Hacker News: kylestlb

New comment by kylestlb in "Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review"

kylestlb — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:40:57 +0000

I assume Gitlab/Github will add these sort of features to their products within the next few months

New comment by kylestlb in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

kylestlb — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:12:47 +0000

Steph Curry

New comment by kylestlb in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

kylestlb — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:12:21 +0000

Best thing a doctor ever told me was "you CAN get imaging done, but I'd like to warn you that there is a near-certainty we'd find something wrong with your shoulder and your back".

New comment by kylestlb in "Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year"

kylestlb — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:50:48 +0000

This has been happening for over a decade

New comment by kylestlb in "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code"

kylestlb — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:54:43 +0000

I'm assuming there was a directive from comms or someone else requiring each cost center write up examples/demos of what they use Claude Code for. Then dogfooded and turned into what you see here.

New comment by kylestlb in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

kylestlb — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 02:20:03 +0000

Funny.

New comment by kylestlb in "How to Measure Progress in a Software Project – By Adam Ard"

kylestlb — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:57:37 +0000

It's weird to me that people have emotional feelings about Story Points as a concept. It's just another way to measure how hard something might be. I think what people should really be annoyed with is when these measurements are used as some sort of productivity metric, or if the team spends too much time debating a particular measurement value and not enough time actually working on it.

New comment by kylestlb in "How to Measure Progress in a Software Project – By Adam Ard"

kylestlb — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:52:20 +0000

Agile isn't a framework, it's just a set of principles. Scrum is a loose framework theoretically based off of those principles with some ground rules that can be broken depending on what works for your team. Same with Kanban.

New comment by kylestlb in "Mondragon as the new city-state"

kylestlb — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:26:53 +0000

Das Kapital isn't "Marxism" is just a book about economics my guy. "Marxism" didn't exist when Marx was alive. Here to help

New comment by kylestlb in "Mondragon as the new city-state"

kylestlb — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:25:41 +0000

You think the seminal work of the founding father of social sciences is a fairy tale? Says more about you, I'm afraid

New comment by kylestlb in "Mondragon as the new city-state"

kylestlb — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:16:32 +0000

Marx wrote a gigantic book called Capital and it provides a thorough analysis of investment and risk. He wrote a great deal of words describing how investment relates to surplus value (hint: investment is simply a capitalist's way of generating surplus value - profit, which is then used to generate more surplus value, which is... you understand the systemic contradiction here, I hope). You should probably read it if you want to discuss it!

New comment by kylestlb in "Mondragon as the new city-state"

kylestlb — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:09:50 +0000

This isn't the ringing endorsement of global capitalism that you think it is

New comment by kylestlb in "Mondragon as the new city-state"

kylestlb — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:08:08 +0000

"communist" countries are simply countries that are still operating within Global Capitalism that happen to be run by parties that are made up of communists. They would also freely admit that. There are no communist countries because communism isn't here yet.

New comment by kylestlb in "Tom Lehrer and Santa Cruz: the trail of one of America's premier satirists"

kylestlb — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:14:33 +0000

I'm from here and still live in the mountains. The 60s spirit has waned. I wouldn't say SC has hippy vibes anymore. Just take a walk down pacific avenue and look around, compared to 20 years ago.

New comment by kylestlb in "GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview"

kylestlb — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:34:05 +0000

or getting engineers to communicate properly with each other :)

New comment by kylestlb in "Balaji Srinivasan calls for tech to "exit democracy" and seize local governments"

kylestlb — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:47:32 +0000

i see plenty of patagonia uniforms in SF :)

New comment by kylestlb in "FTC announces rule banning noncompetes"

kylestlb — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:44:03 +0000

whoa, that existed? sheesh

New comment by kylestlb in "How to embrace asynchronous communication for remote work"

kylestlb — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 02:34:07 +0000

"Major open source projects, particularly the Linux kernel, are done entirely over email to great success."

This is a good model of how to collaborate, but it's also a bit self selecting don't you think? Unfortunately the reality at most day jobs is that a lot of people you work with are simply trying to get by.

New comment by kylestlb in "Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat"

kylestlb — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:26:21 +0000

doesn't every HRIS have this? workday, et al... all have some sort of "Leave Reason" field which can be reported on & aggregated

New comment by kylestlb in "LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees"

kylestlb — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:25:13 +0000

always has been :)