Carmack: Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
My plan with my kid is to gate things he wants through an emulation of a Unix system, forcing him to beat challenges to see things like the lane 8 music video he loves I have a raspi keyboard computer that is set up to cast to my tv (measured at 100ms latency) with my […]
Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment.” The original study, published in Psychological Science in 2002 (.htm), found that people performed better on a set of tasks when each task had its own externally […]
Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk
What if I told you there exists a language, or a whole toolkit that: Can be used to create cross-platform Console and GUI tools or apps Those GUI apps look native on Windows, Linux and macOS Supports safe and efficient threading, non-blocking events and I/O Has a small footprint of about 100MB with most common […]
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
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The safest job from AI may be writing
Today, tech folk are scrambling to change their workflows to meet newly inflated 5X productivity quotas, while getting pummeled under the cognitive debt of agent-generated code. With every new model release, the gap is widening and humans are becoming more of a bottleneck in the loop, approaching closer to obsolescence as “coders”. While the programmer’s […]
Kids These Days
From Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation Kids these days have it great. Compared with decades ago, young children benefit from more time with their parents and much more time with their fathers. Teenagers drink less, smoke less, and are less likely to die in car accidents. Life is much better for racial and sexual minorities—when […]
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
My wife loves listening to the birds and identifying them using an app on her phone. I thought I’d take this a step further and see if there was something that can identify the birds based on their song. Looking around I found BirdNet and BirdNet-Go, then discovered you can run this on Docker and […]
You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that’s why it looks so sad)
You are probably one of the landlords of this 7-Eleven in Williamsburg, Virginia. Do you care about how it looks? How it fits into the landscape? Of course not, since you did not know it existed. Also, it’s apparent from looking at it that no one else particularly cares. It’s located on a classic “stroad” […]
ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
An early-stage (pre-alpha) open-source operating system based on Darwin, FreeBSD, and Apple open-source code that aims to be compatible with macOS applications and has no hardware restrictions. We love macOS, but we’re not a fan of the ever-closing hardware and ecosystem. So, we are creating ravynOS — an OS aimed to provide the finesse of […]
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
What can it actually access? Only the accounts you connect. Almanac reads them to keep the wiki current and acts through them to get work done. Every connection is visible, and you can revoke any of them. Do my teammates see my stuff? No. An account you connect stays usable only by you. What flows […]