Hacker News: brickers

New comment by brickers in "Half-Baked Product"

brickers — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:53:56 +0000

My personal take:

- you need aligned incentives across the board. Sales and accounts mustn’t promise what the company can’t deliver

- people need to defend their area of expertise whilst listening to what others are saying about theirs. For me this boils down to a division between technical and business focussed. Techies need to push for non-client facing technical improvements without making everyone ignore them every time they say “technical debt”, and they need to accept that sometimes you just build shit to get business through the books. Sales/accounts need to accept that sometimes the build budget is taken up with mysterious technical drives that will be worth it. When I say “must accept” I mean accept that it must happen some percentage of the time - each case still needs to be backed up by a business case.

- ultimately this needs to come from the top - founder(s) must balance these facts and drive it through the whole organisation, and in the article they didn’t

New comment by brickers in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

brickers — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:52:20 +0000

El Niño is a naturally occurring event

New comment by brickers in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

brickers — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:34:52 +0000

If you read the article, you can find out!

New comment by brickers in "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy"

brickers — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:41:47 +0000

ARM?

Dizzy Dithering

brickers — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:02:31 +0000

Article URL: https://liamappelbe.medium.com/dizzy-dithering-2ae76dbceba1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918913

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by brickers in "Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents"

brickers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:07:55 +0000

I agree with what you’re saying. However given the reputation of openclaw (and I presume many other vibe coded spaghetti monsters) I appreciate the signal “I care about quality”.

New comment by brickers in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

brickers — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:07:11 +0000

If you ignore the early pandemic bump, it even looks like the decline started in late 2017, though it's more variable than after the bump

New comment by brickers in "The compiler is your best friend"

brickers — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:21:30 +0000

This stuff is quite new to me as I’ve been learning F#, so take this with a pinch of salt. Some of the things you’d want are: - a function to produce a list of customers

- a function or two to retrieve the data, which would be passed into the customer list function. This allows the customer list function to be independent of the data retrieval. This is essentially functional dependency injection

- a function to take a list of customers and return a list of effects: things that should happen

- this is where I wave my hands as I’m not sure of the plumbing. But the final part is something that takes the list of effects and does something with them

With the above you have a core that is ignorant of where its inputs come from and how its effects are achieved - it’s very much a pure domain model, with the messy interfaces with the outside world kept at the edges

New comment by brickers in "Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election"

brickers — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:10:58 +0000

How does that work for e.g. infants? Doesn’t it give unscrupulous parents of those children an extra vote?

Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website

brickers — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:43:20 +0000

Article URL: https://hyperview.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620565

Points: 245

# Comments: 140

New comment by brickers in "An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags"

brickers — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:25:29 +0000

Or… England?

New comment by brickers in "There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station"

brickers — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:40:25 +0000

They might already be familiar with Dave’s bassline from Eminem’s “My Name Is”. My personal favourite bit of music trivia

John Tooby – Coalitional Instincts

brickers — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:50:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edge.org/conversation/john_tooby-coalitional-instincts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39759577

Points: 1

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Utopian Scholastic

brickers — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:57:06 +0000

Article URL: https://cari.institute/aesthetics/utopian-scholastic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562373

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by brickers in "Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?"

brickers — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 23:03:38 +0000

Becoming a dad or are you already one and just upping the excitement? If you’re new, my two pieces of advice are that there’s only right now to deal with when things start to feel rough, and lick your fingers to open the nappy sack before you start dealing with the nappy. Both gems and hard-won

New comment by brickers in "Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?"

brickers — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:48:04 +0000

Woodworking and designing furniture. Just this weekend I finally set up my home workshop after almost a decade of dreaming about it (and collecting things I thought I might need). Just spent two hours drawing basic layouts for some wardrobes, and looking at beautiful midcentury, Scandinavian, and Japanese items online. Any good resources (for technical or aesthetics) are very much welcome - I’m looking to invest in my knowledge now I can put it to use.

New comment by brickers in "Ensō: write now, edit later"

brickers — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:13:44 +0000

I made something similar at https://drivl.app. I should have known someone else had already done it

New comment by brickers in "Recursive Recipes"

brickers — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 09:14:16 +0000

This reminds me of something that always made me smile - when at uni I lived with an Israeli guy who made yogurt in a pan in the kitchen. When I asked how you make yogurt, the answer was “put some milk in a pan with some yogurt and leave it for a few days”. Not sure whether they’re in on the joke here, but the recipe for yogurt is to buy some

New comment by brickers in "How the Ear Works: Nature's solutions for listening (1997)"

brickers — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:33:41 +0000

My dad was an audiologist and worked for many years with children with cochlear implants. I remember in the 90s him bringing a laptop home with software that tested otoacoustic emissions via a microphone/earbud combo. Later I met one of his colleagues from that time who, whilst working full time and with a large young family, obtained a phd in using this tech to test newborn hearing. That work has been the basis for the UK’s national newborn hearing screening service for decades now, helping to catch issues early where the most impact can be made. I’m really in awe of this profession - it’s pretty out of sight for many but makes a huge difference.

New comment by brickers in "How to assert for fun and profit (2022)"

brickers — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:17:52 +0000

Re: data from another of your own systems. If there’s an interface between them that suggests you probably want those systems decoupled. Maybe in the future you replace one system with another you don’t control - ideally it would be nice not to have to make code changes because of that.

Re: asserting on user input. If you assert only then what happens on bad inputs when asserts are switched off in prod? Seems like an outcome you’d like to control at the time rather than allow to propagate (by writing bad data to a db and only being discovered months later, for example).