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How were the NIST ECDSA curve parameters generated? (2023)

https://saweis.net/posts/nist-curve-seed-origins.html
1•mooreds•53s ago•0 comments

AI, networks and Mechanical Turks (2025)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/11/23/ai-networks-and-mechanical-turks
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

Goto Considered Awesome [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKVEUGEk6Y
1•linkdd•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built a Free AI LinkedIn Carousel Generator

https://carousel-ai.intellisell.ai/
1•troyethaniel•4m ago•0 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

https://www.kyledunbar.dev/2026/02/05/Implementing-auto-tiling-with-just-5-tiles.html
1•todsacerdoti•6m ago•0 comments

Open Challange (Get all Universities involved

https://x.com/i/grok/share/3513b9001b8445e49e4795c93bcb1855
1•rwilliamspbgops•6m ago•0 comments

Apple Tried to Tamper Proof AirTag 2 Speakers – I Broke It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLK6ixQpQsQ
2•gnabgib•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe as a Code / VaaC – new approach to vibe coding

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gace/vaac
1•bstrama•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: More beautiful and usable Hacker News

https://twitter.com/shivamhwp/status/2020125417995436090
3•shivamhwp•10m ago•0 comments

Toledo Derailment Rescue [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHh5yHxkfU
1•samsolomon•12m ago•0 comments

War Department Cuts Ties with Harvard University

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4399812/war-department-cuts-ties-with-harva...
5•geox•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
1•yi_wang•17m ago•0 comments

A Bid-Based NFT Advertising Grid

https://bidsabillion.com/
1•chainbuilder•20m ago•1 comments

AI readability score for your documentation

https://docsalot.dev/tools/docsagent-score
1•fazkan•28m ago•0 comments

NASA Study: Non-Biologic Processes Don't Explain Mars Organics

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-ful...
2•bediger4000•31m ago•2 comments

I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74w48d8epgo
2•dabinat•31m ago•0 comments

X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/x-pays-1-million-prize-creator-history-racist-posts-rcna257768
4•doener•34m ago•1 comments

155M US land parcel boundaries

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2•tjwebbnorfolk•38m ago•0 comments

Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
2•jbegley•42m ago•1 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
1•krapp•45m ago•0 comments

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Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

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2•PaulHoule•50m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
2•y1n0•52m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
2•tolerance•52m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•52m ago•1 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M
2•linkdd•54m ago•0 comments

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https://www.aegismind.app
2•aegismind_app•58m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
1•Retro_Dev•59m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

https://taipo.app/
1•neuling•1h ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

https://www.appsecmaster.net/en
1•aqeisi•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

The Concatative Language XY

http://www.nsl.com/k/xy/xy.txt
49•ofalkaed•2w ago

Comments

ofalkaed•2w ago
The code and details about various versions are available on the homepage which weirdly does not really explain the language.

http://www.nsl.com/k/xy/xy.htm

jasonwatkinspdx•2w ago
So this is the blog of Stevan Apter. As you might guess from having a 3 letter vanity domain, he and this website have been around a long long time. It's mostly code golf style stuff posted to the J Software and Concatenative Languages lists. So yeah it'll be terse and obscure outside that community.

The domain name stands for No Stinkin' Loops, a reference to how APL style languages lift iteration to combinator expressions.

ofalkaed•2w ago
I did not know any of that, did not even consider if it was a vanity domain but did briefly wonder if nsl was the domain for some small country. I think the homepage does a good job of covering everything we need to know and in someways does a better job, but this posting provides a better overview for a HN submission. I included the homepage since some would probably skim the post or only read as much as they need to get the idea and miss the note at the bottom, someone would have probably posted asking where the code was.

Thanks for the background info.

jasonwatkinspdx•1w ago
Yeah, I stumbled onto J et all after seeing an interesting entry into the ICFP programming contest. So I was on the concatenative languages email list for a bit and knew nsl.com from there.

I've always found this snippet interesting: https://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm

Comparing the lisp to the non linenoise k syntax you can see there really is something compelling to this sort of lifting of iterator at a time fiddling to a higher level of abstraction where you just think about the shape of what you want.

mncharity•1w ago
Including discussion of XY 2.0 and its flatness (all partitions of a sequence of program tokens are semantically equivalent).
nitrix•1w ago
I’m the Alex mentioned in the acknowledgments, feel free to ask your questions.
ofalkaed•1w ago
In what way did you carry the ideas forward? Did you create a language which builds on it or did you just help Stevan develop the ideas of XY? Curious in anything you can contribute.
gnabgib•1w ago
(2004)[0] And yet you submitted it twice in 5 months? weirdly indeed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44880307

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9216548

ofalkaed•1w ago
It is the same topic but not the same submission, if topics can't be repeated HN will die in short order. Are you suggesting that I am trying to revive my 20 year dead language by posting it twice within 5 months? my posting history should prove that I am not capable of creating such a language.

Not criticizing you, you perform a great service to HN, I am just confused by your post and that might just be a failing of mine. Either way, thanks for all you do.

wosined•2w ago
Interesting. But looks like assembler and more complicated.
jaberjaber23•2w ago
interesting mix of k and joy. the queue manipulation primitives like -> and => have no equivalent in joy, lets you do things like call/cc in a few lines
volemo•2w ago
This helped me finally grok continuations!
tobr•2w ago
Submitted headline is missing an ’en’.
ofalkaed•2w ago
Something about that looked wrong but I just could not quite see it. To late to edit.
mncharity•1w ago
"The Concatenative Language XY" discussion (typo in title).

For search.

zabzonk•2w ago
So, basically a less-readable Forth?
wvlia5•1w ago
I'm making a new language inspired in XY
mncharity•1w ago
Fwiw, bing/chat identifies the implementation K version as a K2, in a style which might be an easy port to K3.