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Re:Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:14PM (#48926471)
Thinky has a potential answer in Tinker — give away the weights and charge for the SFT (and maybe RL down the line) to make the model more capable for specific tasks.
Plot here is quite thick. SF selling power to PG&E to distribute was found illegal/in violation of the Raker Act by the US Supreme Court in 1940 in United States v. City and County of San Francisco.

SF shifted to "wheeling" instead of selling power to PG&E and is tenuously in compliance now, but the current set up was never intended when the federal government ceded water and power rights from Yosemite to SF.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:13AM (#46473267)
Firetiger | Product Engineer | San Francisco | Full time, on-site

Firetiger is building self-driving software operations. We believe the future of DevOps isn't better dashboards (like Datadog), but autonomous agents that monitor, investigate, and remediate issues based on high-level business goals. We are backed by Sequoia Capital and founded by Rustam and Achille, former leaders from Cloudflare and Segment.

We are looking for a Product Engineer to build the interfaces between humans and AI agents running software on behalf of those humans. More here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firetiger/f5d4ba4b-29c8-4f77-bae8-8...

Re:Claude for Excel on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:50PM (#45723270)
People were saying the same thing about AWS vs SaaS ("AWS wrappers") a decade ago and none of that came to pass. Same will be true here.
Re:Show HN: Exponent, A collaborative AI programming agent on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @03:11PM (#43560378)
I've used it quite a bit/have vibe coded quite a few "real" things with it in various languages. It's a really nice complement to Cursor-style and claude-code style interaction modalities.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025) on Monday March 03, 2025 @11:51AM (#43243721)
Firetiger | Software Engineers (full-stack, ML, systems) | Full-time | ONSITE San Francisco

Join Firetiger to build a next-generation observability platform that:

1) Gives businesses customer-level visibility - You should see when your most important customers are having issues, not just system-level metrics

2) Makes observability affordable and secure with a Bring Your Own Cloud architecture - own your data, and scale up without billing surprises

3) Stores your data in an open format (Apache Iceberg) so you can join observability data with other business datasets, unlocking insights that siloed observability vendors can't provide

Learn more: https://firetiger.com, https://firetiger.notion.site

Re:Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:23PM (#41736113)
The amount of work required to stand up 330 well connected locations and then operate infrastructure to filter traffic at that scale profitably is more than "tossing" cabinets at problems.

This is on the level of BrandonM's famous comment on Dropbox. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Re:Show HN: I made a super-simple Image CDN on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:15PM (#41736067)
Congrats on the launch. A small nit re: your pricing: you're charging for data transfer (bytes transferred over a long period of time), not bandwidth (bits transmitted at a point in time).
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:32PM (#41715527)
Firetiger | firetiger.com | San Francisco ONSITE | Full Time

Firetiger enables organizations to monitor engineering metrics and customer experiences in real-time while reducing observability costs by up to 90% compared to legacy vendors.

We deliver these advantages with infrastructure built on modern standards that supports high cardinality data sets and deployment entirely within customer cloud perimeters.

Founded by Achille[0] and Rustam[1], who built large-scale observability systems at Cloudflare and Segment, Firetiger is backed by Sequoia Capital, the founders of Cloudflare and Segment, and other prominent investors.

Email jobs @ if you're interested.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/achille-roussel/ [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalkaka/

Re:Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:33AM (#40801215)
Both.
Re:Snowflake, Cloud Storage Giant, Suffers Breach on Friday May 31, 2024 @02:23PM (#40538633)
Very possible there were creds etc accessible in Servicenow that could have been used to move laterally from there. Conjecture, obviously.
Re:Meta outage on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:36AM (#39605848)
Major outages are periods of intense stress and extremely difficult to operate in. The folks troubleshooting may be many things, but careless and incompetent are unlikely to be among them.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024) on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:46PM (#39569361)
You have no contact info listed!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024) on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:43PM (#39569335)
Firetiger | Full stack engineer, ML engineer | San Francisco ONSITE | Full-time

Firetiger is building observability tools for knowledge work. We ingest information from systems across a business and pinpoint bottlenecks and inefficiencies in common operational processes, like recruiting, finance, and sales workflows, and guide folks toward fixing issues identified in real time. We want to do for business ops what Datadog has done for engineering or Clari has done for sales.

We're backed by Sequoia, Matthew Prince (Cloudflare), Zach Perret (Plaid), Jeff Wilke (Amazon), and a long list of other operationally-obsessed founders and experts.

As a founding engineer, you’ll build amazing products with skilled peers. You'll have tremendous impact on our product, company, and customers. We offer competitive salary+benefits, and a very meaningful ownership stake to all who join.

We’re looking for pragmatic, thoughtful, and kind people with a passion for making people, teams, and companies operate at their best.

Come build the future of how work gets done. Email jobs @ firetiger.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) on Saturday February 03, 2024 @01:23AM (#39238006)
Firetiger | Founding Engineer | San Francisco ONSITE | Full-time

Firetiger is building observability tools for knowledge work. We ingest information from systems across a business and pinpoint bottlenecks and inefficiencies in common operational processes, like recruiting, finance, and sales workflows, and guide folks toward fixing issues identified in real time. We want to do for business ops what Datadog has done for engineering or Clari has done for sales.

We're backed by Sequoia, Matthew Prince (Cloudflare), Zach Perret (Plaid), Jeff Wilke (Amazon), and a long list of other operationally-obsessed founders and experts.

As a founding engineer, you’ll build amazing products with skilled peers. You'll have tremendous impact on our product, company, and customers. We offer competitive salary+benefits, and a very meaningful ownership stake to all who join.

We’re looking for pragmatic, thoughtful, and kind people with a passion for making people, teams, and companies operate at their best.

Come build the future of how work gets done. Email jobs @ firetiger.com

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