Quick 5 minute lightning talk introducing Hy, by its creator.
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Well done! If anyone wants to learn more: link link link and a quick 5 minute lightning talk: this video (Creator here) Hack on!
Friday evening lightning talks
6K views · Apr 2, 2013 · 52:24 · 1 HN recommender · 5 mentions · discussed 2013–2026
A PyCon 2013 block of Friday evening lightning talks. It includes the debut of Hy, a Lisp dialect that compiles to Python AST, and Solomon Hykes's first public talk on Docker.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN links it as the historical source for two projects: Hy's first announcement and the earliest recorded Docker talk.
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Historic PyCon 2013 lightning talks: Hy's debut and Docker's first public talk.
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hy was first introduced to me at PyCon 2013 in a lightning talk by @paultag, the language's creator. It was a very fun lightning talk. You can still watch it online here: this video I remember that day pretty clearly because in the same lightning talk session, Solomon Hykes introduced the Python community to docker, while still working on dotCloud. This is what I think might have been the earliest public and recorded tech talk on the subject. this video This was also the same PyCon that Eben Upton opened with a keynote to discuss the mission of Raspberry Pi, while also announcing that each of the 2,500 attendees would receive a free physical Raspberry Pi at the conference. It was a pretty darn good year of PyCon; 2013 was apparently a good vintage for open source tech with Python connections.
Original Hy announcement showing it compiles Lisp to Python bytecode.
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The original hy annoucement makes it clear that they embed a Lisp by compiling with Python bytecode. You can see it in the following video about the 16:25 mark this video
Quotes the speaker saying Hy compiles entirely to Python AST.
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The actual statement in the video is: > ...because this is a frontend like LLVM or GCC that compiles instead of bytecode, uh, to Python AST, um, so this Lisp compiles entirely to Python @ this video
Earliest recorded Docker talk by Solomon Hykes, PyCon 2013 lightning talks.
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The math of “a decade” seemed wrong to me, since I remembered Docker debuting in 2013 at PyCon US Santa Clara. Then I found an HN comment I wrote a few years ago that confirmed this: [...] I remember that day pretty clearly because in the same lightning talk session, Solomon Hykes introduced the Python community to docker, while still working on dotCloud. This is what I think might have been the earliest public and recorded tech talk on the subject. this video [Starts at 26:19 (t=1579).] This was also the same PyCon that Eben Upton opened with a keynote to discuss the mission of Raspberry Pi, while also announcing that each of the 2,500 attendees would receive a free physical Raspberry Pi at the conference. It was a pretty darn good year of PyCon; 2013 was apparently a good vintage for open source tech with Python connections. Just being pedantic though. That’s about 13 years ago. The lightning talk is fun as a bit of computing history.