Hacker News: eikenberry

New comment by eikenberry in ""That's not SOC 2 compliant""

eikenberry — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:15:18 +0000

Maybe if your code is modular enough, you can have module owners and organize things like a free software projects with the owners as maintainers. The maintainers could merge without PRs while others would go through a PR process with the maintainer doing the review.

New comment by eikenberry in "Everything you do is being recorded"

eikenberry — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:46:41 +0000

They recommend archive.org instead but archive.org's version of that article gets masked by an error page preventing you from reading it where the archive.is link works fine.

So there isn't a choice here if you actually want to see the article (without subscribing to the atlantic).

New comment by eikenberry in "The AI Apocalypse Is Here"

eikenberry — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:49:09 +0000

"follow the money" is always the best default answer

New comment by eikenberry in "Monitors for Work"

eikenberry — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:37:00 +0000

One nice aspect of WFH is that it addresses this problem. You get a laptop and $500-1500 for hardware and many places you get it again after an interval (1-3 years).

New comment by eikenberry in "Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door"

eikenberry — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:47:46 +0000

Sure did.. I was looking at the link in the body of the post, not the title link. /smh

New comment by eikenberry in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

eikenberry — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:09:39 +0000

And this is why you should not use the model provider's harness. It is to tight of a coupling of services that's only business purpose is lock-in.

New comment by eikenberry in "Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door"

eikenberry — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:20:23 +0000

Are you running MacOS on your Framework?

New comment by eikenberry in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"

eikenberry — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:34:05 +0000

Worse is better isn't about first to market, it was about simpler beating correct.

New comment by eikenberry in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

eikenberry — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:44:19 +0000

I thought parent post was saying that they didn't publish them at all after they had so much trouble with the journals. If they did publish the papers themselves then I don't see the problem. The article itself read to me as your standard journal rent seeking and I wasn't really responding to it.

New comment by eikenberry in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

eikenberry — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:31:29 +0000

Why wouldn't they just skip the journals and publish the papers themselves? Sharing the research is the important part unless these are academics who are trying to get tenure, grants or such.

New comment by eikenberry in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"

eikenberry — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:49:23 +0000

It seems like you mean to use your own agent (where you control the prompts), not local inference. A custom agent works just as well with cloud based models.

New comment by eikenberry in "Superlogical"

eikenberry — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:15:21 +0000

In case others were interested, they are not a remote-first company and require you to live in LA, NY or London.

New comment by eikenberry in "It's not empowering to hand off the details"

eikenberry — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:47:48 +0000

So don't look to "them" to offer it, look elsewhere.

New comment by eikenberry in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

eikenberry — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:04:08 +0000

https://archive.is/20260725052942/https://www.seattletimes.c...

New comment by eikenberry in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

eikenberry — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:56:29 +0000

IMO "get the model to do all the planning work upfront, review and iterate the plan" is backwards. It works better if you do an initial plan yourself and then have the AI review it (and iterate as necessary). Makes you think about the design for a bit so you can have a semblance of a mental model.

New comment by eikenberry in "Escape Analysis in Go: Stack vs. Heap Allocations Explained"

eikenberry — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:37:29 +0000

That could easily cover it depending on where they lived.

New comment by eikenberry in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

eikenberry — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:24:37 +0000

I think most people assume the subsidized plans will go away or get more limited eventually. They are basically a loss leader and a marketing cost that is very flexible and easy to change w/o directly impacting their primary customers.

New comment by eikenberry in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

eikenberry — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:43:10 +0000

> It is highly likely that versions of these offensive abilities will be widely available within a year or so. At which point I expect widespread incidents similar to what happened to Hugging Face. We aren't ready for this.

And history has shown repeatedly that the only way to get ready for it is to have it happen. People are pretty good at reacting but suck a being proactive. IMO it would be better to have this reality hit sooner rather than later so we can start getting some real practice at the new levels of required security.

New comment by eikenberry in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

eikenberry — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:02:17 +0000

I think the OP was pointing out that writers will write even without monetary recompense.

New comment by eikenberry in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

eikenberry — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:50:18 +0000

Didn't the Apple lawsuit throw a monkey wrench into their hardware plans?