Hacker News: mike_ivanov

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

mike_ivanov — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:17:51 +0000

Yes. It is all about making uncertain things "certain".

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

mike_ivanov — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:19:03 +0000

Bullshit. We have more words for flavors of bribery than for types of snow.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

mike_ivanov — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:23:42 +0000

Ruby is a strongly typed language. I think you are confusing strong typing with static typing.

Common Lisp Extension for Zed

mike_ivanov — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:06:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/etyurkin/zed-cl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46818807

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Common Lisp developer role Ravenpack

mike_ivanov — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:56:20 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1qedv4v/common_lisp_developer_role_ravenpack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46687753

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Programming languages used for music"

mike_ivanov — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:12:45 +0000

Opus Modus (mentioned there) is quite notably Common Lisp

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

mike_ivanov — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:37:39 +0000

miracles happen

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

mike_ivanov — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:04:46 +0000

Corporations play the role of gods in our society.

edit: about the same role as Greek or Roman gods.

Clog and Clog Builder 2.4

mike_ivanov — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:06:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog/releases/tag/v2.4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074926

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by mike_ivanov in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

mike_ivanov — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:31:41 +0000

You didn't, but you've learned.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Python is not a great language for data science"

mike_ivanov — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:50:16 +0000

Please read the article. It literally shows pandas code as an example.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Google Antigravity"

mike_ivanov — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:19:14 +0000

New Era. A New - think about it for a sec - Era.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Some people can't see mental images"

mike_ivanov — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:39:56 +0000

Not the OP - I think it's the same process. The difference is in what my inner narrator is doing. When I asleep it is almost always gone, and this is when I typically see things in full color. When awake, my attention is split between listening to its storytelling and the mental imagery, which I believe makes the latter more dull. I noticed that the narrator is more loud when I'm in a minor mental state, like tired or annoyed. When happy/refreshed - there is no voice in my head and I can "see" things very clearly, especially their colors. So, I started looking for ways to divert my attention from the narrator. The most effective seems to keep the narrator busy with commenting on my breath ("in" and "out"), got some boost of mental clarity from that.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Subvocalization: Toward Hearing the Inner Thoughts of Developers (2011) [pdf]"

mike_ivanov — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:17:55 +0000

I worked with a (very nice and smart) dude who would angrily shout "CRAP!" every few minutes while working on his XUL-based project. I guess, that would teach LLMs a thing or two.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"

mike_ivanov — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:24:44 +0000

I'd say ROS (Robot Operating System) is the closest to this ideal.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"

mike_ivanov — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:45:42 +0000

All GUI apps are different, each being unhappy in its own way. Moated fiefdoms they are, scattered within the boundaries of their operating system. CLI is a common ground, an integration plaza where the peers meet, streams flow and signals are exchanged. No commitment needs to be made to enter this information bazaar. The closest analog in the GUI world is Smalltalk, but again - you need to pledge your allegiance before entering one.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"

mike_ivanov — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:15:35 +0000

Self-care is being Karen since when?

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

mike_ivanov — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:11:37 +0000

I had some success with Claude in this regard. I simply told it to be blunt or face the consequences. The tweak was that I asked another LLM to translate my prompt to the most intimidating bureaucratic German possible. It worked.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)"

mike_ivanov — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:45:48 +0000

This is the Result monad in practice. It allows you to postpone error handling until the computation is done.

New comment by mike_ivanov in "New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source"

mike_ivanov — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 20:22:09 +0000

A horse is just a bunch of chemicals in a skin sack. Gee, I understand it!