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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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New comment by Lyngbakr in "How SQLite is tested"

Lyngbakr — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:21:35 +0000

While I certainly found it insightful, I felt like this book (like so many in the genre) was a pamphlet's worth of material inflated to fill about 250 pages.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

Lyngbakr — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:21:52 +0000

I recently put Alpine with i3 on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and I'm super impressed with how snappy it is. I find it much better even than Raspberry Pi OS Lite.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

Lyngbakr — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:29:28 +0000

In a submission to OCaml, when asked why the files he submitted list someone else as an author he says,

    > Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it.°

I find that sort of attitude terrifying.

° https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-35573...

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Python is not a great language for data science"

Lyngbakr — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:33:45 +0000

Yikes. Were they experienced data scientists or straight out of school? I find it very odd (and a bit scary) that they didn't know SQL.

New comment by Lyngbakr in "Python is not a great language for data science"

Lyngbakr — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:27:01 +0000

I was a bit disappointed to discover that this was essentially an R vs. Python article, which is a data science trope. I've been in the field for 20+ years now and while I used to be firmly on team R, I now think that we don't really have a good language for data science. I had high hopes for Julia and even Clojure's data landscape looks interesting, but given the momentum of Python I don't see how it could be usurped at this point.

The Hare Programming Language

Lyngbakr — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://harelang.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938924

Points: 10

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New comment by Lyngbakr in "How to tolerate annoying things"

Lyngbakr — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:07:33 +0000

I certainly agree with your take on Buddhism, but I often find that sage advice is buried amongst spiritual waffle in Buddhist books.

£220 'for a cut-up sock' — Apples's new iPhone Pocket ridiculed online

Lyngbakr — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:20:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn97ndgpnq7o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909258

Points: 74

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