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Ah thank you! Should’ve looked at the package.json description rather than the project’s homepage, hah

This page could really any explanation for what this is? Even the “get started” link provides no real elucidation. Or maybe I’m just an idiot (also very possible).

I’m tempted to ask an LLM to parse this for me, as I don’t think I have the energy; maybe it’ll be able to suss out what it wrote.

Goes on to explain how they used 3D blender...which wasn't available until 1998.

You conveniently left out the second part of that sentence:

… modern compiler and a platform abstraction layer.

The author very explicitly laid out their constraints in a bulleted list right below; I think calling this nostalgia clickbait is infelicitous at best.

This is irrelevant and it’s clear from your comment history you’re just spamming your company; please read the HN guidelines again.

Sorry maybe I’m missing something, but how is this gatekeeping?

It’s awful a child was hit, but they only suffered minor injuries [1]. Nowhere in your linked article does it say they were killed.

[1] https://people.com/waymo-car-hits-child-walking-to-school-du...

See also: https://morbotron.com/ for Futurama!

This is quite literally an adult swim parody video from 11 years ago (NSFW): https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ

He's around! You can see his current work at https://worrydream.com. He's mostly been working on Dynamicland (https://dynamicland.org). He'll also occasionally post on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/worrydream.com)

This sounds like a gross generalization of cyclists—I hope everyone’s friends aren’t this petty! I’ve gone on plenty of rides on an e-bike/not on an e-bike with folks doing the opposite and have never felt ostracized or made others feel ostracized.

As other commenters posted, it gets even more people out on the paths who wouldn’t normally be able to keep up or might feel self-conscious, and I think that’s a really positive thing.

Consider my hypothesis disproven!

The "Implemented Features" section in the readme has every heading denoted with an emoji, that's something I've seen pretty much only from LLMs

From the HN guidelines[0]:

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This happens with iOS autocorrect → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac

The author teaches physics at a college, so I’m not sure why you say this is unrelated? The article is largely about her career path and how she ended up as an author and teacher.

(2019)—Would be curious to see how his setup has changed post-LLM.

I’m not sure what your definition of “failed” is, but notebooks of various kinds have been bringing value and accessibility to various different programming languages for a while now. If it was a “failed concept” I don’t think we’d see as much adoption, let alone new iterations and advancements in the space.

Just because you don’t use something doesn’t mean it’s not worth something to someone else (or in this case, a lot of people), despite its shortcomings.

Awesome! There’s a really cool company in Japan doing something similar for enterprise: https://tonari.no/en

Probably for that exact reason—consumers are familiar with the format, and know that something with that particular design is to be trusted—I.e. as a part of some governmental regulation.

For me, memorizing things like this is useful because context switching from flow state → searching something → back to flow state takes time and mental energy, and can derail me pretty easily.

Writing effective cards is more of an art than a science, I've found—and seems to work best when you're the one writing the cards for yourself. A good resource for those interested in learning the craft is "How to write good prompts" by Andy Matuschak: https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/

However, he's also shown that cards can be written for a general audience with careful thought, see his & Michael Nielsen's work on http://quantum.country.

I'll be curious to see how python.cards goes!

Hi there! I’m getting an “Email rate limit exceeded” error when I try to register, just FYI.

Emacs is able to run prompts, just like any other tool that's able to make an HTTP request. E.g., https://github.com/karthink/gptel provides hooks to both OpenAI and local LLMs, and allows you to use them anywhere—since everything in Emacs is a buffer.

There are some pretty great examples in the README.

(2021)

Sadly it looks like only the clients, and not the server, are open source. I’m a happy paying customer but would love a self-hosting option!

Thankfully these days not as unheard of as it once was! https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/

It’s not an important metric, but relates quite strongly to the content of the article…

To others wondering about the discrepancy between SQ4R being mentioned in the comment text and the title of the linked source being SQ3R (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R), it looks like others [1] add an additional R (marked with an asterisk below), for the following:

  1. Survey
  2. Question
  3. Read
  4. Recite
  5. *Rephrase
  6. Review

I was in this boat until I read Andy’s article on how to write good prompts, which I’d highly recommend: https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/

All available online now, too! https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/