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Re:Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electro... on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:00PM (#49601087)
That must be the total capacity and response time.
Re:Ask HN: Have you used LLMs to reinvigorate you niche programming co... on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:43AM (#49260101)
That's disappointing, but I had wondered about that. I haven't had that issue for single scripts and I was hoping it would scale.

Ask HN: Have you used LLMs to reinvigorate you niche programming community?

Posted by amock on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:23AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've seen a few discussions over the years about how niche languages like Lisp, Forth, Prolog, etc. would be great to use, but even for personal projects the lack of available packages makes them hard to use. However, with an LLM you can have it replicate whatever package you'd like from a more popular language. You can even port software to your favorite niche architecture. If you really...

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Re:How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:26PM (#48739443)
Are you talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction_motor?
Re:Doomsday Scoreboard on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:13PM (#45661792)
The prediction aren't for total extinction events or even events where the internet wouldn't be around. Also, it' just a silly site provided for our entertainment.
Re:Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastabili... on Sunday August 17, 2025 @02:21PM (#44933694)
I damaged an embedded development board by walking across a carpeted room before touching it. When I touched it I heard, felt, and saw the zap and one of the IO ports was stuck after that.
Re:Stanford Researchers Produce Ammonia Fuel from Thin Air on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:02PM (#42741997)
We already make ammonia from the nitrogen in the air.
Re:I deleted my social media accounts on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:13PM (#42677995)
I don't think it's that strange. Most people are happy to have their views supported even if it's by means that they would call terrible if used against them.
Re:Raw milk recalled for containing bird flu virus, California reports on Monday November 25, 2024 @04:08PM (#42240231)
I have pasteurized milk straight from a cow in different ways and it is different than raw milk. I prefer the flavored of the pasteurized, but all of them are much better than regular whole milk from the store. Store milk is just more bland in every way, and not just because it's less fatty.

The flavor of milk changes with what the cow eats, so if cows are on pasture then the flavor will change over the year as the grasses change and if they are on hay for part of the year that obviously changes the flavor as well.

Re:Raw milk recalled for containing bird flu virus, California reports on Monday November 25, 2024 @03:10PM (#42239706)
Lots of dangerous things are sold, and raw milk isn't anywhere near the top of the list.
Re:GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @08:18PM (#42200023)
On my POWER9 system it took 45 minutes.
Re:I'm Not Mutable, I'm Partially Instantiated (Prolog) on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:53PM (#42079641)
I’ve enjoyed https://www.metalevel.at/prolog but I’m not a Prolog Programmer.
Re:How economical is your local Taco Bell? on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @01:33PM (#41513528)
Just because spending is rising doesn't mean people are buying more things. Prices have increased, so people can be buying fewer goods and still spending more.
Re:Optimizing 128-bit Division (2020) on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @02:38PM (#40577592)
This is not directly relevant, but Power ISA 3.1 (from May 2020) has 128 bit division operations (vdivuq and vdivsq) with a maximum latency of 61 cycles. I don't have access to a Power 10 machine to see how it compares to what's presented here, but I thought it was an interesting addition to the ISA.

https://wiki.raptorcs.com/w/images/f/f5/PowerISA_public.v3.1... https://files.openpower.foundation/s/EgCy7C43p2NSRfR

Re:An Exploration of SBCL Internals (2020) on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:11PM (#40115713) 

  remember that we're on x86 here, which is a big-endian architecture
While I wish this were true, x86 is little-endian.
Re:Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed in England on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @12:28PM (#39106507)
If it's for gambling, why isn't it mentioned anywhere? Why are there no mentions of games using these devices?
Re:4th edition of Physically Based Rendering is now freely available o... on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:38AM (#38115048)
It should be "physically based" since it's about rendering based on how light works physically, in the real world. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physically_based_rendering
Re:Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money? on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:20PM (#37152239)
Bookkeeping is about recording financial transactions. Bookmaking is taking bets.
Re:Richard Scarry Collection: Archive.org on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:05AM (#37050081)
Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of changes made to his books to update them for more modern audiences? His books were the first I heard of being updated for that reason and I'd like to see what was done, but I can only find news articles listing some changes.
Re:What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022) on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:13PM (#36155071)
The first two sound like core parts of Smalltalk as well.

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