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Tarski's influence on computer science [pdf]

math.stanford.edu
1 points·by remywang·9 hari yang lalu·0 comments

Show HN: Prela – A Compositional and Controllable Query Language

prela-lang.org
6 points·by remywang·27 hari yang lalu·0 comments

Passing DBs through continuations

remy.wang
82 points·by remywang·bulan lalu·18 comments

Show HN: Prela – Purely Algebraic Relation Combinators

github.com
73 points·by remywang·bulan lalu·13 comments

Simple and correct snapshot isolation

remy.wang
32 points·by remywang·2 bulan yang lalu·4 comments

Mailmate

freron.com
2 points·by remywang·3 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

Ask HN: Brian Kernighan's "Q"?

4 points·by remywang·3 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

A Critique of Snapshot Isolation

arxiv.org
1 points·by remywang·3 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Proof Theory and Logic Programming

lix.polytechnique.fr
11 points·by remywang·4 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

The LCA problem revisited [pdf]

www3.cs.stonybrook.edu
37 points·by remywang·4 bulan yang lalu·7 comments

Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites

satproto.org
414 points·by remywang·4 bulan yang lalu·218 comments

Show HN: sAT Protocol – static social networking

github.com
3 points·by remywang·4 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

GNU Texmacs

texmacs.org
191 points·by remywang·5 bulan yang lalu·61 comments

B+tree Visualizer

bptvisualizer.netlify.app
3 points·by remywang·5 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

The Ipe extensible drawing editor

ipe-web.otfried.org
2 points·by remywang·5 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

CIDR 2026 Proceedings

vldb.org
1 points·by remywang·6 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Debunking the Myth of Join Ordering: Toward Robust SQL Analytics

arxiv.org
3 points·by remywang·6 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Postmortem on TreeTracker Join: Simple, Optimal, Fast

zhu45.org
2 points·by remywang·6 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026

28 points·by remywang·6 bulan yang lalu·25 comments

Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server [pdf]

vldb.org
3 points·by remywang·6 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

comments

remywang
·kemarin dulu·discuss
It’s time to pull yourself out of your tunnel vision and look at the wasteland left behind by the ruthless machine you are building.
remywang
·9 hari yang lalu·discuss
> This will probably prevent git-annex from taking advantage of most new improvements to the Haskell language going forward. That is deeply unfortunate. This is the main reason why git-annex is not guaranteed to never change to depend on LLM generated code, because cutting it off from all future Haskell language improvements may be worse than the alternative.

Looks like they are aware, and git-annex has been around for decades written by one of the best Haskellers. “Some guys hobby project” is not fair
remywang
·12 hari yang lalu·discuss
Just stop using that cursed website
remywang
·15 hari yang lalu·discuss
Currently the worst assault on open source is PR spam and the collapse of trust and culture that comes with it. Focus on that if you really want to defend open source.
remywang
·21 hari yang lalu·discuss
> Telling people “you must read all the code generated by an LLM” is definitely meaningful—but it is not at all moderate (so most people won’t do it)

But they should! The code is the best source of truth on what the software is doing after all.

Instead of giving up on that, we should make it easier to read generated code, e.g. by generating less code in a higher level language.

On the flip side, forcing myself to read all the code also resulted in a smaller, higher quality code base.
remywang
·28 hari yang lalu·discuss
I really like my playdate! Lots of indie games, and their Lua API is very good, coming from someone with no prior experience with Lua or games programming.
remywang
·28 hari yang lalu·discuss
I had some good fun writing non-gaming apps for the playdate console including a browser [1] and Kagi news mirror [2] and feel the device has great potential as an alternative to android/iOS duopoly

[1]: https://github.com/remysucre/ORBIT

[2]: https://github.com/remysucre/cranky-news
remywang
·29 hari yang lalu·discuss
You’re not supposed to use the “brainmade” watermark on an AI generated article.
remywang
·bulan lalu·discuss
CPS was also the OG "AI psychosis" when it appeared in Sussman and Steele's AI Memo #349: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scheme:_An_Interpreter_for_Ex...
remywang
·bulan lalu·discuss
Select-Project-Join, not Simon Peyton Jones :)
remywang
·bulan lalu·discuss
There are fewer foot guns in Prela in particular no NULLs which should help both humans and robots.
remywang
·bulan lalu·discuss
Yes, maybe not the language itself, but the ideas behind it. Tarski's Algebra of Relations is actually a better model for modern columns stores than the standard relational algebra, because a column is a binary relation from the primary key into its value.
remywang
·bulan lalu·discuss
Claude had no problem translating SQL into Prela, and because you have fine grained control over the query plan (a Prela query is a plan), it was able to optimize queries to be very fast
remywang
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The best way to understand the theorems is to try to understand the proofs, and the short book “Gödel’s proof” by Nagel and Newman is excellent for that. Just like Douglas Hofstadter wrote in the foreword, I found the book an absolute page turner and finished in one afternoon.
remywang
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
He is not giving advice to the industry, he is giving advice to aspiring programmers and computer scientists. He has no experience in industry, but has produced lots of high quality software and research.
remywang
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This is exactly domain key normal form!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-key_normal_form
remywang
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Here’s the accompanying code on github but we never got to that part in class: https://github.com/nrnrnr/build-prove-compare-student-code
remywang
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
We got to build mini versions of the first 4 languages (imperative, lisp, ML, Smalltalk) in the PL course at tufts which is now published as a textbook [1]. There used to be a prolog part that sadly got cut.

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/ir/universitypress/subjects/comput...
remywang
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
All of these are supported in pandoc markdown:

> .mdv is strict CommonMark plus four additions:

> YAML front-matter for title, theme, named styles, and dataset references.

> Fenced blocks for data/visuals: ```chart type=bar x=region y=sales.

> ::: containers for styled regions and layout: ::: callout / ::: columns.

> ::: toc for an auto-generated table of contents.
remywang
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Have a motherfucking website [1] and you’ll be ready for agents or whatever

[1]: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/