Hacker News: erikig

New comment by erikig in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

erikig — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:26:49 +0000

I believe the restriction is on charging devices out of sight (in luggage, seatback pockets etc).

New comment by erikig in "11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey"

erikig — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:36:11 +0000

I'm inclined to think that this was art not documentary.

New comment by erikig in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

erikig — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:57:26 +0000

Market-making in a market that is highly speculative and illiquid isn’t the same as market manipulation though.

New comment by erikig in "Give every AI project its own computer"

erikig — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:57:14 +0000

Is this similar to Ampcode’s Orbs or am I misunderstanding the vision?

Ask HN: Does Brook's Law continue to hold in the age of AI?

erikig — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:53:48 +0000

Brooks's Law states that adding more people to a late software project will make it even later.

In your practical experience does this still apply in the age of AI?

Does it also apply when adding agents to projects that are already behind schedule?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100752

Points: 3

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New comment by erikig in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

erikig — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:58:36 +0000

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." Māori Proverb

New comment by erikig in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

erikig — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:30:09 +0000

I really like this although in my neighborhood it would just be lots of detailed reports of apathetic pigeons perching and pooping.

New comment by erikig in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

erikig — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:06:20 +0000

Unpopular take here but I'm really ok with this.

The sale of the high quality brand allows the original entrepreneurs to exit their business to someone that thinks they can run it more efficiently. The decline in quality allows for innovative upstarts to try new things.

New comment by erikig in "US banks' exposure to private credit hits $300B (2025)"

erikig — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:30:03 +0000

Equity/net worth is not quite the same as the liquid capital needed to cover losses or service debt.

New comment by erikig in "Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game"

erikig — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:39:09 +0000

On a good monitor, I got to 0.0032 and then it all fell apart.

Here's the related article on how much accuracy is really needed in CSS values. https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/

New comment by erikig in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

erikig — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:35:25 +0000

Yep, meetup.com, eventbrite.com and for the musically inclined residentadvisor.com and dice.fm.

The trick for me was to offer to help with the organization of the event, it is more rewarding and makes for more lasting connections.

New comment by erikig in "Show HN: Sprout, a fun-sized, developer-ready humanoid robot"

erikig — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:00:35 +0000

Congrats on the launch. Hope you get a moment to answer the questions here.

Speaking of which, where can we preview the SDK and documentation? The site is a little light on development details.

New comment by erikig in "What Is Starlink Mesh? – Starlink Help Center"

erikig — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:45:14 +0000

I was hoping they'd finally added a feature to their dishes to allow terrestrial interconnect.

So when my dish can't getting the best line-of-sight view to the satellites it can piggyback on my many neighbor's better connections to improve mine.

New comment by erikig in "London–Calcutta bus service"

erikig — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:48:34 +0000

Exactly. For many, the idea of being able to see England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in one 50 day trip with many similar minded travelers who aren't in a rush is really quite appealing.

Also, with bus travel you could, if you felt like it, leave the trip to enjoy many more local attractions and resume your travels later in a way not afforded by airplane or rail travel.

New comment by erikig in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

erikig — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:10:17 +0000

The various admonitions to publish to a personal blog, while encouraging, don't really get at the 0xfaded's request which I'd summarize as follows:

With no one asking questions these technical questions publicly, where, how and on what public platform will technical people find the problems that need solving so they can exercise their creativity for the benefit of all?

New comment by erikig in "Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]"

erikig — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:31:33 +0000

It's been interesting to see how often Elon is chided (even by his supporters) because his reach always seems to somehow exceed his grasp knowing full well that this is by design and not by fault.

New comment by erikig in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

erikig — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:02:07 +0000

I don't think I'm ready for this, I might never go back to "real" work.

New comment by erikig in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

erikig — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:37:06 +0000

Sting-ER could also work too

New comment by erikig in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

erikig — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:13:50 +0000

If you intersperse the music and fill in with articles from HN or your favorite subreddits it would be a fun listen.

New comment by erikig in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

erikig — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:09:54 +0000

The Indian-born textbook author mentioned (Malkiat Singh [0]) had an inordinate influence on many Kenyan students because his textbooks were the de-facto standard for years. Its interesting how this influence extends as his students get to curate the LLMs on which the world has come to rely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malkiat_Singh