Hacker News with Generative AI: Elixir

Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir (elixir-lang.org)
How do you coordinate visual fidelity across two hundred cameras for a live event like the Super Bowl?

Elixir, Software Engineering, Super Bowl, Live Events

644 points by lawik 9 days ago | 172 comments

Everything I Was Lied to About Node.js Came True with Elixir (d-gate.io)
I've been a NodeJS developer for a few years now. I loved the simplicity of the language and the community around it. The fact that I could re-use libraries between my frontend and backend was magic. But as my applications grew in complexity, I started to realise much of what I was told about NodeJS was a lie.

Programming Languages, Node.js, Elixir, Backend Development, Web Development

33 points by mike1o1 24 days ago | 6 comments

Everything I Was Lied to About Node.js Came True with Elixir (d-gate.io)
I've been a NodeJS developer for a few years now. I loved the simplicity of the language and the community around it. The fact that I could re-use libraries between my frontend and backend was magic. But as my applications grew in complexity, I started to realise much of what I was told about NodeJS was a lie.

Node.js, Elixir, Web Development, Programming Languages

16 points by dyl000 24 days ago | 4 comments

Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine (dashbit.co)
In the recent years, Elixir has been expanding its capabilities in Machine Learning and Data through the Nx (Numerical Elixir) effort.

Programming Languages, Elixir, Python, Machine Learning

308 points by arathunku 37 days ago | 64 comments

Agent-Less System Monitoring with Elixir Broadway (opsmaru.com)
We've started working on something that will be a critical component the Opsmaru platform. This part requires having proper infrastructure monitoring for several reasons. While Opsmaru has health monitoring for every cluster managed by the platform, it doesn't give us deep insights into the metrics of the systems.

Elixir, System Monitoring, Infrastructure, DevOps, Software Engineering

76 points by zacksiri 44 days ago | 16 comments

Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust (chriis.dev)
Here's the thing about PDFs - they're complex beasts that require quite a bit of thinking to properly parse - they come in all shapes and sizes, and they can contain a lot of different types of data and formatting. 90% of the time, we just want to extract the text from the file, but that's not always easy - for the remaining 10%, well we won't be covering that in this blog post.

Programming Languages, Elixir, Rust, PDF Parsing

191 points by bustylasercanon 64 days ago | 16 comments

Stories and conversations around Elixir, Erlang and the BEAM ecosystem (beamrad.io)
In this conversation, Bruce, Andrew, and James discuss their experiences with Elixir programming, the importance of exploring and modeling in software development, and innovative educational approaches using Livebook.

Elixir, Erlang, BEAM, Programming Languages, Education

9 points by mooreds 69 days ago | 0 comments

Ash Framework: Build Declarative Elixir Web Apps (pragprog.com)
Ash Framework is the game-changing toolkit for Elixir developers. With modular, plug-and-play building blocks, Ash slashes development time, effort, and complexity, letting you do more with less code. Design declarative, customizable domain models that are easy to maintain and optimized for performance. Shift your focus to what to build, instead of how, using Ash’s intuitive design principles. Tackle bigger challenges and build scalable, future-proof web applications with confidence. Elevate your Elixir skills and revolutionize your workflow with Ash.

Elixir, Web Development, Frameworks, Programming, Software Development

11 points by borromakot 74 days ago | 1 comments

Hologram: A full-stack isomorphic Elixir web framework (hologram.page)
Build rich, interactive UIs entirely in Elixir using Hologram's declarative component system.

Elixir, Web Frameworks, Full-Stack Development, User Interfaces, Declarative Programming

128 points by kimi 78 days ago | 37 comments

Data evolution with set-theoretic types (dashbit.co)
Recently I have been working on projects that integrate Elixir with native code in C and Rust. One of the Rust libraries defines the following struct (with fields removed for simplicity):

Programming Languages, Data Structures, Elixir, Rust

127 points by josevalim 79 days ago | 32 comments

Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir: 2024 Update (pikdum.dev)
Thistle Tea is my World of Warcraft private server project, started in June 2024. I wrote a blog post back then journaling the first month of development and have since been working on the project bit by bit. This is a follow-up to highlight progress since then, so I’d recommend skimming the original post first.

Elixir, Gaming, Programming, Private Servers

25 points by pikdum 93 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Jido – Run 10k agents at 25KB each (Elixir) (github.com/agentjido)
Jido is a foundational framework for building autonomous, distributed agent systems in Elixir.

Software, Programming, Elixir, Distributed Systems, Frameworks

13 points by mikehostetler 94 days ago | 9 comments

Show HN: IsMyAIDown – AI status monitor with Phoenix LiveView. Can you crash it? (ismyaidown.com)
An experiment in real-time distributed systems with Elixir/Phoenix. Questions, suggestions or feedback? Let me know! 🙏

AI, Elixir, Phoenix, Real-time Systems, Web Development

10 points by ryandaigle 100 days ago | 0 comments

Elixir 1.18 Is Here: What's New in the Latest Release (github.com/elixir-lang)
Elixir v1.18 is an impressive release with improvements across the two main efforts happening within the Elixir ecosystem right now: set-theoretic types and language servers. It also comes with built-in JSON support and adds new capabilities to its unit testing library.

