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Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook (Score: 151+ in 1 day)

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i made an esoteric programming language which i call spellscript.
every program is a "spell" written in a "grimoire," and you have to use keywords like summon, enchant, inscribe, and conjure.
it's literally read like a spellbook because the syntax consists of all natural language, and newlines are optional. your code can now be an essay, like everybody wants!
for example, if you want to print something, you'd write:
`begin the grimoire. inscribe whispers of "hello, world!". close the grimoire.`
it has variables, dynamic typing, arrays, functions, conditionals, loops, string manipulation, array manipulation, type conversion, and user input, among other (listed in the docs!)
but why? i wanted to see how far you could push natural language syntax while still being parseable. most esolangs are intentionally obtuse (BF, Malbolge), but i wanted something that's weird but readable, like you're reading instructions from a spellbook, which makes it incredibly easy to read and understand. like an anti-esolang? hmm...
github: https://github.com/sirbread/spellscript
docs: https://github.com/sirbread/spellscript/blob/main/resources/...

GitHub - sirbread/spellscript: esotoric programming language that's read like a spellbook

esotoric programming language that's read like a spellbook - sirbread/spellscript

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Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files (Score: 155+ in 5 hours)

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Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries.…

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Despite what's happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Despite what’s happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally

The world is betting on solar and wind, despite Trump’s championing of fossil fuels in the United States.

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Modern Linux tools (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)

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Modern Linux Tools - Gamedev Guide

Programming notes for Unreal Engine, Houdini, Game Development, Math, & Graphics

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After the AI boom: what might we be left with? (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)

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Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)

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SQL Online AiDE - Next gen SQL Editor | SQL Compiler

SQL OnLine - SQLite, DuckDB, PGLite, MariaDB / MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server. AI error analysis, User-friendly interface for Data Science. No registration for start, No DownLoad, No Install. | sql compiler, federated queries, temporal query federation…

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No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We're Switching Off (🔥 Score: 155+ in 3 hours)

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Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d…

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MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)

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HTTP3 Explained (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)

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http3-explained.haxx.se

README | HTTP/3 explained

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California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)

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California says goodbye to coal and hello to cleaner electricity

Your morning catch-up: California says goodbye to coal, trash fees will surge for L.A. residents and more big stories.

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Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)

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Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.

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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)

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Android’s sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet

Is Google's push for verified developers really about safety?

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NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)

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GitHub - karpathy/nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.

The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy. Contribute to karpathy/nanochat development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3 (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)

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GitHub - pytauri/pytauri: Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3

Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3. Contribute to pytauri/pytauri development by creating an account on GitHub.

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American solar farms (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)

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American Solar Farms

Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...

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More random home lab things I've recently learned (❄️ Score: 150+ in 1 week)

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More random home lab things I've recently learned

From my series of "Christian's Home Lab adventures", here's some more things I've recently learned / discovered and figured are worth sharing: NVMe SSDs on a Raspberry PI, ARM64 adventures, more zfs troubles, and some cool tools you should try.

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Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)

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Smartphones and being present (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)

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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog

Smartphones and being present

Living intentionally in a world of distraction.

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Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (Score: 153+ in 11 hours)

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Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in 'highly exceptional' move

The Dutch government has invoked the Goods Availability Act to take control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands.

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Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)

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Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist

: Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork

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