Friday evening lightning talks
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talk · intermediate · 2013–2026 on HN
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.
HN links it as the historical source for two projects: Hy's first announcement and the earliest recorded Docker talk.
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5 comments from Hacker News
Well done! If anyone wants to learn more: link link link and a quick 5 minute lightning talk: ▶ this video (Creator here) Hack on!
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.
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
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
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.