Hacker News Reader

faheelon Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

For me, and many others on Twitter, updating the DNS worked (I used 1.1.1.1). Though I'm not sure why.

faheelon Human Chess is a chess variant where playing the top engine move is forbidden

It says at the bottom:

> When multiple moves have the top score, they are all top moves, even if visual markers (like move arrows) suggest the engine prefers one over the other.

Since all moves that checkmate the opponent will have the same score (M1 or -M1) they'll all be illegal.

faheelon Show HN: Flex – transpile natural language to a programming language

Yes, that's a way to describe it.

One use case could be that a complete beginner to programming can enter some natural commands (e.g. "X is a list of numbers", "read 10 values in X") without worrying about the syntax and convert them to a working program in one of the target languages.

Also, the input doesn't have to be in English as it can be easily trained with samples from other languages. So people can write/speak in their native language and get it translated to working code.

faheelon Show HN: Flex – transpile natural language to a programming language

At the moment it can recognise the type of statements in the training data set [1] and transpile them to Python, Java or C++ using the mappings defined here [2].

This is very different from how Codex/Autopilot work as it is trained using an NLU framework [3] which is usually used for training chatbots.

[1]: https://github.com/Flex-lang/transpiler/tree/master/transpil...

[2]: https://github.com/Flex-lang/transpiler/tree/master/transpil...

[3]: https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa

faheelon Show HN: If VS Code had a data-centric IDE sibling, what would that look like?

In case you're looking for a VS Code extension to quickly preview, filter and plot data from various file formats you can check out vscode-data-preview [0]

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RandomFr...

faheelon 40k coin tosses yield ambiguous evidence for dynamical bias

Maybe letting the coin fall on a hard surface, so that it has a chance to bounce/spin randomly before falling flat (or staying on its side!)

faheelon Indian cows and buffaloes are going online

It will also save the time and effort currently required for cattle trading by both sellers and buyers.

For instance, Animall (one of the companies mentioned in the article) is working towards building an online marketplace for cattle (like Amazon) rather than just a discovery platform (like eBay or OLX) and will be handling verification and logistics (think "Amazon Fulfilled"). This would solve fraud and also reduce the cost and effort for sellers/buyers in trading cattle.

P.S. I work at Animall

faheelon Show HN: Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go

For seeding Big Buck Bunny of course. And Linux distros too. That's all :)

faheelon Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

I'm going to build a repl.it clone too this weekend. Seems like a fun project!

faheelon Louvre makes its entire collection available online

Or an "Awesome list" on GitHub.

https://github.com/topics/awesome

faheelon The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil

"The Short"

faheelon Ruby 3.0 Preview 1

You're right. Maybe hyphenation would help here: "End-less methods"