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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:22AM (#49523194)
Aerdos | https://www.aerdos.com/ | SF | Full Time | $200-250K + equity We're building an ai-native intelligence agency to help the USG answer the trickiest national security problems. We do this with lots of public/commercial data and ai.

We are well funded and hiring founding engineers in SF. https://www.aerdos.com/careers/member-of-technical-staff

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:29PM (#49163060)
Aerdos | https://www.aerdos.com/ | SF | Full Time | $200-250K + equity

We're building an ai-native intelligence agency to help the USG answer the trickiest national security problems. We do this with lots of public/commercial data and ai.

We are well funded and hiring founding engineers and analysts in SF. https://www.aerdos.com/careers

Re:I Went to SQL Injection Court on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @05:06PM (#43178169)
Ended up finding the majority of Michigan through scraping.

For example, https://www.cityofflint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Annua...

Re:I Went to SQL Injection Court on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @03:34PM (#43177022)
I FOIA'ed >1M pages of docs for my project cleartap.com, a DB of water quality of the USA.

Most states would charge a small amount to gather the documents.

Michigan wanted $50K to for the FOIA request. I think because of the Flint lead crisis. They wanted me to go away.

Most water suppliers in the USA still don't test for PFAS on a regular schedule. Only the more progressive states (like ME) require testing from their suppliers.

I maintain a DB of drinking water contaminants in the US[1]. You can look up your city's system to see if they test for PFAS.

[1]: https://www.cleartap.com

El Dorado, one of the towns in AR that overlaps with the deposits, does have an above avg level of lithium water supply [1].

[1]: I'm working on a DB of water quality, https://www.cleartap.com/water-systems/AR0000550

Re:Show HN: Forest Watch on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:45PM (#39621187)
At the end of the year, the EU will require importers of certain commodities (coffee, cocoa, cattle, palm oil, etc) to have evidence the commodity was not grown on deforested land. It's called the EUDR[1], and I don't think a lot of importers are ready for it.

The crux of the issue is each importer requires verifiable satellite evidence. I could see suppliers using this site to generate their compliance statements!

[1]. https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/forests/deforestatio...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022) on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:49AM (#31948133)
Upright Labs | Frontend Engineers | REMOTE (North America) | Full-Time

Upright Labs builds inventory management systems for secondhand retailers like Salvation Army and Goodwill. Each day, our clients use our software to sell thousands of unique products across the internet.

We're hiring a frontend engineers who want to work closely with our customers to build the best inventory management software. Our goal is to build the operating system for used goods.

Our stack is based on Rails, Postgres, and React (typescript). We run everything on AWS and Heroku, and build our internal tools with Retool. We document with Notion, and chat with Slack/Zoom.

Want to learn more/apply? https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/upright-labs-frontend...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022) on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:57PM (#30173096)
Upright Labs | Fullstack Engineers | REMOTE (North America) | Full-Time Upright Labs builds inventory management systems for secondhand retailers like Salvation Army and Goodwill. Each day, our clients use our software to sell thousands of unique products across the internet.

We're hiring a fullstack engineers who wants to work closely with our customers to build the best inventory management software. The company is 100% remote, bootstrapped, and profitable. Our goal is to build the operating system for used goods.

Our stack is based on Rails, Postgres, and React (typescript). We run everything on AWS and Heroku, and build our internal tools with Retool. We document with Notion, and chat with Slack/Zoom.

Want to learn more/apply? https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/upright-labs-fullstac...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022) on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:53PM (#29783776)
Upright Labs | Fullstack Engineers | REMOTE (North America) | Full-Time

Upright Labs builds inventory management systems for secondhand retailers like Salvation Army and Goodwill. Each day, our clients use our software to sell thousands of unique products across the internet.

We're hiring a fullstack engineers who wants to work closely with our customers to build the best inventory management software. The company is 100% remote, bootstrapped, and profitable. Our goal is to build the operating system for used goods.

Our stack is based on Rails, Postgres, and React (typescript). We run everything on AWS and Heroku, and build our internal tools with Retool. We document with Notion, and chat with Slack/Zoom.

Want to learn more? https://uprightlabs.com

Apply: https://form.jotform.com/213437220337145

Re:Why Can’t I Sleep? on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:00PM (#27475017)
Insomnia is something I've dealt with for most of my adult life. I followed everything you were supposed to do, got blackout curtains, no coffee, no alcohol, exercised, but still had issues. This article below helped me realize the insomnia is actually a form of performance anxiety. Sitting in bed tossing and turning, mind racing wishing you were asleep is the problem. You have to train yourself that you can sleep and to not fear it, gain the confidence that you can fall asleep.

https://ilya.sukhar.com/blog/an-algorithmic-solution-to-inso...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020) on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:40PM (#22227401)
Upright Labs | Washington, DC | Onsite or Remote (North America only) | https://www.uprightlabs.com/ We are looking to hire our first customer success engineer. Someone that loves writing code and delighting customers. You want to work at a startup and have a ton of different responsibilities.

