Hacker News: asimjalis

New comment by asimjalis in "Swapping spit with your spouse may spread anxiety and depression"

asimjalis — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:25:25 +0000

Why aren’t non-depressed spouses transmitting oral biomes to their depressed spouses? Why is this transmission happening only in one direction?

New comment by asimjalis in "Overcoming Rigidity and Scalability in AI Novels with Dynamic Plot Threads"

asimjalis — Sat, 03 May 2025 06:28:24 +0000

Do you have any examples of stories that an LLM has generated using your techniques?

New comment by asimjalis in "Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier"

asimjalis — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 03:41:55 +0000

It could be a triple cover story. The faked double cover story is meant to deflect.

New comment by asimjalis in "Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier"

asimjalis — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 03:40:46 +0000

Maybe he is operating at the next level. He is deflecting because the investigators will think that he is trying to lead them away from this true identity and become even more convinced of it, which is exactly what he wants.

New comment by asimjalis in "We're excited about our new roundabout"

asimjalis — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 03:25:31 +0000

I would recommend some yield signs; the dashed line on the ground is easy to miss.

New comment by asimjalis in "Ask HN: Minimal JavaScript for simple UIs with Python back end"

asimjalis — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:04:29 +0000

Is there a real time UI that you like, which is able to read data from a real timestream like Kinesis or Kafka? You could use Python to write into the stream and then see the results in the UI.

For wrappers around command line interfaces I use Gradio. That might not work so well for your use case which seems more real time.

New comment by asimjalis in "100+ Consulting Case Database"

asimjalis — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:32:29 +0000

I’m getting a 404 error on that link.

New comment by asimjalis in "Whom the gods would destroy, they first give real-time analytics (2013)"

asimjalis — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 22:55:52 +0000

This has aged well.

New comment by asimjalis in "Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it"

asimjalis — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:51:48 +0000

Maybe instead of asking “how can I monetize this” ask “who else might be interested in this and how can I reach them?”

New comment by asimjalis in "Painful Lesson: Always 'Show and Tell' Your Product Before You Develop It"

asimjalis — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:21:58 +0000

+1 on the working backwards process. I find it useful even for internal demos and scripts that I write. Thinking backwards helps me figure out what the point of the demo is. Why anyone would be interested in it.

New comment by asimjalis in "I love electric vehicles and was an early adopter [..] increasingly I feel duped"

asimjalis — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 08:41:20 +0000

Did not realize this article was by Rowan Atkinson until I clicked the link.

TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles down to Vimscript

asimjalis — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:21:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/tpope/timl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36081091

Points: 113

# Comments: 39

New comment by asimjalis in "Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software"

asimjalis — Tue, 23 May 2023 22:58:25 +0000

I couldn’t find the instructions in the website for how to use it or install it. Can anyone share?

New comment by asimjalis in "Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple"

asimjalis — Mon, 22 May 2023 02:38:16 +0000

I can totally relate to this. I find myself forcing my attention away from programming to do other work. Programming is like an infinite game.

New comment by asimjalis in "Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser"

asimjalis — Sat, 20 May 2023 01:04:43 +0000

Lisp programmability. I love this already.

New comment by asimjalis in "Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research"

asimjalis — Fri, 12 May 2023 16:50:57 +0000

“Admission to the private beta for GitHub Copilot chat is limited and requires an active subscription to GitHub Copilot. Signing up does not guarantee access.“

New comment by asimjalis in "Go with PHP"

asimjalis — Thu, 11 May 2023 04:11:51 +0000

There is also Phel (Lisp-like language that compiles to PHP).

https://phel-lang.org/

New comment by asimjalis in "Show HN: Mineo.app – Better Python Notebooks"

asimjalis — Wed, 10 May 2023 20:31:22 +0000

I was fine with basic signing up using GitHub or Google, but then the questionaire started and I lost interest. I would recommend making the initial exploration as friction-less as possible.

New comment by asimjalis in "Exciting SQLite Improvements Since 2020"

asimjalis — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:19:58 +0000

Neat use of Haskell for scripting with Stack: https://docs.haskellstack.org

New comment by asimjalis in "Tom Lesley has published 40 books in 2023, all with 100% positive reviews"

asimjalis — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:28:35 +0000

For whatever it’s worth according to Publisher Rocket the books are making single digits per month.