Hacker News: haakonhr

Panic First, Evidence Later

haakonhr — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:07:01 +0000

Article URL: https://kidsplaytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Panic_First_Evidence_Later.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443809

Points: 1

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Data Influence

haakonhr — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:37:39 +0000

Article URL: https://daeus.blog/2025/12/28/data-influence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986694

Points: 1

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New comment by haakonhr in "Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control"

haakonhr — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:20:50 +0000

As opposed to English?

Islands, Airports and the Joy of Being Constrained

haakonhr — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:40:17 +0000

Article URL: https://hknhr.com/constraints.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403599

Points: 3

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New comment by haakonhr in "Ask HN: In which programming language is it better to make your own language?"

haakonhr — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:28:51 +0000

I used Racket a few times, which is designed to write new languages. Well worth a look: https://racket-lang.org/#easy-dsls

Rules for New Tech

haakonhr — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:11:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/9-rules-for-new-technology

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638045

Points: 2

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Updates Breaking Things

haakonhr — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://haakonhr.gitlab.io/firefox-updates-and-interactions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940218

Points: 1

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New comment by haakonhr in "Ask HN: Percent of employees that benefit financially from equity offers?"

haakonhr — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:31:32 +0000

It's not options either (that would be ESOPs), but actually a kind of bonus structure. If there is an exit event, as specified in the VSOP agreement, you get a bonus that should be the same as what real options would have been worth. They are taxed as normal income, but you do not have to pay tax when you receive them. In the past you would have to pay tax on real options when receiving them even though they'd most likely never pay out.

New comment by haakonhr in "Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM?"

haakonhr — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:10:00 +0000

I have never worked as a pure PM, but I have worked with several. I would say that the most important thing is to build trust with your team and to be ready to adapt to the existing process. From there on you can start introducing small changes towards a better working mode, but do not get caught up in process over outcome. Remember why you are there.

New comment by haakonhr in "I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton"

haakonhr — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:01:34 +0000

But summertime is a (at least here) a separate timezone, e.g., CET vs CEST

New comment by haakonhr in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

haakonhr — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:06:14 +0000

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl, a explorer/anthropologist. He and a group of other volunteers sailed across the pacific on a raft built using ancient methods to prove that the pacific isles were settled by south americans (this turned out to be wrong based on population genetics). Great read!

New comment by haakonhr in "Ask HN: In the age of AI, what's the most important thing a dev should learn?"

haakonhr — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:19:50 +0000

I kind of agree, but I would also argue that of those who treat coding as a craft many are in danger as well. Code in the end is just a tool. Deep understanding won't be replaced any time soon, but I have worked with software artisans who were really effective and ones that saw the code and system as an end in itself. If you're in the latter group I'd be worried.

New comment by haakonhr in "Ask HN: Who has an interesting job?"

haakonhr — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:44:02 +0000

Really cool, but as a foreigner in Germany it also saddens me that there is a need for so many apps and softwares to deal with bureaucracy.

New comment by haakonhr in "Ask HN: Which language for Advent of Code in 2024?"

haakonhr — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:01:37 +0000

I didn't do it last year, but the years before I used Racket and Common Lisp. I might try Common Lisp again since I really want to rediscover the experience of programming w/ Sly (a fork of SLIME).

I'm also considering trying to solve everything with Z3.

New comment by haakonhr in "AI engineers claim new algorithm reduces AI power consumption by 95%"

haakonhr — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 11:49:22 +0000

And here you're assuming that making software engineers more productive would be a service to the world. I think the jury is out on that one as well. At least for the majority of software engineering since 2010.

New comment by haakonhr in "Is this the civilization we want? (2017)"

haakonhr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:26:26 +0000

Interesting analogy with the car.

I also remember a similar discussion about mathematics. You can easily brute-force a bunch of theorems starting from some axioms and logic, but without any sense-making or context they are effectively meaningless.

New comment by haakonhr in "Is this the civilization we want? (2017)"

haakonhr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:24:54 +0000

Is it? It looks more like an interesting discussion about tools and what a good tool should do. One point of view is that a good tool should augment you in a process, something generative tools don't do.

Why Attend Programming Conferences

haakonhr — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://haakonhr.gitlab.io/2024-pycon.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41078472

Points: 2

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What scientific term or concept ought to be better known? Brian Eno answers

haakonhr — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:36:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27147

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515123

Points: 1

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New comment by haakonhr in "Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2023?"

haakonhr — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 10:02:55 +0000

I really enjoyed The Fat Tail by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat, which is about political risk and how to mitigate or manage it. Think revolutions, regulatory changes, elections etc. and how they affect markets. Another gem I found was the book Rational Choice in an Uncertain World by Robyn M. Dawes. It is a bit dated (the first version that I read is from 1988), but covers a lot of early research by people like Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. As someone born after the book was published a lot of the examples and scenarios used to illustrate rational choice were also new to me, e.g., the Cuban missile crisis, Affirmative Action. However, there is also a second edition from 2009 so it might be a better option.