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Am I the only one frustrated the actual message isn't in the article????
Re:AI uses less water than the public thinks on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:36PM (#47980717)
This is a hilariously misleading "study" and I would bet "beer" wasn't chosen arbitrarily for comparison:

The important difference WRT beer is that the water used in the process likely in a larger part goes towards... the beer itself. This in turn is going into the person who drinks it. So, the water here is actually hydrating human beings.

This can be argued as one of the 2-3 absolutely necessary uses of water. Hydrating people.

So, spending less than the beer industry is not that great of an achievement.

However, a casual reader may see comparison to "beer" and think "oh yeah, beer, just a random thing out of a million, so yeah AI is totally ordinary".

Which is a very incorrect conclusion to reach.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:08PM (#45825231)
Just got off a call with recruiter. Completely dishonest in the job posting. Stay away!

This role is advertising comp range of $200,000-$320,000 https://tbkbank.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/tfin/details/Sta...

Actual range delivered to me on a phone call with their recruiter is $200,000-$240,000

I have no idea why you would do this but they do.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @12:32PM (#45813605)
Your comp philosophy: principle #1 - transparency. Specifically mentioning not revealing details long into a hiring process as a bad practice.

Your job req - no comp range provided.

Why?

Re:Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:12PM (#45748869)
17th if comparing to sovereign states. There is way more debt held by private domestic investors as well as government agencies.
Re:AWS Icon Quiz on Thursday August 31, 2023 @04:36PM (#37343370)
I hope this is made by an obsessive graphic designer at AWS who's lost one too many arguments.
A person gives you a whole book they wrote for free and you're complaining about asking for an email? WTF
LOL I read this title as a "Showerthoughts", just stating a funny fact about "normal" chess.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022) on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:26PM (#33423450)
Step Mobile | Software Engineer, Data | Full Time | Palo Alto or Remote (US timezones) | https://step.com

We are building the best bank for the next generation. Still a small team, strong traction. Lots of stuff to build and an outsized impact for individuals.

I'm the hiring manager. Looking for someone who's versatile and a strong end-to-end owner.

email me: pasha at step dot com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022) on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:46AM (#31583579)
Step | All Engineering Roles | Palo Alto, CA | Onsite OR Remote in the US | https://step.com

Our mission is to improve the financial future of the next generation.

To do so we're building the best bank for young people.

We're at the most interesting point in time in a startup: strong traction and PMF, a ton of stuff to build nearly from scratch and growing our team fast.

Very well funded and it's still very early. Make a huge impact and learn a lot.

I'm one of the hiring managers in eng - feel free to reach out: pasha at step com

Some recent news about us

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/teen-banking-service-step-...

Open roles:

https://step.com/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @01:06PM (#31237836)
Step | All Engineering roles | Palo Alto, CA and REMOTE | Full-time | https://step.com

Step is building the best bank for the next generation.

We're at the most interesting point in time in a startup: strong traction and PMF, a ton of stuff to build nearly from scratch and accelerating growing our eng team.

Very well funded and it's still very early on, make a huge impact and learn a lot.

I'm one of the hiring managers in eng - feel free to reach out: pasha at step com

Some recent news about us

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/teen-banking-service-step-...

https://step.com/press/step-announces-plans-for-a-new-crypto...

Open roles:

https://step.com/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022) on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:07PM (#30879708)
Step | All Engineering Roles | Palo Alto, CA | Onsite OR Remote in the US | https://step.com

Our mission is to improve the financial future of the next generation.

To do so we're building the best bank for young people.

We're at the most interesting point in time in a startup: strong traction and PMF, a ton of stuff to build nearly from scratch and growing our team fast.

Very well funded and it's still very early. Make a huge impact and learn a lot.

I'm one of the hiring managers in eng - feel free to reach out: pasha at step com

Some recent news about us

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/teen-banking-service-step-...

Open roles:

https://step.com/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022) on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:47PM (#29783694)
Step | All Engineering Roles | Palo Alto, CA | Onsite OR Remote in the US | https://step.com

Step is building the best bank for the next generation.

