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Exactly. I've been hosting a site from a spare M1 Macbook Pro with Ngrok. An equivalent bare metal server would be much more expensive.

Tcl brings with it some other ambiguity when serializing though. {a 1 b 2} Should the above be serialized as a dict, a list, or a string (ignoring the various possibilities of trea…

But _worse is better_.

Tcl has a library called "comm" [0] that lets you expose an interpreter over a socket and since everything in Tcl has a string representation, there's no need for a serialization/d…

I know Racket was reworked to build upon Chez Scheme several years ago. If the HN migration to CL was due to performance reasons, I wonder if sticking it out and waiting for the Ch…

I think what the other comment is getting at is that you're essentially leaving footprints behind on various servers and that information could be used to narrow down who you are, …

I'm surprised there's no call out highlighting Common Lisp and Clojure's "liveness" compared to Racket (and Scheme). Racket is "batch compiled" wherein CL and Clojure you're editin…

Yeah, I was originally thinking of the latter and generally interested as to what they were providing.

Curious to see where you'd place Knockout (still my favorite framework to date)

I also see this mentioned often and have wondered the same. I can sort of envision this working in a single threaded application, but how would this work in a web application for e…

I'm not a fan of dynamic typing at all (currently maintaining a decade's old e-comm monolith written in Ruby on Rails), but instead of arguing about what bugs are caught where, I'v…

This is PG's response about Sam leaving YC. It says nothing about the original motivation of offering him the position at YC.

And here I thought it was an initiative to get Detroiters to be more active!

>If you mess up, redo the part you messed up correctly 5 times in a row. I think it may be important to note _when_ to redo this. I started off this way, but after working with a g…

Great work and nice writeup. I went in wondering how you were handling instances and got my answer!

>easy for agents to write and beautiful for humans to review What's left unspoken here, and something I've brought up in other threads that have mentioned Ruby + LLMs, is that they…

LispWorks and Allegro are both interesting, but I've found their IDE offerings to be very limited. I haven't used either since I was playing around with CL during Covid, but from w…

This is the perfect way to create a code-base that's incomprehensible. Claude may be good at generating Rails code, but every LLM I've tried to date has struggled immensely with pa…

>...despite the protest of students... I work closely with Northeastern CS students (via co-op program) and haven't heard anything but negative opinions about Racket.

I wonder if you could circumvent this by adding a thin appendage to whatever it was you're printing and then just snip it off post-print.

How can breaking a task into sub-tasks that themselves are measured in hours take longer than the implementation of those features?

I’ve found LLMs to be severely underwhelming. A week or two ago I tried having both Gemini3 and GPT Codex refactor a simple Ruby class hierarchy and neither could even identify the…

I feel like I'm living in a totally different world or I'm being gaslit by LLMs when I read stuff like this and other similar comments in this thread. Do you mind mentioning _what_…

> I think the future of software is going to be unimaginably dynamic. >...I’m not entirely sure what that looks like yet, but things like this are a step in that direction. This ma…

> I believe that the benefits of static typing somewhat decrease in the web arena I’ve seen this sentiment expressed numerous times and have never found it to be true in my own wor…