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Try it yourself, ask an LLM to write some prolog to solve some problem and then copy paste it to https://swish.swi-prolog.org/ and see if it runs.", "context": "", "use_case": "Run Prolog in browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "Learn Prolog Now (2006)"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["erlang-style scheme", "domestic money transfers", "window tiling on macos", "window resizing on macos", "run prolog in browser"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877344", "title": "A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207004", "title": "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542695", "title": "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008", "title": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900978", "title": "Learn Prolog Now (2006)", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 782060016, "item_id": 48878751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878751", "by": "edfsadfer", "date": "2026-07-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "There is also Swish for Chez Scheme", "excerpt": "There is also Swish for Chez Scheme https://github.com/becls/swish. 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But Swish aren\u2019t particularly interested in playing an active part.[2] [1] https://empsa.org/ [2] https://nyheter24.se/nyheter/ekonomi/privatekonomi/1452366-darfor-star-swish-utanfor-nya-europeiska-betalsamarbetet", "context": "", "use_case": "domestic money transfers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"}, {"id": 760731457, "item_id": 47545716, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545716", "by": "Miraste", "date": "2026-03-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there's a fantastic program called Swish that implements tiling for MacOS in a very native-feeling way", "excerpt": "I also think Windows' native window tiling is one of its best features, but there's a fantastic program called Swish that implements tiling for MacOS in a very native-feeling way. It supports keyboard shortcuts, but it's built around really elegant touchpad gestures. Highly recommend if that's all that's keeping you on Windows. The other native Windows feature I really like is the clipboard manager, and I don't have ", "context": "", "use_case": "Window tiling on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"}, {"id": 751971120, "item_id": 46998195, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998195", "by": "eddyg", "date": "2026-02-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "lets you drag the divider to resize multiple windows at once", "excerpt": "Swish\u207d\u00b9\u207e lets you drag the divider to resize multiple windows at once. BentoBox\u207d\u00b2\u207e is inspired by Fancy Zones. And Lasso\u207d\u00b3\u207e is a grid-based window manager with custom layouts. There's also MacsyZones\u207d\u2074\u207e that appears to resize multiple adjoining windows but I've never used it (it appears to be open-source with an option to pay to support the author). \u207d\u00b9\u207e https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/ \u207d\u00b2\u207e https://bentoboxapp.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "Window resizing on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 734471840, "item_id": 45904490, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904490", "by": "cpill", "date": "2025-11-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "copy paste it to https://swish.swi-prolog.org/ and see if it runs", "excerpt": "YES! I've run a few experiments on classical logic problems and an LLM can spit out Prolog programs to solve the puzzel. 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