Hacker News: eecks

New comment by eecks in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

eecks — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:27:02 +0000

google and ai are the most used that I have found

New comment by eecks in "Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?"

eecks — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:33:28 +0000

Why did you take this position? Is it better for you to type out a specific function or class rather than it being generated by an LLM?

New comment by eecks in "Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?"

eecks — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:32:17 +0000

Do you already use static code analysis tools?

New comment by eecks in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

eecks — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:18:19 +0000

I am out of the loop with Cursor. Did they make their own LLM model or do you mean they just capture what is being sent to other models and that is valuable?

New comment by eecks in "Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite"

eecks — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:12:28 +0000

This is not Reddit.

New comment by eecks in "Show HN: Slightly Better Hacker News – alternative web front end for HN"

eecks — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:05:43 +0000

What made you choose Angular?

New comment by eecks in "Would you prefer working from home after the pandemic?"

eecks — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 12:11:56 +0000

I want to be able to go to the office when I want and I want to be able to work when I want

New comment by eecks in "Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack"

eecks — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:47:58 +0000

You couldn't have asked him in during covid and they couldn't have asked. Unless this was really close to your front door you should have let it go.

New comment by eecks in "Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'"

eecks — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:46:56 +0000

Well right now you can't because of the virus..

New comment by eecks in "Brazil stares into the abyss as Covid intensive care units fill up everywhere"

eecks — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:20:39 +0000

In Ireland we're still locked down to within 5km of our homes, you have to work from home, not allowed to meet socially, no restaurants, shops or gyms, police fines are in force for breaking the rules

New comment by eecks in "Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers"

eecks — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:45:31 +0000

Can we start a support group?

New comment by eecks in "Common Mistakes of New Engineering Managers"

eecks — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:45:01 +0000

What was your solution? Just get a new job? I find myself in this situation now..

New comment by eecks in "What's a horrible metric to measure a software developer's performance?"

eecks — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:44:01 +0000

I just posted the same - looks like you got there first :)

I have seen this play out many times.

New comment by eecks in "What's a horrible metric to measure a software developer's performance?"

eecks — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:43:20 +0000

The problem is when something is measured it normally becomes a target and:

Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

New comment by eecks in "Ask HN: Boss ignoring me – what next?"

eecks — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:40:43 +0000

I've never been an IC (they don't really have that role in my country) but this seems a bit strange. Why not have a video call to catch up?

New comment by eecks in "Employee #1: Reddit (2016)"

eecks — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:12:36 +0000

What is crazy is that they just didn't roll back. Even if they had lost a ton of users surely they could have kept at least 30% and built on that for the next few years.

New comment by eecks in "Ask HN: If you could work for yourself, would you work for yourself?"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:07:25 +0000

Yes, 100%

New comment by eecks in "Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:57:31 +0000

So it's like BTC fans are distracted by the price so and/or don't see the need to argue their position? Interesting theory

New comment by eecks in "Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:41:48 +0000

Hacker News is pushing the "bitcoin is bad" narrative a bit too hard recently. I am not sure I have seen anything like it on this site before. It feels completely unnatural. I normally see more nuanced discussions about things here.

New comment by eecks in "Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index"

eecks — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:41:15 +0000

What about Cardano? Isn't it already rolled out with >70% of ADA staked?