Hacker News: miqkt

New comment by miqkt in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

miqkt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:22:22 +0000

Love the principle, preach!

I think I've been following this subconsciously as LLM artifacts reached some threshold of pervasiveness across the work I do. If I can sense (maybe eventually I won't be able to because of how capable the technology becomes?) that what I'm reading is wholly regurgitated out by an LLM, I automatically care less and feel inclined to respond in kind by generating an artificial response in return.

New comment by miqkt in "How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)"

miqkt — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:06:11 +0000

Ah, time to copy this into the custom instructions for an LLM to amuse myself with.

New comment by miqkt in "Music Discovery"

miqkt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:14:51 +0000

Tried out a few prompts and the suggestions that came back didn't even seem in the ballpark of what I would've expected. Interesting idea nonetheless.

https://everynoise.com/ is still my favourite for discovering new artists, especially in fairly esoteric genres.

After Babel Fish: The promise of cheap translations at the speed of the Web

miqkt — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:16:54 +0000

Article URL: https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/after-babel-fish

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287838

Points: 70

# Comments: 16

Git-Range-Diff

miqkt — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:14:32 +0000

Article URL: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-range-diff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44960786

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Has Gen AI changed the way you approach code reviews, if so how?

miqkt — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:05:24 +0000

Gen AI can churn out large swaths of working code relentlessly. I've felt like my reviews have been less rigorous due to the volume and time constraints as tooling becomes increasingly adopted.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357684

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Science of Word Recognition

miqkt — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 23:24:04 +0000

Article URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/develop/word-recognition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353655

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Recognition-by-Components Theory

miqkt — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 02:26:14 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition-by-components_theory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285654

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Shouting in the Data Center [video]

miqkt — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:43:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39325455

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Theory of Constructed Emotion

miqkt — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 01:42:14 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constructed_emotion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38418501

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by miqkt in "Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?"

miqkt — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 04:35:01 +0000

The last impactful one on me was Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber.

Definitely disrupted my perspective on work and the monotonous, sometimes futile, insanity that some of us subject ourselves to in order to make a living.

Runtime (NVM for Windows Successor)

miqkt — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:43:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/wiki/Runtime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086152

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

André Gorz Was the Theorist Who Predicted the Revolt Against Meaningless Work

miqkt — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 13:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2023/07/andre-gorz-great-resignation-post-work-socialism-farewell-to-the-working-class

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011788

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Numbering Should Start at Zero

miqkt — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 02:26:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36742920

Points: 31

# Comments: 54

Amdahl's Law

miqkt — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 01:58:29 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36464501

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by miqkt in "Ask HN: What are your goals for 2023?"

miqkt — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:51:18 +0000

1. Resume seeing the world. I haven't taken a trip abroad since the tail end of 2019.

2. Cultivate a mutual and meaningful friendship with someone. A non-existent social circle and approaching my fourth decade doesn't make this any easier.

New comment by miqkt in "The truth about turbinates (and sinusitis)"

miqkt — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 04:27:43 +0000

Interesting, I never thought about allergies.

I've had not one but two turbinate resections, each time with a different ENT. From memory, neither had even bothered to really stress some of the risks others have pointed out.

I think my quality of life improved rather substantially after the first I had. To my disappointment, it didn't last. This eventually prompted me to seek out another several years later. Again, some improvement, but this time that time window was even shorter.

I'm now at the point where I've given up and just learned to live with feeling of being completely blocked through one nostril. It's frustrating.

I find the feeling affects me most when sleeping (I've tried CPAP to get restful sleep without much success) and during heavy aerobic exercise (having to constantly blow out mucous build-up as I'm running).

New comment by miqkt in "How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams"

miqkt — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 02:20:24 +0000

> Notice subtle changes in behavior: the most useful hint here is when someone who used to be very vocal about an issue stops complaining.

This point resonated greatly with my own observations, both of myself and of other colleagues with each development team I've been part of.

I think another challenge is fostering a culture where everybody genuinely cares about the output that's delivered. Not everybody will. Some people are comfortable moving tickets from triage through to a resolved state day in, day out without caring whether this process or the output can be improved.

New comment by miqkt in "Launch HN: Onfolk (YC S21) – Modern HR and Payroll in One Place (For the UK)"

miqkt — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:06:40 +0000

One of my previous stints was with a small team that was building a cloud-based payroll and HR platform for the Australian market (potentially going abroad as well). It definitely opened my eyes to how complicated award rules can be.

I also remember testing being a challenge, particularly when things like multiple backpays, accruals, or one off adjustments were involved.

There was also an integration API, but I didn't stick around long enough to see it evolve enough for widespread third-party adoption.

Anyway, congratulations on the launch!

New comment by miqkt in "Git Exercises"

miqkt — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:27:47 +0000

It looks like `.git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD` doesn't exist, which might explain why a fresh clone results in a detached HEAD (i.e. Git should default to being on the branch referenced by this entry).

As for how you can end up in such a state on the remote, I'd actually be interested to know too.