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Oh, it very much is a big deal. In a setting where users can switch models easily and with no downsides, market forces will give us better and cheaper AI over time. If switching mo…

Let me re-iterate the main lesson of decades of FOSS work: the advantages of open collaboration and knowledge-sharing are so enormous that FOSS software wins out eventually even if…

Really good timing for Jolla to produce a new phone :) I still have fond memories of my 2013 Jolla, and I'm hoping that the 2026 Jolla will be just as lovingly crafted. Most import…

Says the bag of lipids and proteins :)

Unfortunately I would not be surprised if the real death toll is even higher. I have first-hand information. We are talking about indiscriminate shooting with heavy machine guns in…

Unfortunately those videos exist. There are videos of relatives walking for hours from body bag to body bag to find the remains of their lost ones. There are videos of people with …

Let me comment as an SBCL user: This is outstanding work, and I can now remove a lot of performance hacks from my code because the default hash tables became equally fast! Also, th…

I recently switched to uv, and I cannot praise it enough. With uv, the Python ecosystem finally feels mature and polished rather than like a collection of brittle hacks. Kudos to t…

I fully agree. Limiting the amount of copies of software to sell them like a finite good has so many downsides: 1. There may be people who cannot use/afford some software, although…

Now Microsoft just sounds like pre-Brexit Britain. Why reflect on your own shortcomings when you can blame the EU instead :) I suggest Microsoft follows Britain's example and leave…

Yes, the #. reader macro is one of the ways how you can achieve this in Common Lisp. Using the reader macro is also way more efficient because you don't awkwardly use your compiler…

Implementing lazy arrays or xappings naively is easy - the Petalisp reference backend has just 94 lines of code [1]. The challenge is to implement them efficiently. With eager eval…

Connection Machine Lisp never made it into production, but this paper had a profound impact on my scientific career. In particular, it was the following comment in the paper that t…

This paper is from last year, and a lot of interesting things have happened in the meantime: - The parallel garbage collector is now part of SBCL, but not yet the default. Enabling…

Heh, thanks :) Petalisp author here - this ELS paper is just a preview. I'm also preparing a 160 page document (for my PhD) that will explain everything in more detail. I'll post o…

Let me summarize the key points of this law: - Starting from April 1, German adults can legally possess a certain amount of weed (25 grams on the move, 50 grams at home), and they …

> I'm very curious why you've chosen to go down the route of special casing on parallelizing within one socket This is no special casing. Most of that code will also be used for th…

Thanks for clarifying. I will definitely write down the specifics of setting up distributed computing once it works. However, support for distributed computing will still take some…

I am not sure what you mean by "required infrastructure setup". Installing Petalisp is a single call to (ql:quickload :petalisp) - assuming you have Quicklisp installed. If you als…

Petalisp author here. I apologize that the README is somewhat lacking, but it wasn't me who posted this on HN. As you may have seen on the commit history, a lot of exciting things …

Guy from Germany here: No, we didn't change our mind on combustion engines. They are getting less popular every month, and even the German car companies have roadmaps that phase ou…

Maxima is a surprisingly good alternative to SymPy. We had to learn that the hard way at my job. Both systems offer similar functionality, but it turns out Maxima is typically 50-2…

Congratulations to the entire team from Shirakumo Games! Developing and shipping a full-fledged video game requires a lot of hard work and dedication. And writing a custom game eng…

Emotions certainly played a major role when Germany decided to phase out nuclear in 2011, and the execution and timeline of that phase-out were poor. But that doesn't mean Germans …

This is great news! This is a wonderful project, and the fact that it wasn't accessible from Germany made me profoundly sad and angry. I hope the responsible copyright lawyers have…