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New comment by aag in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

aag — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:51:11 +0000

Ambition is still a human characteristic.

New comment by aag in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

aag — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:44:05 +0000

I'm don't care. If it's good, it's good.

New comment by aag in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

aag — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:04:09 +0000

What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it.

One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.com beacon.

New comment by aag in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

aag — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:35:19 +0000

Eddie Murphy had a great comedy bit based on that car.

New comment by aag in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)"

aag — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:32:46 +0000

I don't understand this comment. They wrote SICP.

New comment by aag in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)"

aag — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:31:40 +0000

Sussman and Abelson are great at teaching.

New comment by aag in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

aag — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:12:55 +0000

Schools should forbid grading on a curve. MIT does, for example. Standards should be absolute.

New comment by aag in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

aag — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:43:40 +0000

Why is anyone using anything else?

New comment by aag in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

aag — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:07:41 +0000

“You may note however that the university has not issued any statement refuting the information reported in the press.”

New comment by aag in "Iroh 1.0"

aag — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:37:28 +0000

For a side project, I used Iroh to give my web server in the cloud the ability to print directly to my label printer at home. The API is simple and easy to use. It took no time to write a reliable system on top of Iroh.

New comment by aag in "The Future of Email"

aag — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:37:39 +0000

So much work is done for HIPAA compliance, and then the only authentication required is a birth date.

New comment by aag in "Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts"

aag — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:26:41 +0000

If you're interested in efforts to catalog and even deflect asteroids that might hit Earth:

https://b612.ai/

The ".ai" stands for "Asteroid Institute." It was started by two former astronauts, Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart.

New comment by aag in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

aag — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:56:43 +0000

Actually, they do have an incentive to let you turn off ads. If they don't, many users will turn off notifications entirely. At least if they categorize them, some users will just turn off the bothersome ones.

New comment by aag in "Byrne's Euclid"

aag — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:44:03 +0000

I have the poster on my wall. It's beautiful. I highly recommend it.

New comment by aag in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"

aag — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:17:55 +0000

I second your recommendation. I watched it last night, and loved it. It was beautiful to see the level of competence and devotion of the tiny group running the spacecraft.

New comment by aag in "Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)"

aag — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:14:58 +0000

Andy gave a nice talk on the implementation of Chez Scheme, an optimizing compiler, at the Scheme Workshop in Berlin in 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-enNCZxaU

New comment by aag in "The Agent-Native Editor Was Invented in 1976"

aag — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:08:00 +0000

Absolutely. I do all my LLM-assisted work inside Emacs using Agent Shell and Emacs skills:

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

https://github.com/xenodium/emacs-skills

New comment by aag in "Ruckus: Racket for iOS"

aag — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:21:27 +0000

Here's Pixie Scheme, which is an interesting implementation for the iPad:

https://jayreynoldsfreeman.com/My/Wraith_Scheme_(64-bit_vers...

New comment by aag in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

aag — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:40:46 +0000

This makes me nostalgic for my 4K TRS-80 Model I with cassette tape. There was something beautiful about having control over everything, and even the tight constraints were sometimes fun.

New comment by aag in "Waymo Safety Impact"

aag — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:08:26 +0000

I love Waymo. Using the word "impact" is unfortunate.