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Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
207•edent•2h ago•31 comments

Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue

https://github.com/nari-labs/dia
204•toebee•3h ago•53 comments

An update to our pricing

https://windsurf.com/blog/pricing-v2
46•mefengl•1h ago•19 comments

Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter?

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/is-1-prime-and-does-it-matter/
25•jamespropp•1h ago•22 comments

Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-lone-black-hole.html
40•wglb•2h ago•39 comments

Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

86•alexdanilowicz•6h ago•47 comments

FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/04/ftc-takes-action-against-uber-deceptive-billing-cancellation-practices
176•pinewurst•3h ago•72 comments

Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs

https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/04/adding-keyword-parameters-to-tcl-procs.html
35•BoingBoomTschak•3h ago•11 comments

Local LLM inference – impressive but too hard to work with

https://medium.com/@aazo11/local-llm-inference-897a06cc17a2
29•aazo11•3h ago•21 comments

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining/
188•Mond_•8h ago•165 comments

Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/dumb-statistical-models-always-making-people-look-bad/
40•hackandthink•2d ago•3 comments

A new form of verification on Bluesky

https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification
147•ink_13•4h ago•99 comments

Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in San Francisco

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spark/jobs/kDeJlPK-software-engineer-full-stack
1•tk90•3h ago

Optimizing Heap Allocations in Go: A Case Study

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-04-18-optimizing-heap-allocations/
19•ingve•3d ago•0 comments

How I use Kate editor

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-use-kate-editor/
80•todsacerdoti•23h ago•15 comments

The Value of Differences: Jennifer Lindsay on Noticing Translation

https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/the-value-of-differences
8•Thevet•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

https://github.com/codingmoh/open-codex
14•codingmoh•2h ago•7 comments

Python's new t-strings

https://davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pythons-new-t-strings/
503•tambourine_man•16h ago•368 comments

Getting forked by Microsoft

https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/
1429•phillebaba•9h ago•753 comments

Out of the Fog

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/651701/vietnam-operation-babylift-adoption-transnational
118•wapasta•6h ago•26 comments

Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/20/apple-stolen-iphone-lawsuit-theft/
22•luafox•48m ago•3 comments

Propositional Parlor Puzzle

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/propositional-parlor-puzzle/
14•foldU•1h ago•1 comments

AI assisted search-based research works now

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/
74•simonw•6h ago•43 comments

Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing

https://sam.elborai.me/articles/tabular-programming/
57•dgellow•8h ago•14 comments

Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-energy-consumption
220•gslin•13h ago•76 comments

No Robot Like Robot (2018)

https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/machine-learning-ai-annalee-newitz-when-robot-and-crow-saved-east-st-louis.html
5•Anon84•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Light like the Terminal – Meet GTK LLM Chat Front End

https://github.com/icarito/gtk-llm-chat/
20•icarito•4h ago•9 comments

Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/fossil-fuels-fall-below-50-of-us-electricity-for-the-first-month-on-record/
202•xnx•9h ago•201 comments

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them

https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-programming-is-more-mech-suit-than-artificial-human
161•matthewsinclair•6h ago•116 comments

Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM

https://github.com/LukasOgunfeitimi/TikTok-ReverseEngineering
362•xfeeefeee•18h ago•103 comments
Open in hackernews

Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs

https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/04/adding-keyword-parameters-to-tcl-procs.html
35•BoingBoomTschak•3h ago

Comments

andrewshadura•2h ago
Tcl is the shell done right. Simple, logical, consistent.
BoingBoomTschak•2h ago
Well, it's certainly much better, especially now that we have dicts to replace arrays. But the specter of https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/exec+ampersand+problem (cf https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/424.md) still looms.
grewsome•17m ago
Tcl does appear to be a command language done right, I don't think there is a better one. As it was designed after bash etc, I guess the Tcl developers could see the inconsistencies there, which helped them do Tcl right.
tracnar•2h ago
I implemented something very similar a while ago, it's indeed too bad it's not built-in. I don't think you need such a "quasiquote" function, [list {*}$args] can escape a single command, and then it's a matter of joining multiple commands using a newline. IIRC that's how I did it.

I also had further fun with wrapping "proc" by implementing a "pyproc" which called out to Python while looking like a normal Tcl proc.

BoingBoomTschak•2h ago
The problem is mainly the square brackets that force one to go through strings, in my experience. Can't build something like "set foo [cmd $bar]" purely by using [list ...] shenanigans, since list will quote stuff you don't want quoted.
tracnar•2h ago
True, I believe I mostly worked around that limitation by splitting off quoted from unquoted code into separate commands. So in your example "[cmd $bar]" would be in a separate unquoted command, probably putting it in a temporary variable, which can cause problems as it's hard to have a private scope when doing metaprogramming. You can also use "[list]" in the middle of code, but it gets more error prone, for example "set foo \[[list cmd \$bar]\]"

For sure there is a lack of proper "code as data" constructs in Tcl, like you would find in Lisp.

BoingBoomTschak•1h ago
Actually, you can see the "backslash hell" version here if you want to estimate the clarity gains: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/tcl-misc/tree/f613898c3dcfa3ca958a...
blacksqr•1h ago
The OpenACS web server toolkit has a lot of useful Tcl utilities, including the ad_proc procedure, which wraps proc and allows adding of switches, inline docs, and more.

I think it would be very useful to turn ad_proc into a built-in command and incorporate it into TCL.

https://nstcl.sourceforge.net/docs/nstcl-core/ad_proc.html

shawn_w•1h ago
Personally I'm a fan of TEPAM from tcllib, which does much the same (and tcllib is available through many OS's package managers making it more readily available)

https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/doc/trunk/embedded/md/tclli...

grewsome•23m ago
For incorporating into Tcl I'd prefer something simpler that would also work with existing procs. Building on {*}, maybe {@} could work (to skip over arguments to a specified argument}. e.g. when calling a function: someFunc someVal anotherVal {@}someArgName yetAnotherVal
jrapdx3•3m ago
As a search of the Tcl wiki shows, attempts to add named-argument capability to the Tcl proc command have been around for several years.

My own nxproc extension is more comprehensive. (See wiki [0].)

The extension enables named arguments, regular positional arguments, and 'rest' arguments, nxargs and nxunknown. Nxproc also provides (optional) type-checking of procedure arguments. (Types: string, number, bool and enumerated. Enums are lists of values restricting what the arg can contain.)

Nxproc supports TclOO with nxcontructor and nxmethod commands -- same feature set as "plain" nxproc. Also provides case-insensitive '-ci' variants, and runtime display of named-argument default/actual values and types.

Nxproc is a Tcl C extension. Bundle has Windows, Linux binaries. Compiles easily on other platforms.

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/nxproc