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Carmine Paolino
Personal blog · paolino.me · on HN as earcaraiprogramming
Carmine Paolino's personal blog at paolino.me covers ai and programming. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Carmine Paolino's blog for background on Solid Queue's fiber workers and async Ruby, including its database connection math and when fiber mode suits a job.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AI frameworks, developer tools, and native apps by Carmine Paolino, founder of Plenty and the Floppy Disco music collective, creator of RubyLLM, and Berlin.rb organizer.
Most-linked posts?
- Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-07-09
- Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-04-21
- Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-20
What Hacker News says?
As a cluster headache sufferer and developer, I found existing tracking tools inadequate. So I built a new one, coding between attacks while hospitalized. Here's what I learned about innovation, open source, and turning adversity into opportunity: https://paolino.me/cluster-headache-tracker/
Comment linking /cluster-headache-tracker/
on “I built an open-source Cluster Headache Tracker from my hospital bed”Submitted Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here) as a story · 70 points
HN discussionThat post, and the linked post, provide very good context to understand these changes. https://paolino.me/async-ruby-is-the-future/
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on “Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers”Submitted Installing TensorFlow 1.4.0 on MacOS with CUDA Support as a story · 47 points
HN discussionYou can, and Carmine (who coded this update) wrote exactly about this on this blog post: https://paolino.me/solid-queue-doesnt-need-a-thread-per-job/ From his article: One backend, two modes Fiber mode isn’t universally better. CPU-bound jobs get nothing from it, and blocking libraries or C extensions that do not cooperate with Ruby’s fiber scheduler stall the reactor. And that’s fine – you don’t have to pick one. A…
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on “Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers”Submitted Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice as a story · 11 points
HN discussionCarmine (which coded this Fibers update) wrote about this in his blog. See the section 'The database connection math'. And no, you won't have one connection per fiber. The difference is staggering when you compare to threaded mode: it requires 1,320 database connections to run the same benchmark that the fiber mode runs with 60. https://paolino.me/solid-queue-doesnt-need-a-thread-per-job/
Comment linking /solid-queue-doesnt-need-a-thread-per-job/
on “Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers”Submitted Show HN: Hyprmoncfg – Terminal-based monitor config manager for Hyprland as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Standard API for LLM Capabilities and Pricing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Is Not Dead, Because Accountability Isn't as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby Concurrency: What Happens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comb Shaped Slices: Why I'm not picking a vertical as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby Is the Best Language for Building AI Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RubyLLM 1.4-1.5.1: Three Releases in Three Days as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: An API for LLM capabilities and pricing, scraped from docs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RubyLLM 1.3.0rc1: Configuration Contexts, Ollama/OpenRouter, and ActiveStorage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I get 215 GitHub notifications a day, so I built a bot to triage them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ArchSpec: Executable Architecture Specification for Ruby's Agentic Coding Era as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Production experience cannot be hallucinated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RubyLLM 1.15: Image Editing, Cost Tracking and Less Tool Boilerplate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kamal-Backup: Scheduled Rails Backups for Kamal Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making the Rails Default Job Queue Fiber-Based as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Agent's Context Window Is Not a Junk Drawer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RubyLLM 1.12: Agents Are Just LLMs with Tools as a story · 1 points
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