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New comment by habitmelon in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

habitmelon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:51:13 +0000

You are hero! I just learned about this yesterday when I shared my Clojure editor: https://github.com/tlehman/hammock

I would love to know more about Jank, from what I read, it transpiles to C++ right?

New comment by habitmelon in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

habitmelon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:40:56 +0000

Working on an Emacs-like editor that uses Clojure instead of Emacs Lisp. It has a C kernel and then uses libsci (Small Clojure Interpreter, built with GraalVM, so it has no Java dependency at runtime).

I call it Hammock, in honor of Rich Hickey's "Hammock Driven Design" https://github.com/tlehman/hammock

New comment by habitmelon in "Leveraging Chain‑of‑Thought Network Effects to Compete with Open Source Models"

habitmelon — Sat, 03 May 2025 23:17:48 +0000

This is a contrarian take: instead of open source models running on private infrastructure being the dominant mode of AI, they instead argue that the returns to scale from cacheing intermediate reasoning steps could provide enough of a performance advantage to centralized models.

Leveraging Chain‑of‑Thought Network Effects to Compete with Open Source Models

habitmelon — Sat, 03 May 2025 23:17:47 +0000

Article URL: https://pugetresearch.com/posts/leveraging-chain-of-thought-network-effects

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883135

Points: 3

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New comment by habitmelon in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)"

habitmelon — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:58:16 +0000

Location: Portland, OR, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Will commute to Seattle or SF on a regular basis

Technologies: Go, Kubernetes, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript, React.js, Linux, Python, PyTorch/Caffe2, RAG with Vector Databases, QEMU, Clojure, Java, HTTP2, WebRTC, VLANs / Calico (k8s networking), Puppet, Terraform, AWS, GCP

Résumé/CV: https://tobilehman.com/tlehman-resume.pdf Email: mail@tobilehman.com

New comment by habitmelon in "New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement"

habitmelon — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:15:37 +0000

Lee Smolin wrote a good book defending the idea that time is not emergent: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Reborn-Crisis-Physics-Universe/d...

He came up with a framework where time is real (assumed), and then the laws of physics evolve with time, and then goes on to develop an evolutionary theory of universes, where universes reproduce by producing black holes, which spawn baby universes, with slightly different laws of physics. He then predicts that it should tend to produce universes that are optimized to produce black holes.

New comment by habitmelon in "Write a Letter to Your Future Self"

habitmelon — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:11:27 +0000

Don't forget to write back

New comment by habitmelon in "Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits"

habitmelon — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:03:54 +0000

It's still worthwhile to look at 10x and 100x concentrations since these things bioaccumulate. Whatever negative effects are happening at 1x should be studied as we crank that concentration up. Might be fine now, but in 100 years? We should probably have an idea how the harm/effects scale

New comment by habitmelon in "Emacs 29 is nigh"

habitmelon — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:01:36 +0000

It all makes sense. Google is playing the editor factions against each other so they won't contest the Chrome-based Electron editors that prop up their monopoly.

New comment by habitmelon in "Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic"

habitmelon — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:14:23 +0000

The choice of using totally novel and cryptic names for everything was intentional. The project is ambitious, and aims to do a completely fresh stack, (OS, drivers, network stack, identity, filesystem, etc.). Given that level of ambition, the choice of names was done remind the user that this is not just Unix and TCP/IP re-written, this is a whole new alien OS, based on distinct ideas.

The fact that Arvo (the kernel) doesn't even have a distinction between RAM and disk, or between PCI input and network input, is a much bigger deal than remembering that "Arvo is the kernel".

OP is right that naming can give a false sense of familiarity, so inverting that for things like this makes sense. Create a false sense of un-familiarity, to keep the users paying attention while they learn what they are using. That's been my experience so far, a heightened sense of awareness while reading through the cryptic documentation.

New comment by habitmelon in "Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic"

habitmelon — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 19:04:22 +0000

Urbit devs agree 101%

New comment by habitmelon in "Universe Splitter"

habitmelon — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:01:03 +0000

Reminds me of post on taking both sides of the decision using a qubit: https://tobilehman.com/posts/qubits-multiverse/

New comment by habitmelon in "Turning back time with epigenetic clocks"

habitmelon — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:11:54 +0000

All these measures of biological age might be useful, but the real test is just waiting and seeing how long people end up living.

New comment by habitmelon in "Financial innovations brought by technology"

habitmelon — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 19:46:47 +0000

Why does a free basic checking account mean some some depositors are being subsidized? Is it the interest? The cost of storing an extra record in a database?

New comment by habitmelon in "Helix: a post-modern modal text editor"

habitmelon — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:38:35 +0000

Multiple selections as a language primitive feels like a language smell. Why use languages with that much redundancy in their syntax?

New comment by habitmelon in "Money Creation: 344% in the Last 12mo (Fed, M1, $)"

habitmelon — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:19:11 +0000

Definitely. The M2 supply grew by about $4T last year, from $15T to about $19T, it's a lot, but it's about one annual federal budget in normal years. $4T is like 20% of GDP, not nothing, but not hyper-inflationary.

The question is will M2 grow by 20% per year, or is this a one-off?

New comment by habitmelon in "Show HN: BobTheWebDev.xyz – AI Generated Web Dev Questions"

habitmelon — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:49:30 +0000

Post it's output to StackOverflow, then use the S.O. votes to tune the parameters of the model.

New comment by habitmelon in "Π-Base – A community database of topological examples"

habitmelon — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:26:14 +0000

It looks similar to the OEIS (Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences). Any time a problem comes up whose solution involves topology, this is a good place to go and avoid re-discovering a space that might already be known and well studied.

New comment by habitmelon in "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)"

habitmelon — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 15:18:40 +0000

I love PKD's work, but every time I hear him talk, I become convinced he is totally insane.

New comment by habitmelon in "Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?"

habitmelon — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:54:30 +0000

What about a P.O. Box and a TaskRabbit?