Hacker News: amboo7

New comment by amboo7 in "Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases"

amboo7 — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:31:22 +0000

https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugin... is similar, works for Claude Code, too. I ported it to Pi: https://pi.dev/packages/@amb007/deep-wiki?name=deep-wiki Elsewhere, I added deep-wiki:lookup that's like deep-wiki:ask but giving precedence to the wiki instead of the code.

New comment by amboo7 in "Older editions of which books were better than the new ones? (2010)"

amboo7 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:04:37 +0000

Essentials of Programming Languages 1st ed. is special

New comment by amboo7 in "Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help"

amboo7 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:14:25 +0000

About deployment to cloud: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38988238

New comment by amboo7 in "Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf]"

amboo7 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 08:23:32 +0000

https://icfp24.sigplan.org/home/minikanren-2024#event-overvi... is related. There has been work on turning slow bidirectional code into faster functional code (in 2023, reachable from this url).

New comment by amboo7 in "What Does It Mean to Learn?"

amboo7 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:16:27 +0000

Something like (in software, trying to understand) a spaghetti monolith?

New comment by amboo7 in "Laws of Software Evolution"

amboo7 — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 08:13:36 +0000

Code rusts via the loss of information about it (memory, documentation...). If it cannot be maintained, it is a zombie.

New comment by amboo7 in "I love programming but I hate the programming industry"

amboo7 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:58:02 +0000

OK, I realized it was about something else. I don't follow Uncle Bob, and was referring to some people justifying "unclean"/incorrect shortcuts to gain performance.

New comment by amboo7 in "I love programming but I hate the programming industry"

amboo7 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:46:00 +0000

Nicely put. I also spent decades in the SW industry, tried about a dozen things, but chose to stay out of management. For me, business and engineering are two completely different areas, often conflicting, and my training is extensively in math and engineering. Trying to do both ends up with mediocrity almost certainly.

New comment by amboo7 in "I love programming but I hate the programming industry"

amboo7 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:24:21 +0000

Wrong. Performance and correctness/cleanness go together. Perhaps you have never tried generating correct code that is ways faster than what you can write by hand.

New comment by amboo7 in "Compiling Pattern Matching"

amboo7 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 21:14:46 +0000

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/norman-ramsey/mat... by the current Microsoft CTO

New comment by amboo7 in "Ask HN: Why are mathematical standards so low? (And what should they be?)"

amboo7 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:59:17 +0000

https://www.mg.edu.rs/en#gsc.tab=0

New comment by amboo7 in "Sessionic: A cross-browser extension to save, manage, restore tabs and sessions"

amboo7 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 08:36:45 +0000

Plain entropy. I use an extension for killing duplicate tabs, helps a lot.

New comment by amboo7 in "Applied Category Theory Course"

amboo7 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 08:32:37 +0000

I would appreciate if someone wrote here their opinion on Matriarch [1], an application of category theory to biology/physics via software.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/matriarch/

New comment by amboo7 in "Don't be clever"

amboo7 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 05:12:04 +0000

You can handle any language with a read-time parser, then work with ASTs, pretty-print the result in another language. In between, it's just Lisp.

New comment by amboo7 in "Don't be clever"

amboo7 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 12:02:16 +0000

You can wrap a code generator by a macro.

New comment by amboo7 in "Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood"

amboo7 — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 09:03:41 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCstendorf

New comment by amboo7 in "Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity"

amboo7 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:06:21 +0000

No, rather in the category of endocrine functors.

New comment by amboo7 in "If Philip Glass was a Film (2019) [video]"

amboo7 — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:28:57 +0000

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Philip_Glass

New comment by amboo7 in "Why Can't Little Chatty Do Math?"

amboo7 — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 08:29:13 +0000

Math must be understood, cannot be learned just by heart, unlike most other facts.

New comment by amboo7 in "An Extended Model of Software Configuration"

amboo7 — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:45:08 +0000

Actually, there are four binding times involved, but perhaps they differentiate the two approaches?