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New comment by ericyd in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

ericyd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:02:16 +0000

> their value is, at least in principle, calculable

I feel this article does not spend enough time investigating the challenges of directly measuring the financial output of an engineering team. I agree it is theoretically possible, but I don't think the full answer is that people got lazy on cheap capital and didn't care enough to measure. I think it would be exceedingly difficult to put a dollar amount on the monthly output of most engineering teams due to the variety of tasks they cover, and the extreme challenge of knowing exactly why your customers are behaving a certain way. If you get 1000 more signups in a month, is that directly attributable to the engineering team's output? If anyone could have been concretely answering that question this whole time, I don't think they would have been ignoring the metrics.

New comment by ericyd in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

ericyd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:41:15 +0000

I don't like any of this, but I'm not totally clear how this is substantially different from other fingerprinting technologies which I assume are used by every large tech company. Could anyone elaborate? The post isn't very clear why this is different from other data surveillance.

New comment by ericyd in "I put my whole life into a single database"

ericyd — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:53:13 +0000

Cynical take: I didn't need to read to the bottom to know it was useless to track the correlation between drinking alcohol and dancing

New comment by ericyd in "Screeching Sound of Peeling Tape"

ericyd — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:10:31 +0000

Agree, it really depends on the tape for me. Painters tape has quite a nice sound as it's peeled

New comment by ericyd in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

ericyd — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:48:36 +0000

You think having fun has no influence on your life? You think sitting bored in a chair would give you an equivalent life experience?

New comment by ericyd in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

ericyd — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:27:33 +0000

It feels bizarre to claim that playing guitar for 30 minutes a day has no influence on your life. Surely it brings you joy or satisfaction or keeps your skills up if you're a professional. Why do you do it if there's no influence? Couldn't you use that time for something else?

Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI

ericyd — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:38:27 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/pax-silica-qatar-uae/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151286

Points: 2

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New comment by ericyd in "A simple web we own"

ericyd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:29:01 +0000

Mobile users hate when site publishers forget this one simple ~trick~ meta tag.

New comment by ericyd in "Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents"

ericyd — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:17:01 +0000

Thanks, I realized after I wrote it that the size of their staff was really the variable I was missing. Agreed that's not a remarkably high rate with such a large engineering org.

New comment by ericyd in "Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents"

ericyd — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:07:35 +0000

This is different than a belief system protected by anti discrimination laws

New comment by ericyd in "Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents"

ericyd — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:03:15 +0000

Thousands of PRs a week generated by AI and requiring human review sounds like a ton, I wonder what their PR merge rate was before this?

New comment by ericyd in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

ericyd — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:42:25 +0000

What a tired headline, what a tired topic. Can't believe how much joy has been sapped from my life reading about AI

New comment by ericyd in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

ericyd — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:49:49 +0000

That makes it even less believable. They talked about how this tool has replaced some other tools such as flight price trackers. How in the world could that happen in 1 week to such a degree that you wrote a whole blog about it?

New comment by ericyd in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

ericyd — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:20:43 +0000

Wait I'm ignorant, how long has OpenClaw/Clawdbot existed? This person listed like 6 months of activities that they offloaded to the bot, I thought this thing was pretty new.

New comment by ericyd in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

ericyd — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:32:18 +0000

This response feels disproportionate to the comment's comment

New comment by ericyd in "[dead]"

ericyd — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:22:08 +0000

I should have looked, this makes total sense that there would be a published policy on this. Thanks for clarifying.

New comment by ericyd in "Nannou – A creative coding framework for Rust"

ericyd — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:55:31 +0000

I share these feelings; I don't use JVM anywhere and so booting up IntelliJ just for art felt weird. I eventually decided to write an SVG library in TypeScript heavily inspired by the OPENRNDR API [1]. Of course, if small community is one of your concerns, then I can't help you there, as the community for my library is just me.

[1] https://github.com/ericyd/salamivg

New comment by ericyd in "[dead]"

ericyd — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:50:51 +0000

Is it a faux pas to submit your own blog to HN? Almost surely.

New comment by ericyd in "A Single Diplomatic Meeting Crashed Gold 7% in One Hour"

ericyd — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:19:01 +0000

Even the conclusion feels unnecessarily contrived:

> The lesson for 2026 is clear: Do not trade the headlines. Trade the Anchor. And right now, the geopolitical anchor is in Türkiye.

New comment by ericyd in "Nannou – A creative coding framework for Rust"

ericyd — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:59:22 +0000

I used Nannou for several months, it's actually how I got into creative coding and was my first real foray into Rust. I didn't find the compilation time to be a huge issue for me, but I did find the strictness of Rust to be a problem. Creative coding for me evolved into making beautiful (to me) visual patterns with code. I had no interest in understanding or fixing a mutable shared value because this code was meant to exist for only a few moments, not to power an enterprise system.

I eventually moved on to OPENRNDR [1] which I loved, but these days I just use TypeScript.

[1] https://openrndr.org/