Hacker News: ericand

New comment by ericand in "Cloudflare Flagship"

ericand — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:49:17 +0000

I like the name

New comment by ericand in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

ericand — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:09:07 +0000

Can someone just AI all the privacy policies please and tell us who else is pranking?

New comment by ericand in "OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple"

ericand — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:43:18 +0000

Permit.io

New comment by ericand in "Genesis – a generative physics engine for general-purpose robotics"

ericand — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:20:29 +0000

https://x.com/zhou_xian_/status/1869511650782658846

Sequoia backs developer startup Cortex

ericand — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:00:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-04/sequoia-backs-developer-startup-cortex-at-470-million-valuation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41448607

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ericand in "System Initiative: Second Wave DevOps"

ericand — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:42:54 +0000

The homepage has a video demo: https://www.systeminit.com/

New comment by ericand in "System Initiative: Second Wave DevOps"

ericand — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:41:55 +0000

Check out Adam's "What if infrastructure as code never existed" talk from a month or two ago. Great framing for SI and entertaining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPa2U239C4

New comment by ericand in "Google Groups has been left to die"

ericand — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:31:42 +0000

Or- great work to Google for maintaining a product that has waned in popularity and not killing it off!

New comment by ericand in "Unovis: Data visualization for React, Angular, Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript"

ericand — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:05:46 +0000

I'm a sveltekit user and the default SSR really complicated adding a chart library. Would Unovis work with SSR? Appreciate the Svelte support!

My Road to Cancellation

ericand — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:18:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/20/22516382/my-road-to-cancellation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27583881

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability

ericand — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:57:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycombio-closes-series-b-funding-round

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26004241

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple makes as much money from ads as Facebook, an indirect argument

ericand — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:30:57 +0000

Article URL: https://mobile.twitter.com/ericmander/status/1305183572588810240

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24462889

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ericand in "Realtime California Air Quality"

ericand — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 19:44:27 +0000

What's with indoor sensors being default on? Is there some value to then that I don't understand?

New comment by ericand in "Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests"

ericand — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 23:58:26 +0000

"but for reasons that are unclear, the [traditional] antibiotics don't work for up to 20% of people with the tick-borne illness"

This is very exciting for a group of people that have felt forgotten and ignored by the medical industry

New comment by ericand in "NextMind is building a real-time brain computer interface"

ericand — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 05:48:31 +0000

I'm surprised they didn't list testing the effectiveness of advertising as a use case.

New comment by ericand in "Hash – Complex Systems Simulation"

ericand — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 04:33:23 +0000

Sounds like it is mostly business operations and organizational planning concerns. From the solutions page...

Here are a few problems the community is working on:

Cloud infrastructure orchestration

Sales team remuneration

Mergers and acquisitions

Price sensitivity and revenue

Warehouse operations

Fleet efficiency

Supply chain risk

Macroeconomic policy

Call center operations

Store design/layout

Critical national infrastructure

Evacuation planning

Political risk

Marketing campaign efficiency

Public health

Gatsby Cloud

ericand — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:20:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gatsbyjs.com/cloud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21537240

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ericand in "The Road to Brave 1.0"

ericand — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 23:48:03 +0000

Same topic and seems to have more conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525592

New comment by ericand in "Taking on a New Challenge"

ericand — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 23:46:16 +0000

Same topic and seems to have more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21530860

New comment by ericand in "Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes"

ericand — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 05:27:31 +0000

3 interviewers in a single 10 minute interview, correct?

Surprised they don't have 2 for 15 or 1 for 30 min.