Friday evening lightning talks
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN links it as the historical source for two projects: Hy's first announcement and the earliest recorded Docker talk.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2013 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends paultag · 2013-11 · on “Try Hy”
Well done! If anyone wants to learn more: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] and a quick 5 minute lightning talk: [this video] (Creator here) Hack on!
Cites pixelmonkey · 2019-08 · on “Hy”
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 goo
Cites PuercoPop · 2024-09 · on “Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python”
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]
Cites Slackwise · 2024-09 · on “Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python”
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]
Cites pixelmonkey · 2026-03 · on “A Decade of Docker Containers”
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 th