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New comment by malloryerik in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

malloryerik — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:26:21 +0000

Of course it's possible, but reading and watching fiction feel very different and can you see a way to change that? The word may continue to decline compared to image. But the image is soon to become nearly as cheap and hackable as the word.

New comment by malloryerik in "South Korean Forums Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools"

malloryerik — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:28:39 +0000

Will this affect non-Korean online communities in Korea? Like Instagram?

New comment by malloryerik in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

malloryerik — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:03:55 +0000

Ah, thanks!

New comment by malloryerik in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

malloryerik — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:15:17 +0000

To me this is almost like a tone-deaf naming change.

Empty Slot (new Pro as Mythos competitor?)

Old Pro -> now Flash

Old Flash -> now Flash Lite

Old Flash Lite -> now Gemma (and not served by Google)

I say "almost" because the situation is more fluid and unstable than a normal naming change. If Apple were to do this with laptops, maybe it'd be like, Air gets better and pricier and becomes Pro-level model, Neo same way becomes Air-level model, etc. But Apple's too design oriented to do something like that. Google, well...

This change has made me decide to move to a multi-provider situation like through OpenRouter for consumer-facing LLM api in a service I'm building. I just can't trust Google to not constantly rearrange everything under our feet. Doesn't mean I won't use Gemini, but it clearly means I need to have others in the mix ready to go. In fact I used to use lots of Flash Lite, which is now Gemma territory, and I can't get that served by Google anymore and don't want to run my own hardware.

But in any case, I'd compare this "Flash" model with previous "Pro" on all metrics. It's kinda like if in clothes a Small suddenly became what was a Large, or at Starbucks a Grande became the new de facto Venti. And only for the new! drinks.

And if we think this way, it's possible that prices are actually falling?

New comment by malloryerik in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

malloryerik — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:21:10 +0000

Well in a recent project I tried TypeScript thinking, OK, LLMs, huge training corpus! massive adoption! api for everything already set up! swim with the current! and I tried various frameworks and so on, but for me reasoning about things and being able to make systems that I could adapt and pivot it was honestly inferior compared to niche Elixir and Clojure. But it's not like I hate JS; I use it in LiveView all the time. And don't mean to imply there are no problems in niche-land though; you've got to be willing to do more yourself and live in a tiny world. Really, LLMs kind of tamed Clojure for me because it seems so far at least that they can handle the glue code and stitching libraries together pretty decently as long as you don't get lazy with architectural choices and stay vigilant. And if I ever hire it pretty much has to be remote or learn on the job, though again LLMs reduce this pain greatly.

New comment by malloryerik in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

malloryerik — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:58:05 +0000

For me, I need to move fast and already knew Phoenix well, LiveView fits my use case, and websockets setup with Phoenix is very clear so switching to a two-language setup seemed better than CLJS. I could have gone CLJS re-frame and all that but it would have been more work and more unknowns. I call LLMs from Elixir also so all of the reconnect, backoffs, papercuts, shenanigans and so on, well I just know how to do this kind of thing better in Elixir. In its way Elixir is a great, like, defensive language. I was able to keep most async in Elixir and Clojure mostly synchronous. There was some pain though with bridge between the two and at times I thought I'd made a mistake. Clojure is fantastic with data and Datalog databases, so no regret. Outside world deals with Elixir, and the temple is in Clojure and Datalog.

New comment by malloryerik in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

malloryerik — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:06:16 +0000

Using Clojure and Elixir and LLMs are fantastic with both. Sure, if I get to a super-stable situation then maybe I'd consider moving to Rust (or Jank?), but for now I'm just so happy with Clojure and Elixir in this new world. I'm solving new problems with fully bespoke architecture so the flexibility is key. Clojure for business logic and most DB. With Elixir, it's the actor model and hand-holding as I'm using it for the web layer. I bet Ruby on Rails would also shine for some cases, prob most CRUD for example.

Pentagon Wants Innovation. Small Businesses Want to Deliver. What's the Problem?

malloryerik — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:15:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/pentagon-wants-innovation-small-nimble-businesses-want-to-deliver-whats-the-problem/91317767

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083356

Points: 1

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New comment by malloryerik in "DIY Soft Drinks"

malloryerik — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:24:27 +0000

Thanks, may try this.

New comment by malloryerik in "DIY Soft Drinks"

malloryerik — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:26:22 +0000

I'd be interested in soft drinks that were unsweetened altogether and not just sugar free. Sometimes I have sparkling water + apple cider vinegar + lemon/lime juice and it's wonderful when well mixed.

New comment by malloryerik in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

malloryerik — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:47:25 +0000

"... That's not cheating. That's being smart."

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

malloryerik — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:22:14 +0000

VS Code and its forks (Cursor, Antigravity, etc.) have Calva, a fantastic REPL with excellent linter Kondo. These are amazing tools; formatting is the very least of it. You don't need Emacs. I personally using VS Code + Doom Emacs. Also, many packages that look abandoned are simply mature. You can literally use ten year old packages.

I'm not a hot shot programmer, entirely self-taught but a decent architect who thinks hard about problems, and with LLM agents Clojure shines for me. There are some fantastic databases also starting with Datomic -- free now thanks to Nubank -- and everything inspired by it and the Clojure flavor of Datalog. These include Datalevin, Datahike, DataScript, XTDB. Datomic itself is probably best for enterprise though there's now an embedded version.

But I'm pretty convinced that most LLMs I've used are more reliable with Clojure (and Elixir) than with most of the popular languages, and I can say they use Datalog extremely well, seemingly much better than SQL despite the vast difference in corpus size. For one thing Datalog just gets rid of joins issues.

New comment by malloryerik in "Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite"

malloryerik — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:03:15 +0000

https://archive.is/m9YQI

Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite

malloryerik — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3880176e-d3ac-4311-9052-fdfeaed56a0e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559506

Points: 4

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New comment by malloryerik in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

malloryerik — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:46:39 +0000

If you want a shot at liking Joyce try "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

New comment by malloryerik in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

malloryerik — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:52:14 +0000

Have you tried this? Review?

New comment by malloryerik in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

malloryerik — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:57:39 +0000

I've wondered to myself here and there if new languages wouldn't be specifically written for LLM agentic coding, and what that might look like.

New comment by malloryerik in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

malloryerik — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:54:08 +0000

I've found good results with Clojure and Elixir despite them being dynamic and niche.

New comment by malloryerik in "Databases in 2025: A Year in Review"

malloryerik — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:33:48 +0000

Btw Datomic is free now that Nubank supports it (and runs a large bank on it).

There's also a fantastic kind of mini, FOSS, file-based Datomic-style Datalog DB that's not immutable called Datalevin. Uses the hyper-fast LMDB under the hood. It's called Datalevin. https://github.com/juji-io/datalevin

New comment by malloryerik in "Databases in 2025: A Year in Review"

malloryerik — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:26:32 +0000

In the case of Datomic: https://docs.datomic.com/operation/excision.html