Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01779
Readit Newsboilerupnc commented on Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs github.com/kubenote/KubeF... · Posted by u/rakeda
Right now, requiring users to understand every field in a deployment manifest feels unnecessarily complex. Since Kubernetes YAML is already quite straightforward to copy, paste, and modify from examples, the added cognitive load of deciphering each field may not provide proportional value—especially when the same manifests can be generated more efficiently.
What would be far more valuable is a feature that lets users import a Helm chart URL directly into the UI, then visualize and interact with the chart’s values in an intuitive way—no need to dig through documentation. Being able to explore, modify, and export the values in a user-friendly interface would save significant time and reduce friction, especially when working with complex or unfamiliar charts.
In short: instead of manually parsing YAML or hunting through Helm docs, a visual, interactive view of Helm values—especially when tied to a chart URL—would be a game-changer for productivity and usability.
A few years back, I had an idea for a K8s YAML explainer. In the spirit of XSLT transforms on XML, you would run your K8s yaml against an explainer file and generate a document that provided visualizations, interpretative text alongside the define values and an explanation about the field, its purpose, suggestions and some best practices about the field. Used the idea to write my first rust CLI. I was heading towards using it for Helm, but never got to it.
boilerupnc commented on Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on? · Posted by u/_false
boilerupnc commented on The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
More counterintuitively: why hasn't any major bacteria evolved to feast on lipids like oils? Much denser source of energy than desert dirt.
Related good read[0] - “I contain Multitudes”
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multi...
I don't know what the state-of-the-art is, but there was some work done that suggested that memories are formed encoded in the language you know at the time of formation.
I dug up some of this a while back[1].
My dad, who taught our language to immigrants, mentioned that it was known in that field that immigrants who lost their native language would also lose a lot of the knowledge they had from their home country, like stuff taught at schools.
Thus the memories might be there, one just can't make sense of them anymore and so they become forgotten.
Interesting. I wonder how this relates with my anecdotal observation that my aging immigrant parents and their similarly aged friends increasingly rely and use the language of their youth found in the home vs what they learned in school and used in their adopted country and while raising us. Are old encodings being rediscovered and decoded? Or is there a degradation in the power of their decoder and so it is slowly going back to a foundational level? Fascinating stuff.
"For centuries people communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried and failed to develop speedier messaging devices. But in the mid-1800s, a few extraordinary pioneers at last succeeded. Their invention--the electric telegraph--shrank the world more quickly than ever before.A colorful tale of scientific discovery and technological cunning, The Victorian Internet tells the story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it. By 1865 telegraph cables spanned continents and oceans, revolutionizing the ways countries dealt with one another. The telegraph gave rise to creative business practices and new forms of crime. Romances blossomed over the wires. Secret codes were devised by some users, and cracked by others. The benefits of the network were relentlessly hyped by its advocates and dismissed by its skeptics. And attitudes toward everything from news gathering to war had to be completely rethought.The telegraph unleashed the greatest revolution in communications since the development of the printing press. Its saga offers many parallels to that of the Internet in our own time--and is a fascinating episode in the history of technology."
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28949978