Programming, Elixir, New Releases, Software, Languages

10 points by r0xsh 105 days ago | 0 comments

Elixir 1.18 Released (elixir-lang.org)
Elixir v1.18 is an impressive release with improvements across the two main efforts happening within the Elixir ecosystem right now: set-theoretic types and language servers. It also comes with built-in JSON support and adds new capabilities to its unit testing library. Let’s go over each of those in detail.

Programming Languages, Elixir, New Releases, Software

70 points by plainOldText 105 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Static blog companion built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView (blogmate.io)
The perfect companion to your static blog.

Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, Static Sites, Web Development, Open Source

15 points by dbishai 108 days ago | 0 comments

Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016) (kennyballou.com)
One of the untold benefits of having a runtime is the ability for that runtime to enable loading and unloading code while the runtime is active.

Elixir, Erlang, Programming Languages, Hot Swapping

225 points by justinludwig 112 days ago | 112 comments

Fair Go vs. Elixir Benchmarks (github.com/antonputra)
The code previously used Jason.encode! but Jason.encode_to_iodata! should be preferred over IO devices. This should increase performance and reduce memory usage. This is what frameworks such as a Phoenix would have used by default

Programming, Elixir, Performance Optimization, Benchmarks, Web Frameworks

13 points by ahamez 112 days ago | 0 comments

Discover Code Beam: The Erlang and Elixir Conferences (elixirforum.com)

Programming, Conferences, Erlang, Elixir

6 points by unripe_syntax 112 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Real-Time YOLO Object Detection in Elixir: Fast, Simple, Extensible (github.com/poeticoding)
YOLO is an Elixir library designed to simplify object detection by providing seamless integration of YOLO models. With this library, you can efficiently utilize the power of YOLO for real-time object detection.

Elixir, Object Detection, Computer Vision, Open Source, Show HN

96 points by alvises 118 days ago | 11 comments

Voice Activity Detection in Elixir with Membran (underjord.io)
Using Silero VAD from Elixir is not something I discovered or was first to write about. I leaned on this post by Sean Moriarty for DockYard. Finding the right version of Silero VAD to match Ortex was a bit of a hassle because the model has changed significantly and is out of step with Ortex, the Elixir library based on the Rust library Ort which provides and ONNX runtime.

Elixir, Programming, AI

58 points by lawik 127 days ago | 5 comments

Bodging GenServers Together (underjord.io)
What feels like forever ago but what was probably a year and a half I gave a talk about Lively LiveView with Membrane. Video is available for the curious. It was a stunt talk but also a talk about creativity and how Elixir let’s me plug things together and try things that feel magical. That feeling has never left me.

Elixir, Programming, Creativity, Web Development

11 points by lawik 132 days ago | 0 comments

Elixir-like pipes in Ruby (oh no not again) (zverok.space)
On a new approach to implement that long-envied feature.

Programming Languages, Ruby, Elixir, Software Development

5 points by ezekg 137 days ago | 0 comments

Avoiding recompilation hell in Elixir with mix xref (r.ena.to)
Elixir is an amazing language and it’s been a huge privilege being able to work with it for over a decade now (how time flies)!

Elixir, Programming, Development Tools

40 points by napsterbr 153 days ago | 0 comments

Managing Distributed State with GenServers in Phoenix and Elixir (appsignal.com)
Phoenix and Elixir are designed at their core to build real-time, fault-tolerant applications. With its elegant syntax and the robustness of the Erlang VM, Elixir is an ideal candidate for tackling the challenges of distributed state management.

Distributed Systems, Elixir, Phoenix, Erlang VM, State Management

16 points by amalinovic 156 days ago | 1 comments

Zigler: Zig NIFs in Elixir (github.com/E-xyza)
Zigler is available in Hex, and the package can be installed by adding zigler to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

Programming, Elixir, Zig, Software, NIFs

229 points by ksec 161 days ago | 89 comments

Bringing full text search to Elixir's Ecto (moosie.us)
ParadeDB 0.11.0 dropped last week with lots of improvements, including an overhauled API.

Elixir, Databases, Programming, Open Source, Software

86 points by philippemnoel 162 days ago | 11 comments

Ask HN: Why Isn't Elixir More Popular? (ycombinator.com)
It seems that when implemented correctly, running full-stack Elixir can greatly simplify complicated distributed systems. In-memory storage can replace a cache, and the architecture itself can replace a message queue. Horizontal or even vertical scaling can replace complicated scaling mechanisms.

Programming Languages, Elixir, Distributed Systems

87 points by wkyleg 176 days ago | 89 comments

Serialization Is the Secret (zachdaniel.dev)
One of the major elements that sets Elixir apart from most other programming languages is immutability. But what does that actually mean? What does it do for us?