Hacker News: boriskourt

New comment by boriskourt in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

boriskourt — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:41:33 +0000

One of the biggest gains of having dedicated hardware is that the computation doesn’t happen on the general hardware.

This is what makes it viable on mobile devices where system responsiveness and power efficiency are high priority.

Generally these hardware decoders haven’t been retoolalble.

New comment by boriskourt in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

boriskourt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:16:51 +0000

I wish I had a chance to open source. So much of it was done in mad hacking sessions to glue things that were never supposed to work together. Or contain all the secret sauce for one work or another. Maybe the next one!

New comment by boriskourt in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

boriskourt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:50:53 +0000

Thank you! I’ve managed to shoehorn Clojure into everything from 3D model generation to VR networking servers for installations :D It makes so many things easier to reason about!

New comment by boriskourt in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

boriskourt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:50:05 +0000

I’ve been using Clojure since 2013, and can say that it has been an enormous positive force in my life. I’ve been a very unorthodox user, most of my artworks were built using Clojure in some way. But I’ve also worked in industry, and there I think Clojure helped me avoid burnout on more than one occasion. Especially when running a startup built half on it :)

It’s also been a privilege to participate in the community. From Clojure west to the Conj, to the online discussions. Huge thanks to everyone that’s made this possible over the decades.

New comment by boriskourt in "Stop Flock"

boriskourt — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:41:21 +0000

If we can set a legal precedent then this can cascade into policy, or an enforceable standard much faster.

New comment by boriskourt in "Giving LLMs a Formal Reasoning Engine for Code Analysis"

boriskourt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:44:28 +0000

repo: https://github.com/yogthos/chiasmus

Giving LLMs a Formal Reasoning Engine for Code Analysis

boriskourt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:44:28 +0000

Article URL: https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-04-08-neurosymbolic-mcp.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702385

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by boriskourt in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

boriskourt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:57:30 +0000

Super worth a watch. Lots of technical tidbits also.

New comment by boriskourt in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

boriskourt — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:59:52 +0000

I am so glad that this has been made! And happy that it features so many familiar faces from the last two decades of Clojure. There is a lot more to a programming language than just the code committed.

New comment by boriskourt in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

boriskourt — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:11:38 +0000

> The cost to serve tokens is absolutely profitable today and that’s been true for at least a year.

> For the data center build outs, demand for tokens is still exceeding supply.

Can you provide any numbers for this?

New comment by boriskourt in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

boriskourt — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:15:20 +0000

I've seen most! Highlighting this one out of them all. Exemplary! : D

New comment by boriskourt in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

boriskourt — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:21:04 +0000

This video is an absolute tour de force of communicating a complex concept.

New comment by boriskourt in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

boriskourt — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:48:02 +0000

Then I don’t really care about them if they don’t want to hang out with me. It works as intended.

New comment by boriskourt in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

boriskourt — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:34:03 +0000

I’ve had an awesome experience the last five years running instances for me and friends. So many nice interactions. I recommend running an instance for people you know well. It can still connect to everyone else, but you have your own little corner to feel more connected in.

New comment by boriskourt in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

boriskourt — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:08:43 +0000

Nice starting storage bump

  MacBook Pro with M5 Pro now comes standard with 1TB of storage, while MacBook Pro with M5 Max now comes standard with 2TB. And the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 now comes standard with 1TB of storage.

New comment by boriskourt in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

boriskourt — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:21:18 +0000

We’re building a web-based application for architects that speeds up their design workflow and makes high-quality visualization accessible to a wider audience.

We have experienced rapid growth in recent months and we are hiring to further scale the company. We have customers in over 120 different countries, who collectively have generated over 6 million visualizations on our platform since 2023.

* Flexible work hours

* Flexible home-office arrangement

* 5 weeks vacation

Apply: https://visoid.homerun.co/software-engineer-3/en

[0]: https://www.visoid.com/

New comment by boriskourt in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

boriskourt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:36:17 +0000

How is this a problem in your opinion?

New comment by boriskourt in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

boriskourt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:31:41 +0000

This comes up here and there to discredit the developer but having followed all the drama for many years now I just want to add that Dansup has apologized multiple times, and has been far more open about his process. His communication has also changed for the better over the last two years especially. Its not easy being human, and I think its a good sign to see that he takes this seriously.

New comment by boriskourt in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

boriskourt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:08:48 +0000

yes, a lot of the issues around this come because of the lack of dignity.

New comment by boriskourt in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

boriskourt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:34:40 +0000

TikTok has ~1.59 billion global active users, if you go to Cambodia you will have a hard time not seeing it in the wild. It is painful that this is still seen as some teen trend.

People enjoy short form video, people should be able to enjoy things they like with dignity, which is in extremely short supply on algorithm and advert driven social media.

Loops is nice because it isn't algorithm oriented. You can follow folks and just see their things if you like, or see whats on the instance.

Loops doesn't need to 'slay tiktok' Loops just needs to grow organically and support the niches that feel like using it, and it can take the time to do that at any pace. Its success is not determined by user numbers or series rounds.

I don't like to produce short form video, but its been nice to now follow a few people on Loops from Mastodon. Its nice that the Fediverse allows multiple forms of expression.