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Re:Lobbying on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:58AM (#50031660)
Normally what you were doing is flagged as advocating, while if you were lobbying you would have been a registered lobbyist. Not always, but usually.
Re:Let's Buy Spirit Air on Sunday May 03, 2026 @08:44PM (#48003276)
It and Frontier were the only affordable airlines.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:47PM (#46626352)
https://natwelch.com personal site with a wiki and blog.
Re:Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:04PM (#43917432)
"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."

I'm disappointed this wasn't the top comment on hn. Have we abandoned all culture?

I mean this is bad, but also there are silicon fabs all over the bay area, and have been for decades. Hence the whole "silicon valley" thing.
I use `yq` for this stuff and it handles most of this pretty well.
Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:12PM (#37102217)
I would migrate off fast. If they are willing to do this with their oldest and most popular tool, I have no doubt they'll change the license of all of their code soon.
I am not a lawyer, but https://explore.zoom.us/docs/doc/Zoom-hipaa.pdf reads like as long as they don't disclose your information, they aren't in violation.
Definitely, but so does every advertising play. While AI companies are more egregious, this isn't anything new.
With all of the layoffs, we're seeing about a 50-100x increase in number of applicants for open rolls, so the market is definitely more flooded. Also I'm regularly finding applicants were over-lelveled in past roles, and so usually have about one or two titles higher expectations for level than they actually are capable of having.
Just rewrite all of your Python in Go. Python in 2023 is a mistake.
If your service needs to survive a global aws outage, you just can't run with any saas. So many of these companies are single regioned in AWS. Auth0, Okta, Datadog, many others put customers in a regional box, and if that region goes down, all of those customers go down.
This is also why you shouldn't take GPA or alma-mater into account when considering resumes. MIT grads are just as worthless as any other 21y old.
Re:Hi again @elonmusk on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:29PM (#35062906)
That's not surprising. hn has been home to anti-worker, pro-techno-utopianism for a very long time.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:55PM (#34999206)
Laurel | Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform | REMOTE (North America) | https://laurel.ai

Full JD and application form - https://grnh.se/19ed4d612us

Laurel is a time tracking application for lawyers, accounts and other knowledge workers. Our infrastructure / cloud platform team is small but we build, design and manage the platform for our product engineers to build our product!

Re: on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:46PM (#34807647)
There is no cloud provider that is large that wants you building hobby apps. Google, AWS, Azure, Heroku, etc. all want you to build large apps, small apps are not their market and they actively don't want you.
Pretty much all of the books at newline do this: https://www.newline.co/
Re:Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:45AM (#34261327)
Layoffs and outages at Circle. software supply chain attacks becoming more and more popular.
Re:An M1 for Curl on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:46AM (#34186756)
While this is great, there are so many more FOSS projects that OSX relies on that Apple doesn't support in any way.
Re:Ask HN: Whats a Build vs. Buy decision that you got wrong? on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:27PM (#34169114)
Hiring Devops contractors to put together any piece of infrastructure. Infrastructure is so core to your business, you always regret and have to rebuild. Tried twice now and regretted it both times.
Beowulfs were huge hacks back in the day, but are similar to most super computers. The main difference from how many think of compute clusters these days is it is managed as a single machine, so historically needed identical hardware. Parallel processing and concurrency used to be more rare :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster

I miss the original sim games. Simtower being my favorite.
If only they had open sourced it, it could have lived on.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022) on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:19PM (#32693309)
Time By Ping | REMOTE (US, west coast preferred) | Full Time

We are time tracking software for professionals, and our mission is to return time. You can learn more about us at https://timebyping.com

We're mostly a Typescript shop, but we have some Golang, Python, C# and Swift.

we currently have the following open rolls:

- Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning - https://www.timebyping.com/jobs?gh_jid=6169150002

- Principal Engineer, React - https://www.timebyping.com/jobs?gh_jid=6361179002

- Principal Engineer, Backend - https://www.timebyping.com/jobs?gh_jid=6357592002

Re:Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on? on Sunday August 28, 2022 @12:23PM (#32629596)
Specifically small agriculture too. Most investment is in huge farms, very little investment in making small agriculture (think less than 10 acres) more affordable and accessible. Most of this is policy problems in the US, but globally its also a problem.
Most big retailers use this tech already to track how customers walk through their stores.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264822934_Mining_of... https://www.aislelabs.com/blog/2022/04/04/combining-camera-a...

There's lots of other examples, this was just a quick google search.

I thought this trend was a joke, did not realize people were actually using bots to deliver food.

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