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New comment by dy in "Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator"

dy — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:32:19 +0000

Thanks for sharing - I'm actually working with my kid on something similar but with physics modeling for First Lego League. Cool to see your approach!

New comment by dy in "Show HN: Direct SQL Access to Your QuickBooks Data"

dy — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:37:36 +0000

Everything old is new again. They had it right in the 70s - SQL was vibe querying before LLMs.

Very cool - eager to use it.

New comment by dy in "The Four Styles of Confidence on a Team"

dy — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:34:42 +0000

Most resonant quote from the article: "For more senior roles, look for dynamic range in their confidence levels." Great mental model of the types of senior people I've enjoyed working with.

I've found it's always more worthwhile to debate and work with people who have to consistently match their predictions against reality. In my life, that's been engineers that ship and money managers who tracked against a benchmark. Everyone else I'm happy to let them have the comforts of their opinions.

New comment by dy in "An animated introduction to Elixir"

dy — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:48:30 +0000

This is such a cool tool - I worked in coding education and always loved tools that let you playback/annotate code.

Thanks for posting!

CEO Playbook for Keeping Your Company Alive

dy — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 21:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://steveblank.com/2020/04/01/the-ceo-playbook-for-keeping-your-company-alive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22753827

Points: 2

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Top IT Skills Report 2020

dy — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:29:31 +0000

Article URL: https://devskiller.com/it-skills-report-2020/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384897

Points: 3

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New comment by dy in "Google App Maker Shutting Down"

dy — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:07:28 +0000

I seriously considered App Maker to build some internal code flows but could not develop the trust needed to deploy into production. With SaaS apps that require serious onboarding and deployment it's become almost impossible to trust Google in particular on this issue.

I'm hoping SMBs will start to seriously consider business continuity as a key feature of SaaS. If I wanted to differentiate as a SaaS product today, I'd consider offering putting at minimum source code into escrow upon sale/bankruptcy.

New comment by dy in "The Many Flavors of “Low-Code”"

dy — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:23:05 +0000

Surprising this left out the dominance of Salesforce for business process and general CRUD type apps.

Elixir LiveView (server rendered HTML) Released

dy — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 02:31:09 +0000

Article URL: https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-liveview-is-now-live/20889/10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19395926

Points: 9

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Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch

dy — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 23:34:44 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-open-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19363961

Points: 160

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Sorting 2 Metric Tons of Lego

dy — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:05:50 +0000

Article URL: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18793121

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Hack Reactor and Galvanize to Merge

dy — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:56:47 +0000

Article URL: http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2018/jul/19/leading-us-coding-boot-camps-galvanize-hack-reactor-to-merge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17568797

Points: 1

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Founder to CEO: How to build a great company from the ground up

dy — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:46:27 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnwl-dwqx5xl0s65DE3wO8/edit#heading=h.pdmqf3646hgt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446839

Points: 1207

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New comment by dy in "Teach Programming to become a better programmer"

dy — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 19:17:21 +0000

This has been so true for myself and many of our instructors at Fullstack Academy. There are so many cool ideas in programming that you can get by without - but once you start teaching it forces you to truly wrestle with those ideas. Definitely makes you a stronger programmer on the other side.

MissionU acquired by WeWork

dy — Thu, 17 May 2018 02:38:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcompany.com/40572154/exclusive-weworks-wegrow-acquires-education-startup-missionu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088294

Points: 1

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Ask HN: State of the art for code snippets in KeyNote/PPT

dy — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:59:50 +0000

I'm working on a Keynote presentation that includes code and can't believe the pain of formatting code snippets.

I've seen this presentation https://www.slideshare.net/LookAtMySlides/codeware which is great but doesn't offer much in terms of tactics.

The methods I know:

- VS Code has "Copy with Syntax Highlighting" which I think is the best so far - LiveSlides.com could be cool for embedding a webpage but it requires running a separate app so sharing a presentation requires some minor training - Screenshots look good but are hard to maintain

What I would love:

- Embeddable REPLs with syntax highlighting in Keynote - Embeddable web pages

Any other ideas or state of the art things people are doing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16181391

Points: 2

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New comment by dy in "What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software"

dy — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:22:59 +0000

This seemed very promising, protobuffers to automated typescript over gRPC.

https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web

New comment by dy in "What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software"

dy — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:49:35 +0000

Excellent thought piece - wish HN was filled with more original analogies like this I one.

This reminds me a bit of domain driven contexts (something just added to Elixir/Phoenix 1.3) - reducing the surface area of sub nodes from each other by exposing that single point interface.

New comment by dy in "Show HN: A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check"

dy — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 22:45:26 +0000

I’m the same way - I have lots of side project ideas I’d love to use Go for but get that early Rails like productivity. I maintain a few Rails apps and now view many of the things I’ve done as hacks to work around the lack of concurrency (though that was just Rails’ reality in late 2000s).

Elixir is close to my ideal though I like static types and a better community around libs would be nice.

Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (Marcus – 2017) [pdf]

dy — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 03:14:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1801/1801.00631.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16057999

Points: 4

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