One year after switching from Java to Go
I always told people memory is cheap, black magic is OK and efficiency doesn’t matter in most cases, but boy, how wrong was I… My Java journey started back in 2011 (14 years ago – wow) when I started studying computer science at the Vienna University of Technology. Using editors like jEdit and compiling my […]
Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been dealing with the fallout of upgrading a web application to Svelte 5. Complaints about framework churn and migration annoyances aside, I’ve run into some interesting issues with the migration. So far, I haven’t seen many other people register the same issues, so I thought it might be […]
Are Electric Cars That Much Cheaper to Operate Than ICE?
Recently, I engaged in a conversation about the cost-effectiveness of electric vehicles (EVs) compared to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with a friend. This discussion prompted me to conduct a detailed analysis of the potential cost savings associated with owning an EV, particularly focusing on fuel savings and overall cost return. In this article, I […]
Catalytic Computing Taps the Full Power of a Full Hard Drive
“Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You get to choose between two computers that are almost identical, except that one has an extra hard drive full of precious family photos. It’s natural to assume that the two options are equally […]
Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope
Andrea West remembers the first time she heard about a new class of migraine medication that could end her decades of pain. It was 2021 and she heard a scientist on the radio discussing the promise of gepants, a class of drug that for the first time seemed to prevent migraine attacks. West followed news […]
By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller
Spread across NASA’s headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to sea, the space agency has had a workforce of nearly 18,000 civil servants. However, by the end of today, that number will have shrunk by about 10 percent since the beginning of the second Trump administration four weeks ago. […]
Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
Acer Laptop prices in the U.S. are set to rise by 10% from March 2025, commented CEO Jason Chen in an interview with The Telegraph. Chen states that the price hike is a direct result of the Trump administration’s incoming tariffs. “We will have to adjust the end user price to reflect the tariff,” Chen […]
DotSlash: Simplified Executable Deployment
DotSlash (dotslash) is a command-line tool that lets you represent a set of platform-specific, heavyweight executables with an equivalent small, easy-to-read text file. In turn, this makes it efficient to store executables in source control without hurting repository size. This paves the way for checking build toolchains and other tools directly into the repo, reducing […]
Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with Built-In Realtime Visualizations
Easily add interactivity to your scripts using Scripton’s UI toolkit. from scripton import ui … def render(state): # Process using current state depth, image = mask_using_depth( threshold=state.threshold ) # Display results show(depth, title=’Depth’, key=’depth’) show(image, title=’Masked Output’, key=’image’) def reset(): state.threshold = 20 return ui.HStack( ui.Button( label=’Reset’, on_click=reset ), ui.Slider( label=’Depth Threshold’, value=state.bind.threshold, range=(0, 20) […]
Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway
We’ve started working on something that will be a critical component the Opsmaru platform. This part requires having proper infrastructure monitoring for several reasons. While Opsmaru has health monitoring for every cluster managed by the platform, it doesn’t give us deep insights into the metrics of the systems. Up until this point we’ve delayed the […]