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Re:Merlin Bird ID on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @09:27AM (#44180513)
I love this app. I let it run in the background when I walk my dogs at home and when I'm traveling and it is amazing how well it connects me with the world around me.
Re:Oso Golf: 9 programming puzzles on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @10:15AM (#38277496)
Hi all! one of the makers of Oso Golf here :)

Authorization is a challenge for everyone, but has been solved by no one. As the people who wake up thinking about authorization each day we created Oso Golf, a game to help educate the developers about authorization.

We built the first iteration for this game for GraphQL summit, as a fun way for developers to learn Oso’s policy language. Attendees got really into the game, hanging out at our booth for upwards of 30 minutes to solve this with their friends.

So we got some feedback on the game and built it out into 9 “holes,” just like a Golf course, each hole teaches you a different principle of authorization modeling. We’re opening this up to the community today and are excited to see what you think!

Show HN: The Oso Modeler

https://ui.osohq.com/modeler

Hi HN! Me and the team at Oso are really excited to share a new tool for developers building authorization: the Oso Modeler. This is an interface (it's free to use directly on our site) that makes it easy to write and export authorization models.The first step to working on authorization and permissions is laying out who should be allowed to do what, and figuring out how to structure that....

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023) on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:03PM (#36575824)
Thanks for letting us know. I just looked this up and this has been in place since November 1, 2022 [1]. We're on it and look to fix this.

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/media/pay-transparency.page

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023) on Monday July 03, 2023 @11:17AM (#36574117)
Oso | https://www.osohq.com

Oso is building authorization for the next billion developers. We are building the product in Rust, which we think is both a good design choice for our use case and a fun choice for the team. I recently joined the team and absolutely love the culture and I'm inspired by the talented engineers I get to work with :) Current open roles:

- Engineering Manager (NYC) - Software Engineer (NYC or Remote) - Developer Experience Engineer (NYC or Remote) - Head of Engineering (NYC)

All open roles - https://www.osohq.com/company/jobs A bit more about Authorization: https://www.osohq.com/academy Our Slack community: http://join-slack.osohq.com/

Re:Silicon Valley Is on Drugs on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @03:09PM (#36497335)
The connection of psychedelics to capital efficiency and growth is wild to me - I do love Matt Levine's newsletter and I feel that part of this commentary was satirical in order to make a point.

I feel like Silicon Valley's psychedelic era is like a strain "tech bro" wellness culture (often referred to as "biohacking"). And just like wellness culture it's really hard to distinguish something that is helpful in small doses vs. something that becomes a gratuitous lifestyle (like drinking charcoal or putting jade eggs somewhere you shouldn't).

Re:Jessica Livingston on Friday June 23, 2023 @03:24PM (#36451130)
Thanks for posting this. I always wondered why Jessica wasn't a bigger part of the YC story that so many people told.

This line stood out to me in particular: _It's not just because she's shy that she hates attention, but because it throws off the Social Radar. She can't be herself. You can't watch people when everyone is watching you._

No matter what you get acknowledged for I think it's so important to always be yourself but to know what makes you strong is so challenging.

Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:01PM (#25867818)
"This means that Elasticsearch and Kibana will no longer be open source software"

Elasticsearch is open source. the SSPL is open source. It just can't help Amazon make money.

Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:01PM (#25867813)
The biggest flaw in the piece is "This means that Elasticsearch and Kibana will no longer be open source software."

The SSPL is an open source license. It's just not the license that can help Amazon make money.

Re:Why we are suing the Administration on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:05AM (#24340484)
If you comply with China's laws you can operate there. These US companies just don't want to deal with that.
Re:AWS Controllers for Kubernetes on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:14PM (#24276208)
Reminds me of Nantucket's airport
This is why developers need to be careful when choosing which SDKs they use for developing apps.
Re:Indigenous Cultures Have Archaeology Too on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:19PM (#24152080)
For someone who is "into the humanities" you ignore the fact that the Frankfurt school were some of the first who were actively rejecting this posturing towards reason. The "Dialectic of Enlightenment" is a treatise on the problems of rationality. It was written pre-WW2, as Hitler came to power. And it was quite correct in that this obsession with brunt progress was a fire that caused the Third Reich to rise up. It's very similar to what's happening right now, so please don't muddy up this discussion by saying that it's all witchcraft because it makes you sound like you are just spewing Ben Shapiro.

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