Hacker News: spariev

New comment by spariev in "Claude Code Routines"

spariev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:38:44 +0000

They know what they are doing perfectly well

New comment by spariev in "Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp"

spariev — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:50:54 +0000

Great book, I will definitely buy it, thanks for your work! The history is very important, as you’ve said in your blog post, but companies and universities don’t care much about such things unfortunately. I see there is a chapter on Clojure, so just wondering if you had the chance to interview Rich Hickey for the book?

New comment by spariev in "Socialism AI goes live on December 12, 2025"

spariev — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:30:57 +0000

A major advance for the working class

Socialism AI goes live on December 12, 2025

spariev — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:30:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/08/jfjv-d08.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202238

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by spariev in "Getting AI to work in complex codebases"

spariev — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:08:19 +0000

Thanks for sharing, I wonder how do you keep the stylistic and mental alignment of the codebase - is this happens during the code review or there are specific instructions during at the plan/implement stages?

New comment by spariev in "How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development"

spariev — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:54:33 +0000

Care to give some pointers on what to look at? Looks like I will be doing something similar soon so that would be much appreciated

New comment by spariev in "Getting AI to write good SQL"

spariev — Sat, 17 May 2025 13:02:37 +0000

Where is also context7 mcp you could use, it does help sometimes

New comment by spariev in "A Research Preview of Codex"

spariev — Fri, 16 May 2025 15:38:55 +0000

I think it all depends on your platform and use cases. In my experience AI tools work best with Python and JS/Typescript and some simple use cases (web apps, basic data science etc). Also, I've found they can be of great help with refactorings and cases when you need to do something similar to already existing code, but with a twist or change.

New comment by spariev in "Mission Impossible: Managing AI Agents in the Real World"

spariev — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:31:24 +0000

The approach described resonates well with my (limited) experience using tools like Cursor/Cline and Aider, thanks for writing this up. It feels more like the waterfall-style method and it takes time to get used to it after years of test-driven/agile development.

New comment by spariev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

spariev — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:25:22 +0000

Learning about Rama (https://redplanetlabs.com/) which has been released recently. The tech is very cool and also it's Clojure, but still not sure what would be the best use case for it.

New comment by spariev in "Itch.io Taken Down by Funko"

spariev — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:12:55 +0000

I use pananames.com, they for sure won't do things like OP described

New comment by spariev in "Rails 7.1 Released"

spariev — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 06:55:57 +0000

Last time I checked it is perfectly possible to use anything including TS via jsbundling-rails and esbuild, so honestly I don’t understand what is the problem here.

I’m also on a fence re Hotwire, but apparently it works for them in Basecamp and Hey, so that’s what they are investing into.

Anecdotally, recently in Ruby shops I see an increase in new projects using Hotwire as a push back against bloated and hard to maintain React front ends and people are delighted how everything is easier now. RoR codebases are not the only ones which did not age well, I’ve seen quite a few React/NextJs legacy projects I would prefer not to touch at all. So I don’t think technology is the main culprit here.

New comment by spariev in "Datomic is Free"

spariev — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 07:37:45 +0000

Yep, I am well aware of these specifics and workarounds, but in general case where is no general solution to the question asked here, for example [0]. And for big datasets with complex sorting it will take some effort to implement a seemingly simple feature.

Guess it is just one of the tradeoffs, as while some features Datomic has out of the box are hard to replicate in RDBMS-es, things like pagination which are often took for granted is a bit of work to do in Datomic. So it is something to keep in mind when considering the switch

[0] https://forum.datomic.com/t/idiomatic-pagination-using-lates...

New comment by spariev in "Datomic is Free"

spariev — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:31:45 +0000

One thing which is quite hard to do in Datomic is simple pagination on a large sorted dataset, as one can easily do with LIMIT/OFFSET in MySQL for example. There are solutions for some of the cases, but general case is not solved, as far as I remember (it’s been a while I used it extensively)

New comment by spariev in "Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money"

spariev — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:57:04 +0000

Tessier-Ashpool

New comment by spariev in "Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)"

spariev — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:44:50 +0000

Just a reminder that you _can_ leave modal editing with :q (sorry couldn’t resist)

New comment by spariev in "Running Lisp in Production (2020)"

spariev — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 08:22:28 +0000

Actually they do use Clojure, at least they have open positions for Clojure Software Engineers. Also, I know that Vsevolod, the author of the article, is not with Grammarly anymore.

The Legendary Framework

spariev — Sat, 29 May 2021 14:48:39 +0000

Article URL: https://legendaryframework.org/announcing-the-legendary-framework

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27325590

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by spariev in "Windows: The Dread of Updates"

spariev — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:42:42 +0000

I found this article [1] which might explain why the updates are so bad.

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/23/former-microsoft-employee-...

New comment by spariev in "Windows: The Dread of Updates"

spariev — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 07:04:24 +0000

I have the XPS too, thanks for the idea. I certainly can combine SSD update with a switch to Linux.