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Re:CUDA for AMD on Windows on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:57PM (#49691378)
yeh - exactly.

Sucks like important libraries like Alphafold are locked into CUDA. Its ridiculous for researchers.

HN Returning "Sorry."

Is anyone getting this x1000 more than usual? I can access Hacker News by entering my URL directly but I get the "Sorry" error when clicking it via Reddit or Google results.

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This is why people are switching over to Codex
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:19PM (#47257110)
8GB of RAM? In 2026?!!!

Xcode and some browser tabs are going make this slow AF.

Show HN: Snap n Eat – a food tracker using AI and chatbot

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapneat.ai&hl=en_US

Hi HN!I built my first Android app and deployed it into production!This app has the following features such as:- AI image recognition: snap a photo and it will estimate the carbs/calories/protein/fats. (not accurate yet but improving on it) - AI chatbot: to ask for recipes or to log your food set your fitness targets and it calculates how much nutrition you need daily. - manual entry of your...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) on Friday February 06, 2026 @05:32AM (#46911216)
Careful - I applied to this role and the founder (I assume) ghosted me mid-way.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:37PM (#46536904)
What's your application process like?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:55PM (#46536132)
Do you hire in Australia?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:51PM (#46536092)
Hey - are you actually hiring? I applied a while back and just got ghosted after the initial email without any discussion of my experience.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:48PM (#46536065)
Location: Currently in Sydney, Australia. Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Only in Australia - however, I am a resident of Spain and an Australian citizen.

About: I'm looking for any AI/ML engineer roles at the moment. I have experience applying ML to biology in research so I am looking to see if anything fits.

Technologies: - Web Dev: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux - Data Science: Python (SciPy, NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jupyter), Neural Networks, SVMs, PCA, MDS, Decision Trees, Random Forests, R, OpenAI Agents SDK

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jw4LC83GZvNqHLVucDDPtpuqA0k...

Email: me [at] christopheragnus.com

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Friday October 17, 2025 @05:40PM (#45622431)
Hmm, good idea. I'm adding the ability to add "context" so taking a hpoto shouldn't return the same result.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Friday October 17, 2025 @05:39PM (#45622417)
Good question! I have added better UX features like the ability to record a voice memo at the end of the day to automate the logging. It would be helpful for someone like a busy professional who is having a hard time to take time out of the day to log his food at every meal... So during his downtime, or before he goes to bed - he can quickly jolt down what he ate and then AI would summarise log it for him.

Let me know what you think.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Monday October 13, 2025 @06:59AM (#45567008)
Gym goers and calorie tracking folks, lend me your ears!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Monday October 13, 2025 @06:56AM (#45566990)
I am working on an AI-powered fitness and food tracker that automatically logs your food based on the photo. One of the difficulties I had when going to the gym is keeping up and sharing macros weekly with my personal trainer. Manually logging food is a hassle and massive pain point - so my app, Eat n Snap attempts to solve this problem. You can also set weight and BMI goals and see your progress on a weekly basis.

Sign up for my waitlist (or DM me if you want to know more) here: https://www.getsnapneat.com

Re:Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @06:56PM (#45366902)
Most apps for dev work actually work; - RStudio - VS Code - WSL2 - Fusion 360 - Docker

Only major exception is: - Android Studio's Emulator (although, the IDE does work)

Re:Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @06:48PM (#45366846)
I'm holding my breath though. I have a Samsung Edge 4 laptop and I didn't find the battery life impressive - prob got around 6 hours under coding / programming tasks. GPU performance is terrible too.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025) on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:57PM (#44801704)
Location: Currently in Sydney, Australia.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes. I am a PR of Spain and an Australian citizen.

About: I'm looking for any AI/ML roles at the moment. I have experience applying ML to biology in research so I am looking to see if anything fits.

Technologies: - Web Dev: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux - Data Science: Python (SciPy, NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jupyter), Neural Networks, SVMs, PCA, MDS, Decision Trees, Random Forests, R

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ytr4T52WnYPu2kx13MSjYkeu-YH...

Email: me [at] christopheragnus.com

Exactly.

ACS had a hand in blowing up Aussie jobs.

Its not just CBA, but Westpac, Optus and pretty much any large corporate in Australia.

ACS is being a hypocrite since: 1) they charge $$$ fees for validating IT experience so they would never advocate lowering the immgiration rate (its also a conflict of interest). So they have a hand in dismantling Australian tech jobs. 2) they inform the government that there's still a "skills shortage" of developer , when in reality, they do it to suppress wages.

ayyy, they used this in one of my previous workpaces in biotech.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025) on Friday July 04, 2025 @01:04PM (#44466150)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | Worldwide timezones - Currently in Sydney but also EU-based | Willing to travel in Australia / EU

Hi, I am Chris. I am an Australia but I have an EU work visa. I have 6+ years as a Full Stack Software Developer. I am experienced in the ReactJS and React Native tech Stack, and have developed API endpoints in Ruby on Rails. I have worked with companies such as Sportsbet, AIA Australia and Optus.

I have experience with AI / Machine Learning, where in my most recent project I was collaborating with the Queensland Cancer Council to produce a research paper (still in peer review) on breast cancer and Interpretable Machine Learning.

Tech Stack: Python (Pandas, Pytorch, Matplotlib), Typescript/Javascript, OpenAi / Antropic / Openrouter APIs, ReactJS/React Native, Redux, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Elixir/Phoenix, Coolify, AWS/Google Cloud.

Available: Immediate

Website: https://www.christopheragnus.com

I can be contacted via email at infinitycoin9 [at] gmail.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025) on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:56PM (#44446029)
Geez, Seven Hills is like the middle of nowhere in Sydney lol. That's a massive ask for anyone going in.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:11PM (#43529184)
I'm thinking of writing an app to manage ticketing and events in Europe. There's Eventbrite but it mostly for larger cities instead of mid-sized ones. I think there could be a niche for cheaper alternatives especially since student societies get charged like 2.50 euros on top of a 10 euro ticket.

Also, writing a Masters thesis on area-level and individual-level predictors of breast cancer... so a lot of applied ML.

Re:How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @02:28PM (#43415629)
Depends. I lived in St Kilda where the beach faces east. The sunset / golden hour seem to start from 6pm to 9pm.
Who's we?

I'm mostly frontend dev + done some machine learning analysis for academic institutions.

Good to hear from another Australian.

The tech industry is completed dead in Australia atm. I have been job hunting overseas in the EU as a result after the layoffs of 2022 but its damn hard.

> I don't think that's in line with Jesus' teachings of humility and helping the poor etc, especially not given how much money goes and went around in the church.

Hmm, but in the Exodus, the ark of the covenant was glided in gold with cherubs on the four corners. Same with the Jewish Temple, it was probably decked out in marble. Unlike Protestants, Catholicism have arts, choral music and statues and architecture not because they are "worshipping it" but because these things are supposed to direct the mind upwards towards God.

I think the Catholic Mass is the ancient form of worship by the early Church. There's multiple references to the Real Presence in the Eucharist in New Testament (ie. the road to Eramus and the breaking of bread, and in John 6:53*) and the Sanctus is still in the Eucharistic Prayer, and besides, its an obvious break with the Jews who did burnt offerings in the Temple.

John 6:53–58, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

Re: on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:01PM (#42311356)
Just still a "work-in-progress" but I created a repo with notebooks and scripts that can be used to convert FASTA files for CombFold (which performs a combinatorial assembly of subunits) alongside protein prediction in AlphaFold and then generates a summary table of the predictions in Jupyter.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

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