Hacker News: mikebike

Claude tested everything except the one thing that mattered

mikebike — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:57:59 +0000

Article URL: https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/claude/2026/03/08/claude-tested-everything-except-the-one-thing-that-mattered.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305330

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why Are American Passenger Trains Slow?

mikebike — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:37:57 +0000

Article URL: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/02/why-are-american-passenger-trains-slow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113464

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Where are the proactive AI coding tools?

mikebike — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:29:00 +0000

Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/proactiveai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43890834

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Incident SEV scales are a waste of time

mikebike — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:36:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2025/01/29/incident-sev-scales-are-a-waste-of-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42872177

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikebike in "A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew"

mikebike — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 06:00:26 +0000

Does "Nicolas Bourbaki" count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

The Resilience in Software Foundation

mikebike — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:32:37 +0000

Article URL: https://resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1092580

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456199

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Grappling with uncertainty in forecasting the 2024 U.S. presidential election

mikebike — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:44:32 +0000

Article URL: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/03/grappling-with-uncertainty-in-forecasting-the-2024-u-s-presidential-election/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40871419

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Stopping at 90%

mikebike — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:35:51 +0000

Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/90percent.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36956463

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Rewriting harmful analogies while they’re in use

mikebike — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@jpaulreed/rewriting-harmful-analogies-while-theyre-in-use-d01442c0728b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36762752

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’

mikebike — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:04:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/readme/guides/root-cause

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280651

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikebike in "U.S. senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing"

mikebike — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 02:04:32 +0000

You might want to check the bio of Antonio García Martínez, who has a physics background, and subsequently worked in both finance and adtech.

SemVer Considered Harmful

mikebike — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 18:47:13 +0000

Article URL: https://jolynch.github.io/posts/semver_considered_harmful/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23740913

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikebike in "Boring Flamethrower"

mikebike — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 06:52:53 +0000

There's a bill (H.R. 4009) named "Flamethrowers? Really? Act" to regulate flamethrowers the same way machine guns are regulated: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4009...

An empirical study of working speed differences between software engineers [pdf]

mikebike — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 04:30:26 +0000

Article URL: http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/variance_tse2000.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12098945

Points: 60

# Comments: 68

The Fed’s Policy Mechanics Retool for a Rise in Interest Rates

mikebike — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 20:51:16 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/business/economy/the-feds-policy-mechanics-retool-for-a-rise-in-interest-rates.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10212756

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikebike in "Ask HN: I wrote a Slack compatible server. Can I open source it?"

mikebike — Fri, 22 May 2015 17:11:08 +0000

Several open source cloud projects (OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenNebula) implement the Amazon EC2 API. Eucalyptus is the only one that formally obtained a license from Amazon.

This Automated Tool for Judging Programming Ability Is Kind of Ominous

mikebike — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 03:30:40 +0000

Article URL: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-automated-tool-for-judging-programming-ability-is-kind-of-ominous?utm_source=IEEEfb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801568

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mikebike in "Unsealed Filing Shows DOJ Misled Appeals Court About NSL Gag Orders"

mikebike — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:46:33 +0000

That's called a warrant canary: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq

New comment by mikebike in "Announcing Calibre 2.0"

mikebike — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:52:16 +0000

I've used k2pdfopt for reading two-column formatted academic papers on Kindle Paperwhite, it works great.

Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?

mikebike — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:17:45 +0000

Article URL: http://ryandlane.com/blog/2014/08/04/moving-away-from-puppet-saltstack-or-ansible/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8134079

Points: 218

# Comments: 179