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Re:How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:35AM (#48278927)
SSS is amazing, though managing shares over a long period (people come and go) and dealing with collusion risk can be rough.
Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:40AM (#48223482)
Not really a question, I was just pointing out that "Unauthorised plagiarism" is redundant.
Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale on Thursday May 21, 2026 @09:53AM (#48222580)
There's authorized plagiarism?
whoosh
"opinions are my own"

  - throwaway449933
Re:Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:45AM (#47814827)
Yep, I just had a slice of bread with strawberry jam and brunost on top

10/10

Re:62 chapter open-source Zig book on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:10AM (#45952581)
> if there are hallucinations

Plenty. I assumed that the code examples had been cleaned up manually, so instead I looked at a few random "Caveats, alternatives, edge cases" sections. These contain errors typically made by LLMs, such as suggesting to use features that doesn't exist (std.mem.terminated), are non-public (argvToScriptCommandLineWindows) or removed (std.BoundedArray). These sections also surfaces irrelevant stdlib and compiler implementation details.

Re:Bio – experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig on Thursday July 18, 2024 @12:42PM (#40997384)
Correct
Re:Bio – experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:21AM (#40996413)
Macros and dynamic typic works fine, but performance is terrible for now as it's an AST interpreter. My main focus is going forward will be to finish the vm/jit backend.

There are at least a couple of other Lisps written in Zig, though I'm not sure about the state. One is in the Mal repository, the other was targeting WASM iirc.

Re:Bio – experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:13AM (#40996334)
The language supports both (λ is just an alias... which I might remove)

Replaced the example with lambda - appreciate the feedback!

Re:Bio – experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:10AM (#40996294)
Bio dev here, time to create a HN account I guess. Got a nod that someone posted about it here, which I would prefer to happen a few years from now given the early stage, but hey what can you do :)

I 100% agree with formatting and I've started fixing it, the leftovers were from some (misguided) experimenting.