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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

New comment by malloryerik in "Always bet on text (2014)"

malloryerik — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:19:29 +0000

I agree with all of these except the emotional impact of war where though slower a novel or memoir might work best. Think "All Quiet on the Western Front." At the same time we do want images of the war and time for grounding.

New comment by malloryerik in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"

malloryerik — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:28:50 +0000

Late comment but if technology brought down the price of food then people could spend less on food, more on other good and services. Or the same on higher quality food. You don't need an increasing population for that. The improvement in agriculture could mean some farmers would have to find other work. So you can have economic growth with a stagnant or falling population. And you can rather easily have economic growth on a per-capita basis with no overall GDP growth, like is common in Japan today.

About the farmer needing to change jobs, in the interview that is the subject of this thread Ilya Sutskever speaks with wonder about humans' ability to generalize their intelligence across different domains with very little training. Cheaper food prices could mean people eat out or order-in more and then some ex-farmers might enter restaurant or food preparation businesses. People would still be getting wealthier, even without the tailwind of a growing population.

New comment by malloryerik in "Replacement.ai"

malloryerik — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:00:22 +0000

Might want to read some Karl Polanyi.

New comment by malloryerik in "Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments"

malloryerik — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:10:57 +0000

I think there feeling is, you say you want us to build our products in the U.S. but then our essential workers aren't allowed in so it's an impossible demand.

New comment by malloryerik in "A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom"

malloryerik — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 06:26:05 +0000

Instead of extending hours in classrooms, which might feel like torture, what about no-tech libraries for individual work like homework? Or with a coffeeshop vibe. I'd personally say four hours a day but I'm guessing two might be what many found reasonable. If you finished your work early you could read what you'd like. Town and city libraries could be enlisted for this along with the school libraries, which might need to be expanded to fit all of these kids. Add sports and you get a serious full day for kids, not the kind of half day they have now in the U.S. That additionally lightens the load on working parents.

New comment by malloryerik in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

malloryerik — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:49:35 +0000

You may like to check out Iain McGilchrist's take on schizophrenia, which essentially he says is a relative excess of rationality ("if then else" thinking) and a deficit of reasonableness (as in sensible context inhabiting).

Continental vs. Maritime Power, the Fight for a New World Order by Sarah Paine

malloryerik — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:26:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/land-or-sea-paine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44995822

Points: 6

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New comment by malloryerik in "Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments That Failed to Replicate"

malloryerik — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:25:12 +0000

A few on this list are interesting because they replicated some times and not others. I'd like to see a list of experiments that succeeded in replicating.