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Re:Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off
on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:53PM (#50156363)
I am still allowing myself to make an occasional mistake, because if you do not read the ingredients carefully it can be hard to say what is (for example, finding out a brand name chicken ramen bowl is artificial chicken and is actually vegan friendly) and what is not vegan (for example, a brand name candy I previously enjoyed, sadly), but rather than giving up I hit the reset button and start again the next day until I get it right. Everyone gets a mistake!
Re:Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off
on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:44PM (#50156250)
Yeah that is good when shopping at a local grocery store, but more difficult when you want to make good choices at the local coffee shop, which has more limited options even though they do have some available that are vegan or/and organic.
Re:Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off
on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:32PM (#50156094)
Trying to go vegan because of this, but then I realize halfway through the yogurt I am eating that it is based on milk and is not vegan in the slightest, even though it is considered vegetarian. There is always tomorrow.
Re:Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:04PM (#49780546)
UTM is another great example of this, which is basically a GUI for QEMU. They have a Mac App store $9.99 version and the free open source version:
Re:The senior engineer death spiral
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:23PM (#49777882)
It is hard to take almost any mentorship program seriously that is not a formal university education, and even then, at most universities they do not teach skills that are directly applicable at companies given they are not intended to directly be job training programs. Not that I am on any hiring committee currently, but if I was, I would rather see a candidate with a degree and open source project contributions than App Academy dreck, for example.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:24PM (#49687033)
I love the JIRA integration. I built something similar but it's more of a toy project compared to yours: https://github.com/elliotechne/SOC2.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:21PM (#49686995)
Contributing larger PRs to terraform-provider-aws because apparently my contributions so far do not have enough lines of code as a metric. Getting familiar with Floci for usage with Terraform over LocalStack since it is a true open source project rather than freemium. Also getting my AAS from Maestro. Ride or die since I can not afford college anywhere else despite their current accreditation issues with COE.
Re:Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:05PM (#49685517)
I lost access to my Revolut account a while back and recovery did not work after losing access to my primary email address and MFA. They also removed the ability to deposit checks on their mobile app. For these reasons I can not treat it like a real bank anymore as much as I love their 4% APY savings account rate. Unlike gmail, which had recovery options with a secondary email address. They could have implemented something similar.
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:05PM (#49577868)
Their web app functions perfectly as a replacement, however.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:35PM (#49526080)
Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.
Resume/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/lsdir
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/elliotechne
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
on Monday August 03, 2026 @11:03AM (#49156733)
Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.
Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/autotune
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:26AM (#48762127)
Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.
Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/autotune
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @12:11PM (#48024495)
Role looks super interesting and would love to work for Space tech, even though I have no specific experience in the domain.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)
on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:31PM (#47981258)
I want to get fired from my job search. We'll have to see if SSDI (been about 6 months since applying) or a job opportunity comes through first.
Re:The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:24PM (#47979038)
Books have been replaced by DVDs at my library. I spent almost all my time at a book store for a year in Austin and can count the number of active readers I saw in there on one hand. It's depressing.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:54AM (#47976252)
CloudFormation and ECS are bright yellow flags for me. I'd be interested in knowing why you went with this proprietary tooling vs the open source Terraform and Kubernetes/EKS alternatives. Also, is paid relocation available if I wanted to relocate to NYC? Currently in Charleston, SC.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:35AM (#47976012)
Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.
Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/autotune
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:53PM (#47603411)
Location: Charleston, South Carolina.
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.
Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/elliotechne
Re:Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for cr...
on Sunday March 29, 2026 @07:38PM (#47568642)
That sounds absolutely terrifying.
Re:So where are all the AI apps?
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:04PM (#47510120)
Specifically because it generates Terraform code along with the diagrams, but I guess it's not the selling point that I thought it would be.
Re:So where are all the AI apps?
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:28PM (#47506221)
I launched a draw.io competitor to the point that it is in production, but there is little activity on the site as far as signups are concerned. Doesn't deliver enough business value.
Re:Brute-Forcing My Algorithmic Ignorance with an LLM in 7 Days
on Sunday March 22, 2026 @11:25PM (#47485193)
Q+a interview talking about past experience on the resume and quiz format of various technologies. The quiz format gets on my nerves, but not as much as leetcode and live coding rounds.
Re:Brute-Forcing My Algorithmic Ignorance with an LLM in 7 Days
on Sunday March 22, 2026 @01:47PM (#47480106)
Interesting. I am going for a broad search rather than being targeted. Maybe it's as you say, an industry specific problem. At my last fintech job they just quizzed me a bit on Terraform and asked me about experience, though that role ended up being a disaster later on.
Re:Brute-Forcing My Algorithmic Ignorance with an LLM in 7 Days
on Sunday March 22, 2026 @01:11PM (#47479684)
They don't, at least in the SRE space. I have been interviewing for 6 months without a single coding challenge or LeetCode-type challenge. Though I would passively avoid companies that offer them, as in I would avoid them if offered, I have yet to be offered the chance to avoid it in an interview.
Re:Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator
on Sunday March 22, 2026 @11:32AM (#47478564)
Definitely this. I like seeing issues reasonably populated with OSS projects. Otherwise, how am I supposed to contribute back to it? Granted it's a newer project so I will be keeping track in the future.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
on Monday March 09, 2026 @12:01PM (#47310823)
https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/1805
Love learning about crossplane and diving into its internals, so I am working on fixing issues it has on its "issues" page in GitHub.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)
on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:56AM (#47220580)
Location: Charleston, South Carolina.
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.
Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/elliotechne
Re:Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026
on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:50PM (#47039401)
Not a fan of their curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh - installation method. Kind, on the other hand, has multiple installation methods, including via wget for their binary: https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#installing-f....
Re:Why More Companies Are Recognizing the Benefits of Keeping Older Em...
on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:53AM (#46901678)
You open to adding a new mentee to the mix? I have 10 years of XP and looking to grow doing DevOps work.