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What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•52s ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•1m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
1•gurjeet•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•3m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•4m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•6m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•6m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•6m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•8m ago•1 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•8m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•9m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•12m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•12m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•13m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•13m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•14m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•15m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•18m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•18m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•19m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•19m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•20m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•20m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Linear Types for Programmers (2023)

https://twey.io/for-programmers/linear-types/
60•marvinborner•6mo ago

Comments

scythmic_waves•6mo ago
Sorry off topic but I love the styling of this site.
Twey•6mo ago
Hi! I put a lot of effort into getting it to look just how I like it and I'm very happy you like it too :)
jnpnj•6mo ago
Newb question, aren't phantom types and typestates a subset (or cousin) of linear types ?
burakemir•6mo ago
No. A phantom type is a type whose only use is to communicate a constraint on a type variable, without having a runtime value that corresponds to it.

Typestate is a bit closer: it communicates some property where an operation (typically a method invocation) changes the property and hence the typestate. But there isn't necessarily a mechanism that renders the value in the old typestate inaccessible. When there is, then this indeed requires some linearity/affinity ("consuming the object"), but typestate is something built "on top".

jnpnj•6mo ago
Thanks a lot
Twey•6mo ago
Kind of! Specifically typestates allow you to encode the special case of linear functions `f a ⊸ f b` for some type constructor `f` where `a` and `b` are (usually?) phantom types. Phantom types themselves don't involve any linearity per se though.
renox•6mo ago
There's Austral https://austral-lang.org/ for linear types, I'm not sure what is the state of the language but it has a nice tutorial about linear types.
Twey•6mo ago
This is great, really accessible! I feel like for me the par operation ⅋ is the thing I struggled with getting intuition for the most, and I think that I am (and everyone else is!) still kind of figuring out the consequences of it, and a lot of language designers neglect it.
marvinborner•6mo ago
Do you know about the Par language? They try to integrate Par into a usable syntax

https://github.com/faiface/par-lang

Twey•6mo ago
I didn't know about this! That's brilliant, thank you for the pointer!

Since the death of LtU I don't really know where to learn about interesting new PL work. I try to occasionally read the POPL submissions but there's nothing like HN for PL.

marvinborner•6mo ago
Reddit's r/programminglanguages is still quite active. Otherwise most of the community switched to Discord, it seems. (I found Par by hopping the Discord servers of "Programming Language Development"->HOC->Vine->Par)
Twey•6mo ago
I've been recommended /r/pl a lot but it's not quite the same vibe as LtU. I think LtU was very carefully curated professional research with commentary, while /r/pl has a lot more amateurs asking questions about their hobby languages — which is great, I'm happy that people are experimenting with programming languages, but it does make it hard to use as a way to keep up with the latest big results for someone who doesn't necessarily have the time to follow everything that's going on on the subreddit.

Maybe the Discord is the way to go. The user interface confuses the heck out of me, though. Appreciate the recommendation!

explodes•6mo ago
Wow, this really hits the nail on the head for me. I've been pondering about how to make systems that can only be in well-defined states, modified by well-defined state transitions.

This looks like one giant step forward in that direction. I'll be enthusiastically playing around with Austral, all while hoping these concepts can become standardised, and maybe retrofitted to popular tech by way of design patterns or language features, in the future.

melodyogonna•6mo ago
Mojo has some support for Linear Types, it is not fully-fleshed out yet because of missing type system machinery, but the plan is to have full support for Linear Types.

Here is the full proposal: https://gist.github.com/VerdagonModular/9dfc97a3fbed72280019...

instig007•6mo ago
ATS2 has full support for linear and dependent types, capable of operating at pointer-level arithmetics. While the docs may seem impenetrable, in essence it's just a framework of four composable components 1) constrained data types T's, 2) description of resource management and ownership V's, 3) a statically checked "package-deal" (T * V) for lawful programmer-decided ownership semantics (as opposed to "the only true way" in Rust), and 4) formal proofs of the programmed logic. And you are free to mix & match them canteen-style.

Whenever there's a need for complex C API with generics, it's much more pleasant to implement it as a wrapper atop verified ATS C-output rather than C itself.

https://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML...