The Mercury Language

Comments (1)

badmonster · 6h ago

How does Mercury achieve near-conventional execution efficiency while preserving the declarative semantics of logic/functional programming? Curious how its mode and determinism system feeds into optimization.

I'd rather read the prompt (claytonwramsey.com)

The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything (notashelf.dev)

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (blog.hayman.net)

Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs (felixrieseberg.github.io)

Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server (github.com)

Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com)

Design for 3D-Printing (blog.rahix.de)

Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev)

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (developers.googleblog.com)

The Death of Daydreaming (afterbabel.com)

OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B (bloomberg.com)

My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (gatesnotes.com)

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (blog.jetbrains.com)

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools (github.com)

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC (home.cern)

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ (collabora.com)

Evolving OpenAI's Structure (openai.com)

First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego (avalovelace1.github.io)

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O (pganalyze.com)

NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions (science.org)

Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools (theorthagonist.substack.com)

Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)

Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency (github.com)

Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem (mistral.ai)

Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp (github.com)

India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir (reuters.com)

High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill (blog.adafruit.com)

Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help (linkedin.com)

VVVVVV Source Code (github.com)

So Much Blood (dynomight.net)

Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) (blog.yaakov.online)

The vocal effects of Daft Punk (bjango.com)

Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative (blu-ray.com)

Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

An appeal to Apple from Anukari (anukari.com)

Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI (wired.com)

A critical look at MCP (raz.sh)

Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me (vincents.dev)

As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often (minimaxir.com)

Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production (nrkno.github.io)

RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement (github.com)

US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)

A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules (tixy.land)

How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent (briefer.cloud)

Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)

WASM 2.0 (w3.org)

The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024) (den.dev)

The Mercury Language

Comments (1)