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New comment by ipnon in "Elixir-lang.org has a new design"

ipnon — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:14:07 +0000

It's a good joke but most of my applications are I/O bound. So I use Elixir for performance.

AppleScript (2006) [pdf]

ipnon — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:09:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2006/ashopl.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926422

Points: 8

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New comment by ipnon in "AI 2040: Plan A"

ipnon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:35:01 +0000

Kind of feels like fusion power at this point, always just around the corner.

New comment by ipnon in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

ipnon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:05:25 +0000

A company is like a bridge. The job of a bridge is to support the weight of what crosses it. But if a particular deck or arch or beam or joint or bearing fails to do its own job, the bridge can fail and will catastrophically. Perhaps some beams hold more weights than others, but can any bridge be composed entirely of decks or entirely of arches or entirely of beams? Perhaps, but we do not see many of them. It is always possible to innovate in the design of bridges, but if most of the great bridges in the world all have a mix of decks and arches and beams and joints and bearings, instead of simply being composed of solely beams or solely joints, then we might begin to wonder if this composition is not accidental to the proper functioning of a great bridge, but essential to it, even if we are not particularly interested in or proficient in the Art of Being Another Part of the Whole.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

ipnon — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:46:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431566

Points: 2

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New comment by ipnon in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

ipnon — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:21:56 +0000

I think this is correct. There has been bipartisan support of Israel for decades. Netanyahu even mentions in his autobiography that Israeli politicians usually underestimate the strength and durability of the relationship with America.

New comment by ipnon in "What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift"

ipnon — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:03:45 +0000

I’ve never thought about how the room model matches the LiveView socket model before. Which socket library are you using?

New comment by ipnon in "A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan"

ipnon — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:19:12 +0000

My neighborhood in California added plenty of these and it didn’t change the vibe of the neighborhood at all. It’s a great YIMBY solution because it satisfies both the pro and anti development crowds.

What's a mathematician to do? (2010)

ipnon — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:26:50 +0000

Article URL: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083007

Points: 179

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Mathematics Genealogy Project

ipnon — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:55:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mathgenealogy.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060490

Points: 1

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New comment by ipnon in "A Theory of Deep Learning"

ipnon — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:12:36 +0000

A real theory would predict phenomena thus far unseen. We already know about this 4 part taxonomy.

New comment by ipnon in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

ipnon — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:53:29 +0000

It’s not that crazy! Or hard. If you can store a hashed password in your users table, and keep the salt secret, you have working auth.

New comment by ipnon in "A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury"

ipnon — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:30:14 +0000

I have noticed that everything in their app Just Works. It's very satisfying coming from other services!

New comment by ipnon in "Modern C++ Programming: Busato"

ipnon — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:33:13 +0000

CUDA is an extension of C++ just like C++ is an extension of C. Deployed CUDA is growing exponentially. C++ is definitely not a dying language!

New comment by ipnon in "Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013)"

ipnon — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:29:17 +0000

I don't know of any. People are really just selecting for the underlying runtime. And Elixir and Gleam are better targets here.

Fanspeak (1999)

ipnon — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:56:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fantasymaps.com/stuff/fanspeak.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957896

Points: 1

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New comment by ipnon in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

ipnon — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:17:50 +0000

It leads to K-shaped education where parents who recognize the deficiency of public education simply teach their kids math themselves or hire private tutors. Public education used to be a force for equality of knowledge in the country. Now it perversely does the opposite, all in the name of education!

New comment by ipnon in "Laws of Software Engineering"

ipnon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:13:26 +0000

I usually invoke this by naming with POSIWID.

Nobel Lecture: On the possibility of progress (2019)

ipnon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:12:44 +0000

Article URL: https://paulromer.net/prize/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848340

Points: 2

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Taiwan Market Cap Tops $4T on AI Boom, Overtaking UK

ipnon — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/ai-driven-demand-pushes-taiwan-s-market-cap-ahead-of-the-uk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802232

Points: 3

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