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Working With AI: A concrete example

comma_at — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:53:41 +0000

Article URL: https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720064

Points: 195

# Comments: 72

GPU Is the New Oil

comma_at — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:16:00 +0000

Article URL: https://xificurc.github.io/blog/gpu-is-the-new-oil/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552618

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by comma_at in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

comma_at — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:06:27 +0000

Are there qwen or minimax or other open weight models of same hardware requirements that outperform this?

IO Is the Problem

comma_at — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:41:07 +0000

Article URL: https://xificurc.github.io/blog/io-is-the-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036131

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Empty Middle of AI Coding

comma_at — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:14:34 +0000

Article URL: https://xificurc.github.io/blog/the-empty-middle-of-ai-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689135

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by comma_at in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

comma_at — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:25:37 +0000

  Location: Slovakia (GMT+1)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Clojure, Docker, Common Lisp, Bash/Zsh, Python ...
  Email: petern@riseup.net

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YzYDnSo-u823VNVIljVHH6vt8cd...

I am currently a core maintainer of Electric Clojure (https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric), a full-stack, reactive, differential language we use for building rich, dynamic UIs. Most notably I developed the last 2 generations of our compiler and pioneered the UI composition pattern we use today. I work with Clojure for 7+ years, but also did a lot (4y+) of infrastructure work before - Docker, Kubernetes, ELK stack, Kibana and more. I worked in many other languages. I am a systems-level thinker who derives solutions from first principles. I am looking for a new challenge.

New comment by comma_at in "Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale"

comma_at — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:25:12 +0000

If the problem fits into the limited local resources, if there's no syncing required, no login, no multiplayer, ... Sure, do it. But don't pretend this solves all business cases.

New comment by comma_at in "Relic: Functional relational programming for Clojure(Script)"

comma_at — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:53:04 +0000

Instead of doing the side effect you return a description and let the framework handle it. E.g. you don't call `transact(db, data)` but return `["transact", db, data]`. Now your function is pure. The framework will expect you to provide the transact handler, e.g. as `register_handler("transact", (db, data) => {..})`.

Personally I'm not a fan of this abstraction (another layer of indirection). I'd rather take a `transact` function as an argument.

New comment by comma_at in "Electric Clojure – A signals DSL for full-stack web UI"

comma_at — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:42:16 +0000

The only way for the client to set a server-side symbol to a value is to explicitly request it in code

    (e/server (let [is-admin? (e/client ...)]))

Even with mutable atoms you'd have to write the `reset!` on the server.

New comment by comma_at in "Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure"

comma_at — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:04:53 +0000

I think SBCL starts up fast enough as-is, no? If you want a batteries included version with libraries, just load them and save a new base image with SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE

New comment by comma_at in "Apple Collects the Least Amount of User Data Out of Major Tech Companies: Study"

comma_at — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:34:38 +0000

So it's OK to let them spy since we get spied on from other sources anyway.

New comment by comma_at in "Advanced Metaprogramming in C: A select statement"

comma_at — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:12:46 +0000

https://github.com/eudoxia0/cmacro

New comment by comma_at in "Advanced Metaprogramming in C: A select statement"

comma_at — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:21:27 +0000

libmill's goal was to be as close to Go as possible. If you look at it in that light, it's an accomplishment.

Then came libdill, which created the whole "structured concurrency" movement and brought new concepts to light that are now being replicated in python, kotlin, java...

New comment by comma_at in "Writing Snake in 12 Lines of PyTorch"

comma_at — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:07:21 +0000

I'll wait for the 1-line APL/J/K implementation in the comments.

New comment by comma_at in "Feather Wiki: app for creating personal non-linear notebooks, databases, wikis"

comma_at — Mon, 23 May 2022 19:40:19 +0000

I'd like to syntax highlight code blocks. I tried to add PrismJS to the html file. The CSS survives, but my