Hacker News: Mongoose

New comment by Mongoose in "Chatto is now open source"

Mongoose — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:23:07 +0000

Not knowing what Chatto is, the headline is giving "zendaya is meechee"

Generative UI doesn't make sense for startups

Mongoose — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://evnm.substack.com/p/generative-ui-doesnt-make-sense-for

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722696

Points: 6

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New comment by Mongoose in "Glaze by Raycast"

Mongoose — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:09:00 +0000

Not to be a curmudgeon, but why are they spending time on this? As an enthusiastic Raycast user, I would prefer to see them focus on making Raycast better, not finding new ways to jump on the AI bandwagon.

New comment by Mongoose in "I hate AI side projects"

Mongoose — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:31:09 +0000

I think this is less about the projects themselves and more about distribution channels like HN and ProductHunt being dead. When the zone is flooded by vibecoded apps of all kinds, the "build it and they will come" era of getting your thing on a popular website's homepage is over.

But other distribution strategies exist. You just have to be smarter about finding and getting in front of your core audience.

New comment by Mongoose in "Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams"

Mongoose — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:51:24 +0000

Quick, someone build a "documentation for agent teams" thing and call it Clawnfluence

Amdahl's Law and Agentic Coding

Mongoose — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:00:29 +0000

Article URL: https://evnm.substack.com/p/amdahls-law-and-agentic-coding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827647

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by Mongoose in "Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager"

Mongoose — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:45:49 +0000

Agent orchestration seems to be the new hot problem to be solved in the ecosystem. See also Steve Yegge's most recent posts [1]. Curious to see what tools emerge as the winners of the Cambrian explosion we're probably about to see.

[1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-future-of-coding-agents-e...

New comment by Mongoose in "The future of software development is software developers"

Mongoose — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:13:04 +0000

I always liken it to using Uber in ~2012. It was fun to get around major metro areas for dirt cheap. But then prices rose dramatically over the next decade+ as the company was forced to wean itself off of VC subsidies.

New comment by Mongoose in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

Mongoose — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:06:48 +0000

I'd say Obsidian (just over five years old, since its first release), which is ironic because it's basically just a UI on top of text files.

New comment by Mongoose in "The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases"

Mongoose — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:55:06 +0000

Had me until claiming that InfluxDB was the first mainstream TSDB in 2013. OpenTSDB (2010)? Graphite (2008)? RRDtool (1999)?

Maybe Influx took off in a way these prior projects didn't, but people have been storing time series data for decades.

New comment by Mongoose in "Salesforce, but for Dating"

Mongoose — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:29:39 +0000

The conference has to be called Dreamyforce

How to Avoid Overengineering

Mongoose — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:25:03 +0000

Article URL: https://evanm.website/2020/10/how-to-avoid-overengineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24818966

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

New comment by Mongoose in "Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?"

Mongoose — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:47:43 +0000

Outside of electricity fundamentals, this book is a great intro on how the grid works: https://www.amazon.com/Electric-System-Nonelectrical-Profess...

Or a shorter alternative: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-electricity-grid-works

New comment by Mongoose in "Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?"

Mongoose — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:21:59 +0000

Highly recommend A History of Modern Computing [1]. Starting with the ENIAC in the '40s through the successive generations of computing technology in the 20th century, it gives a fantastic overview of the field's history.

Sadly, now that I look into it, it looks like it's out of print. There are a few copies available on Amazon, so act now!

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/history-modern-computing

New comment by Mongoose in "Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?"

Mongoose — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:30:05 +0000

DNS and BIND, 5th Edition

JSON Toggle, a JSON document structure for specifying feature toggles

Mongoose — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:14:17 +0000

Article URL: https://evanmeagher.net/2017/02/introducing-json-toggle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591298

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by Mongoose in "Ask HN: What are good software architecture interview questions?"

Mongoose — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:26:24 +0000

I think this is a good question, but that it falls prey to the same conceit that befalls those who claim they could "build Twitter in a weekend". A picture-perfect sketch of a system can illustrate one's knowledge of patterns and off-the-shelf solutions, but it won't cover the things that get in the way of a team building their way towards product/market fit.

You could lead with this question and then jump in with hypothetical roadblocks to see how the candidate reacts.

Ex:

- "A network of microservices _would_ be a clean way to implement this. How would you foresee the operational burden of this impacting a small team?" - "Imagine that you build this and it works well, but the product it powers ends up not resonating with customers. The team now wants to pivot to X. What changes would you make to the system to address this new problem space?"

New comment by Mongoose in "Ask HN: How do you review code?"

Mongoose — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 03:38:40 +0000

A former colleague of mine wrote a great article on this topic which summarized how the infrastructure group at Twitter thought/thinks about code review: http://glen.nu/ramblings/oncodereview.php

Pseudo-periodic time series and how to encode them

Mongoose — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 17:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://evanmeagher.net/2016/03/pseudo-periodic-time-series-and-how-to-encode-them/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11211654

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Design documentation at small companies

Mongoose — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:39:27 +0000

Article URL: https://evanmeagher.net/2015/09/design-documentation-at-small-companies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10273149

Points: 10

# Comments: 0