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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Monday January 12, 2026 @07:04AM (#46587302)
I got tired of keep optimizing prompt and rolling out changes in production. So I built a neurosymbolic language to help with that, where prompts as policies instead as hard rules.

https://github.com/canto-lang/canto-lang

Re:Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead (2016) on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:56AM (#46527061)
Logic systems are a good place where the library first approach tends to work well: you keep a small, boring core (the inference engine), and let people extend it with predicates, rules/operators, and domain packages.

I’ve been experimenting with a small defeasible-logic core (argumentation semantics + priorities + conflict detection) that stays stable, while most of the real meaning lives in extension points. https://github.com/canto-lang/canto-lang

I wonder why nobody said one word about Shen Language[1].

[1] http://www.shenlanguage.org/

Re:Pony language 0.11.0 released on Saturday March 11, 2017 @06:55PM (#13847986)
Pony is amazing, I am curious about the object capability model applied to distributed systems.
Re:URL Parsing in WebKit on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:38PM (#13094137)
The standardization is "easy", however we should not forget the browser must support the wrong behavior, because a bunch of applications are expecting that behavior, otherwise the implementation of the "standardised" URL parsing would break the web.
Re:Show HN: Java Bullshifier on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:56PM (#13018028)
In fact, it is a kind of common practice to generate tons of code. For C language, we have Csmith[1]. It is used to find bugs in llvm and GCC.

[1] https://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/

Re:SVG has more potential on Monday September 26, 2016 @03:43PM (#12584925)
SVG is amazing, my main concern about it. it is because it creates a huge burden to browser developers. The spec is huge [1]. And some parts are outdated[2].

[1] https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/master/Source/WebCore/... [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...

Re:H-1B bill pulled from House committee vote amid complaints on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @07:41PM (#12502187)
Probably local hire would be much better, however good programmers don't want to work in the Group 2. The want to work in a big company or in a cool startup.