Hacker News: jmartens

New comment by jmartens in "Why I love NixOS"

jmartens — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:31:28 +0000

This comment thread highlights an issue that Nix has...some people love it personally, some love it professionally. Some are software engineers, others are hackers.

Most of the comments here seem to be from people using NixOS on a laptop. NixOS as a production OS in the cloud or on a robot is a game changer.

New comment by jmartens in "Why I love NixOS"

jmartens — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:23:52 +0000

In a world of LLMs and agentic coding, I think documentation is less important.

New comment by jmartens in "Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life"

jmartens — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:09:42 +0000

Check out https://zero-to-nix.com/

New comment by jmartens in "Anduril banned from recruiting on NixOS forums"

jmartens — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 21:56:27 +0000

Also a delightful human in every interaction I’ve had with him.

New comment by jmartens in "Ask HN: What do you prefer to use to track sales?"

jmartens — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:08:20 +0000

I've used HubSpot in the past but currently just using Notion.

Ask HN: Why is Nix so common in robotics/IoT?

jmartens — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:08:03 +0000

Everywhere I look in the Nix ecosystem, I see robotics companies and other hardware makers using Nix. My anecdata says that there seems to be an outsized adoption of Nix/NixOS in these industries.

Why do you think this is?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040649

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jmartens in "Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts"

jmartens — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:05:57 +0000

What is so interesting about Nix is that it's not one thing. Its not (just) a distro. Its not (just) a package manager. Its not (just) a system manager. Its not (just) a language. Its not (just) a build tool.

It is all those things, but specifically, what you want it to be. Yes, that makes it super confusing, but also powerful.

New comment by jmartens in "Show HN: Ask LLMs to predict anything based on news"

jmartens — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:52:24 +0000

Interesting. I asked similar questions (Who will win the Presidential Election and Will XXX college football team win the national championship, etc) and none of the responses included percentages or yes/no indicators like the examples you link to.

New comment by jmartens in "Show HN: Ask LLMs to predict anything based on news"

jmartens — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:11:14 +0000

Can you provide an example of the type of question that comes back with a reasonable prediction? So far, I've tried 3 times, and the answer each time was something along the lines of [prediction will be true] if [they do the thing that makes the prediction true] which is not useful.

Comparing Oregon and Portugal's approach to drug decriminalization

jmartens — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:41:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jeffreymartens.com/blog/2023/11/comparing-portugal-and-oregons-drug-decriminalization-policies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38203789

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jmartens in "Show HN: OpenStatus – Open-source monitoring with incident managements"

jmartens — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:08:51 +0000

Pings don’t seem like enough info

New comment by jmartens in "Raise less, build more"

jmartens — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:48:11 +0000

>Like, do you want a 0.01% chance to raise money or a 2% chance to build a business that keeps you and a few others well paid and perhaps out of the rat-race.

I don't do startups to have a job, I do startups to do the hard things in an attempt to build something groundbreaking.

Presenting "raise money" vs "have a job" is a false dichotomy.

New comment by jmartens in "Show HN: Keep – Create production alerts from plain English"

jmartens — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:56:49 +0000

I don't see the need for this. I mean, its a fun idea for LLMs/Generative text, but does the target user struggle with figuring out how to configure an alert in their o11y tools?

Observability for Your Cloud Dependencies with Jeff Martens of Metrist

jmartens — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:28:35 +0000

Article URL: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2023/05/30/observability-for-your-cloud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36156913

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jmartens in "Show HN: StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data"

jmartens — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:22:58 +0000

How is this #2 on the front page? It doesn't do anything! I typed in a question, no answer. I typed in a public company name, no answer.

Cloud Dependencies Need to Stop F $#ing Us When They Go Down

jmartens — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:02:13 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/cloud-dependencies-need-to-stop-f-ing-us-when-they-go-down/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139912

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

New comment by jmartens in "How We Built Our Grafana Datasource Plugin for Cloud Dependency Monitoring"

jmartens — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:34:18 +0000

Wow I didn't know it was annual!

New comment by jmartens in "How We Built Our Grafana Datasource Plugin for Cloud Dependency Monitoring"

jmartens — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:43:53 +0000

Best part of datsource plugins for Grafana is that the data doesn't need to be stored, just gets queried from the source in realtime.

New comment by jmartens in "Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff"

jmartens — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:28:43 +0000

How the F does a document storage company pivot to AI? The rush to AI is starting to look like an episode of Silicon Valley.

New comment by jmartens in "Server performance tools to save your ass"

jmartens — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:44:38 +0000

Now add monitoring of the cloud platforms that our servers run on. Its a big gap and what we are solving for with Metrist.