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Ask HN: Best practices for research code?

Eugeleo — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:08:52 +0000

Writing research code (in my case ML/AI) is very different to writing production code. The goals are different, and thus so are the best practices, patterns, and values.

What's your favorite resource on how to write code in research? What are the research-code-specific equivalents of Rich Hickey's talks or SPJ's posts or the many many SWE blogposts posted to HN?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676720

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

New comment by Eugeleo in "Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf]"

Eugeleo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:32:45 +0000

FWIW I think this is exactly the opposite of what the OP was trying to say. I think the OP meant that they often wish authors had used more space to explain their ideas, because that would immediately make them more accessible.

And I must agree. I often feel papers are written with an extra 20% over the page budget, then condensed in the last minute to fit the constraints, which hurts the exposition.

IA Presenter 1.5

Eugeleo — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:52:28 +0000

Article URL: https://ia.net/topics/a-presentation-app-that-works-on-your-phone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051040

Points: 2

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Notion Now Works Offline

Eugeleo — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:03:45 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ivanhzhao/status/1957827806681002168

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953121

Points: 1

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Trump announces Israel-Iran ceasefire

Eugeleo — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:43:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/23/israel-iran-ceasefire-trump-00419364

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44360960

Points: 11

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Gradient Routing: Masking Gradients to Localize Computation in Neural Networks

Eugeleo — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:38:27 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04332

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351778

Points: 2

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New comment by Eugeleo in "Keyboard Maestro 11"

Eugeleo — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:00:58 +0000

Everyone in the comments swems to be in love with KM. I wonder, what do you all use it for? It sounds like I’m missing out on a lot, but when I’m thinking about it, nothing in need of automation comes to mind. That is, except for opening a few common apps and window management. What am I missing?

New comment by Eugeleo in "PyTorch 2.0"

Eugeleo — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:03:46 +0000

Great! Any up-to-date guide to get the latest PyTorch running on Macs? Do we still have to use conda for example?

New comment by Eugeleo in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"

Eugeleo — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:46:37 +0000

Hey, mind sharing your workflow? Where do you read papers? And do you annotate them?

Bike by Hog Bay, a text editor outliner

Eugeleo — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:27:55 +0000

Article URL: https://hogbaysoftware.netlify.app/bike/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31093823

Points: 2

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The surprising definition of surprise, a conversation

Eugeleo — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:10:32 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@evzen.w/the-surprising-definition-of-surprise-a-conversation-3294bd70aca

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29630332

Points: 1

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New comment by Eugeleo in "Keep a Log"

Eugeleo — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:50:48 +0000

You can try obsidian.md

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?"

Eugeleo — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:32:37 +0000

I mean, it only messes with the efforts of the advertisers, right? Not that they can detect how many views the sponsored block has. Ofc if this becomes too popular, the ad industry will eventually catch up, but this is long ways away imho.

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?"

Eugeleo — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:08:48 +0000

I've never used nix, but it sounds interesting. What getting started guide would you recommend? Ideally one that has all these "insider tips" that you offer, so that I learn to use Nix "properly".

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?"

Eugeleo — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:40:56 +0000

Thanks for the summary, it is very helpful! I love Haskell and its philosophy and I'm intrigued to find that there can be some of it in a package manager as well.

One question: How do you properly install things like R on the M1 Macs, then? Do you use a 'backup' package manager?

New comment by Eugeleo in "Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 Review: Return to Form"

Eugeleo — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:23:08 +0000

Hey, a bit off-topic, but what do you think about only buying a 16GB version? According to a YT video I saw, the 16GB and 32GB Macs are roughly equal in terms of performance. [1]

I'm on the fence between buying a 32GB 24 core GPU Max version, or going for a cheaper 16GB 14 core GPU and using the leftover money to buy a home server with good GPU and RAM.

I'd like the Mac to sustain 95% of my programming, design, and data science needs, but I'd be willing to run the last 5% (gaming, very deep neural networks, or big datasets) remotely. Especially if I could get more bang for my buck buying a home station instead of maxing out the MacBook.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqiYSt4nAFs

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: How would you, a software engineer, spec out a new MacBook Pro?"

Eugeleo — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:27:13 +0000

Thanks for the viewpoint l. I've been wholly satisfied with my old MacBook, though, and thus don't think the overhead of switching systems is worth it for me.

Just out of curiosity, which Dell laptop would you recommend? Ideally a 14", light, and with good battery life. (I'll leave the more technical specs up to you)

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: How would you, a software engineer, spec out a new MacBook Pro?"

Eugeleo — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:14:21 +0000

Apple neural engine officially supports Tensorflow, I'm not sure if the GPUs are good enough to bother with it, though.

Ask HN: How would you, a software engineer, spec out a new MacBook Pro?

Eugeleo — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:45:55 +0000

I've read through the MacBook threads and seen one question repeated again and again: which specs to go for in the new MacBooks. I figured it might be worth it to make a dedicated post to discuss this.

To start this off, consider the following scenario:

- 50% of my work is web or mobile app development

- another 50% is training ML and deep learning models (currently on a cluster, but I'd prefer do it on my notebook of course)

- I also do raw photo editing work, as a hobby

In this case, what specs would you choose for your Mac? Specifically:

- M1 Pro with [14, 16] GPU cores, [8, 10] CPU cores, and [16, 32] GB of unified memory

- M1 Max with [24, 32] GPU cores, 10 CPU cores, and [32, 64] GB of unified memory

Hacker News: Eugeleo

Ask HN: Best practices for research code?

New comment by Eugeleo in "Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf]"

IA Presenter 1.5

Notion Now Works Offline

Trump announces Israel-Iran ceasefire

Gradient Routing: Masking Gradients to Localize Computation in Neural Networks

New comment by Eugeleo in "Keyboard Maestro 11"

New comment by Eugeleo in "PyTorch 2.0"

New comment by Eugeleo in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"

Bike by Hog Bay, a text editor outliner

The surprising definition of surprise, a conversation

New comment by Eugeleo in "Keep a Log"

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?"

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?"

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?"

New comment by Eugeleo in "Apple MacBook Pro 14 and 16 Review: Return to Form"

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: How would you, a software engineer, spec out a new MacBook Pro?"

New comment by Eugeleo in "Ask HN: How would you, a software engineer, spec out a new MacBook Pro?"

Ask HN: How would you, a software engineer, spec out a new MacBook Pro?

New comment by Eugeleo in "MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch"