Hacker News: Lyngbakr

New comment by Lyngbakr in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:56:52 +0000

To be fair, the French riot in the streets when one of their teams win the Champions League[0]. I'm not sure it's a good metric.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r2ejg1w9xo

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

Lyngbakr — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:17:21 +0000

    > You already know why, more or less. ChatGPT has over 900 million monthly active users. GitHub Copilot has 4.7 million paying subscribers as of January 2026, up roughly 75% in a year. You can’t imagine writing software without Claude Code anymore.

I read programming books and use LLMs for different purposes. With books, it's usually not to find a solution to the very specific problem I'm working on. That's what I use LLMs for because they give very focused answers. Books, on the other hand, provide much broader context that help me learn a language. Whereas with LLMs I get a solution yet tend to retain nothing. YMMV.

Most people seeking green cards must now apply from outside US

Lyngbakr — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrpz4l1klgo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246495

Points: 6

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New comment by Lyngbakr in "The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It"

Lyngbakr — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:39:54 +0000

    > They are being told, on the one hand, that these tools are going to eliminate millions of jobs, and on the other that they have to use them if they don’t want to fall behind.

I'm currently reading a fascinating book called Blood In The Machine° about the Luddites who opposed certain technologies in 19th century England and the parallels with the current state of affairs. It's important to remember that while history doesn't repeat itself, it often rhymes.

° https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59801798-blood-in-the-ma...

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Lyngbakr — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:51:17 +0000

Wow — I'm user 404!

From Data Unicorns to Data Giraffes

Lyngbakr — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:47:03 +0000

Article URL: https://spacedata.substack.com/p/from-data-unicorns-to-data-giraffes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841354

Points: 2

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Ne, the Nice Editor

Lyngbakr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:16:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vigna/ne

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800755

Points: 3

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Cave under castle with prehistoric hippo bones 'once in a lifetime' find

Lyngbakr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:00:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ejjw7377jo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800619

Points: 33

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New comment by Lyngbakr in "Music for Programming"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:45:37 +0000

I recently discovered Lorn and have been mainlining his back catalogue ever since whilst working. Thoroughly interesting and immersive yet not distracting.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames"

Lyngbakr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:13:35 +0000

Back when I used to use Stackoverflow, someone would always come along with a data.table solution when I asked a question about dplyr. The terse syntax seemed so foreign compared to the obvious verb syntax of dplyr. But then I learned data.table and I've never looked back. It's a superb tool!

New comment by Lyngbakr in "What category theory teaches us about dataframes"

Lyngbakr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:05:13 +0000

Agreed — I much prefer polars, too. IIRC the latest major version of pandas even introduced some polars-style syntax.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

Lyngbakr — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:46:21 +0000

His books are perhaps in the same category as Nickelback albums: people love to rag on them, but if you look at the sheer number of units shifted, clearly lots of folks enjoy them.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries"

Lyngbakr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:10:51 +0000

Is the point of journalling for you to have memories to look back on or to help you process what happened during the day or another reason? (I've never tried it so I'm trying to understand the purpose.)

Costs from Trump's tariffs paid mainly by US firms and consumers, NY Fed says

Lyngbakr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:12:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78x9256pn7o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002944

Points: 3

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Amazon joins Big Tech AI spending spree

Lyngbakr — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:46:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c150e144we3o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46907099

Points: 2

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New comment by Lyngbakr in "The Gleam Programming Language"

Lyngbakr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:29:30 +0000

What's the product/use case?

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?"

Lyngbakr — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:23:40 +0000

I have a PhD in a similar field to Earth Science and now I'm an engineering team lead at a company in a field related to my PhD. This is the second such role I've held like this and it was very much that I found a perfect position in both cases. I think a key part of being able to combine my domain and technical expertise in a single role was that the jobs were at startups where there's often the need for folks to wear multiple hats. That said, in the past decade since leaving academia I have perhaps seen a handful of such jobs. So, they do exist, but are few and far between, IME.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One"

Lyngbakr — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:31:02 +0000

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One"

Lyngbakr — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:53:11 +0000

I was nodding along enthusiastically right up until LLMs and that point we sharply diverge.

For me, part of creating "perfect" software is that I am very much the one crafting the software. I'm learning while creating, but I find such learning is greatly diminished when I outsource building to AI. It's certainly harder and perhaps my software is worse, but for me the sense of achievement is also much greater.

Vis – Combining Modal Editing with Structural Regular Expressions

Lyngbakr — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:02:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/martanne/vis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345302

Points: 6

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