Hacker News: icey

New comment by icey in "iPhone Air"

icey — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:43:52 +0000

I will buy one of these because I want a phone that doesn't create such a huge bulge in my pants pocket

New comment by icey in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

icey — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:37:28 +0000

The company I work at (https://getunblocked.com) is built to give tools like Claude Code and Cursor context based on all your docs, issues, code, and chat threads from Slack and soon Teams. Happy to give you a demo sometime if you're interested!

New comment by icey in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

icey — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:42:01 +0000

They might have a lot more cash than you'd expect: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-announces-g...

New comment by icey in "CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop"

icey — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:40:49 +0000

Cutting a rabbet? Probably should have used a sacrificial fence, but it's easy to see how this could happen.

New comment by icey in "Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems"

icey — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:00:11 +0000

Looks amazing! (Also, I've known Dexter since before Human Layer and he's a force of nature. If you think this is interesting now, you're going to be amazed at where it goes)

The First AI Street Hawker

icey — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:43:41 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbenson.com/2024/11/the-worlds-first-ai-street-hawker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208457

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Expanding Tecton to Activate Data for GenAI

icey — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:27:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tecton.ai/blog/expanding-tecton-to-activate-data-for-genai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583670

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by icey in "Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data"

icey — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:08:07 +0000

Great idea. I used to work at Instabase, which you probably compete with. The better you are at dealing with dodgy PDFs and document scans, the more valuable this will be to big banks, shipping companies, etc.

New comment by icey in "Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco"

icey — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:11:27 +0000

They've been in Phoenix for the past two years (generally available for the past year). They're so commonplace now, I don't think anyone really notices them.

New comment by icey in "How to build a $20B semiconductor fab"

icey — Sun, 05 May 2024 17:39:20 +0000

A few possible reasons: Cheap & reliable electricity (https://www.axios.com/local/phoenix/2024/04/26/arizona-power...), low seismic activity (https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/brief...), existing semiconductor supporting industries (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread), and a politically favorable business environment.

New comment by icey in "Clojure's machine learning ecosystem"

icey — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 02:29:03 +0000

Isn’t this effectively OCaml? Minus the Fortran part but it doesn’t need any other runtime.

New comment by icey in "Threads users down by more than a half"

icey — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:02:08 +0000

I'd use it a lot more if it had a web client.

New comment by icey in "Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF"

icey — Fri, 05 May 2023 22:15:59 +0000

I drive a couple of times a month... It's not the most walkable city but the downtown area is fairly walkable

New comment by icey in "Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF"

icey — Fri, 05 May 2023 21:08:25 +0000

I haven't taken one since they announced the change (I'm in a part of Phoenix that's pretty walkable), but I think it will be 3 in the rear bench and one in the passenger seat. They've been pretty clear that they don't want people sitting in the driver's seat, and I'm guessing that will continue to be the case with this change.

New comment by icey in "Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF"

icey — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:24:40 +0000

Here's one concrete example -- these cars almost never take left hand turns. They'll route multiple right hand turns to get somewhere, which makes it feel much less risky when pulling onto a busy street from a neighborhood, for example.

New comment by icey in "Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF"

icey — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:23:37 +0000

Same here (downtown Phoenix area) -- the driverless Waymos have been awesome. Occasionally they get confused but it seems pretty rare. They're better than a lot of the other drivers on the road out here.

I'm mostly excited that they upped the allowed passenger count from 3 to 4. Usually we take a car if we're going out to dinner with friends but the 3 passenger limit made taking one of these a pain in the ass or impossible.

New comment by icey in "Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit"

icey — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:46:02 +0000

As an employer, the flipside of this is that there needs to be some value in having someone there that you know is leaving. If someone has been halfway checked out because they've been interviewing elsewhere, it might not be worth keeping them around for six weeks. They can't start any long-running work, or anything with any dependencies, and many people's work quality drops significantly after putting in their notice.

It's a nice idea, for sure; but most jobs can be transitioned in 2 weeks. Anything longer than that and all sense of urgency is lost ("We can transition that in a month", etc).

I've quit both ways -- with a long notice period and a short one, and short notice periods are the only times that there's been an actual transition plan.

New comment by icey in "Tell HN: Heroku deleted my database with no warning"

icey — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:56:01 +0000

The same thing happened to me, but I was fortunate enough to catch it in time for them to restore it. Very disappointing because I was paying Heroku over $100/month for various things and didn’t realize an actively used project was on a free tier.

New comment by icey in "Show HN: Deploy Button for GPT-3 API Back Ends"

icey — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:14:17 +0000

This looks slick! You can generate images and audio with this?!? Seems a lot faster than doing it myself

New comment by icey in "Ink – Inkle's narrative scripting language"

icey — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:59:25 +0000

This is off-label use for sure, but we support Ink in Abbot. If you want to play around with it in Slack, sign up for a free trial at https://ab.bot then visit https://app.ab.bot/settings/organization/advanced and click "Allow Custom Skills" under "Bot Development Settings". Then you can create Ink skills and call them from chat.

Full disclosure, but we're probably going to deprecate Ink support soon because there are lots of little edge cases and warts that take too much time to support vs. how many of our customers use Ink. Still, fun to play with and you can do some crazy stuff!