We've reached 1.5 million users (!) in less than six months from launch.

We're at the most interesting point in time in a startup: strong traction and PMF, a ton of stuff to build nearly from scratch and accelerating growing our eng team.

Very well funded and it's still very early on, make a huge impact and learn a lot.

I'm one of the hiring managers in eng - feel free to reach out: pasha at step com

Some recent news about us

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/teen-banking-service-step-...

Open roles:

https://step.com/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021) on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:25PM (#29069881)
Step | All Engineering Roles | Palo Alto, CA | Onsite OR Remote in the US | https://step.com

Step is building the best bank for the next generation.

We've reached 1.5 million users (!) in less than six months from launch.

We're at the most interesting point in time in a startup: strong traction and PMF, a ton of stuff to build nearly from scratch and accelerating growing our eng team.

Very well funded and it's still very early on, make a huge impact and learn a lot.

I'm one of the hiring managers in eng - feel free to reach out: pasha at step com

Some recent news about us

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/teen-banking-service-step-...

Open roles:

https://step.com/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021) on Friday October 01, 2021 @12:29PM (#28720496)
Step | All Engineering Roles | SF Bay Area and Remote (US) | Full-time | https://step.com

Our mission is to improve the financial future of the next generation. To do so, we're building the best bank for the next generation.

We've launched in October 2020 and in April 2021 surpassed 1.5 million users on the platform and raised $100M. https://step.com/press/step-raises-100-million-in-series-c-f...

The engineering team is still small. Join if you want to work on a variety of interesting problems, take ownership, learn a ton and grow very fast.

I'm one of the hiring managers, feel free to reach out pasha at step dot com , or apply online https://step.com/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021) on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:17PM (#28038640)
Step | All Engineering roles | SF Bay | Full-time | https://step.com

Step is building the best bank for the next generation.

We've reached 1.5 million users (!) in less than six months from launch.

We're at the most interesting point in time in a startup: strong traction and PMF, a ton of stuff to build nearly from scratch and accelerating growing our eng team.

Very well funded and it's still very early on, make a huge impact and learn a lot.

I'm one of the hiring managers in eng - feel free to reach out: pasha at step com

Some recent news about us

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/teen-banking-service-step-...

Open roles:

https://step.com/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder? on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:59PM (#25649440)
great idea!
Re:Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder? on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:58PM (#25649421)
great idea!
Re:Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder? on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:49PM (#25649275)
Looking for a co-founder to do growth, sales and bizdev for a new project:

https://less-dev.com - a tool for software engineering teams to accelerate development of cloud software components (e.g. databases, APIs, batch processes).

The differentiator vs. no-code and low-code tools: enterprise-grade features built-in and no loss of control: it's open-source, can be run on your own cloud, can always export everything, data and code.

I am Pasha, previously technical co-founder at a startup and many other roles in software engineering co's. I'm in the Bay Area.

bio: pashabitz on LinkedIn

ping me: pavelbitz at gmail

Re:School or Prison on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:01PM (#25609512)
Are we slave labor for ML data?
Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:32PM (#25270209)
$2,679 in cash
Re:Full text search on 400M US court cases on Thursday November 19, 2020 @12:37PM (#25151982)
I wasn't trying to be an asshole, just honestly searched for "javascript". Was disappointed :)
Re:Show HN: Watch me make a Roam Research Clone in 90 Minutes on Friday November 06, 2020 @11:39AM (#25008919)
Good morning HN!

Pasha, creator of Less (https://less-dev.com) here. Less is a tool to rapidly build databases and data-driven APIs.

I made a (very partial) clone of Roam Research to demo Less. The final result is here: https://supernotes.net

Phew, videos take way more time than I thought :)

Re:Show HN: Quickly Build Databases and Data-Driven APIs on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:59PM (#24898325)
Hey HN, Pasha here, creator of “less”. This is a tool to speed up all the common, boring, non-differentiated work most software eng. teams still spend time on.

Many existing no-code/low-code tools don’t fit well into a “real” software development process. I am making something that solves that.

A lot of the vision is not there yet, but I am very eager to get some early feedback.

Please let me know what you think!

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