Hacker News: ripe

Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold

ripe — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:18:05 +0000

Article URL: http://iguanaworks.net/products/usb-ir-transceiver.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649148

Points: 91

# Comments: 21

How Do You Count 1.4B People? India Is Trying

ripe — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:11:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/world/asia/india-census-population.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627584

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Brigade System Helps Restaurants Succeed. Does It Also Lead to Abuse?

ripe — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:19:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/dining/noma-brigade-system.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518555

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ripe in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

ripe — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:03:26 +0000

I agree that the article is a poor take on AI in programming. However, I wouldn't blame NYT for corrupt journalism. This is an op-ed, not something written by NYT staff.

New comment by ripe in "Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink"

ripe — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:05:32 +0000

They have a list of 434 foreign satellites launched so far as of January 2026 on their website:

https://www.isro.gov.in/ForeignSatellites.html

New comment by ripe in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

ripe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:33:24 +0000

> it could also be that these software jobs won’t pay as well as in the past, because, of course, the jobs aren’t as hard as they used to be. Acquiring the skills isn’t as challenging.

This sounds opposite to what the article said earlier: newbies aren’t able to get as much use out of these coding agents as the more experienced programmers do.

The Process of Movie Casting Has Changed Drastically

ripe — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:38:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/movies/oscars-casting-award-auditions-movies.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326396

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Thanks for Typing: Women's Typing Labor in Literature and the Arts

ripe — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://library.harvard.edu/exhibits/thanks-typing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297200

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Netflix is buying Ben Affleck's AI startup

ripe — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:44:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/streaming/889973/netflix-ben-affleck-interpositive-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268292

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Big Medicine Can Learn from the Cheesecake Factory (2012)

ripe — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:43:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/13/big-med

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256030

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Tyranny of Convenience (2018)

ripe — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:57:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235251

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Steven Fenves has died (January 2026)

ripe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:01:39 +0000

Article URL: https://obituaries.post-gazette.com/obituary/steven-joseph-fenves-1093405522

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218068

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

India Became One of the Biggest Economies

ripe — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:26:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/business/india-economy-gdp.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182384

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

DVD Demystified (2012)

ripe — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:33:09 +0000

Article URL: https://demystified.info/dvd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179768

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Will AI Replace White Collar Jobs in 12 Months? [video]

ripe — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:23:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lwftepuvYA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175569

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by ripe in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

ripe — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:15:06 +0000

> sexps?

Not the person you're responding to, but I think they mean sexps as in S-expressions [1]. These are used in all kinds of programming, and they have been used inside protocols for markup, as in the email protocol IMAP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression