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Viksit Gaur
Personal blog · viksit.com/blogaisystemsphilosophy
Viksit Gaur's personal blog at viksit.com covers ai, systems and philosophy. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Practical applications of Y Combinators in Clojure”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Viksit Gaur's posts for their technical and reflective content: a Y-combinator implementation in Clojure and an essay on melancholy. Only one commenter calls a post interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Viksit Gaur writes about AI systems, software, technology, and the institutions they reshape.
Most-linked posts?
- Practical applications of Y Combinators in Clojure3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-06
What Hacker News says?
I write on https://www.viksit.com - went from a static website built on dreamweaver as a kid to drupal to a static website built with Gatsby :)) The latest iteration was an exercise in minimalism and typography!
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted The case for the decentralization of online forums as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI’ve used it in a semi professional way (internal tooling in clojure). I’ve also written about it here (Practical applications of the ycombinator in clojure) [1]. [1] http://www.viksit.com/tags/clojure/practical-applications-y-...
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on “Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript”Submitted Practical applications of Y Combinators in Clojure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is also this article about Y-combinator implemetation in clojure: http://www.viksit.com/tags/clojure/practical-applications-y-...
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on “Lambda Calculus Interactive Tutorial”Submitted Thought storm on the evolution and components of a decentralized internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat was exactly my problem too - I've tried in a complementary post to talk about some practical applications of the YCombinator. http://www.viksit.com/tags/clojure/practical-applications-y-...
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on “Y combinator in Scheme”Submitted The case for decentralization of online forums as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnrelated to your offer, but this was a very interesting piece: http://www.viksit.com/opinion/praise-melancholy/
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on “Ask HN: I'm an engineer looking for another technical co-founder [AI+Mobile]”