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Friday evening lightning talks

Next Day Video · 6.5K views · 2013-04-02 · 52:24

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Overview

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.

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HN links it as the historical source for two projects: Hy's first announcement and the earliest recorded Docker talk.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2013–2026

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paultag · 2013-11 · Recommendation

Well done! If anyone wants to learn more: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] and a quick 5 minute lightning talk: [VIDEO] (Creator here) Hack on!

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pixelmonkey · 2026-03 · Reference

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. [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.

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PuercoPop · 2024-09 · Reference

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 [VIDEO]

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