Hacker News: cosmic_quanta

Quick tips for fast iteration in Haskell

cosmic_quanta — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:31:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.haskell.org/quick-tips-for-fast-iteration-in-haskell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088776

Points: 7

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Haskell, Strong Types, and the Next Generation of Bioinformatics

cosmic_quanta — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:20:59 +0000

Article URL: https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-strong-types-and-the-next-generation-of-bioinformatics-interview-with-michal-gajda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073584

Points: 6

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Three Architectures for Responsive IDEs (2020)

cosmic_quanta — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:52:32 +0000

Article URL: https://rust-analyzer.github.io//blog/2020/07/20/three-architectures-for-responsive-ide.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026372

Points: 2

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Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B

cosmic_quanta — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:09:50 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.haskell.org/enterprise-haskell-at-h-e-b/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940294

Points: 5

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New comment by cosmic_quanta in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

cosmic_quanta — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:54:37 +0000

For what it's worth, I've been using Haskell in production at Bitnomial, a financial exchange, and LLMs + Haskell is an extremely productive combo.

Since Opus 4.6, LLMs have been pretty clever at using fancy types with libraries like Servant and Beam. The expressiveness of the types, combined with feedback from the compiler, means that agents converge quickly to something that works. I don't think I've noticed agents having to run the compiler so often that compilation speed is an issue.

New comment by cosmic_quanta in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

cosmic_quanta — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:44:35 +0000

Note that Scarf is not moving away from Haskell for performance-sensitive applications [0], which was the immediate question I had reading this.

[0]: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/after-7-years-in-production-...

New comment by cosmic_quanta in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

cosmic_quanta — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:27:32 +0000

This is a critical piece of information to convince me to switch to this.

I'm quite interested though!

Also, what's the context of "Built in Canada"? What's the point of mentioning this? Should I expect the results to be better for Canadian content?

Making GHC Upgrades Easy

cosmic_quanta — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:54:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.haskell.org/making-ghc-upgrades-easy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558213

Points: 2

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Contributing to Haskell Through a Beginner's Lens

cosmic_quanta — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.haskell.org/contributing-to-haskell-through-a-beginner-s-lens/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558211

Points: 3

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New comment by cosmic_quanta in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

cosmic_quanta — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:13:41 +0000

Chair of the HF here -- things are going quite well, actually. We have great sponsors who come back year after year, the HF has been spending more to make infrastructure more reliable (e.g. for Hackage), and we've started a new event series focused on North America (https://haskell.foundation/events/2026-amerihac.html), which has been a great success!

Our metrics are also showing that Haskell usage is actually growing. So overall, can't complain!

New comment by cosmic_quanta in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

cosmic_quanta — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:11:30 +0000

We're always happy to hear about pain points!

For example, one thing that is a friction point at my own job is knowledge of tooling for performance tuning and optimization. It's not that Haskell doesn't have this tooling, it's just not well-known.

Is there anything in particular you would need?

New comment by cosmic_quanta in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

cosmic_quanta — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:08:22 +0000

Chair of the Haskell Foundation here -- funny to see this on the HN front page!

Not mentioned in the update is that the Haskell Foundation is moving towards a model that already exists within the OCaml Foundation. The HF and OF have the same challenge: a shallow pool of (relatively) large sponsors.

Of course big successful firms have more money to contribute, and we are thankful for them. This move, whereby the HF will deploy more of its financial resources on technical challenges directly, is meant to attract the other 99.9% of firms using Haskell in production. Many firms, including my own employer, have a more tit-for-tat view of sponsorship.

If you have thoughts, or would like to get involved, do not hesitate to reach out to me! E-mail in bio

WorkersDecide.tech – Make Tech Work for Workers

cosmic_quanta — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:21:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.workersdecide.tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052891

Points: 3

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Why Async Rust? (2023)

cosmic_quanta — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:44:17 +0000

Article URL: https://without.boats/blog/why-async-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884150

Points: 2

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New comment by cosmic_quanta in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

cosmic_quanta — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:52:58 +0000

I will die on this hill: tech firms that mandated 5 days in the office was about soft layoffs, rather than a principled stance on individual performance under WFH.

My "evidence" is that trading firms that kept raking in the money, and that benefit from maximum productivity of their employees, still generally have a hybrid work culture.

Learn Haskell in Two Weeks

cosmic_quanta — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:28:07 +0000

Article URL: https://mercury.com/blog/learn-haskell-in-two-weeks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392664

Points: 7

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Show HN: Typed overlay over SQL now supports DuckDB

cosmic_quanta — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:38:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.datahaskell.org/blog/2026/02/25/beam-duckdb-release.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166717

Points: 4

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New comment by cosmic_quanta in "Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden"

cosmic_quanta — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:13:49 +0000

What is that singular phenomenon? What can result in blaming both capitalism and socialism, for example?

New comment by cosmic_quanta in "Tell HN: GitHub has experienced issues 60% of days this year"

cosmic_quanta — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:56:52 +0000

I don't know if it's related, but there's been a recent effort [0] within Github to move to Azure after the Microsoft acquisition

[0]: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

New comment by cosmic_quanta in "The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14"

cosmic_quanta — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:11:21 +0000

This is the first release of any Haskell debugger, as far as I know. It coincides with the release of v9.14 of the de-facto standard Haskell compiler, GHC