Hacker News: alpinesolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alpinesolHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:40:28 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by alpinesol in "Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL"]]>Using an obscure derivative of an obscure academic language (prolog) is never appropriate outside of a university.

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:39:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362803alpinesolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362803https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362803<![CDATA[New comment by alpinesol in "Lush: My favorite small programming language"]]>Fun fact: Lush was invented by Yann LeCun, of convnet and FAIR fame.

]]>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:40:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197883alpinesolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197883https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197883<![CDATA[New comment by alpinesol in "Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging"]]>The incentive to 'mine' in this scheme is the possibility of winning the ability to send a sponsored message to all users. These sponsored messages could easily be filtered by users, making them worthless. Even if users collectively agree not to filter the sponsored messages, the average cost of winning the proof-of-work race must be less than the average value of the sponsored messages, which is unlikely.

]]>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 13:17:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994933alpinesolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994933https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994933