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Modern Decor May Be Straining People's Brains

https://studyfinds.com/modern-decor-may-be-straining-peoples-brains/
88•downwithdisease•2h ago•65 comments

We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

https://clickhouse.com/blog/pgbouncer-clickhouse-managed-postgres
109•saisrirampur•3h ago•16 comments

AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/11/ai-2040.html
10•rvz•28m ago•1 comments

The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~saito/courses/229A/stewart-svd.pdf
51•wolfi1•3h ago•10 comments

Prefer Strict Tables in SQLite

https://evanhahn.com/prefer-strict-tables-in-sqlite/
7•ingve•58m ago•0 comments

Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-invented-180961368/
53•downbad_•1h ago•27 comments

Who manages the agents?

https://www.off-policy.com/dont-go-quietly-into-the-ai-night/
8•GavCo•29m ago•3 comments

AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)

https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/thrust_ai_powered_software_archaeology/
15•msephton•20h ago•5 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/bIbgQkL-operations-associate-data-samples-cu...
1•HPMOR•1h ago

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom
5•adletbalzhanov•1h ago•0 comments

Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/california-hawaii-rowing-solo-journey
70•speckx•1h ago•22 comments

Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-07-09/chemical-bonds-relativity
358•hhs•20h ago•159 comments

Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

https://shipthatcode.com
34•acley•4h ago•13 comments

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/
707•speckx•1d ago•220 comments

Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

https://amber-lang.com/
21•_superposition_•3d ago•14 comments

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

https://www.theverge.com/tech/961955/google-search-console-reach-platform-properties
74•herbertl•3d ago•35 comments

BLISS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS
10•tosh•1h ago•1 comments

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Good1964.pdf
75•zetalyrae•4h ago•36 comments

Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/#there-is-an-alternative
19•jason_s•1h ago•3 comments

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
1454•stock_toaster•21h ago•810 comments

Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design

https://www.amazon.com/RISC-V-Microprocessor-System-Chip-Design/dp/0323994989
70•xlmnxp•2d ago•29 comments

Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts

https://www.atariarchives.org/deli/
26•achairapart•3d ago•2 comments

Earendel (Astronomical Object)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earendel_(astronomical_object)
17•brainlessdev•1h ago•2 comments

The Victorian War on Rabies

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/mad-dogs-and-englishmen-winning-war-rabies
14•benbreen•5d ago•14 comments

The Oral History of the Dinosaur Input Device (DID)

https://vfxblog.com/dinosaurinputdevice/
3•fabiensanglard•1d ago•0 comments

Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials

https://alexandrepoupeau.com/otary/learn/
78•poupeaua•3d ago•1 comments

An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822/990a8a5e2d379085/
293•chmaynard•22h ago•302 comments

Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2528622123
41•littlexsparkee•2h ago•11 comments

Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font
150•justswim•8h ago•115 comments

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-sate...
276•CrankyBear•1d ago•988 comments
Open in hackernews

Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh

https://amber-lang.com/
21•_superposition_•3d ago

Comments

serious_angel•57m ago
Thank you, but... why not just write in Bash, or the shell you prefer? Why learn a yet another opinionated wrapper?

Yes, Bash or any shell is a very complex and utterly environment dependent language to approach with all due care for security and compatibility, yet hence the lack of wrapper that may not even be aware of these crucial cases at all.

greekrich92•53m ago
If you don't want to use it, don't use it
KerrAvon•52m ago
bash is really painful to use for anything beyond the most rudimentary logic. Bourne and Mashey were terrible language designers. (By contrast, Thompson's V6 shell is very elegant, if limited.)

That said, this should just be a shell itself and not something that generates into other shell dialects. Otherwise, why not use Ruby or something like it that has actual expressive power?

threatofrain•51m ago
Your argument is down to the weights.

There are other communities where movement in the language came from outside tooling that built extensions on top of the language, such as Sass or TypeScript.

nicce•39m ago
It always comes to be a social problem. Sort of. I want to use X instead of Y, but maybe everyone does not want the same, or adaption of X is harder in technology wise. So I use wrapper Z that compiles to Y, and avoid some problems, but bring new problems. Maybe these problems are smaller ones than just keeping to use Y directly.
wg0•51m ago
Much needed. I have hard time understanding bash.
gdevenyi•51m ago
> Typescript to bash

Literally the worst of both worlds.

classified•30m ago
Bash is great for orchestrating other Unix tools into an automated workflow. Only when that workflow requires stuff that Bash doesn't have is it time to break out Python. Integrate Shellcheck into your editor, and you get automated help for writing more reliable Bash.
onlyrealcuzzo•38m ago
Just wanted to say that I think you did a great job with your examples showing why someone might be interested in this language.
Hammershaft•33m ago
Another alternative for writing Bash is Babashka, which is a Clojure dialect.
ivanjermakov•27m ago
Any language is a shell script if you're brave enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29
karma_daemon•19m ago
unclear use case imo - this sacrifices the ergonomics of actual bash scripting, and hides it behind another language

If your script is complex enough to need a higher level language you might as well just switch to python

namegulf•12m ago
In a world where AI can generate any code for any environment, is there a need for another language?

On the other hand, we're at a point for a binary language (or standard / framework) that one AI/LLM creates and another one validates.

What are we missing?

BadBadJellyBean•11m ago
This looks great. We have a lot of bash tools because it's the only stable interpreter that we have readily available on all our systems. But bash is a pain to write so this might actually make things easier.