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Is this by chance inspired by the one handed keyboard from Children of Men?

https://youtu.be/sJO0n6kvPRU at around 2:05

One of my favorite scenes, by the way.


The patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US6429854) was filed in 2000, and the movie seems to be from 2006, so possibly it was actually the other way around?


I doubt there was a direct inspiration in either direction beside contributing to overall pool of ideas around wearable input devices. Only commonality I see is that they are both handheld/glove like computer input devices. Nerds and sci-fi authors have been dreaming about stuff like that since the beginning of personal computers in ~1970s-1980s if not earlier. There are plenty of other examples which could have been inspiration. Even the 2000 patent, references dozen older patents for handheld or glove like input devices some of which are much closer to the 2006 movie.

Looking at the history of wearable electronics can't forget about Steve Mann and all his crazy prototypes long before 2000.

Most well known movie examples are probably Minority report(2002) and The Wizard(1989) which showed Nintendo power glove.


The history of that base design goes back to the 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyer#Computer_interface_keyer...



Are there any glasses/headsets out there that are good for coding yet? The idea of working on the go with VR glasses is very appealing to me.


Short answer: no

Long answer: Vision Pro (if you are comfortable with the weight/price). Immersed Visor and Play for Dream Mr headsets are likely the first available coding VR headsets at reasonable prices but this will all be commodities very soon.

Your best bet is to resist being at the cutting edge for this year and pick up the winner after the next 11 months


> Immersed Visor and Play for Dream Mr

Googled both and consensus is both are vaporware? I’m in the market for something like this but your timeline sounds optimistic unfortunately :/


Immersed and PFD are smaller companies releasing their first hardware; yes they've missed their initial estimated ship dates but they have actual working prototypes that have been tried by users (e.g. PFD had a booth at CES). The only question is if they can ramp up manufacturing. I expect them to have shipped their preorders by March and then we'll find out if they can scale.

HOWEVER my timeline suggests that you wait until the end of the year. The 4K per eye panel is now a commodity [1] and I expect a lot of VR glasses to show up in the next few months. Don't be tempted by the first few unless you have the budget for the cutting edge. Immersed is pushing their subscription software and requires a companion app on the host device. PFD is offering an Android Vision Pro clone. There are a couple PCVR (gaming) headsets coming. For coding though, the ideal is probably a simple headset with plug-and-play video input (i.e. like a high-res Slamglass [2] or GOOVIS art [3]). It's worth waiting in my opinion to see if anyone uses the panel for that.

[1] https://youtu.be/OpVI6JeH2uA?si=UsScC1yPTRptcFAM&t=795

[2] https://en.slamglass.com/list_22/

[3] https://goovis.net/products/a1black


Setting a reminder for Jan’26 then, thanks!



Thanks for posting this, it's an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered before. Ideally, sites would respect user preferences such as prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion. And, in fact, I just checked MDN and see there is prefers-contrast:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...


From the README[0]:

> To improve the performance of download, I indexed ~3,000 cities with population larger than 100,000 people and stored into a very simple protobuf format.

[0] https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads


How are connections between repos determined? I checked some of my repos and don't see any references in either direction for some of the connections.


The author answered that question in the original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35933981

Basically what others are guessing, lines represent the highest similarity scores based on "stargazers", which also forms the entire map. To anyone confused, the lines only appear once you click into a specific country.


In the first line: "Dots are close to each other if they have a lot of common stargazers."


That explains why they are "close to each other" but not what determines which nodes are connected by an edge.


I think it's the other way around. The similarity metric determines which repos have edges (possibly weighted?)

And then some clustering algorithm makes sense of this giant graph by laying out sets of nodes that have a lot of edges to each other, close to each other

The closeness is just layout, the edges is the data structure that determines closeness.


This is correct!


Jaccard similarity returns a value between 0 and 1 (in this case the vast majority of the values being close to 0). I suspect there's a hard-coded threshold value to determine an edge, e.g. if Jaccard similarity between A and B is > 0.2, create an edge.


The website is good for someone who is not primarily a web designer. It can serve as a starting point which can be polished into something quite nice.


If you mean specifically flyio.net and not just fly.io the company, I'm guessing they host their status page on a separate domain in case of DNS/registrar issues with their primary domain.


Suspiciously, Turso started having issues around the same time. Their CEO confirmed on Discord it's due to the Fly outage:

> Ok.I caught up with our oncall and This seems related to the Fly.io incident that is reported in our status page. Our login does call things in the Fly.io API

> we are already in touch with Fly and will see if we can speed this up


Not the first time Turso goes down because of Fly issues. It must suck to have built a db service and have this downtime.

Apparently Turso are going to offer an AWS tier at some point.


Last month Turso released AWS-hosted databases to the public (still in Beta): https://turso.tech/blog/turso-aws-beta


Thanks!


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