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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:13PM (#50340042)
SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Forward-Deployed Data Scientist | Canada / Remote worldwide

Most of the execution of data science is now doable with an LLM. It can't find unmapped physical data, architect, do a security review, or survive a regulator.

That's the part I do. 15+ years shipping ML inside messy, regulated operations - energy, maritime, automotive, mineral rights, healthcare. on-site or virtual, from "nobody knows what the right question is" through to deployment.

Selected work:

  - LLM legal-document extraction (land runsheets): 3-day due-diligence cycles to 15 minutes.
  - Real-time emissions detection on industrial smokestacks: $75K-per-incident fines avoided.
  - Predictive maintenance integrated into a German automaker's production line: $20M+ recall exposure avoided.
  - Routing engine for on-demand delivery (CVRP-PD-TW, constrained cloud): doubled capacity, 15-minute windows.
  - Real-time conversational AI with emotion recognition: became the technical foundation of a product.
  - Corrosion detection (API 571) from imagery and structured light: mobile inspection, weeks to 2 days.
I'm taking one new project this quarter. First two weeks are paid: I'll dig into the data, talk to the people who own the problem, and tell you what's worth building and what isn't. If you like it, we keep going.

Good fit: regulated, operationally messy, data nobody has mapped. Call centers, maintenance shops, anywhere the knowledge lives in tickets, call notes, or the heads of the people who've been there years.

Not interested: gambling, ads/surveillance, payday loans, rent-to-own.

Email in profile.

Re:Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:35PM (#50250534)
The Desktop GUI was perfected with NeXTStep in 1990. Though some might say Smalltalk in 1984 (modulo some nice artwork and colours).

We could even have unified desktop.mobile codebases, with different GUI layouts. 280 North's objective-J/Cappuccino proved this.

IDK what we're even doing anymore.

That wikipedia page says David Hogg's father is Kevin Hogg.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:27PM (#49924542)
Is anyone else getting a lot of scam approaches from their HN hiring posts?

I'm getting a lot of scam/North Korean approaches to mule/front for them.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:03PM (#49924258)
SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Forward Deployed Data scientist | Canada/Remote Worldwide

I use AI to build DS pipelines. 15+ years shipping ML inside messy, regulated environments - automotive, mineral rights, health care, maritime security, logistics. I go on-site (or virtually), dig up the data nobody mapped, figure out what the right question is, then build and deploy. Part Archeologist, part anthropologist, and part data scientist.

What I've done:

   - Built a corrosion detection system classifying  corrosion (API 571), and pitting depths from imagery and structured light.
   - Deployed an AI validation pipeline for BIM/CAD against 400-page ESG standards, cutting review from days to minutes.
   - Built and integrated a part-failure prediction system into a German automaker's production workflow, avoiding lemon law recalls ($20M+ exposure)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Stood up real-time emissions detection on industrial smokestacks, preventing $75K-per-incident fines
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - Built an LLM-based legal document extraction system (land runsheets), collapsing 3-day DD cycles to 30 minutes.
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings.
Things I won't work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.
Email me (in bio) with a short description of your problem. I'll reply promptly.
Re:Y Combinator Early Access Network on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:45PM (#49616765)
^^^ this guy fucks.

You’re right. So Russ was an amalgamation of sacca, cuban, and probably a few more.

Re:Y Combinator Early Access Network on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:51PM (#49613939)
I thought Chris Sacca was the inspiration for Russ Hanneman.

The beard, the shirts, the sexual assault allegations. The three nannies suing him - one for no good reason!

Re:NixOS on a Cadillac Lyriq on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @06:20PM (#49543380)
This is hacker news.

Good work.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:40PM (#49525227)

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SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Forward Deployed Data scientist | Canada/Remote Worldwide

Forward-deployed data scientist. 15+ years shipping ML inside messy, regulated environments - automotive, mineral rights, health care, maritime security, logistics. I go on-site (or virtually), dig up the data nobody mapped, figure out what the right question is, then build and deploy. Part Archeologist, part anthropologist, and part data scientist.

