Hacker News: sixwing

New comment by sixwing in "Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models"

sixwing — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:12:25 +0000

i took a swing at an anti-slop skill for Claude Code, this week: https://github.com/rand/cc-experiments/tree/main/skills/anti...

New comment by sixwing in "DigitalOcean acquires Paperspace (YC W15) for $111M in cash"

sixwing — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 13:43:07 +0000

congrats, dude.

New comment by sixwing in "Datafrog: A lightweight Datalog engine in Rust"

sixwing — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:49:13 +0000

Ascent is lovely. The paper on it is really well written, too: https://s-arash.github.io/ascent/cc22main-p95-seamless-deduc...

New comment by sixwing in "WorkOS – Building blocks for quickly adding enterprise features to an app"

sixwing — Thu, 12 May 2022 14:59:00 +0000

i can't count the number of products i've worked on or adjacent to that have gained some traction, started to scale... and hit a brick wall when wanting to access the enterprise market. far too often, these projects end up stopping most core feature work to add hacky versions of whatever's required to close that enterprise sales gap. they slow velocity while incurring tech debt.

a SaaS product that offers some developer-friendly ways to drop these capabilities into your system could be a huge win for companies at that inflection point.

New comment by sixwing in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)"

sixwing — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:52:08 +0000

Vercel | Infrastructure Product Management | Remote (US, Canada, most of EU) | https://vercel.com/careers/product-manager-infrastructure-em...

Vercel helps make the web. Faster. You might know us as a front-end centric platform, but that's all enabled by a lot of fascinating infrastructure. We're hiring multiple product management roles within Infrastructure, and have a lot of challenging problems to solve around our network/edge systems, our core and build systems, and our data transit and delivery systems.

New comment by sixwing in "Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions"

sixwing — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:24:40 +0000

hah. you beat me to it, Jason.

@danfox, i'm always down to talk code search as well - rand@github.com

New comment by sixwing in "Graph database reinvented: Dgraph gets $11.5M to pursue unique, opinionated path"

sixwing — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:34:25 +0000

FWIW, I would LOVE to see openCypher supported on dgraph! I find it far more expressive and easier to work with for many types of traversals and logical operations.

New comment by sixwing in "Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages"

sixwing — Fri, 31 May 2019 22:41:21 +0000

it's definitely useful for structural code annotation, which can be used by both search and code navigation. stay tuned.

New comment by sixwing in "Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages"

sixwing — Fri, 31 May 2019 22:39:56 +0000

the combination of the Import and Call Graphs (https://github.com/github/semantic#language-support) should allow for the construction of a view of what symbols are imported, and where in a given project they are called. resolving those edges across repos is also possible, in many cases.

New comment by sixwing in "Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages"

sixwing — Fri, 31 May 2019 22:37:43 +0000

very doable, at least for certain types of clones, and a topic of active research.

while leveraging the ASTs and scope graphs produced by semantic can allow you to attack the more complicated clone types (eg, code that has nearly the same meaning, with significantly different implementation), various parsing + hashing methods have proven useful for the more simple cases.

useful for far more than detecting plagiarism, too. it can boost signal for search, allow for more nuanced semantic navigation, assist in refactoring, and help understand the propagation/provenance of code (which can be important for understanding licenses, etc).

Dedicated Kafka Clusters on Heroku Now GA

sixwing — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.heroku.com/kafka-on-heroku-generally-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597913

Points: 18

# Comments: 2

Running Kafka at scale – triaging memory leaks

sixwing — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:15:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.heroku.com/fixing-kafka-memory-leak

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12347713

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by sixwing in "Tail equivalent on Kafka?"

sixwing — Fri, 13 May 2016 20:01:44 +0000

For Heroku's managed Kafka in the common runtime, you can just `heroku kafka:tail topic`. For other environments, you might look at something like https://github.com/EnvisionX/kafcat or https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat.

New comment by sixwing in "Heroku Kafka"

sixwing — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:16:29 +0000

I'm Rand Fitzpatrick, and this is one of the products I work on at Heroku. None of our current Kafka offerings are multi-tenant.

Heroku Kafka

sixwing — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:23:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heroku.com/kafka

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11576941

Points: 276

# Comments: 116

New comment by sixwing in "Analyzing Three Space Leaks in Haskell"

sixwing — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:04:27 +0000

While laziness may permeate a lot of the ecosystem, GHC 8.0.1 is likely to get better support for Strict: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StrictPragma

New comment by sixwing in "SmileMiner – A Java library of state-of-art machine learning algorithms"

sixwing — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:40:08 +0000

I'd be curious as to how this compares to https://github.com/SmileWide/main, in terms of maturity and ability to run in a distributed mode.

New comment by sixwing in "Post Mortem: A single whitespace character"

sixwing — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:36:59 +0000

The team at Heroku (where I currently PM) is constantly trying to improve our communication and documentation. We're definitely sorry that this caused problems, and we'll work even harder to make sure that our communication calls out any potential issues. Again - thanks for reaching out to us, and let us know if we can help.

New comment by sixwing in "Titan Distributed Graph Database 0.5.0"

sixwing — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:08:10 +0000

Some nice changes in this release. Having built-in TTL on edges and vertices would have simplified several different system's I've worked on.

New comment by sixwing in "New Heroku Dashboard and Metrics now in Beta"

sixwing — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:44:33 +0000

The Metrics displayed in the new Dashboard focus on the characteristics of app execution on Heroku, rather than internal instrumentation of the application. Hopefully that's useful in providing more visibility into tuning applications on the platform.