Hacker News: avindroth

New comment by avindroth in "Tacit programming"

avindroth — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 21:47:11 +0000

Could you share the code for some of the custom threading macros you created? Looks very useful.

New comment by avindroth in "Tacit programming"

avindroth — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 21:45:38 +0000

Tacit programming + llm control library (like LangChain) has a lot of untapped potential. Tacit programming shines when the control structures are simple (and functions/variables can be anonymized), and these patterns occur frequently in programming on top of llms.

New comment by avindroth in "Reading "A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp""

avindroth — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 01:55:39 +0000

For those who have the book, what is contained in the "discussion of the interactive Lisp programming process" as mentioned by Paolo?

New comment by avindroth in "bigFORTH (1997-)"

avindroth — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:18:31 +0000

Forth really changed the way I think. I now take notes in a Forth-like way. Very underexplored.

New comment by avindroth in "Procrastination is connected to perfectionism"

avindroth — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:55:31 +0000

In my experience, perfectionism is crafted post-procrastination. It probably makes no sense, but the mind often does this convoluted thing in order to protect procrastination.

New comment by avindroth in "Text Editor: Data Structures"

avindroth — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:28:38 +0000

Agreed. Our computers are so powerful, do we really need this additional complexity?

And of course, if performance becomes an issue, we can make minor improvements then.

New comment by avindroth in "Turns out, Meta's Threads is good for breaking news"

avindroth — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:51:03 +0000

Literally everything was happening on Twitter.

From spaces to “OpenAI is nothing without its people” to heart emojis.

Sam and Greg posted their statement there.

This is a huge win for Twitter.

New comment by avindroth in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

avindroth — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:43:20 +0000

Satya wins by letting Ilya win. Wow.

New comment by avindroth in "Greg (2017)"

avindroth — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 20:43:13 +0000

Why do you think people undervalue it? Very curious.

New comment by avindroth in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

avindroth — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 06:18:23 +0000

Yeah. pg/chesky/masayoshi must be really dumb or sth.

New comment by avindroth in "Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code"

avindroth — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 20:36:06 +0000

Are you participating in AoC maybe? I might write some stuff.

New comment by avindroth in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)"

avindroth — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:40:19 +0000

I emailed at team@reframe.is (as shown in the website), but the email account doesn’t exist.

New comment by avindroth in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)"

avindroth — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:05:10 +0000

pls include the url to ur site!

New comment by avindroth in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)"

avindroth — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 05:57:22 +0000

Sent an email. You guys should make it obvious it’s reframe.is, not reframe-ai.com which is first on search

New comment by avindroth in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

avindroth — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:43:54 +0000

Carson Gross

https://www.backendbanter.fm/episodes/024-behind-htmx-carson...

New comment by avindroth in "ChatGPT cut off date now April 2023"

avindroth — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:24:33 +0000

Tiered rollout, not getting April 2023 on both of my accounts. Also saw September 2023 on Twitter.

Ask HN: What are some well-designed REPLs?

avindroth — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:27:00 +0000

I am designing a DSL and a REPL, and am looking for some inspiration.

CLI or embedded in editor, I don’t mind either.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38021300

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by avindroth in "Cursor – The AI-First Code Editor"

avindroth — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 11:36:04 +0000

1. I don’t think it’s too hard to understand BYOK or n number of tokens. I’ll have to talk to the market at large but personally, pretty clear.

2. Maybe you can suggest an alternative?

New comment by avindroth in "Choose Boring Technology (2018)"

avindroth — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 05:36:22 +0000

Well, this is just clickbait. Choose boring technology means sth pretty concrete for someone without context. It’s not that you can’t reasonably title it. It’s that you can’t reasonably title it to generate views.

I understand the sentiment, but then one should expect criticism of the schism between title and content.

New comment by avindroth in "Show HN: Magentic – Use LLMs as simple Python functions"

avindroth — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:45:17 +0000

We need a new language/DSL. Python is a lost cause for strings as first-class.