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New comment by nemoniac in "Writing Lisp is AI resistant and I'm sad"

nemoniac — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:21:08 +0000

My own experience over the last few months is quite the opposite so it's heartening to see some reputable Lispers reporting the same in the comments here.

Everything in this area is moving so quickly that I haven't yet crystallized my thinking or settled on a working methodology but I am getting a lot of value out of running Claude Code with MCP servers for Common Lisp and Emacs (cl-mcp & emacs-mcp-server). Among other things this certainly helps with the unbalanced parentheses rabbit hole.

Along with that I am showing it plenty of my own Lisp code and encouraging it to adopt my preferred coding style and libraries. It takes a little coaching and reinforcement (recalcitrant intern syndrome) but it learns as it goes. It's really quite a pleasant experience to see it write Lisp as I might have written it.

Idiomatic Koru Kernels Match Hand-Specialized C

nemoniac — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:09:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.korulang.org/blog/idiomatic-kernels-match-specialized-c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638005

Points: 10

# Comments: 7

Almighty Lisp: Lisp and Emacs Essentials Book

nemoniac — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:02:24 +0000

Article URL: https://almightylisp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612277

Points: 79

# Comments: 4

Coding agent rewrites (and improves) LGPL library and releases under MIT license

nemoniac — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:04:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260223

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nemoniac in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

nemoniac — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:57:23 +0000

GDPR is not a PII law. The term is not mentioned once in GDPR. GDPR speaks of "personal data", which as Wikipedia puts it "is significantly broader".

Adaptive Hashing: Faster Hash Functions with Fewer Collision

nemoniac — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:33:27 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05925

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912627

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Against Markdown

nemoniac — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:48:35 +0000

Article URL: https://aartaka.me/markdown.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex

nemoniac — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:46:37 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14319

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586213

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by nemoniac in "A bitwise reproducible deep learning framework"

nemoniac — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:53:53 +0000

Is there any indication of what the performance hit for this might be?

New comment by nemoniac in "Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"

nemoniac — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:32:22 +0000

uvx cinecli search "star wars"

America Has Become a Digital Narco-State

nemoniac — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:08:39 +0000

Article URL: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-has-become-a-digital-narco_id

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211417

Points: 32

# Comments: 3

Google's Hidden Empire

nemoniac — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:42:17 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02931

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45835780

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by nemoniac in "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2014)"

nemoniac — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:17:31 +0000

You can run it in Racket with the SICP language.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/SICP_Language.html

New comment by nemoniac in "Programming with Less Than Nothing"

nemoniac — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:25:25 +0000

The author references is in the sectino on Further Reading

New comment by nemoniac in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

nemoniac — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:26:13 +0000

> Almost everything I might achieve with an MCP can be handled by a CLI tool instead.

That's the pull quote right there.

New comment by nemoniac in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

nemoniac — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:07:05 +0000

The line that stood out for me was that "a 4-hour session of AI coding is more cognitively intense than a 4-hour session of non-AI coding."

Many programmers are rejecting AI coding because they miss the challenge they enjoy getting from conventional programming but this author finds it even more challenging. Or perhaps challenging in a different way?

Customizing Lisp REPLs

nemoniac — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:57:19 +0000

Article URL: https://aartaka.me/customize-repl.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44939654

Points: 76

# Comments: 19

Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

nemoniac — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:56:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-services-are-driving-viewers-back-to-piracy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44902797

Points: 1130

# Comments: 919

New comment by nemoniac in "Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp"

nemoniac — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:28:59 +0000

The first code example on that page claims to solve "the 3SUM problem".

According to [1], "the 3SUM problem asks if a given set of n real numbers contains three elements that sum to zero."

It's not clear to me what problem the Janet code solves but it's clearly not that 3SUM problem.

On the example input of

    @[2 4 1 3 8 7 -3 -1 12 -5 -8]

it outputs

    @[@[6 1 7] @[2 5 10] @[1 2 9] @[4 6 9] @[3 0 9] @[6 2 0]]

For what it's worth, here's some Common Lisp code that does solve the 3SUM problem in O(n^2).

    (defun 3sum (a)
      (let ((h (make-hash-table))
            (len (length a)))
        (dotimes (i len)
          (setf (gethash (aref a i) h) t))
        (dotimes (i len)
          (dotimes (j i)
            (when (gethash (- (+ (aref a i) (aref a j))) h)
              (return-from 3sum t))))))
    
    (3sum #(2 4 1 3 8 7 -3 -1 12 -5 -8))
    ;; => t

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3SUM

New comment by nemoniac in "Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux"

nemoniac — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:17:37 +0000

Only partially. At least for my Dutch licence. It contains neither holder's last name nor end date.

It does start with D1NLD. Then a single digit which is not the checksum of the foregoing (using the passport checksum algorithm). Then the document number. Then some letters and numbers I can't make any sense of. It ends with a correct global checksum for all of the foregoing.