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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:40PM (#49688458)
RSS Bot for Telegram: learns what you like, searchable, using free models (vibe-coded): https://github.com/amb007/rss-bot
Re:Fastpotify on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:39PM (#49567743)
You should have tried Deezer. I had switched to Spotify because I couldn't tolerate bugs anymore.
Re:Why vibe code in Common Lisp? on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:10AM (#49283786)
Agreed. For the others, I asked Claude to write a structural edit tool: s-expressions only, insert/replace/... When passed 'tree' it prints a file like

<line>: <s-expr .-separated path>

then eg when passed 'replace 2.1 "(+ x y)"' it returns a new file (as a list of s-exprs).

Re:Why vibe code in Common Lisp? on Thursday August 13, 2026 @05:58AM (#49283717)
"180° wrong" as "0° right"? Just that bit, not that I disagree.
Re:Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:43PM (#49088904)
Me too
I have my own. One Telegram bot for reading, summarizing etc. (using a local Qwen 3.6), another for improving it (OpenCode Telegram, free DeepSeek V4). I might put it on github soon.
Re:A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering on Saturday July 18, 2026 @05:18AM (#48956450)
I have always liked coding (started in the 80s). But I got bored having to deal with trivialities (spending life on fixing commas) and increasing accidental complexity (having to memorize tons of APIs). Now LLMs deal with that crap and I can apply stuff I read in research papers and such, with much lower threshold.
Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:22AM (#48516109)
Very cool. Anything publicly available?
Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:09AM (#48516021)
Same happened to me. I only had to ask the service where to tap exactly.
Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? on Saturday June 13, 2026 @06:50AM (#48515849)
For me the combination of agentic search and deep wiki creation for legacy code bases is a killer app/game changer. Not for the surviving authors of the legacy code bases.
Re:How to setup a local coding agent on macOS on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:00AM (#48514253)
Whay about of the tons of caches that just pile up until you notice that you must delete them manually?
Re:How to setup a local coding agent on macOS on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:57AM (#48514229)
I also have an M1 Max 64GB: Qwen 3.6 benefits from MTP (after rounds of parameter optimization). MLX was unstable (haven't tried it recently), faster at TG but slower at PP, so inconclusive.
Re:Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:31AM (#48033341)
https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugin... is similar, works for Claude Code, too. I ported it to Pi: https://pi.dev/packages/@amb007/deep-wiki?name=deep-wiki Elsewhere, I added deep-wiki:lookup that's like deep-wiki:ask but giving precedence to the wiki instead of the code.
Essentials of Programming Languages 1st ed. is special
Re:Ask HN: Stanford CS 153 help on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:14AM (#42484515)
https://icfp24.sigplan.org/home/minikanren-2024#event-overvi... is related. There has been work on turning slow bidirectional code into faster functional code (in 2023, reachable from this url).
Re:What Does It Mean to Learn? on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @10:16AM (#41446123)
Something like (in software, trying to understand) a spaghetti monolith?
Re:Laws of Software Evolution on Saturday April 27, 2024 @04:13AM (#40178258)
Code rusts via the loss of information about it (memory, documentation...). If it cannot be maintained, it is a zombie.
Re:I love programming but I hate the programming industry on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:58AM (#40132049)
OK, I realized it was about something else. I don't follow Uncle Bob, and was referring to some people justifying "unclean"/incorrect shortcuts to gain performance.
Re:I love programming but I hate the programming industry on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:46AM (#40112499)
Nicely put. I also spent decades in the SW industry, tried about a dozen things, but chose to stay out of management. For me, business and engineering are two completely different areas, often conflicting, and my training is extensively in math and engineering. Trying to do both ends up with mediocrity almost certainly.
Re:I love programming but I hate the programming industry on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:24AM (#40112375)
Wrong. Performance and correctness/cleanness go together. Perhaps you have never tried generating correct code that is ways faster than what you can write by hand.
Re:Compiling Pattern Matching on Saturday February 03, 2024 @04:14PM (#39244815)
Plain entropy. I use an extension for killing duplicate tabs, helps a lot.
Re:Applied Category Theory Course on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:32AM (#37723961)
I would appreciate if someone wrote here their opinion on Matriarch [1], an application of category theory to biology/physics via software.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/matriarch/

Re:Don't Be Clever on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:12AM (#37044752)
You can handle any language with a read-time parser, then work with ASTs, pretty-print the result in another language. In between, it's just Lisp.
Re:Don't Be Clever on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:02AM (#37021081)
You can wrap a code generator by a macro.
No, rather in the category of endocrine functors.

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