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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:39AM (#49930868)
Hospitable | Senior Product Engineer (Laravel); Technical Support Engineer | REMOTE (EU / US up to East Coast) | Full-time | https://hospitable.com/careers

tldr; Software for Airbnbs to rent themselves. Remote-only (~122 people, 31 countries), bootstrapped & profitable, community-funded by hosts. Radical transparency, high trust / low bureaucracy — you're trusted, not managed. Culture: Humble, Simple, Caring, Democratic. Handbook: https://hsptb.com/hndbk

We're all-in on Laravel (non-negotiable for eng) — stack is PALM-B: PHP, Angular, Laravel, MySQL, Beanstalk. Very AI-first: ~90–95% of production code is AI-generated via Cursor and similar; a great seat for agentic engineers who can direct models, review hard, and own what ships.

Apply: https://apply.hospitable.com

Senior Product Engineer (Laravel) — Core & Growth REMOTE | EU or US East Coast timezones | $134,450–$167,258 total budget (COL-adjusted) | up to $76,026.50 $HOST RSUs | up to $380,895/yr Performance Share Units (PSUs; payout only when business targets hit — they don't time-vest) TLDR: Ship 0→1 on the Laravel monolith (properties, calendar, messaging, ops, growth) used by 25k+ hosts. 5+ yrs backend, deep Laravel/PHP/MySQL, hands-on agentic coding tools in a real production codebase. Apply: https://wrkbl.ink/6P8FU3Z

Technical Support Engineer (Americas/EMEA) REMOTE | US or EMEA timezones | $106,448–$133,106 total budget (COL-adjusted) | up to $48,402 $HOST RSUs | up to $273,628/yr PSUs TLDR: Bridge Support ↔ Engineering — build Laravel/Nova/Fin internal tools and AI support endpoints, automate workflows, dig into hard customer bugs across the product. PHP/Laravel product-eng experience required. Apply: https://wrkbl.ink/aVGzgxd

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Monday April 13, 2026 @11:51AM (#47753822)
I am working on several things at the same time right now:

- https://usewarpgate.com: a MCP for MCPs, basically. Aiming to streamline all the pain points that I experienced with MCP in there. Centralised authentication, auditing, tool control, automatic MCPs through OpenAPI specs, accessing private servers, etc.

- https://focusjar.app: a little app I built because my own focus was super wrecked lately. Basically a distraction blocker that is _really_ hard to bypass and makes you pay actual $$$ if you cancel a session early.

- https://mergehelper.com: another little app that I built for myself that brings together all my pull- and merge requests from Github and Gitlab into a single compact menu bar.

- https://sift.works: still very early days, but building a tool that can connect to any database, helps you query it (with AI if so-desired), allows you to create dashboards, and exposes everything through an MCP

Very constructive comment, the “grow up already” really was the cherry on top.

(Yes, this is sarcasm)

Show HN: Built my first-ever macOS app – a tiny statusbar app for your PRs/MRs

https://mergehelper.com

Hi HN,I had an itch that I decided to scratch last week. My work is scattered across Github (personal projects, 3rd party contributitions) and Gitlab (work projects) and I wanted a single place to see all the PRs/MRs that are relevant for me.At work, especially, I want to get notifications when CI is green so that we I can decide to merge things in or not, and I don't really like the Gitlab...

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The backend uses Laravel to parse and clean raw exports before sending structured data to GPT-5 for categorization. Nothing fancy; just a pragmatic way to turn raw bank data into something understandable.

Show HN: BankToBudget – Instantly turn your bank exports into a monthly budget

I built a small tool that turns any bank export (CSV, Qif, etc.) into a clear monthly budget summary.https://banktobudget.comIt automatically detects:- recurring income and expenses - variable costs (like groceries, parking, etc.)No account, no subscription.I use GPT-5 under the hood to interpret messy transaction data and group it intelligently — it works across banks and languages.Would love...

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @05:32PM (#45562120)
I am working on Tailstream (https://tailstream.io/), turning logs into task time visual data streams. Built the web application, web site and a Go CLI agent (open source) and am now slightly pivoting into making it more log-focused.

Working on faceted search for logs and CLI client now and trying to share my progress on X.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @03:56AM (#45423030)
It's been a while since I've used CloudWatch myself. How would you expect this? IE would you lean more towards having a lambda/firehose that forwards events to to the API (which is [public](https://tailstream.io/docs/api) by the way!) or would you expect some kind of agent / connector to run that automatically pulls the logs from CloudWatch?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) on Monday September 29, 2025 @05:24PM (#45418939)
Working on real-time log visualization platform with wallboard/tv support, initially inspired by Logstalgia:

https://tailstream.io

Launched the initial version a couple of weeks ago and making good progress, trying to share as much of the process as I can on X.

Backend API can be used by any client, but I also built an open source agent in Go that makes setup really easy.

Currently working on a proper log viewer, alerts and visualization improvements.

