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LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•47s ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
1•petethomas•4m ago•0 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-embassy-mcdonalds-restaurants-austria-hotline-americans-consular-...
1•thunderbong•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
1•astm•24m ago•0 comments

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
2•init0•30m ago•1 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines
1•trojanalert•30m ago•0 comments

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nestle-widens-french-infant-formula-r...
1•fkdk•33m ago•0 comments

I've used AI to write 100% of my code for a year as an engineer

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qxvobt/ive_used_ai_to_write_100_of_my_code_for_1_ye...
1•ukuina•36m ago•1 comments

Looking for 4 Autistic Co-Founders for AI Startup (Equity-Based)

1•au-ai-aisl•46m ago•1 comments

AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing

https://blog.postman.com/new-capabilities-march-2026/
1•thunderbong•46m ago•0 comments

What changed in tech from 2010 to 2020?

https://www.tedsanders.com/what-changed-in-tech-from-2010-to-2020/
2•endorphine•51m ago•0 comments

From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/agent-ergonomics/
1•Anon84•55m ago•0 comments

Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sphere
1•cyanf•56m ago•0 comments

Toyota Developing a Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine with Flutter and Dart

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fluorite-Toyota-Game-Engine
1•computer23•59m ago•0 comments

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
1•prismatic•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A longitudinal health record built from fragmented medical data

https://myaether.live
1•takmak007•1h ago•0 comments

CoreWeave's $30B Bet on GPU Market Infrastructure

https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/coreweaves-30-billion-bet-on-gpu
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Creating and Hosting a Static Website on Cloudflare for Free

https://benjaminsmallwood.com/blog/creating-and-hosting-a-static-website-on-cloudflare-for-free/
1•bensmallwood•1h ago•1 comments

"The Stanford scam proves America is becoming a nation of grifters"

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/students-stanford-grifters-ivy-league-w2g5z768z
4•cwwc•1h ago•0 comments

Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and His Manufacturing Method

https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/elon-musk-on-space-gpus-ai-optimus
2•simonebrunozzi•1h ago•0 comments

X (Twitter) is back with a new X API Pay-Per-Use model

https://developer.x.com/
3•eeko_systems•1h ago•0 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
3•neogoose•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Deterministic signal triangulation using a fixed .72% variance constant

https://github.com/mabrucker85-prog/Project_Lance_Core
2•mav5431•1h ago•1 comments

Scientists Discover Levitating Time Crystals You Can Hold, Defy Newton’s 3rd Law

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scientists-levitating-crystals.html
3•sizzle•1h ago•0 comments

When Michelangelo Met Titian

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/michelangelo-titian-review-the-renaissances-odd-couple-e34...
1•keiferski•1h ago•0 comments

Solving NYT Pips with DLX

https://github.com/DonoG/NYTPips4Processing
1•impossiblecode•1h ago•1 comments

Baldur's Gate to be turned into TV series – without the game's developers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g457y534o
3•vunderba•1h ago•0 comments

Interview with 'Just use a VPS' bro (OpenClaw version) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SnEd1RWUU
2•dangtony98•1h ago•0 comments

EchoJEPA: Latent Predictive Foundation Model for Echocardiography

https://github.com/bowang-lab/EchoJEPA
1•euvin•1h ago•0 comments

Disablling Go Telemetry

https://go.dev/doc/telemetry
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

How to Design Programs 2nd Ed (2024)

https://htdp.org
126•AbuAssar•7mo ago

Comments

warkdarrior•7mo ago
Has anyone summarized HTDP into a prompt for something like Claude? Does it improve the quality of code generated?
paffdragon•7mo ago
It's very likely that it has been already scraped by AI bots.
sulam•7mo ago
Yes, but also a lot of other things. It's important to direct the LLM to emphasize some embeddings vs others. This makes the chances of you getting good results exponentially higher.
soco•7mo ago
But that would be supervised learning which we don't do (anymore) around here... honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the whole craze circles back to good old supervision, albeit many times empowered by what we have today on the shelves.
KingEllis•7mo ago
Their website says 2014. Amazon says 2018. But definitely not 2024, unless I am missing something.
jamie_ca•7mo ago
Direct link is https://htdp.org/2024-11-6/Book/index.html which says "Released on Wednesday, November 6th, 2024 7:36:10pm"

