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New comment by ripe in "How did Asterix and Obelix learn to speak fluent Hindi? (2019)"

ripe — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:36:45 +0000

Dipa Chaudhuri and Puneet Gupta, who undertook the epic translation project, tell us about the many challenges they faced, and the fun they had along the way.

How did Asterix and Obelix learn to speak fluent Hindi? (2019)

ripe — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:36:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indulgexpress.com/cover/2019/Apr/05/were-going-desi-by-toutatis-how-did-asterix-and-obelix-learn-to-speak-fluent-hindi-13870.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239680

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by ripe in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

ripe — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:55:08 +0000

The entire commencement program is here. Woz speaks at around the 42-minute mark.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4sSfADusN40

1-Wire

ripe — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:24:06 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222221

Points: 22

# Comments: 8

An AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation

ripe — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:40:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/933653/ai-graduation-commencement-glendale-community-college

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211281

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ripe in "Notes on AI, Labor, and China"

ripe — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:20:44 +0000

I thought this was a thoughtful take by an American based on a trip to China. The author's New York Times feature was also worth reading in full.

Notes on AI, Labor, and China

ripe — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:20:44 +0000

Article URL: https://jasmi.news/p/party-in-the-permanent-underclass

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209244

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ripe in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

ripe — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:51:05 +0000

Great read about a niche topic!

I know almost nothing about Vietnam, but this article felt like I had visited.

New comment by ripe in "How diamonds are made"

ripe — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:48:28 +0000

One more fact that might be interesting about natural diamonds: not all of them are extracted by digging mines; the oldest way of extracting diamonds is by sifting through alluvial deposits.

This method originated centuries ago in India. In fact, until the 18th century, this was the only known method. The most famous origin of alluvial diamonds is the Godavari-Krishna river delta in the old Golconda Sultanate. This particular site was exhausted about 200 years ago, making Golconda diamonds especially precious now.

New comment by ripe in "Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype"

ripe — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:50:02 +0000

Ha, ha! I thought the same thing: LLM slop. But soon I remembered having seen this Linotype ad before. It's a genuine image. Almost 140 years ago, some human writer came up with short, punchy copy.

Look what these AI companies have done to us. We see the shadow of slop everywhere.

New comment by ripe in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"

ripe — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:24:14 +0000

For understanding this type of question, I highly recommend the C FAQ compiled by Steve Summit based on Usenet discussions in the comp.lang.c newsgroup.

You should start here:

https://c-faq.com/expr/evalorder2.html

I cannot recommend the C FAQ enough. It is written in an accessible way and contains proper references to textbooks and standards.

Disclosure: I was one of the contributors.

New comment by ripe in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

ripe — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:51:12 +0000

Congratulations, and good luck! It should become very popular.

We enjoy going to a similar pinball museum here in Pawtucket, RI, which you might be familiar with:

https://www.electromagneticpinballmuseum.com/

Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15M for allegedly using her image to sell TVs

ripe — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:03:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/dua-lipa-sues-samsung-15-million-allegedly-using-image-sell-tvs-rcna344499

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095161

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by ripe in "Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example"

ripe — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:14:27 +0000

> WFC is a console application that depends only on the standard library. Get .NET Core for Windows, Linux or macOS...

Not very familiar with dotnet: does the above sentence mean it's an SDK that can produce svelte binaries that depend only on the C standard library? I thought the final executable required a whole runtime?

Samsung warns memory shortage will be worse next year

ripe — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:59:01 +0000

Article URL: https://mashable.com/article/samsung-memory-shortage-ram-ai-worse-2027

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970561

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

The Lingua Franca of LaTeX (2019)

ripe — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:10:27 +0000

Article URL: https://increment.com/open-source/the-lingua-franca-of-latex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934880

Points: 32

# Comments: 17

New comment by ripe in "An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road"

ripe — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:39:21 +0000

Yes. Moreover:

"While engaged in a survey of China, the baron was charged with dreaming up a route for a railway linking Berlin to Beijing. This he named die Seidenstrassen, the Silk Roads. It was not until 1938 that the term Silk Road appeared in English, as the title of a popular book by a Nazi-sympathising Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin."

-- historian William Dalrymple

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/06/the-sil...

How the UK Retreated on Cloud and Called Its Local Media Band-Aid a Plan

ripe — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:02:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techpolicy.press/how-the-uk-retreated-on-cloud-and-called-its-local-media-bandaid-a-plan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818510

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Men Are Arrested in $1M Lego Theft in California

ripe — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:31:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/us/california-lego-heist-arrest.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752548

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ripe in "Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)"

ripe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:21:49 +0000

You are right. The original Roomba was discussed on HN 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472930