Show HN: I Built Logstalgia for the Web

https://tailstream.io

I built a real-time HTTP log visualizer; think Logstalgia, but web-based.Stream logs from nginx/k8s/etc and watch animated particles represent requests. Each particle is color-coded by status, sized by response bytes, with speed based on response time.It has multiple view modes / themes: group by hostname, status codes, or source -> destination flows. Added replay timeline, and a TV mode....

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Show HN: I built a random dilemma generator

https://dilemma.wtf

Last week my 9 year old son walked up to me and asked "Would your rather shit your pants in public or drink spoiled milk?", and I was intrigued. Turns out he did not make this up himself, but got the dilemma from a card game.A couple of nights ago I decided to digitize some of these cards and create a simple open source app for it.Just a little fun project; no monetization or bigger goal,...

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Show HN: GistReader – an RSS reader that uses AI to summarise your content

https://gistreader.com

Hi everyone!Aron (@arondeparon) here, founder of Gistreader.com.I was an avid user of Google Reader back in the day, but for some reason, I silently rolled over when they decided to kill it and never looked at RSS again.Lately, I am getting more and more frustrated by the fact that most of the content that I consume is being pushed at me by some kind of algorithm. I wanted more control over...

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Re:Laser for control of mosquitos, weeds and pests on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:38AM (#28799154)
All I could think of when seeing this was the Star Wars Mosquito Defense System parody from 2007.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk

Re:Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D on Thursday February 18, 2021 @12:02PM (#26182370)
Is it open source?
Re:Human Clock on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:49AM (#25415571)
We need this, but with livestreamed cameras found on Shodan.
Re:Music Grid on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:31PM (#23512922)
Nice! Had fun playing with this. Gave me a retro vibe :-)

https://music-grid.surge.sh/#392-0-392-1024-1-64-1056-1-64-1...

Re:Pure CSS – Lace on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:53AM (#21440795)
Wow, this is amazing.

I would love to watch something like this being live-coded. Heck, I assume people would probably even pay for watching it.

Re:Broken on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:19AM (#21222254)
Perhaps a silly question, but if it is so broken, then why do you keep working there? Is it purely a money-thing? Is there still hope that things can improve?

Not judging, but I am genuinely curious about what drives engineers to stay.

Does it have the ability to 'unsync' a file? IE: if a large file is on iCloud drive, will I be able to remove it from my local disk?
Looks interesting! Any pointers on how one could actually get it though? :)

At this moment it seems only available for business users who opt in for the early adopter program.

Source: https://gsuite.google.com/campaigns/index__drive-fs-eap.html

What surprises me most is the fact that there seems to be very little interest in meta syncing. I have far more files to store than there is capacity on my SSD, and yet, most of the cloud storage providers seem to offer only full or selective sync capabilities.

What I would like to have is the ability to browse my entire file repository and "pin" certain files to make sure I can have the most critical stuff offline, while other files would be streamed when I need them.

I kind of hoped that SpaceMonkey (now Vivint Smart Drive) would be the answer for me and have one sitting right here. It's a a pretty cool device in theory, but in practice, it is extremely slow, backed by a company that could not care less about the product it has acquired.

Then there is Dropbox Smart Sync. This seems promising, but only is available for business users. I don't have any experiences with it.

Still looking for one single product to this right. Am I the only one frustrated with this?

Re:Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta on Saturday February 20, 2016 @06:25AM (#11139714)
Hi, noticed your comment and just wanted to let you know that, during the alpha testing phase, I actually made this. It's somewhat rough and unreleased now, but I am wondering what you would expect from such a plugin. Could you answer some of these questions?

- Would you primarily use the plugin to auto-tag uploads in the admin area? - Would you have problems with getting your own Google API key (and thus billing via Google), or would you expect the plugin to take care of this as well? - Any other expectations?

As said, what I have now is not really release-worthy, but I can get it to that point in a matter of days.

Thanks.

- Aron

Very cool, well done! I just showed it to my wife and 3 year old and both spent 45 minutes playing with it.

Some suggestions:

- the ads on iPad are really obtrusive. Please remove them. I'd gladly pay for the app or the individual packages. ( I deleted the app within 5 minutes)

- a "buy everything" option would be nice

- I think a two handed mode would be really great: perhaps you could consider generating two timelines with separate even handlers so that you can play multiple rhythms at the same time. Would be a nice "advanced mode".

- eventually , an option to include scoring would be nice. You could compare the actual rhythm offset with the"ideal" rhythm to train user rhythm. The current "sandbox" mode really should stay, though, since I really enjoyed watching my kid playing with it :-)

Other than that, great work!

Re:I've been tracking everything about myself on Saturday July 12, 2014 @09:55AM (#8024544)
I think the site is absolutely beautiful.

What I am wondering, though is: how are the vitamin/mineral stats on http://aprilzero.com/sport/ generated? Is there a way to self-measure these stats without blood tests?

Re:I've been tracking everything about myself on Saturday July 12, 2014 @09:53AM (#8024536)
For what it's worth: he's 24 (see http://aprilzero.com/sport/).
Re:Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @03:59AM (#4936659)
What I am trying to figure out is: does this apply to 'private' accounts as well? I see no statement that seems to exempt private accounts from these new policies, but would definitely like to hear a conclusive statement regarding this.

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