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Re:Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:53AM (#48818689)
I've been tracking this as well [1], and there's indeed a clear difference between pre-2023 and 2023 onward.

[1] https://hnjobs.mathieularose.com

Show HN: Optiverse – Evolving Code with LLMs

Posted by larose on Thursday July 10, 2025 @11:34AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://mathieularose.com/optiverse-evolving-code-with-llms

Hi HN,After seeing DeepMind's AlphaEvolve [1], I wanted to try building something similar. This isn't the first open-source attempt [2] [3] [4], and it won't be the last, but I focused on making mine more modular and customizable to make experimenting with different evolution-based approaches or prompting strategies easier (e.g. balancing exploration and exploitation).The vision is to make it...

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Re:Ask HN: Will you help create a void-filler for the defunct hnbadges... on Thursday July 18, 2024 @01:20PM (#40997807)
Regarding the HN to sqlite part, I'm writing a "syncer" that continuously updates data from HN to a local sqlite database. Its goal is to enable anyone to have a local copy of the HN dataset to build various projects (like yours) on top of it. I'm about to release it as an open-source project and would love to collaborate to make sure it supports your use case. I couldn't find an email address in your profile, so please reach out if you're interested.
Re:Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:04PM (#40242319)
Not LLM-based, but I built https://hn.lixiasearch.com . Feel free to use it as a comparison point :)
Re:Changelog-Driven Releases on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @09:21AM (#40131669)
Oops, that's just bad writing from me. Should be clearer now that they aren't cancelling each other. Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Do You Also Marvel at the Complexity of Everyday Objects? on Monday March 18, 2024 @01:59PM (#39747718)
Same! You may enjoy "Everyday Engineering: Understanding the Marvels of Daily Life" from The Great Courses [0]. It's free on Kanopy through many libraries.

[0]: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/everyday-engineering...

Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your personal data? (2022) on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:22PM (#29867447)
I use Oak Backup (https://www.oakbackup.com) and backup to S3.
Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:09AM (#24885681)
Indeed. And you don't even need to create a PR to "inject" commits into a GitHub repo. You just need to fork it and push to your fork. See https://mathieularose.com/github-commit-injection
Re:Ask HN: What algorithms should I research to code a conference sche... on Saturday September 16, 2017 @10:18PM (#15267902)
Your problem is a scheduling problem. It has been well studied in operations research [1] / mathematical optimization [2].

Basically, you formulate your problem as a integer programming model [3] and use a solver [4] to solve it. You should check PuLP [5].

You can also ask your question at OR Exchange [6].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optimization_software

[5] https://pythonhosted.org/PuLP/

[6] https://www.or-exchange.org/

Re:Ask HN: What are the services you use to monitor your website/servi... on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:36PM (#13852588)
I use https://attomon.com (disclaimer: I'm the creator)

I'm also interested in hearing what you like and don't like about your current website monitoring solution.

Re:What are you working on? on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:21PM (#13852496)
https://attomon.com - Website monitoring

https://maitreinvestisseur.ca (French) - Why and how to invest using low-cost index funds.

Re:Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:22AM (#13383467)
I did something similar to gpg-encrypt: https://github.com/larose/eef/

It's a wrapper for gpg to edit encrypted files.

Re:Ask HN: Do you log your time at work? on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:44PM (#12719833)
Yes, I use https://github.com/larose/utt

Disclosure: I'm the author.