Hacker News: Okkef

New comment by Okkef in "Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour"

Okkef — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:33:45 +0000

Only if they are clones - genetically identical. So not much use in practice, unfortunately.

New comment by Okkef in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Okkef — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:14:56 +0000

What's the benefit of this type of stacked PRs over a well-curated set of commits, and reviewing per commit?

I think the bigger problem is that big AI PR's need a different way of reviewing. For example, the order in which the diff's are shown can make a big difference in how easy the commits are to read (e.g., function definition change first, then all call sites, then the tests).

Or maybe we should go to a system where diffs & comments are intertwined, a bit like how "Literate Programming" intertwines code and prose.

Literate diffs / literate pull requests... I haven't found anything like that yet.

New comment by Okkef in "How to not die by a thousand cuts or how to think about software quality (2023)"

Okkef — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:49:38 +0000

(2022)

New comment by Okkef in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

Okkef — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:15:21 +0000

It usually works, but sometimes it'll try to use git instead of jj at random and needs a reminder. As JJ is not completely stable it tries some old commandline versions as well. This improved after I put in some lines in my agents file, but still it's much better at complex changes with git than jj.

New comment by Okkef in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

Okkef — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:21:14 +0000

I worked with JJ for half a year, and it was great. However, I've since decided to go back to GIT because of compatibility with existing workflows and AI tools.

Pre-commit hooks are not possible [yet?], which is a minor inconvenience. Worse, workspaces/worktrees use a different mechanism. This causes like Claude Desktop (which uses worktrees) to break. Also Claude and other agents are always confused about JJ and fall back to git too often.

New comment by Okkef in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

Okkef — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:30:37 +0000

Try Claude code. It’s different.

After you tried it, come back.

New comment by Okkef in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"

Okkef — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:03:31 +0000

Claude has a nice answer to your riddle:

Claude Code could code all the Claudes Claude Code could code, because Claude Code already coded the Claude that codes Claude Code.

Or more philosophically: The answer is recursively infinite, because each Claude that gets coded can then help code the next Claude, creating an ever-improving feedback loop of Claude-coding Claudes. It's Claudes all the way down!

New comment by Okkef in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

Okkef — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:23:07 +0000

Armin Ronacher's blog (of flask/jinja fame) https://lucumr.pocoo.org/

Antirez' blog (of Redis fame) https://antirez.com/

Simon Willison's blog (about AI) https://simonwillison.net/

New comment by Okkef in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

Okkef — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:54:59 +0000

A used tesla model 3 in the Netherlands is upwards of 20k euro, so quite a different price bracket.

New comment by Okkef in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

Okkef — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:23:42 +0000

Nice, we did the same recently.

The choice was

  2016 100k km Golf Plus for 16k eur 
  2020 50k  km e-Golf    for 13k eur

I'm so glad we picked the e-golf! It's so fast and nice to drive and cheap to run. Only downside is the limited range (200km on a summer day) but even my commute (100km one-way) is OK as I can charge at work and home.

That said, we still have a Touran for when we need to drive further or with lots of luggage.

If only the chairs in the eGolf were a bit better...

New comment by Okkef in "Small changes that made our daily stand-ups more useful"

Okkef — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:54:17 +0000

I noticed that by asking my team a quick set of questions after our "good morning" virtual coffee corner helped them focus on the important stuff:

What are you up to today? Any blockers? What do you need help with?

New comment by Okkef in "Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products"

Okkef — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:12:55 +0000

It's not done for the smell but for less NOx pollution. It's the law and the fines are massive.

New comment by Okkef in "Why aren't there more 80% jobs?"

Okkef — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 08:15:50 +0000

It is simply not true that all jobs are offered at parttime. There is some amount of part-time time available after getting kids, but it's not a general requirement for all jobs.

New comment by Okkef in "Show HN: My Single-File Python Script I Used to Replace Splunk in My Startup"

Okkef — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:13:25 +0000

"log files of several several gigabytes ... Process them in minutes"

Thanks but no thanks.

New comment by Okkef in "Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev"

Okkef — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:49:44 +0000

Ah this is from the creator of the 'rcmd' tool. I absolutely love it. Press the right command key + the first letter of an app and it switches right to it! (rcmd + for firefox, i for iTerm, s for Slack, ...)

I came from i3 with 8 predefined windows, but the simplicity of rcmd is really amazing.

New comment by Okkef in "Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero"

Okkef — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:01:01 +0000

That's not how it works in the Netherlands

New comment by Okkef in "Penetration testing wireless keyboards"

Okkef — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:08:36 +0000

QMK is not wireless. There is ZMK, but that's bluetooth and should be safe.

OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English) (2018)

Okkef — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:32:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=996OiexHze0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32280894

Points: 1

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New comment by Okkef in "Can Analog Make a Comeback?"

Okkef — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 07:48:23 +0000

If the title of an article or paper has a question in it, the answer is always “no”.

New comment by Okkef in "Is 400k/yr overpaid for a SWE?"

Okkef — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:12:02 +0000

There is a huge difference in hourly paid people (consultants/freelancers) and salaried people (staff). Someone who makes 100k a year in a salaried position would charge 200 euro per hour as freelancer. A freelancer we hire for 100/hour would be salaried at 70k tops.