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Maybe because people focus on what's important rather than a fancy website? How many startups can't offer more than a fancy website. Warren Buffet, one of the greatest investors of all time has barely a website.
have you seen the website for the latest version of k? "barely a website" doesn't even begin to describe it https://k.nyc
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Algol? Did you mean APL?
Yes, yes I did. As penance, I will post Whitney’s sudoku solver in k: x@&/x?/:/:(+;!9;/:x)
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https://github.com/l-labs/master-benchmark
ah. cheeky.
Seems wild that the much-lauded "reference engine" leaves ~2x perf improvements on the table.
yeah the site's clearly vibecoded and isn't opensource, but i also think this is a genuinely interesting design space and more people should be building in it. APL ( https://www.dyalog.com/ ), BQN ( https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ ), J/Jd ( https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview ), Klong ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10586872 ), Kerf ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9782520 ), RayforceDB ( https:…
"Site by Claude. Runtime by hand"
I think that's completely acceptable.
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Maybe because people focus on what's important rather than a fancy website? How many startups can't offer more than a fancy website. Warren Buffet, one of the greatest investors of all time has barely a website.
have you seen the website for the latest version of k? "barely a website" doesn't even begin to describe it https://k.nyc
yeah the site's clearly vibecoded and isn't opensource, but i also think this is a genuinely interesting design space and more people should be building in it. APL ( https://www.dyalog.com/ ), BQN ( https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ ), J/Jd ( https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview ), Klong ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10586872 ), Kerf ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9782520 ), RayforceDB ( https:…
The bottom of the page states: "Site by Claude. Runtime by hand" I think that's completely acceptable.
Second, in my personal experience, most quants refer to the platform as "kdb+", which uses the languages q (directly), k (indirectly), and qSQL. Is there a reason why the website landing page does not mention kdb+? I assume this is intentional.
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the author of the site makes no secret that the website is vibecoded. You're unfairly extrapolating that the product itself is vibe-coded (hard to do unless he is a time-traveller). And you're missing the point of the unique advantages that L offers wrt computation on compressed data.
yup website is Claude Design for prototype. For the core ... AI has been less helpful than I hoped - I believe largely because array style languages have so little source in training? But where Claude was especially helpful (other than the web design w/ Claude Design for the prototype) was analyzing ASM output of functions and optimizing those (although it was hard to go ASM>C or ASM>rust). E.g. lots of small mistake…
> But where Claude was especially helpful (other than the web design w/ Claude Design for the prototype) was analyzing ASM output of functions and optimizing those E.g. lots of small mistakes would have been missed by not having restrict/const in places.
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ah. cheeky.
Seems like the only point of comparison against a competitive k/q runtime is an MBP run? suggestive to be sure, but would be good to see some other machines, esp. an x86. Seems wild that the much-lauded "reference engine" leaves ~2x perf improvements on the table.
https://github.com/l-labs/master-benchmark
Or on the database side of the house try the h2o.ai base that duckdb excels at
First, this is an incredible achievement. I hope that the author(s) can monetize this project. I guess they can try to undercut kx.com's current insanely high subscription costs. Is that a goal? I ask because I cannot find the source code for the project, only downloadable compiled binaries. (No hate on that -- you are free to make lots of money from your hard work and apparent genius!) Second, in my personal experie…