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- If I recall correctly they got scooped up by Google and their team was merged into various Google teams. I was disappointed to hear of their fizzling as well. They were just starting to dive into serious movie production light field cameras when it happened. They had an incredible tech demo on their website showcasing its power. I can't seem to locate the original but there are bits of it in the linked video.
- I'm making a cat themed puzzle game for my wife using NiceGUI, MindAR and some cat shaped sticky notes. Each note has a name and a secret code. I've hidden 20 of these around the house. I set up a single page app in NiceGUI to display a grid of the lost cats. When you click one it'll display their name, a clue to its hiding spot and an optional hint. 5 of the puzzles use MindAR that will display AR image cards over different art pieces and book covers in our house. I have the NiceGUI page and MindAR set up on one of my Proxmox LXCs that I use for various Flask servers.
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- I love hummingbirds! In undergrad I spent a summer working on a research project that was trying to determine if hummingbirds have persistent gut microflora. The bird's metabolism is so fast that it's unclear whether any microbes have enough time to colonize. Every weekend I'd tag along with a group of veterinary post docs who were doing their own hummingbird study. They caught and safely handled the birds and I waited patiently nearby to collect their droppings basically straight from the cloaca. Once, when the vets were done getting their measurements, they put a bird in my hand to release. My hand could barely register that I was holding anything it was so light.
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- If this proves to be effective (not just safe and well tolerated which is the scope of this study) it'd be interesting to see how this would be adopted by extreme athletes. Free divers who can go deeper, cyclists who can ride harder, sprinters who can run longer at full speed because they're retaining an oxygen-rich slurry in their bowels.
- RAM Disks. Basically extremely fast storage using RAM sticks slotted into a specially made board that fit in a PCIe slot. Not sure what happened to the project exactly but the website disappeared sometime in 2023.
The idea that you could read and write data at RAM speeds was really exciting to me. At work it's very common to see microscope image sets anywhere from 20 to 200 GB and file transfer rates can be a big bottleneck.
Archive capture circa 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329173623/https://ddramdisk...
HN post from 2023: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=35195029
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- It does seem like the "passion score" is a rule-of-thumb estimate at best. A lengthy post could just be someone rambling, and a short post could be from a timid dev sharing their project on HN for the first time.
I imagine you could get the post author's reputation score from the API and factor that in to the passion score, but reputation is really just another proxy.
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- I wondered the same until the section near the end of the article that mentions that the app creator's email address and password were left unsecured leaving his admin panel exposed.
Seems to me if this was deliberate that the creator would have gone to greater lengths to protect themselves.
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- I just picked up a used thermal printer to try it out myself and I'm looking forward to the release of the code.
I did notice that on mobile the left edge of text on your website is cut off by about half a character.
Also I liked how reading the article was its own game loop with progress bar, level up notifications and items! I hope you use that on future posts!
- 5 points
- Here's a documentary on Camp Century https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569752
- I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the recent announcement that Duolingo is replacing contractors with AI.
https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-repla...
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https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=34031568