Hacker News: aag

New comment by aag in "Schemy Lisp En DOS"

aag — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:39:56 +0000

Arg. That's embarrassing. The correct link is:

https://speechcode.com/blog/repl-as-service

New comment by aag in "Schemy Lisp En DOS"

aag — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:21:28 +0000

I use them for debugging errors in web handlers.

https://speechcode.local/blog/repl-as-service

New comment by aag in "The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions"

aag — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:07:08 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe_Toaster

New comment by aag in "Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode"

aag — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:15:06 +0000

I'm a huge fan of agent-shell, too. It keeps getting better and better, and it's infinitely customizable, like any good Emacs package.

New comment by aag in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"

aag — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:08:07 +0000

That used to be a problem, but Claude Code has been doing fine at it for a few months now.

New comment by aag in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"

aag — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:53:11 +0000

First, read the blog post more carefully. Then read the book Hackers, by Steven Levy. Common Lisp was designed by amazing hackers for amazing hackers. Joe was making a comparison with languages like Java, which has some nice characteristics, but whose designers have repeatedly stated that their goal was pragmatic utility for working developers rather than extreme language power. I'd rather use a language that gives me extreme power, and take the risks.

New comment by aag in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"

aag — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:11:59 +0000

I've known Joe for decades. I've never heard him describe himself this way, but I can confirm that it is true. He is amazing.

New comment by aag in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

aag — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:51:11 +0000

Ambition is still a human characteristic.

New comment by aag in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

aag — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:44:05 +0000

I'm don't care. If it's good, it's good.

New comment by aag in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

aag — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:04:09 +0000

What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it.

One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.com beacon.

New comment by aag in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

aag — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:35:19 +0000

Eddie Murphy had a great comedy bit based on that car.

New comment by aag in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)"

aag — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:32:46 +0000

I don't understand this comment. They wrote SICP.

New comment by aag in "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)"

aag — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:31:40 +0000

Sussman and Abelson are great at teaching.

New comment by aag in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

aag — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:12:55 +0000

Schools should forbid grading on a curve. MIT does, for example. Standards should be absolute.

New comment by aag in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

aag — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:43:40 +0000

Why is anyone using anything else?

New comment by aag in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

aag — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:07:41 +0000

“You may note however that the university has not issued any statement refuting the information reported in the press.”

New comment by aag in "Iroh 1.0"

aag — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:37:28 +0000

For a side project, I used Iroh to give my web server in the cloud the ability to print directly to my label printer at home. The API is simple and easy to use. It took no time to write a reliable system on top of Iroh.

New comment by aag in "The Future of Email"

aag — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:37:39 +0000

So much work is done for HIPAA compliance, and then the only authentication required is a birth date.

New comment by aag in "Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts"

aag — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:26:41 +0000

If you're interested in efforts to catalog and even deflect asteroids that might hit Earth:

https://b612.ai/

The ".ai" stands for "Asteroid Institute." It was started by two former astronauts, Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart.

New comment by aag in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

aag — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:56:43 +0000

Actually, they do have an incentive to let you turn off ads. If they don't, many users will turn off notifications entirely. At least if they categorize them, some users will just turn off the bothersome ones.