Hacker News: Munksgaard

Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude

Munksgaard — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:05:57 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-vim-vs-emacs-vs-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597382

Points: 50

# Comments: 47

New comment by Munksgaard in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

Munksgaard — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:40:27 +0000

Peter Naur had that realization back in 1985: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

Magic Link Pitfalls

Munksgaard — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:01:54 +0000

Article URL: https://etodd.io/2026/03/22/magic-link-pitfalls/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515335

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing

Munksgaard — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://stevana.github.io/erlangs_not_about_lightweight_processes_and_message_passing.html#correctness-of-behaviours

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441087

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

“It turns out” (2010)

Munksgaard — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:52:46 +0000

Article URL: https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248319

Points: 328

# Comments: 91

When Reasoning Becomes a Trap: Gemini 3 Flash in FoodTruck Bench

Munksgaard — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:33:47 +0000

Article URL: https://foodtruckbench.com/blog/gemini-flash

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244328

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Munksgaard in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

Munksgaard — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:13:31 +0000

Pretty easy, the prompts can be seen here[0] and pi supports setting SYSTEM.md.

0: https://cchistory.mariozechner.at/

Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open

Munksgaard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:18:47 +0000

Article URL: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/01/19/no-dynamic-type-systems-are-not-inherently-more-open/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962027

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Munksgaard in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

Munksgaard — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:43:24 +0000

Mirroring this divide, Denmark has a TV-show called "Klovn", which is basically a copy of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (down to the , except that while the main character in Curb is the cause of a lot of cringe moments, he always ends up getting his redemption and being the hero (at least to the viewer). In "Klovn", the main character ("Frank") causes a lot of cringe moments in the same way, but he is a tragicomic character and is almost always in the wrong.

New comment by Munksgaard in "I want a good parallel language [video]"

Munksgaard — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:59:30 +0000

To be clear, you can express workgroup parallelism in Futhark, or rather, if the compiler sees that you've programmed your problem in such a way that it can take advantage of workgroup parallelism, it will.

But you're right, it would be interesting to see how the different approaches stack up to each other. The Pareas project linked above also includes an implementation using radix sort.

New comment by Munksgaard in "I want a good parallel language [video]"

Munksgaard — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:39:15 +0000

Thanks for clarifying! It would indeed be interesting to see a comparison between similar implementations in other languages, both in terms of readability and performance. I feel like the readability can hardly get much better than what you wrote, but I don't know!

New comment by Munksgaard in "I want a good parallel language [video]"

Munksgaard — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:57:40 +0000

Also, while not exactly the algorithm Raph is looking for, here is a bracket matching function (from Pareas, which he also mentions in the talk) in Futhark: https://github.com/Snektron/pareas/blob/master/src/compiler/...

I haven't studied it in depth, but it's pretty readable.

New comment by Munksgaard in "I want a good parallel language [video]"

Munksgaard — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:45:14 +0000

Interesting talk. He mentions Futhark a few times, but fails to point out that his ideal way of programming is almost 1:1 how it would be done in Futhark.

His example is:

  sequence
    .map(|x: T0| ...: T1)
    .scan(|a: T1, b: T1| ...: T1)
    .filter(|x: T1| ...: bool)
    .flat_map(|x: T1| ...: sequence)
    .collect()

It would be written in Futhark something like this:

  sequence
    |> map (\x -> ...)
    |> scan (\x y -> ...)
    |> filter (\x -> ...)
    |> map (\x -> ...) 
    |> flatten

New comment by Munksgaard in "Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors"

Munksgaard — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:39:07 +0000

As someone who comes from Haskell/ML-like languages, I decided to opt for Elixir and Phoenix for my latest project, simply because of the maturity of the web framework and LiveView. If I weren't building a web app, I'd probably have gone with Gleam instead.

Edit: I do miss static typing, but it's worth it to not have to reinvent the web framework wheels myself.

Tell Me a Story

Munksgaard — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:57:16 +0000

Article URL: https://content.subvisual.com/talk-roundtable/sasa-juric-tell-me-a-story/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45412261

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Munksgaard in "Algebraic Types are not Scary"

Munksgaard — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:05:52 +0000

They are not "just structs and tagged unions". The language support that enforces safe usage is not optional.

New comment by Munksgaard in "Git-Annex"

Munksgaard — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:35:59 +0000

Git-Annex is a cool piece of technology, but my impression is that it works best for single-user repositories. So for instance, as @nolist_policy described in a sibling comment, managing all your personal files, documents, music, etc. across many different devices.

I tried using it for syncing large files in a collaborative repository, and the use of "magic" branches didn't seem to scale well.

New comment by Munksgaard in "Show HN: ggc – A terminal-based Git CLI written in Go"

Munksgaard — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:44:43 +0000

Rebasing a stack of branches in git can also be pretty simple, with --update-refs. There's a good article here: https://andrewlock.net/working-with-stacked-branches-in-git-...

New comment by Munksgaard in "A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech"

Munksgaard — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:04:22 +0000

> It's your consciousness that decides your goals and beliefs; the rest of the body "learns" those things and is then preconditioned to react accordingly.

Quotation needed.

New comment by Munksgaard in "Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?"

Munksgaard — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:39:37 +0000

IDA?