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https://luna-lang.org - a dual-representation (visual & textual) programming language RISC-V Zig programming language Nim programming language (also some stuff mentioned by others, like WASM, Rust, Nix/NixOS)

> luna-lang

Whoa... had to do a double take there.

Great to see luna seems to be alive yet again - now "enso lang" per github [i]. A git commit just days ago... so here's hoping! It is such a great concept.

[i] https://github.com/luna/ide

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post #255

I guess I'm much more conservative than other folks, but I think we've scratched only 10% of the surface of the benefits that things like Kubernetes, Consul, Vault and Terraform should/will provide. So they're on the list. I feel like at my job I'm pushing at the edges (as far as running large scale, stable production) and we've still got miles left. Also Bazel. I guess this is a boring answer.

Is there anything like "terraform provider for bare metal"? Would be soo convenient to just go from full nuke and pave to functional dev machine with a single config repo.

pxe boot?

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post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would never trust any self driving car that didn't use LiDAR. It's an essential sensor for helping to fix issues like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSw4fXYqWI&feature=emb_logo And it's not contrived since we've seen situations of Telsa Autopilot behaving weirdly when it sees people on the side of billboards, trucks etc.

I use autopilot every day. It stops for stoplights and stop signs now.

Sometimes when on the freeway behind a construction truck with flashing lights.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Humans don’t need LiDAR to recognize billboards

Humans are underrated.

On driving? I would posit that most humans are vastly overrated.

I suspect if you crunch the numbers, accidents are going to be above normal for a while after Covid-19 reopenings.

Anecdotally, I'm seeing people doing mind-blowingly stupid things on the roadways right now. It seems like people have forgotten how to drive. I suspect the issue is that people rely too much on other cars to cue them how to behave and the concentration is too low.

(It could also be that a constant accident rate cleans off the worst of the drivers with regularity as they get into accidents and then wind up out of circulation. I really hope that isn't why ... that would be really depressing.)

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post #42

NextDNS (nextdns.io) is a genius idea that I very much wish I had thought of. I am a paying customer as of this past week and am integrating it in all the places I always meant to put a pihole ...

Is there nothing like this that's open source and can be used locally instead of the cloud?

I think you are looking for Pihole. [1]

[1]: https://pi-hole.net/

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Dot Net Core (C#/Winforms) compiling to native code.

ReactOS/Wine. Lately I'm getting worried about where the Windows OS seems to be headed. ReacOS slowly catching up, but recent developments seem to be promising. There's still many things I need that are not multi/cross-platform.

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post #113

Oxford nanopore sequencing. If a few problems can be figured out (mainly around machine learning and protein design), then it will beat every other biological detection, diagnosis, and sequencing method by a massive amount (no 10x, but more like 100x-1000x) It's hard to explain how big nanopore sequencing is if a few (hard) kinks can be figured out. Basically, it has the potential to completely democratize DNA sequen…

Can this be used to make faster corona virus tests ? If so maybe this is the time to Manhattan project this technology.

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Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Tailscale - riding on the wireguard wave - https://tailscale.com/ Also Wireguard - https://www.wireguard.com/

I am sure I wouldn't use a service that can literally get into each and every device of my private network if they want to or worse, they get hacked. Each and every device in the network automatically accepts whatever public keys and endpoints that get advertised by their servers and automatically connect to them. It's not only an overpriced mediocre product. From a security perspective, it's the most dangerous SaaS service I've ever seen.

My biggest fear is once this company gets tied to WireGuard and the security disasters come out, WireGuard's fate will be tied to a mediocre commercial product that put money above engineering decisions.

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