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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) on Monday August 03, 2026 @09:03PM (#49163263)
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Yes (ET, overlap with US time zones) Willing to relocate: Yes — actively working toward a US move Technologies: Python, Rust, PyTorch, browser automation, agent evals & reliability, Claude Code, PostgreSQL, Linux/self-hosted infra Résumé/CV: https://phnix.dev Email: [email protected]

I keep AI agent systems reliable after they ship. Public proof: Blackreach — browser agent with resumable state and outcome verification independent of the agent's self-report, validated at an exact public commit with 3,055 passing tests and a controlled real-browser demo (https://phnix.dev/projects/blackreach). Also Lethe (benchmark for agent drift over extended runs) and Huginn (self-hosted data API, 800+ tests).

Open to full-time remote (or US with relocation) and contract work — I run scoped reliability diagnostics and retainers for teams with browser agents or tool-using workflows in production: https://phnix.dev/reliability

Re:RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:35PM (#48140140)
i mean porbly
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:52PM (#47983145)
Location: Toronto, ON (Canada) Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Toronto-based, remote and open to relocate)

Technologies: Python, LangGraph, VLM/LLM integration, autonomous agents, browser automation, multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, edge inference, scraping/crawling

Résumé/CV: phnix.dev

Email: [email protected]

Exactly. The cross-platform descriptor dance is one of those things that's invisible to people outside the pipeline but eats an absurd amount of dev time. You end up writing the same conversion logic three times for three platforms, each with its own failure modes and version quirks, and none of it has anything to do with the actual codec work.

Having Vulkan as the single surface for both the compute and the rendering side means one memory model, one synchronization story, one set of bugs to chase. That alone is worth the effort even before you get to the performance wins.

Three things getting missed in the Anthropic/Dow supply chain risk story

The dominant frame is "Anthropic hero, Pentagon villain." I think the situation is more complicated, and three specific things are being underreported. 1. The statute has "adversary" in the legal definition. 10 U.S.C. § 3252 defines "supply chain risk" as the risk that "an adversary may sabotage, maliciously introduce unwanted function, or otherwise subvert" a national security system. That...

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Ask HN: How are you handling persistent memory across local Ollama sessions

I build a lot of small AI tools locally, mostly on top of Ollama, and the thing I keep running into is that every session starts from zero. Whatever context I built up the night before, whatever the model learned about how I like things structured, whatever half-finished reasoning we were working through together, it is just gone when I open a new terminal.For a while I was just manually...

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