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New comment by adityaathalye in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

adityaathalye — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:32:10 +0000

Still (in fits and starts) working toward a Bitemporal SQLite based (SaaS, for now) software architecture, because of an obsession with this notion of "Sovereign Software". Any SaaS I build should never lock in customer data, for example.

Current state of work: The implementation of the core data model is wrong. I need to throw it away and redo it from scratch.

Whiplash status: WTF, Time. y u move so fast?

This thread made me---forced me---to accept that it's been well over a year of the agony and ecstasy of solo software construction. Or maybe 2026 is moving way too freaking fast. Or it's good to be obsessive I guess.

New comment by adityaathalye in "A Tour of Oodi"

adityaathalye — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:31:34 +0000

Well, you have no idea how good you have it :,)

t. not a Finn.

New comment by adityaathalye in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

adityaathalye — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:43:29 +0000

Feels like somebody has read their Marshall McLuhan :) I recently started reading Understanding Media, and every chapter delivers at least one mind-melting moment; something he draws attention to and/or frames in some way.

New comment by adityaathalye in "TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]"

adityaathalye — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:46:36 +0000

Oh most certainly; I am remiss to have not included the group effort in my comment, particularly as a person surrounded by theatre and film making friends.

Still, for the same reason, I have some idea of why their productions turn out well (or not). Where "well" is "a story well told", not "successful" as in "did well at the box office". The why is usually one person who keeps asking the questions and making the decisions that take the story from imagination to imagination via screen or floor.

Something tells me your doubtlessly excellent "production team" (in film terms) will agree with my original comment :)

New comment by adityaathalye in "TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]"

adityaathalye — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:14:52 +0000

TigerBeetle's Joran Greef is a teacher / explainer par excellence.

TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]

adityaathalye — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:14:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_BqkKTbD8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736331

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by adityaathalye in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

adityaathalye — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:11:16 +0000

Strongly disagree. Keyboard Pants is the real solution: https://www.flickr.com/photos/technomancy/4397554484

New comment by adityaathalye in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

adityaathalye — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:52:02 +0000

If "AI" is the poor man's (unhygienic) macro system, then a lot of such token software builders are going to viscerally know what it is to plumb the darketst depths of the "Lisp Curse".

Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly

adityaathalye — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:59:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/side-step-secretary-problem-hiring/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478207

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by adityaathalye in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

adityaathalye — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:31:21 +0000

Insightful!

(Because HN does not have only-positive affirmation-emojis.)

New comment by adityaathalye in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

adityaathalye — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:45:23 +0000

English: "I am"

  Kagi, Translate!

LinkedIn Speak: "I’m thrilled to share that I am"

English: "I am."

  Kagi, Translate!

LinkedIn Speak: "I am a passionate, results-driven professional dedicated to continuous growth and delivering high-impact value in everything I do."

... ... ...

Oh Kagi I want to kiss your face.

#rofl #laugh-crying #lol #clapping

New comment by adityaathalye in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

adityaathalye — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:17:36 +0000

> ... in experiments in which all outer sensation is withdrawn, the subject begins a furious fill-in or completion of senses that is sheer hallucination. So the hotting-up of one sense tends to effect hypnosis, and the cooling of all senses tends to result in hallucination.

Must quote the last paragraph of Chapter 2: "Hot and Cold media", from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, which I've double-underlined.

For it simultaneously explains to me; TikTok (quick consume-scroll-like-react-"create" dopamine hit cycles) and LLMs (outsourcing the essential mechanical friction of thinking (which requires all senses, for me at least))...

The essential friction of deliberate, first-party speech-making---misspellings and all---is why voice and conversation contains life.

New comment by adityaathalye in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

adityaathalye — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:09:19 +0000

Well... companies who are laying off people on account of AI are telling markets that their chief value is NOT "innovation", it has been drudgery automation.

A company that prizes actually making customer lives better (i.e. "innovation") will salivate at the prospect of having ten of ten people, each using the Drudgery Automator, being creative using all that drugery-free time to actually touch grass with their customers and ship overnight value (i.e. actually, progressively, make things better for customers) and then improve it at a pace that blows minds (i.e. actually happy customers).

An company who's business is in fact about drudgery automation will kneecap itself by letting go nine of the ten.

Long/Short stocks accordingly.

Hatsune Miku Meets Clojure

adityaathalye — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:12:07 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1rck4tr/hatsune_miku_meets_clojure/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148369

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How you invent math: From counting to complex numbers

adityaathalye — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:12:14 +0000

Article URL: https://growingswe.com/blog/inventing-math

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147953

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Gloat Is the "Glojure AOT Tool" for the Clojure Dialect Written in Go

adityaathalye — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:51:18 +0000

Article URL: https://gloathub.org/blog/2026/02/22/introducing-gloat-and-glojure/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134133

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by adityaathalye in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

adityaathalye — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:14:58 +0000

Before replying, I waited for a moment to re-read those couple of pages once more. Cracked up again... Oh the utter incomprehension. And I can relate to the bit about eating the enzyme so that one can eat the cheese without getting sick. Cheese is horrifyingly great.

State of Clojure 2025 Results

adityaathalye — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://clojure.org/news/2026/02/18/state-of-clojure-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072023

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by adityaathalye in "All Look Same?"

adityaathalye — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:51:25 +0000

Speaking as another inverse genius, at your own peril.

In my second go around I scored 11/18. Genius learn fast.

New comment by adityaathalye in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

adityaathalye — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:44:50 +0000

In fact, it is right here in my stack of to-reads! Picking it up now due to your recommendation. Cheers!