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cryptocod3on How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works

SSS is amazing, though managing shares over a long period (people come and go) and dealing with collusion risk can be rough.

cryptocod3on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

Not really a question, I was just pointing out that "Unauthorised plagiarism" is redundant.

cryptocod3on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

There's authorized plagiarism?

cryptocod3on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

whoosh

cryptocod3on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

"opinions are my own"

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cryptocod3on Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language

Yep, I just had a slice of bread with strawberry jam and brunost on top

10/10

cryptocod3on Open-source Zig book

> if there are hallucinations

Plenty. I assumed that the code examples had been cleaned up manually, so instead I looked at a few random "Caveats, alternatives, edge cases" sections. These contain errors typically made by LLMs, such as suggesting to use features that doesn't exist (std.mem.terminated), are non-public (argvToScriptCommandLineWindows) or removed (std.BoundedArray). These sections also surfaces irrelevant stdlib and compiler implementation details.

cryptocod3on Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig

Correct

cryptocod3on Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig

Macros and dynamic typic works fine, but performance is terrible for now as it's an AST interpreter. My main focus is going forward will be to finish the vm/jit backend.

There are at least a couple of other Lisps written in Zig, though I'm not sure about the state. One is in the Mal repository, the other was targeting WASM iirc.

cryptocod3on Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig

The language supports both (λ is just an alias... which I might remove)

Replaced the example with lambda - appreciate the feedback!

cryptocod3on Bio – Experimental Lisp dialect, written in Zig

Bio dev here, time to create a HN account I guess. Got a nod that someone posted about it here, which I would prefer to happen a few years from now given the early stage, but hey what can you do :)

I 100% agree with formatting and I've started fixing it, the leftovers were from some (misguided) experimenting.