HackerNews Summary (2023-06-16 04AM)

Source: The Reckless Racket Shell

Summary
Rash is a powerful language, library, and shell REPL for Racket that combines simple shell-like syntax with Racket’s programming language. Installation instructions are available on the GitHub page.

Facts

💻 Rash is a shell REPL for Racket.

🔋 Rash provides the convenience of simple shell-like syntax.

🚀 Rash is a powerful programming language that supports many programming paradigms.

📚 Rash is built on top of Racket, which offers a vast collection of libraries and extensions.

💻 Installation instructions for Rash can be found on its GitHub page.

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Source: The workers already replaced by artificial intelligence

Summary
A man hears an AI generated voiceover of his own voice and questions if the AI will replace him.

Fact

🤖 AI-generated voiceover of man’s voice did not sync well with the video.

👥 The man questions if the AI will replace him.

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Source: Throwing in the towel on mobile Linux

Summary
After using mobile Linux as his daily driver on his phone for about three years, the author has recently switched back to Android due to issues with reliability, particularly of the telephony components. Although he enjoyed using postmarketOS for many tasks, the need for dependable mobile telephony was a critical factor in his decision to switch.

Fact

📱 PostmarketOS on mobile devices is impressive in many respects, but reliability issues, particularly in mobile telephony, prevented it from being a suitable daily driver for the author.

👎 Mobile banking only worked through a proprietary Android app, and the music player on UBports was extremely unreliable.

📡 Dependable mobile telephony is a critical factor for the author, and LineageOS was the most reliable option according to his use-case importance chart.

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Source: Killed by Google

Summary
Killed by Google is a list of discontinued Google services, products, devices, and apps compiled by contributors worldwide.

Facts

💀 Google has retired over 220 products since 2001

💻 The Google Glass project was officially discontinued in 2015

📧 Google Inbox was shuttered in 2019, replaced by Gmail

🔍 Google Reader, a news aggregation app, was killed off in 2013

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