I think this is the 2024 digital release of the 2014/2018 physical publication.

fn-mote•7mo ago
I believe it was edited on the release date given.
ZoomZoomZoom•7mo ago
Since this is actually the same edition that's been available for at least 7 years, but you still clicked the link, it's very likely you're interested in something along those lines. Consider getting "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming First Edition"[1] by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi. Although not exactly cutting edge (2004) and Oz-centric[2], still a great read and, for many, a fresh perspective.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts,_Techniques,_and_Mode...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(programming_language)

PS: I'll appreciate your recommendations as replies!

jmcdl•7mo ago
How worthwhile is it without being able to run the code examples and do the exercises? Getting Oz working is a real pain at best.
fn-mote•7mo ago
It would be more helpful to me if you said something about why you recommend it.

Like: what’s different from just “the rust programming language” (which is obviously not a beginner text, just trolling).

ZoomZoomZoom•7mo ago
Incidentally, in my opinion, The Rust Book was laid out exceptionally well for system programming beginners, at least in the state I read it through about 8 years ago or so. Steve and contributors managed to achieve a great balance between thoroughness and approachability of the text while dodging the curse of knowledge in a commendable way.

However, The Rust Book is as far from Concepts as it is from HTDP. It presents a specific language model in its relation to the hardware and common applications one faces while implementing what Concepts and HTDP teach to, well, design.

steveklabnik•7mo ago
Thank you, that’s very kind. It was a lot of work!
hollerith•7mo ago
I agree. I don't recall exactly when I read it, but it was about 8 years ago, too. In that state, the Rust Book was very very good for people like me (i.e., had already learned many PLs).
justin66•7mo ago
Wow, version 2 of Mozart is still incomplete, after all these years. I assume it will never happen.

http://mozart2.org/

adamddev1•7mo ago
Working through this was extremely helpful in getting me to think about building things with types, functions, and recursion. I saw an exponential increase in my problem-solving abilities after it. Can't recommend it enough.
WillAdams•7mo ago
How does this compare to Ousterhout's _A Philosophy of Software Design_

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37975558

Looking over the ToC there seems to be at least some overlap, but at a more basic level and sans the over arching concepts of APoSD.

Jtsummers•7mo ago
HTDP teaches how to program. Philosophy does not. That's pretty much the entire difference, they're in different categories of books. Philosophy assumes you know how to program, and attempts to teach a way of programming. HTDP starts from the beginning with no assumptions about the reader's ability to program.
subharmonicon•7mo ago
Off topic, but the typesetting here looks top notch and I am curious if anyone can elaborate on the tooling used to render this for the web?
Jtsummers•7mo ago
From the Acknowledgements:

> The HTML layout at htdp.org is the work of Matthew Butterick, who created these styles for our on-line documentation.

Some of his other work:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

https://beautifulracket.com/

matthberg•7mo ago
He's also the person behind Practical Typography [0], a great reference/guide for essential typography and layout concepts and terms. It has opinionated recommendations covering nearly everything you'll need to make beautiful documents like this one.

Particularly helpful is the practical advice: how to get the desired results in Word, Pages, or with HTML/CSS; not just high-level abstract guidelines. There's everything from keyboard shortcuts for inserting different dashes (to accompany the explanation on when to use each type) [1] to guidance on page margins in print and on the web [2].

0: https://practicaltypography.com/

1: https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html

2: https://practicaltypography.com/page-margins.html

neilv•7mo ago
https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/

It's like LaTeX, but in Scheme.

Matthew Butterick did the visual redesign of the Web format output.

neilv•7mo ago
At one point, I made my embedded API/package docs tool use Scribble.

For example, this document for a package is generated entirely from fragments scattered throughout the code, and package metadata: https://docs.racket-lang.org/roomba/

zelphirkalt•7mo ago
I am not quite sure what you mean. When I click the link and go to some page of the book, I see the usual interface of racket docs and such. I just see text on a web page. Do you mean the font? Or something else?