Hacker News: mmikeff

New comment by mmikeff in "Don't paste the AI, please"

mmikeff — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:34:52 +0000

Any chance you would publish that guide and share here?

New comment by mmikeff in "Zed DeltaDB"

mmikeff — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:01:47 +0000

Lots of negativity here, but this is interesting to me and moves Zed towards something that is more than 'just' an IDE in a future where IDE users may be in the minority of people creating software.

New comment by mmikeff in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

mmikeff — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:44:39 +0000

It's not a fact at all, it's a lie spread by people who want to stoke anger for their own benefit.

New comment by mmikeff in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

mmikeff — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:37:53 +0000

Can we stop it with this two tier justice system nonsense?

New comment by mmikeff in "Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N"

mmikeff — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:18:15 +0000

The car in this example is electric but the problem is not confined to electric cars.

New comment by mmikeff in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

mmikeff — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:47:57 +0000

And that when the adverts refresh all the content on the page shifts and you lose track of what you have read.

New comment by mmikeff in "Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding"

mmikeff — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:24:03 +0000

The kind of field where AI builds more in a day than a team or even contract dev does.

New comment by mmikeff in "Ask HN: why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers?"

mmikeff — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:30:39 +0000

I had the same conversation with a colleague who managed an engineering department, his answer was that he can take on new freelancers quickly and fire them just as quickly.

There are also patterns where freelancers are more desirable early on in an economic recovery, e.g. the company thinks it might be safe to start hiring again but is not feeling quite confident enough to take on full time staff (cost of firing etc.)

New comment by mmikeff in "Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in"

mmikeff — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:24:30 +0000

On the last day that tax payments were due

New comment by mmikeff in "Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study"

mmikeff — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:35:35 +0000

I’ve mixed them up too and that was the worst Mac and Cheese I ever made!

New comment by mmikeff in "Test-driven development with an LLM for fun and profit"

mmikeff — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:20:20 +0000

Writing a whole load of tests up front and then coding until all the tests pass is not TDD.

New comment by mmikeff in "The best $4 ever spent"

mmikeff — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:24:23 +0000

Spending time with kids > giving stuff to kids.

New comment by mmikeff in "Chatbots can chip away at belief in conspiracy theories"

mmikeff — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:51:06 +0000

How much potential is there for the opposite effect from a chat-bot with less noble intentions? Or does the ability to cite evidence and presumably references cover that off?

New comment by mmikeff in "ReMarkable Paper Pro"

mmikeff — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:32:16 +0000

This is the biggest issue for me as well. Seems that the OCR has to be triggered manually, for each page of each notebook. Which of course I don't remember to do and now there are too many.

The search doesn't appear to search across notebooks either.

The experience that I would want (expect) is that OCR happens in the background, all the time, no need to trigger and that I can then search for a word/string and find all the notes on that topic.

I've fallen back to tags and dates in filenames to have any chance of tracking down old meeting notes.

New comment by mmikeff in "Ask HN: Looking for kids books about famous people"

mmikeff — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:48:55 +0000

My kids liked Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, it has loads of one page stories about famous and not so famous women from throughout history. Nicely illustrated too.

https://www.rebelgirls.com

New comment by mmikeff in "There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)"

mmikeff — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:55:19 +0000

Just read this last night! as part of the 'Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories' collection.

New comment by mmikeff in "Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies"

mmikeff — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:51:55 +0000

Our daughter too, she’s been on a maintenance dose equivalent to two peanuts, once a week. It’s been life changing. She’s had several trips to A&E before the treatment but after a few years she was able to tolerate a dose equivalent to ten peanuts (although that still made her quite nauseous).

New comment by mmikeff in "CrowdStrike's impact on aviation"

mmikeff — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:44:04 +0000

Wasn't the first webcam setup to show whether a coffee pot was full?

New comment by mmikeff in "Google's shortened links will stop working next year"

mmikeff — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 08:53:03 +0000

They could outsource this to someone only too grateful to keep it running for less than the cost of an internal engineer

New comment by mmikeff in "The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)"

mmikeff — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:54:30 +0000

5 LED Downlights in the kitchen, 3 in the upstairs bathroom, 2 in the downstairs bathroom all installed by an electrician 11 years ago and still going fine.

LED bayonet fitting bulbs in the regular light fittings in the rest of the house seem to only get a few years though.