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New comment by nbaksalyar in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

nbaksalyar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:06:36 +0000

> Is this what getting old feels like? Hating everything the rest of society is racing to embrace?

I don’t think so. Some societies are racing to embrace mass surveillance and abuse of civil rights. Pointing this out and complaining about it is not “hate” and not reserved for old people only. :)

Volatco – Powerful Multicompute

nbaksalyar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:44:53 +0000

Article URL: https://volatco.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696674

Points: 2

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Matrix-matrix multiplication, from less conventional points of view

nbaksalyar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:11:53 +0000

Article URL: https://okmij.org/ftp/Algorithms/matmul.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670977

Points: 3

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New comment by nbaksalyar in "Seeing like a spreadsheet"

nbaksalyar — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:27:48 +0000

I think spreadsheets have been severely undervalued by software engineers and they're generally under-researched. It's definitely possible to use them in more non-obvious and interesting ways. E.g., see AmbSheets [1]

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/ambsheets/notebook/

New comment by nbaksalyar in "Do your own writing"

nbaksalyar — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:09:33 +0000

I have a feeling that the same idea absolutely does apply to code. Writing code is much closer to writing prose than it may seem. And the act of writing code also makes you think as you write. Even if you're writing boilerplate. Because how else would you uncover subtle opportunities to reduce the boilerplate and introduce new, better abstractions?

Ask HN: What are your favorite podcast episodes?

nbaksalyar — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:13:43 +0000

What episodes were particularly insightful and memorable? Something affected you on a personal level? Please share!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318719

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by nbaksalyar in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

nbaksalyar — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:06:34 +0000

Why is it wrong? Please elaborate. For more substance, here’s a discussion from 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381015

New comment by nbaksalyar in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

nbaksalyar — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:35:35 +0000

    > only to have it completely obsoleted a few years later

Not really. There aren’t as many fundamentally new ideas in modern tech as it may seem.

Web servers have existed for more than 30 years and haven’t changed that much since then. Or e.g., React + Redux is pretty much the same thing as WinProc from WinAPI - invented some time in ~1990. Before Docker, there were Solaris Zones and FreeBSD jails. TCP/IP is 50 years old. And many, many other things we perceive as new.

Moreover, I think it’s worth looking back and learning some of the “old tech” for inspiration; there’s a wealth of deep and prescient ideas there. We still don’t have a full modern equivalent of Macromedia Flash, for example.

New comment by nbaksalyar in "Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]"

nbaksalyar — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:45:55 +0000

I strongly recommend to check all other papers and articles on https://okmij.org/ftp/, every single one of them is brilliant and insightful. I love the pedagogy, the writing style and clarity. Oleg Kiselyov is one of the best technical writers I've discovered recently.

New comment by nbaksalyar in "A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union"

nbaksalyar — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 03:44:00 +0000

In the Stalin times, yes.

But the policy in the early Soviet Union was in fact opposite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiia

New comment by nbaksalyar in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

nbaksalyar — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:37:42 +0000

> you want your vault accessible across linux/windows/android/macos/ipad

For that, I use Syncthing [1] in addition to iCloud. It works exceptionally well – I see my edits in real time across different devices.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

The Hypercube Pop-Up Book [video]

nbaksalyar — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:06:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWZPfFemRcA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43736523

Points: 3

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New comment by nbaksalyar in "Ask HN: Favourite resources for learning programming type theory?"

nbaksalyar — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:02:00 +0000

> introductory textbooks/blogs/resources on the topic

Books on TypeScript, OCaml, Rust or Haskell are usually great resources for that.

There's also "Thinking with Types" which addresses this topic in a lot of depth:

https://thinkingwithtypes.com/

New comment by nbaksalyar in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)"

nbaksalyar — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:51:33 +0000

SEEKING WORK

Location: United Kingdom, UTC+0

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Rust, compiler engineering (query languages, code generators, dev tools, programming languages, LLVM), Linux kernel (eBPF, io_uring, low-level networking, performance optimisation)

Email: nikita.baksalyar@gmail.com

I'm a systems engineer with 8+ years of experience in Rust. Solving problems in low-level programming, design and implementation of compilers and programming languages.

ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web (2023)

nbaksalyar — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:18:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42858826

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nbaksalyar in "ChatGPT Search"

nbaksalyar — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:11:04 +0000

> Has google completely stopped working for anyone else?

Yes. However, I found that https://scholar.google.com still works perfectly well. It feels just as the old Google without all the crap they've been adding in the last years.

New comment by nbaksalyar in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

nbaksalyar — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:15:46 +0000

Location: United Kingdom, UTC+0

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, compiler engineering (LLVM, interpreters, query languages, code generators, dev tools, programming languages), Linux kernel (eBPF, io_uring, low-level networking)

Résumé/CV: systems engineer with 8+ years of experience in Rust. Solving problems in low-level programming, design and implementation of compilers and programming languages, software optimisation.

Email: nikita.baksalyar@gmail.com