Hacker News: spike021

New comment by spike021 in "Cisco workforce reductions"

spike021 — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:18:52 +0000

we were acquired and part of our org moved into cisco HQ.

the entire floor were Indian other than our org, and over time our org was filled out with incoming transfers and new hires.

i'll never forget some irony in that one of the engineering leaders brought us together for a mini townhall once and praised our "diversity" but by then the percentage of people in the room were basically the same as you described, including said leader. even our twice a week catered lunches were almost always indian.

just an interesting experience being part of cisco for a couple of years.

New comment by spike021 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

spike021 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:34:03 +0000

My current job is doing the exact same thing. My manager even showed me a tool with graphs showing token use and related metrics.

New comment by spike021 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

spike021 — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:31:07 +0000

I'll have to try some more. I've been playing with gpt-oss 20b on my M4 24GB but it hasn't been the best experience.

New comment by spike021 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

spike021 — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:45:08 +0000

Not only for those but being able to nitpick jira tickets or github PRs.

New comment by spike021 in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

spike021 — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:02:47 +0000

I have multiple Chase cards but they do look different from each other physically and in the Wallet app. Isn't that just a bank issue of not making cards differentiate from each other?

New comment by spike021 in "GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 per Share"

spike021 — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:27:03 +0000

I saw someone else mention this idea, which is that GameStops could be used somewhat like Whole Foods is for Amazon. Basically a drop-off location if you're selling items, especially collectibles, and want to make the process of sending them in for authentication and whatnot simpler.

Not sure if that's the intent behind this move but an interesting thought experiment.

New comment by spike021 in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

spike021 — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:21:30 +0000

On a visit to Hiroshima, Japan, I went to the Mazda HQ for a factory tour. They took the group on a shuttle bus through their massive city-like complex and then we got to walk through one of the assembly-line buildings. Real fascinating experience.

New comment by spike021 in "Alert-Driven Monitoring"

spike021 — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:27:25 +0000

I'm not sure in this case it's AI per se so much as a change over time.

At the first role I ever had 10+ years ago, we had a TV in our team's office space constantly showing our dashboard for our critical services and health. We still had alerting monitors but it felt like those alarms were for important issues (like sev-2 or worse).

the last couple roles I've had we don't constantly look at our dashboards unless our monitors keep ringing us with alerts. We have also had more monitors in general than the first role I mentioned. Occasionally if another team asks us if we're affected by something we'll look at the dashboards we have to make sure we don't have a monitoring gap.

New comment by spike021 in "LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models"

spike021 — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:38:52 +0000

I was recently job hunting and did something similar. Had it check my bullets and see if they "read well" and it suggested many many tweaks. I tried a few. I'm not sure how much more it helped the applications though.

New comment by spike021 in "Ask.com has closed"

spike021 — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:48:42 +0000

I very vaguely recall using it right before I started using google. very early 2000s. it was ok.

New comment by spike021 in "GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes"

spike021 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:03:10 +0000

Makes sense but it's a sad issue considering at least in my org we're being told to cut jira tickets such that they can be implemented purely by AI.

New comment by spike021 in "GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes"

spike021 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:36:09 +0000

Where I work that many comments could be taken as a bad thing: "i've seen too many comments finding issues or nitpicks with your PR, why aren't you doing a better job before submitting it for review??"

New comment by spike021 in "GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup"

spike021 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:52:33 +0000

> update - this change has been reverted and the previous behaviour is back

was an on-call engineer paged for this on the weekend just to roll a revert instead of waiting until Monday?

New comment by spike021 in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

spike021 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:52:53 +0000

Many years ago at a science-y summer camp as a child, this was a "project" we did. Not for the same purpose as suggested here but just to see how sprouting happens. Cool little experiment.

New comment by spike021 in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

spike021 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:44:44 +0000

My local Target had also done this most of the past year but re-opened them recently, thankfully.

New comment by spike021 in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

spike021 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:13:40 +0000

Jira has vim-like bindings for navigating tickets on boards and years later the feature barely works. It has bugs like pressing the j/k keys changes the URL and random fields but stays on the same ticket or doesn't render the newly navigated-to ticket, etc.

New comment by spike021 in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

spike021 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:11:39 +0000

In California I was recently alerted to a quake both by iOS (government issued alert) and the MyShakes app.

For major quakes I think over communication is probably warranted.

New comment by spike021 in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

spike021 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:10:14 +0000

you can actually customize how strong a quake you're notified for. but ymmv. the recent california quake was actually the first time that app even notified me.

New comment by spike021 in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

spike021 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:55:40 +0000

I remember something like this back when playing StarCraft (maybe Brood War, it's been a minute) online.

New comment by spike021 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

spike021 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:57:37 +0000

Maybe the parking lots, but if you know anything about the major Japanese cities with satisfyingly good train systems then you'll also know they have a lot of expressways running through them.