What I've done:

   - Deployed an AI validation pipeline for BIM/CAD against 400-page ESG standards, cutting review from days to minutes.
   - Built and integrated a part-failure prediction system into a German automaker's production workflow, avoiding lemon law recalls ($20M+ exposure)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Stood up real-time emissions detection on industrial smokestacks, preventing $75K-per-incident fines
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - Built an LLM-based legal document extraction system (land runsheets), collapsing 3-day DD cycles to 30 minutes.
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings.
Things I won't work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.
Email me (in bio) with a short description of your problem. I'll reply promptly.
This reminds me of William Gibson's "Burning Chrome", where the head of a syndicate is a Russian AI (Chrome) running things behind a smuggling front. Gibson basically predicted the AI CEO forty years early!

A warning: Don't burn Chrome.

Why bring the constitution in line with Estonia's? What's special about them?
Re:Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026? on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:02PM (#49288859)
Go build something in the wine import / distribution business. You have the domain knowledge no programmer or ai will.
> Imagine a cartridge with a physical model on it.

I can finally have my own Dixie flatline. Cool.

Re:Taste Is All That's Left on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:45PM (#49201442)
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Re:Discovery Loop on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:22PM (#49188461)
I think it was a Neal Stephenson quote from cryptobimicon.

It certainly increases shareholder value.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:31PM (#48886782)
Sorry for the late reply.

Email in profile.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:04PM (#48886624)
I'm learning to break 4-rotor Enigma encrypts.
Re:FAANG Simulator on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:28PM (#48838218)
Heavy drug wars vibe. I love it.
Re:Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP on Friday July 03, 2026 @07:34PM (#48781257)
My hypothesis is markets are fractally efficient and fractally competitive. Much like a strange attractor, they swing between states of efficiency and competitiveness.

The default regime is instability. Computational capacity is unstable through time, and the problem size itself changes (fractally) through time.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:44AM (#48748735)
SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide

Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous, regulation-heavy gnarly problems where nobody is sure what the right question is. Often it involves getting hands on to find the data and signal that's really needed.

What I've done:

   - AI verification of building and architectural BIM/CAD against 400 page ESG standards. (Days of work down to minutes)
   - Part failure prediciton, saving a German automaker from lemon law recalls. ($20M+ exposure avoided)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Real-time emissions detection for industrial smokestacks. ($75K fines per incident prevented)
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - LLM-based legal document extraction, reducing due diligence turnaround from 3 days to 30 minutes
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings
Things I'm unwilling to work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.
Email me with a short description of your problem. If it's hard enough, I'll reply within 24 hours.
Re:Rocketlab acquires Iridium on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:55PM (#48722665)
A major plot point in the Red Dwarf books is about Coca-Cola sending a fleet of space ships out to blow up stars so they can spell "Enjoy Coca-Cola" in the sky.

One of those ships crashes and the boys from the Dwarf find the service mechanoid, which is how they get Kryten.

Re:If You Can't Hold It, You Don't Own It on Saturday June 27, 2026 @04:33PM (#48701501)
Microsoft did this with its "Playsforsure" program.

Naturally it got shut down and your media no longer plays.

Microkernel, and hard RT scheduler from the start.
How could I forget this! He also recommended the name.

Wolfram had come up with some normal techie names "computron", "math-o-matic" or whatever. SJ said No those suck, use something simple like Mathematica.

Steve Jobs and Stephen Wolfram were friends for years. Mathematica shipped preinstalled on early NeXT systems.

SJ recommended some of the UI bits of the notebook. Particularly the separators between cells.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:08PM (#48530570)
I'm using AI to de-compile NeXTStep applications back to Objective-C source code.

The idea is decompile something like Wordperfect or Framemaker, then port the NeXTStep code to GNUStep and have WP on GNUStep/Linux.

Re:Emacs Appearances in Pop Culture on Thursday June 11, 2026 @05:35PM (#48496756)
Fuuck. Did Spud use vim?

We know Sick Boy (Zero Cool) would be an emacs user.

"format" is what Nigerian scammers call a playbook for each scam type. So a pig butchering "format", romance scam "format", inheritance scam "format", etc.

They offered to help me setup an Upwork account too. Tiresome creeps.

I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first.

But now the Nigerian "format" scammers are into job scams. I got an email that reeked and played along a bit. I was "hired" after a curiously simple interview via signal, and had to wait for my "supervisor" to come train me.

Eventually I got the "boss" on the line to talk, he went absolutely postal when I asked if he was an African scammer. Apparently that's racist now.

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