We build multichannel ecommerce software for retailers. We make it really easy for second-hand retailers to manage inventory and sell online, everywhere. Our software processes thousands of items each month and has helped retailers sell millions in inventory. We're based out of Washington, DC but have a remote presence.

You’ll be one of the first hires in this role, so you’ll have tons of autonomy. You'll be spending a good portion of the time building out our internal tools to make customer success automatable, easier, and less technical. If you enjoy working at startups, wearing lots of hats, and delighting customers, you’ll fit in perfectly.

Tech: Rails, PG, Typescript, React Apply: https://apply.workable.com/upright-labs/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019) on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @12:26PM (#21127303)
Upright Labs https://uprightlabs.com | Washington, DC | Fullstack engineer | Onsite | Full-Time

Upright Labs builds multichannel ecommerce software for retailers. We make it really easy for second-hand retailers to manage inventory and sell online, everywhere. Our software processes thousands of items each month and has helped retailers sell millions in inventory.

Our stack is Rails on the backend with React.js with Typescript on the frontend, backed by a Postgres DB. We run everything on AWS and Heroku, logging with LogDNA, CI with Circle CI, error tracking with Sentry, and source code on Github. We constantly evolve our stack and are always on the lookout for new exciting technologies.

We are looking for our 3rd fullstack engineer hire to join a small but mighty team of devs trying to make the best ecommerce software.

Apply at https://angel.co/company/upright-labs/jobs/356090-fullstack-... or contact me directly by emailing jackson at our domain.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019) on Monday July 01, 2019 @01:31PM (#20327671)
Upright Labs | Washington, DC | Full-time, Onsite | https://uprightlabs.com

Upright Labs builds multichannel e-commerce software for the second hand goods industry. We help retailers sell millions of dollars each year on online channels such as eBay and Shopify.

We are looking to hire our first business analyst to join our team of 5. Ideal candidate has 2 years+ experience, excellent writing skills, and is looking to join a small team and wear many hats. You'll be working closely on product, sales, and customer success.

Here's some more details: https://angel.co/company/upright-labs/jobs

If you're interested, feel free to email me at jackson at uprightlabs dot com.

Re:Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified on Sunday May 05, 2019 @10:51AM (#19833072)
If you are living with CFS i recommend giving https://cfsremission.com/ a look.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018) on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:50AM (#17903210)
Upright Labs | Frontend Engineer | Washington, DC | ONSITE | Full-Time | $90-120k+

Upright Labs builds multichannel ecommerce software for retailers. We make it really easy for retailers to sell online, everywhere. Our software processes thousands of items each month and has helped retailers sell 5m in inventory. We are looking for talented frontend engineers with great product sense. We are a team of 5 and growing quickly, hoping to get to 7 by end of year. Our stack is rails on the backend, all react on the frontend. Goal for this quarter is to start working in typescript into our stack!

Feel free to reach out directly to me at jackson at uprightlabs dot com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018) on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:25AM (#16967818)
Upright Labs (https://www.uprightlabs.com) | Washington, DC | Fullstack Engineer | Full-time | $90-115k + Bonus + Equity | ONSITE

Upright Labs builds multichannel ecommerce software for retailers. We make it really easy for businesses to list everywhere online. We are looking for our first engineer, if you like working for a profitable and growing startup, want to wear many hats, and solve hard tech problems, this is the place to be.

Come work with us if you like greenfield apps, latest technologies, rails + react. We love hackers, show us your github and tell us about your side projects.

You can reach out at [email protected]

This is platform agnostic, correct? I can use AWS or DO, right?
Why would I want to have a ctr file separate from my pod or rc?
Re:Ask HN: How to make algorithms out of math formulas? on Saturday February 13, 2016 @11:46AM (#11094611)
Are there any courses, readings, or tutorials out there on how to get started?

Ask HN: How to make algorithms out of math formulas?

How does one go about turning a mathematical formula into an algorithm? Assuming limited knowledge, where do I start? Learning formulaic syntax?How difficult would it be to code an algorithm given only a formula? For example coding out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knapsack_problems

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Re:Show HN: Nixar – New design of Linux command line on Monday November 16, 2015 @10:41AM (#10575017)
Another example of Atwoods Law, 'any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.'
I find this extension most helpful for learning syntax for new languages. For when you know what you want to do, but don't know the specific syntax to do so.
Hey author here, I built this to combat my bad habit of copy-pasting from stack overflow. It's open sourced here https://github.com/jaxgeller/type-it-out

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