Pretty cool. I love Emacs. The main reason is because Emacs is the editor that has taught me the most about computers and software.
However, with the rapid rise of large language models and AI-driven development tools, how might Emacs evolve to seamlessly integrate these technologies—such as AI-assisted refactoring, code completion, and knowledge management—while still preserving its core values of extensibility, user freedom, and community-driven innovation?
Other tools seem to have better AI integration. I might be wrong.
The AI stuff these days is probably the easiest type of thing for Emacs to replicate, since all of the APIs are essentially just passing in and parsing strings of text. May more easy than IDE-like features and easier than LSP.
Like, no one would need to form Emacs to support all of the features Cursor provides. VSCode had to be forked and lost a considerable user-base to it.
I am curious about what the process would be for setting up a full-stack Clojure/ClojureScript project with Nix using devenv.sh, something similar to the .NET example in the blog post.
You can pull up a similar environment for Clojure as well, I guess it's also worthy opening a PR in https://github.com/NixOS/templates, adding some Clojure goodies.
"As of my last training data up to April 2023, I don't have the capability to directly access or analyze real-time internet data or databases, including those from Hacker News. Therefore, I can't provide a specific answer or data on trends related to 'Ask HN' posts in relation to the release of ChatGPT."
It's inaccurate though. The whole point of horcruxes in the book is that Voldemort can always resurrect himself if one of them remains. This tool is the opposite: you need multiple parts to reconstruct the file.
I’m not an extreme Harry Potter fan or anything. It just bothers me when people ride the coattails of some popular term/phrase but then get it wrong. Another one is “isomorphic” as in “isomorphic JavaScript” which abuses the term from mathematics to mean something completely unrelated.
I had a coworker try to use "isomorphic" to mean "when given the same inputs and environment, always produces the same outputs", then accused me of pedantry for pointing out that misusing a word with a very clear definition was likely to cause confusion.
Whoops, you're right, I brain farted the wrong word.
To be clear, though, they were still wrong. `f(x)=2x` has the property they described of consistently giving the same input for a given input (if you pass in 1, it will always output 2), but it is not idempotent because f(f(x)) does not, in general, equal f(x).
Microsoft co-opted “DNS” as “Digital Nervous System” to try to exploit business decision makers’ dim acquaintance with the term. They had a pattern of doing this with other internet acronyms back in the day. Annoying af.
He could not resurrect himself. He needed someone in not-ghost form, to collect some special items and perform a magical ritual. Some of the special items were also one-time use iirc.
Perhaps, this tool needs to additionally encrypt some of the pieces with the dna of one's father or whatever.
I wish I had read this article in 2012. Unfortunately, I was introduced to Emacs in 2016 and only started using it in 2021. I lost 9 years! It is my favorite piece of software :)
This article has an interesting perspective. But, beyond Emacs built-in documentation, my favorite content to learn Emacs is the book Mastering Emacs and the System Crafters' YouTube Channel.
Oh my. I really genuinely tried to watch it... But it's impossible for me to not fall asleep after 20min. The guy on the channel really should invest in some person that could cut 10 min of content out of each of his 2h live shows and make a short snappy video. Like what the primagen is doing. I think he would get 10x the audience.
The actual content he has is very interesting, but the barrier is the length of it.
I love HN. For me, this is the best online space to be. Among reading interesting content and amazing comments, HN helped me to make my career international.
In the last two years, I worked for 3 companies outside of Brazil. These were the first professional and international experiences of my life.
The first experience (Nyxt browser) is simply the best team I have ever worked with. The last experience is the current one which I am also very grateful to have. I particularly enjoy interacting with folks from the Bay Area, a place I have never visited but I dream about going one day.
In the middle, there was also a short project for a British company that I also got from the “Who is hiring thread”.
These experiences dramatically improved my family savings and exposed me to people that would be very hard to meet in my daily life.
Also, the first and last experiences are on the lisp family - which is a niche. It would be hard to have found them without the thread.
Thus, thank you very much, HN! My gratitude goes to those that run the website and to the community :)
