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Re:Codex Resets on Saturday July 18, 2026 @11:55PM (#48964844)
Huh, isn’t Fable going to be available indefinitely to all Max users?
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:13PM (#47800717)
You’re probably thinking of this article: https://she-llac.com/claude-limits
Re:Writing Lisp Is AI Resistant and I'm Sad on Sunday April 05, 2026 @12:47AM (#47646178)
Ha, and I’ve been using Datalevin for my vibe-coded apps! Thank you so much for such a wonderful piece of software.
Re:It's probably time to rethink "Building in public" on Sunday September 22, 2024 @09:21PM (#41621541)
> Posting about your ideas or your product just isn't that interesting.

On the contrary, I wouldn’t be using Capacities if they didn’t have their entire development roadmap on your product, so thanks

Apparently this was written in ClojureScript. I’m actually a bit surprised by that, since this kind of thing seems perfect for vanilla JS.

Tell HN: Happy New Year

Thanks to dang and all the people who make this place so lively. 2023 was such a weird year, let's make this one even weirder!

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Re:Superlinear Returns on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:13PM (#37920148)
With multimodal GPT-4 I really feel like there's suddenly way more things I'm confident about attempting (e.g. anything bottlenecked by graphic design), which should in turn should lead to more things I'll be confident about in the future. Can a hyperproductive person verify if the returns here don't actually look linear, but geometric?
Re:A Swift intro to Geometric Algebra on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:17AM (#37021167)
I still maintain that Alan MacDonald is the best expositor of the subject I've seen. His books are almost entirely self-contained. Here's a sampling: http://www.faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/GA&GC.pdf
Re:Show HN: Hacker News User Blogroll on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:55AM (#36611453)
Probably better to sort by karma by default though, otherwise it's alphabetical privilege all over again lol https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ905588
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:22PM (#36610214)
Mostly philosophical spitballing: https://zrkrlc.com

Not a lot going on there but some people have told me they really like my essays so I elected to put my favourite ones online.

Re:Code the Shortest Path First on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:36AM (#36520924)
Mind giving a concrete example? I read through the entire thing but couldn't make heads or tails of it. Is the point that your user stories should touch upon every aspect of your app, while still being incremental?
Re:Reddit and Lisp Psychosis (2005) on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:17AM (#36368865)
With all the drama surrounding Reddit at the moment, it's nice to look back to a time when things were so much simpler, and most of the things we had to worry about were just tech.
Re:Why Lisp Syntax Works on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:05AM (#36195630)
Minor nitpick, but weren't the best of these calculators (i.e. the HP ones with RPN) postfix instead of prefix?
Re:HP 15C Collector’s Edition (preorder) on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:32PM (#36008310)
I yearn of the day when I'll have time to make RPN games
Re:Ask HN: Books that helped you become a better person? on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:04PM (#35818672)
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga is very quickly shaping up to be this book for me.

It's probably highly unpalatable to modern Western sentiments (e.g., one of the chapter titles is "Trauma Does Not Exist") but it otherwise has really original lessons that I haven't seen articulated elsewhere, despite the sometimes overly formal English translation.

Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:46PM (#34784589)
A bit crass these days, but this is probably where Reddit-style fake accounts will probably shine. Maybe a mix of manual work + judiciously crafted chatGPT prompts?
Re:Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:51AM (#34567619)
Got my HP50g in my last year of uni (physics) and I only wish I'd learned to depend on it sooner. Would have been fun figuring out calculus wizardry with a lisp-like language from the get-go.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best tech stack for indie hacking? on Saturday January 28, 2023 @03:57AM (#34556239)
If the dev experience is so great, why move at all?
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach

It's a rigorous but chatty textbook in the style of Spivak but written by someone who is sensitive to applied maths. I would not have survived my astrophysics classes without it.

(Not to mention it's where I first saw this really intuitive way of doing matrix multiplication: https://blogs.ams.org/mathgradblog/2015/10/19/matrix-multipl...)

Any recommendations aside from the usual (Andrew Ng's course, fast.ai)?
Re:Debugging Lisp: trace options, break on conditions on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:25AM (#34273539)
I wonder what it would take to bring these things to Clojure. Its REPL experience is miles ahead of non-lispy languages but I do feel a pang of grass-is-greener whenever I hear about CL's debugging tooling. Hell, the JVM has a great debugger as well (or so I hear), so why is that difficult to port over?

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