagination

The article discusses a multi-year project to split an existing SaaS product from one AWS region into separate instances in several AWS regions to improve availability and reliability. The main motivation for the migration is consolidation of infrastructure improvements. The author describes the limitations of Elasticsearch, including its inability to output more than 10,000 documents per API ...

Meter-scale distance manipulation of diverse objects with jet-induced airflow

Show HN: Maps and Splats – Mashup of 3D tile maps with Gaussian Splats

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Show HN: FileKitty – Combine and label text files for LLM prompt contexts

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GUI for selecting text files for concatenation and submission to LLMs - banagale/FileKitty

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

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The paper "KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks" presents a promising alternative to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) called Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs). KANs have strong mathematical foundations and are based on the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem. KANs and MLPs are dual, with activation functions on edges for KANs and nodes for MLPs. KANs are better than MLPs in terms of both model ...

Printing Music with CSS Grid

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The article describes a new approach to rendering music notation on the web using CSS Grid. The author defines two axes for the grid: the vertical axis, which is defined by the stave (staff) and has fixed-size grid rows, and the horizontal axis, which is defined by the time line and has a variable number of columns. The stave is defined by a class called ".stave" and has fixed-size grid rows ...

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)

This is a collection of job postings from various platforms, all related to software engineering positions. The postings cover a wide range of technologies and experience levels, from entry-level positions to senior roles with extensive experience. Some of the postings also mention specific companies or projects that the candidates have worked on in the past.

Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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Create your documents, store them, and edit them all on the cloud and integrated with your Google Drive. Review all possible changes with one click of a button! With Factful, you can trust our reliable file management system to keep track of your projects. Based on your correction history, Factful will generate suggestions and set goals to improve your writing.

500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016)

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The Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF) is a file format used to store icons for the Haiku operating system. It is designed to be small and efficient, with a focus on abstract, symbolic icons. Unlike bitmap formats, HVIF uses vector graphics to represent icons, which allows for easy resizing without losing quality. The file format is based on a binary format and is designed to be easy to parse ...

We can have a different web

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Social networks have become "the web" for many who rarely venture outside of their walls. sally kohn: nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going backwards. she says we can develop protocols that inherently resist the tollbooths and border crossing gates established by the businesses with the walls. the walled gardens that crowded out much of that uncultivated land still ...

2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report [pdf]

The Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is a comprehensive analysis of real-world security incidents that occurred between November 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The report is the 17th edition of the DBIR and is produced by Verizon Business. The report covers a wide range of topics related to cybersecurity, including the latest threats, attack vectors, and trends in the ...

Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2

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The math/rand package in Go is an API for a pseudorandom number generator. It is used in simulations, shuffling, and other non-cryptographic use cases. The package is based on an idea by George Marsaglia, tweaked by Don Mitchell and Jim Reeds, and further customized by Ken Thompson for Plan 9 and then Go. The goal is for these generators to be fast, repeatable, and random enough to support ...

Meteorologists awed by rare type of tornado (anti-cyclonic)

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Powerful storms roared across parts of southern oklahoma on tuesday night. one tornado loops backward and recrosses its previous path, and another spins in the "wrong" direction, a meteorologist tells cnn. only about 1% of tornados are estimated to be anticyclonic. no injuries, deaths or significant structural damage reported in southwestern oklahoma despite unusual twister track twilight ...

Invisible Stitch: Generating Smooth 3D Scenes with Depth Inpainting

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The article introduces a depth completion network that can generate smooth 3D scenes by seamlessly integrating newly hallucinated regions into the existing scene representation. The depth completion network learns to inpaint masked depth map regions by being conditioned on an image and the depth of known regions. The authors also propose a new scene consistency evaluation approach to measure ...

Paul Auster has died

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Paul Auster, a prolific novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter, died at the age of 77 in his home in Brooklyn. He was known for his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and his memoir "The Invention of Solitude." Auster's work often explored themes of pain and loss, and he was known for his fractured narrative, unreliable narrator, and deconstruction of identity. He won several literary ...