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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:18AM (#50349037)
Proxima Fusion | Senior Software Engineer (Dev Platform) | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Full-time

We're building the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. First spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, based on Wendelstein 7-X (the largest stellarator ever built), €650M+ raised, teams in Munich, Zurich and Oxford.

Finding a good stellarator design means searching an enormous high-dimensional space, and every candidate design needs heavy plasma physics simulation. That's the compute problem this role owns: cloud + HPC clusters, K8s, Ray, Dask, and the platform work around it (CI/CD, IaC, observability).

You'd sit directly next to the physicists and AI researchers burning through that compute, so you see exactly what your infrastructure unlocks. Python and Linux.

If you've wanted to point your platform engineering skills at something that actually matters, clean, abundant energy, this is about as direct a shot as it gets, and it's happening in Europe.

Interview process: recruiter call, meet the team lead, technical panel, meet the CEO.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/proxima-fusion/5aebfef0-0c2c-4c87-9...

Re:What's Getting Pwned on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:26AM (#50256493)
What is the data source feeding into this one? Just claude randomly scraping the internet?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:01AM (#49932525)
Proxima Fusion | Senior Software Engineer (Dev Platform) | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Full-time

We're building the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. First spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, based on Wendelstein 7-X (the largest stellarator ever built), €650M+ raised, teams in Munich, Zurich and Oxford.

Finding a good stellarator design means searching an enormous high-dimensional space, and every candidate design needs heavy plasma physics simulation. That's the compute problem this role owns: cloud + HPC clusters, K8s, Ray, Dask, and the platform work around it (CI/CD, IaC, observability).

You'd sit directly next to the physicists and AI researchers burning through that compute, so you see exactly what your infrastructure unlocks. Python and Linux.

If you've wanted to point your platform engineering skills at something that actually matters, clean, abundant energy, this is about as direct a shot as it gets, and it's happening in Europe.

Interview process: recruiter call, meet the team lead, technical panel, meet the CEO.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/proxima-fusion/5aebfef0-0c2c-4c87-9...

Re:Backups Aren't Simple on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:16AM (#49737021)
Huge fan of borg + vorta for backups and time Maschine like „Jump back in time“. Wrote about it years ago: https://simon-frey.com/blog/borgvorta-is-finally-a-usable-ba...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @07:37AM (#49360155)
One is with the team lead, the other with different team members.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @03:29AM (#49165394)
Proxima Fusion | Senior Software Engineer (Dev Platform) | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Full-time

We're building the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. First spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, based on Wendelstein 7-X (the largest stellarator ever built), €650M+ raised, teams in Munich, Zurich and Oxford.

Finding a good stellarator design means searching an enormous high-dimensional space, and every candidate design needs heavy plasma physics simulation. That's the compute problem this role owns: cloud + HPC clusters, K8s, Ray, Dask, and the platform work around it (CI/CD, IaC, observability). You'd sit directly next to the physicists and AI researchers burning through that compute, so you see exactly what your infrastructure unlocks. Python and Linux.

If you've wanted to point your platform engineering skills at something that actually matters, clean, abundant energy, this is about as direct a shot as it gets, and it's happening in Europe.

Interview process: recruiter call, technical screen, technical panel, CEO call.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/proxima-fusion/5aebfef0-0c2c-4c87-9...

Re:Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025) on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @04:55PM (#48998169)
Also have my website running on a Hetzner k8s cluster https://simon-frey.com/blog/kubernetes-on-hetzner-cloud/
Re:How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:34AM (#48276351)
Years ago I build a little tool to run shamir secret sharing in the browser (can be used full offline, just download the page)

https://simon-frey.com/s4/

Re:Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart on Friday May 22, 2026 @02:03AM (#48232538)
We have one in Munich as well. Quite nice walk along the river

https://www.deutsches-museum.de/museumsinsel/programm/progra...

It is old, hence Pluto is still part of it

Re:Creating a Color Palette from an Image on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:12AM (#47972024)
Did not fine one as well. Did vibecode an tiny single html page based tool: https://simon-frey.com/amandacolor
Re:Creating a Color Palette from an Image on Friday May 01, 2026 @02:12AM (#47971732)
Is there an example tool in the blogpost? Seems like would make sense

edit: Did vibecode one https://simon-frey.com/amandacolor

Re:Ask HN: Why are people leaving GitHub now? on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:19AM (#47960848)
Ah I see. Yeah did not experience issues here in the EU.
Re: on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:16AM (#47306597)
Let's see if it also survives HN hug-of-death :D
Would be great if it can be tried out without signup. Just put a watermark over it or so, but having full blown signup on first try is kinda a downer.

Would be interested in this

Re:Big List of Naughty Strings (2021) on Thursday February 12, 2026 @08:49AM (#46988797)
June 10, 2015 [Hacker News]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035008

January 15, 2017 [Hacker News]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13406119

November 16, 2018 [Hacker News]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18466787

I don't get this. Isn't this the same as saying "I taught my 5 year old to calculate integrals, by typing them into Wolfram Alpha"...so the actual relevant cognitive task (integrals in my example, "seeing" in yours) is outsources to an external API.

Why do I need gpt-oss-120B at all in this scenario? Couldn't I just directly call e.g. gemini-3-pro api from the python script?

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