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New comment by thetwentyone in "Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia"

thetwentyone — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:22:38 +0000

Pluto has been quite nice for me to use over the last few years and I even host notebooks using the SliderServer to let others run analysis and examples from the web.

Julia Http.jl 2.0

thetwentyone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:21:09 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-http-jl-2-0-release-and-new-package-reseau-jl/137323

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366022

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

ChatGPT Performs Better on Julia Than Python for LLM Code Generation. Why?

thetwentyone — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:02:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/chatgpt-performs-better-on-julia-than-python-and-r-for-large-language-model-llm-code-generation-why/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109351

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by thetwentyone in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

thetwentyone — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:22:07 +0000

I wish it had my favorite in it so that I could do a blind test to see if it really is my favorite: https://juliamono.netlify.app

New comment by thetwentyone in "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)"

thetwentyone — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:15:00 +0000

I’ve been looking for a way to listen to the audio offline, but this website is very resistant to scraping. I’d appreciate if anyone knew of a free or paid place to download the audio lectures.

New comment by thetwentyone in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

thetwentyone — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:50:32 +0000

FWIW for similar reasons I nuked my Windows install and installed CauchyOS. My main reason for not doing it earlier was concerns about game compatibility but so far the games I want to play either are working without any issue or work after enabling Steam's proton compatibility layer.

Algorithms for Optimization, Decision Making, and Validation (3 Books)

thetwentyone — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:29:21 +0000

Article URL: https://algorithmsbook.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701494

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thetwentyone in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

thetwentyone — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:04:22 +0000

One aspect is that Tesla is all cameras, whereas Rivian sees it as important to have multi-sensor suites (cameras, ultrasonic, radar, and in Gen 3: lidar). TBH as a customer I prefer to know that the latter is protecting me instead of just cameras.

New comment by thetwentyone in "Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages"

thetwentyone — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:12:47 +0000

Also see the JuliaMono typeface: https://juliamono.netlify.app

It was designed to be a comprehensive monocode typeface to support Julia's full Unicode support.

New comment by thetwentyone in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

thetwentyone — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:54:55 +0000

Anyone have experience with AVP+ALVR vs Valve Index? I have only used the latter but interested if I can use ALVR effectively enough to replace the Index.

New comment by thetwentyone in "ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner"

thetwentyone — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:58:08 +0000

Especially because Julia has pretty user friendly and robust GPU capabilities such as JuliaGPU and Reactant[2] among other generic-Julia-code to GPU options.

1: https://enzymead.github.io/Reactant.jl/dev/ 2: https://enzymead.github.io/Reactant.jl/dev/

New comment by thetwentyone in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

thetwentyone — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:06:46 +0000

The author posits that people don't like using LLMs with Rust because LLMs aren't good with Rust. Then people would migrate towards languages that do will with LLMs. However, if that were true, then Julia would be more popular since LLMs do very well with it: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/chatgpt-performs-better-...

New comment by thetwentyone in "But good sir, what is electricity?"

thetwentyone — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:37:21 +0000

> A crude analogy is the travel of sound waves in air: if you yell at someone, they will hear you long before any single air molecule makes it from here to there.

Isn’t this a very good analogy? What’s so crude about it?

New comment by thetwentyone in "New horizons for Julia"

thetwentyone — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:53:02 +0000

Another tool in this regard is https://github.com/JuliaLang/AllocCheck.jl, "a Julia package that statically checks if a function call may allocate by analyzing the generated LLVM IR of it and its callees using LLVM.jl and GPUCompiler.jl"

New comment by thetwentyone in "New horizons for Julia"

thetwentyone — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:05:57 +0000

I'm currently working on a re-write of a small model from JAX to Julia and finding the Julia code so much easier to write, it's more concise, and find the debugging tools easier to work with in Julia.

New comment by thetwentyone in "Ask HN: Resources for general purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips?"

thetwentyone — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:11:01 +0000

I’ve had a good time dabbling with Metal.jl: https://github.com/JuliaGPU/Metal.jl

New comment by thetwentyone in "Survival Analysis Part I: Basic concepts and first analyses (2003)"

thetwentyone — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:05:47 +0000

For Julia users:

https://github.com/JuliaSurv and https://github.com/JuliaStats/Survival.jl

New comment by thetwentyone in "Show HN: Finstruments - Financial instrument library built with Python"

thetwentyone — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:04:53 +0000

For those interested in this space, a couple of related libraries in Julia:

https://github.com/JuliaComputing/Miletus.jl

https://github.com/JuliaActuary/FinanceModels.jl

I’m the author of the second one, so am always interested to see discussions on financial modeling libraries.

New comment by thetwentyone in "Julia 1.11 Highlights"

thetwentyone — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:18:53 +0000

I’m trying to influence this from my small corner of the world here: https://juliaactuary.org/

Come chat in the Julia slack #finance or #actuarial channels!

New comment by thetwentyone in "Micrograd.jl"

thetwentyone — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:49:08 +0000

Odd that the author excluded ForwardDiff.jl and Zygote.jl, both of which get a lot of mileage in the Julia AD world. Nonetheless, awesome tutorial and great to see more Julia content like this!