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Re:Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:41AM (#48567090)
I am very curious how one might do that? What would be the input parameters ? (Zero knowledge about actuarial math)
Re:Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:57PM (#46537348)
Do 10 pushups or squats.
Re:Ask HN: What do you plan to read in 2026? on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:12PM (#46482249)
I've been meaning to read the AIMA book too. There is a free video lecture course by Norvig himself on Udacity do check them out.
Re:Ask HN: What do you plan to read in 2026? on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:10PM (#46482229)
That is incredibly wonderful to hear. Glad they were able to make it through hell.
Re:Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:04AM (#46434663)
Thank you for taking the time. This is quite standard CS degree syllabus, while quality and rigour of CS schools differ but I think any decent CS grad should know these.
Re:Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:01PM (#46412454)
Could you elaborate more? What would those said foundations and fundamentals be ?
Re:Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point on Sunday December 28, 2025 @11:56AM (#46412424)
Although I do understand the analogy being made here. But I suspect OP much like myself is hoping for concrete suggestions. To my mind argument is Software Jobs will shrink and only the very elites will be valuable aka the recent Meta's 10s of millions of offers. But for the rest of average Joes it will be harsh job market or even non existent. So what can the average programmer do , concretely.
Re:Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point on Sunday December 28, 2025 @11:51AM (#46412392)
I for one am afraid and this keeps me awake at night, the general take on HNers always seems to be oh you are only doing mundane tasks, AI can't do what I do. Which is partly true, but claude code has improved leaps and bounds almost exponentially at least from my subjective usage. My solution is to just save and invest aggressively and grind DSA to get a higher paying job as I don't see myself in the elites that these discussions are full of. I really am a mediocre prgrammer
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:47PM (#45883618)
Hey does your team hire from India as well ? Both posts seems to be us/canada only.
You could take a look at sourcegraph Cody
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024) on Thursday July 04, 2024 @12:58PM (#40876372)
Took your suggestion and just applied. Just curious though, why the recommendation ?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @11:11PM (#40581020)
Hey looks super interesting, would definitely try it out. Having worked in a similar VC funded big Api Dev Platform, would love to hear your thoughts on how the team is planning to address eventual enshittification due to VC pressures.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @11:04PM (#40580984)
Hey, looks like a great fit for me. I have led teams to $1M MRR, owned the entire infrastrucutre for more than 60 microservices. delivered lots of large scale projects from scratch.

However the application form asks for current and expectation without mentioning the budget which to me at least is a negative signal.

After having implemened many complex distributed state machines I started thinking along the terms of how do abstract away the engineering part of it and provide a platform for writing business logic. Technical term for it is workflow orchestration. You might have heard of AWS Step functions.

Check out Temporal, it's open source and lot of architecture videos exist. I've been trying to experiment with it to rewrite my old projects using it.

Re:Ask HN: What's the way to find a job in 2024? on Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:05PM (#39736526)
Have used this feature, works exactly like this. However it is a hit or miss, most of the incoming recruiters/companies are far below my standards. The best way to use LinkedIn is to send out requests to engineers where I want to work and ask for referrals. It's important to do your homework on the role, company, and person. Most of the people are happy to refer if you do this.
Re:Slack or Discord? on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:53PM (#39736393)
I've always been intrigued by the promise of Matrix, have tried it out multiple times in a span of 5 years. I see it getting adopted by a few open source communities as well, and last I checked they were working on a golang implementation of the core server. However everytime my issue has been it's very slow. Curious what do you use it for ?
Re:Why it is so hard to build a AI Video Editor? on Monday February 26, 2024 @11:58AM (#39513691)
The company behind it has more robust cloud tools too, meant for film studios. If you're serious about building this, please reach out using the email in my profile.
Re:Why it is so hard to build a AI Video Editor? on Monday February 19, 2024 @09:50PM (#39437502)
Klipme claims to do this exactly. I've been on the lookout for such tools, to generate reels/vlogs from my huge raw content. Happy to bounce ideas and contributing to build one.
Re:Firefox built-in spyware that cannot be disabled on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:32AM (#39192092)
I would read a novel written by you. good sir.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:14AM (#38514196)
I love Cody!! and have used it's explain feature to get onboarded quickly to a huge undocumented legacy codebase.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Sunday December 03, 2023 @01:59PM (#38509706)
Hi, loved your approach to hiring. However I am getting the error "Your test link has been cancelled" after clicking See Test button.
What system is this, I would love to know more about it.
Re:Ask HN: Who's Seeking New Friends? on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:09AM (#37072941)
Great, which sport was most exciting? I have just gotten into adventure sports have done scuba diving, white water kayaking, paragliding so far. Really want to learn skiing, next.
Re:Ask HN: Who's Seeking New Friends? on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:06AM (#37072925)
Interesting, I was mainly interested in genomics/brain imaging etc. Also curious about how/if medicines are tested against different cells/protiens, as far as I know they bind to specific molecules only. How does one figure that out?

Bored of writing traditional software, want to work on the applied science stuff. ex: like Large Haldron Collider, or genetics ,or sport biomechanics labs etc.

Will ping you on discord, would love to have a chat. I've just dipped my toes in philosophy reading Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy.

Re:Ask HN: Who's Seeking New Friends? on Thursday August 10, 2023 @02:53AM (#37072840)
Hey, I would like to learn "futuristic software" from you or just have a chat. I am a career software engineer who admittedly has very little knowledge in concurrency. Any recommendations to learn it?
Re:Ask HN: Who's Seeking New Friends? on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:28PM (#37065077)
Great thought, it's quite hard to find new friends as you grow old. I've always been curious about computational biology, care to elaborate more? My interests are literature, philosophy and sports(mostly running and badminton).
Re:Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo on Monday July 03, 2023 @08:10AM (#36571775)
Sounds very interesting, can you expand a bit more on what exactly your team does?
Everything by MIT Open Course Ware
Re:Ask HN: Open source LLM for commercial use? on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:51AM (#35536278)
Curious why and how you did the transition? Rapid progress in this space I don't think SWE is a viable career for next 20 years.