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1•vasanthv•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

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1•mikeyfrilot•4m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

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1•asplake•5m ago•0 comments

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2•tosh•20m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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Anofox Forecast

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Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

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Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

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Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

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NewASM Virtual Machine

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Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

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Skim – vibe review your PRs

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Ask HN: Would a color PET have been better than c64 for high level programming?

1•amichail•4mo ago
Hobby programmers in the 80s would not have been distracted by trying to code fancy graphics and sound using low level programming.

Instead, they could have programmed in a high level language such as BASIC and exercised their creativity in a different way that is more relevant in today's world.

Comments

dtagames•4mo ago
What do mean? The Commodore 64 shipped with BASIC. Even the cheap VIC-20 had it. And both machines had a real keyboard, making programming much easier than with the PET and its squashed, square keys.
amichail•4mo ago
But the fancy graphics and sound were a distraction for hobby programmers. Not only did you need difficult low level programming to make the best of them, but they also enabled distracting games made by others that kept you from programming more.
JohnFen•4mo ago
Those "distracting games" often were what brought people into programming in the first place. If they didn't exist, a whole lot of top-notch programmers would never have entered the field.