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Hi HN — I’ve been working on Gene, a general-purpose, homoiconic language with a Lisp-like surface syntax, but with a core data model that’s intentionally not just “lists all the w…

When posting that question, I was genuinely curious why AI-related news seems to rarely appear on Hacker News.

The other suggestions are all very good. I’ll work on them when I get a chance. About the first, I think the focus page is already very minimal. Not sure what can be moved out.

https://gcao.github.io/fffocus

The url can be found in the first comment. To scratch my own itch, I created a simple tool that should be helpful to many of us who are under constant distractions. If anyone uses …

How well does Spacemacs work in a terminal (e.g. iTerm)? I've been using iTerm+Tmux+vim and don't want to give up iTerm+tmux just yet.

I've not done any research. It's just an idea suddenly popped into my mind :-P Any comments or suggestions are welcome. The waiting time between numbers is what requires attention.…

Seems it does not handle repos or folders with "."

Why not just recommend one way of naming things and do it in all standard APIs? If someone obviates in his custom library, that's his problem. I think below are pretty much a stand…

Great work! This is very intriguing!

I'm using the same setup (plus spf13.vim, powerline and Oh My Zsh). It looks beautiful and works very well. Here is a screenshot of my setup: http://postimg.org/image/9jqokq0ll/ful…

In pry is it possible to return something when I exit the REPL? Like this: def do_something return binding.pry do_something_but_does_not_work end result = do_something process resu…

Mine crashes a lot. Usually after I send it to sleep when I go home. Next time when I wake it up, it starts up from crashed state. It might have something to do with some app I ins…

Happy birthday, Rails! Looking into the future, I hope Rails API will take off.

Has anyone created mapping to jump AFTER a character? I did it and think it is great.

Thank you for sharing this. However, IMHO form builder is the last thing that could be reused in different projects. How a form is presented and submitted and navigation is handled…

Jon, do you mind if I send my resume and cover letter to you? If you find it a good fit to your team or any other team, please forward to the right person. I really appreciate you …

React is nice. I've created a simple library that shares same core concept - map DOM to Javascript objects. The difference is my lib uses Javascript standard data type, array, to r…

IMHO, built-in support of api-only application is very good. Here are the reasons I can think of right now: 1. unify people who are looking for a standard approach to create api in…

Interesting project. I feel it is similar to https://github.com/gcao/T.js - my little Javascript template engine. However IMHO, json2html is too verbose for large document, and T.j…

Go is never popular among ordinary people in China. I guess one reason is it takes a lot of time to finish a game. However, most chineses know how to play Xiangqi, the chinese coun…