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Mike Innes
Personal blog · mikeinnes.ioprogrammingaidesign
Mike Innes writes Machine Lines, a personal blog at mikeinnes.io about programming, ai and design. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Mojo (Musings from a Julia Dev)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mike Innes's posts on his hobby language that compiles to wasm, Advent of Code work, and interactive explanations. One commenter praised the transducers post's presentation, and another cited the vocabulary-estimation post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Mojo (Musings from a Julia Dev)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-09
What Hacker News says?
http://mikeinnes.io/posts/advent-2025/ I've been working through advent of code using my own little compiler/language. It's in such an early state that some creative problem solving is required, not to mention the compiler bugs! But I'm very pleased to have it running interactively on my blog like this – I want to work towards some bigger notebooks in the style of explorable explanations.
Comment linking /posts/advent-2025/
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)”Submitted Adventures in Face Space (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm working on a little hobby language that compiles to wasm: https://mikeinnes.io/posts/raven/ I've spent the last couple of months porting the compiler from Julia to TypeScript. That's nearly done, so I'm hoping I can post an interactive web demo next month!
Comment linking /posts/raven/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)”Submitted Finding Your Mojo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is like monads, is better to not look at the definition and just get examples. I like the way is presented here: https://mikeinnes.io/posts/transducers/ The main gist is that "effect" allows you to define your own "except" of "try/except/finally"
Comment linking /posts/transducers/
on “Coroutines and effects”Submitted Mojo (Musings from a Julia Dev) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI don't care to pay for access to gpt-4 but one could easily use one of the vocabulary estimation tests, which use some statistics plus knowledge of word appearance frequency, to estimate its vocabulary size. https://mikeinnes.io/2022/02/26/vocab is one such test which explains the statistics ideas, and there are many others based on similar principles.
Comment linking /2022/02/26/vocab
on “AI 'breakthrough': neural net has human-like ability to generalize language”