rvivek
Re:Reinventing competitive programming for the AI era
on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:43PM (#48284974)
What? :)
Reinventing competitive programming for the AI era
HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring
The job of a developer is becoming an orchestrator of AI agents. HackerRank is helping 2500+ companies change how they hire for this new world.We've played a critical role in developer hiring over the last 15 years, with 30m+ developers on our platform and now going through a founding moment -- reinventing the company for the agentic era.Specifically, we are changing hiring across 3...
Re:Show HN: ModelKombat – arena-style battles for coding models
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:16AM (#45263472)
1 -- yes, soon
2 -- every week; check back this Sat.
Show HN: ModelKombat – arena-style battles for coding models
https://astra.hackerrank.com/model-kombat
I'm Vivek, co-founder/CEO of HackerRank (YC S11); You may know us as a hiring tool for developers/companies.Over the years, we have built up deep expertise in generating programming challenges, and we are now using that to make coding models better.Our first launch is Model Kombat -- an arena where you can directly compare anonymized coding models, side by side, on real problems.* Pick an arena...
2025 HackerRank Developer Skills Report
Re:2025 HackerRank Developer Skills Report
on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:24PM (#43498910)
We just published our 2025 Developer Skills Report. It combines survey responses from over 13,000 developers worldwide with platform data from millions of coding assessments on HackerRank.
Would love to hear your thoughts and responses.
Show HN: HackerRank's Coding Benchmark for LLMs
https://www.hackerrank.com/ai/astra-reports
We help companies hire & upskill developers. A customer recently asked: What % of HackerRank problems can LLMs solve? That got us thinking—how should hiring evolve when AI can translate natural language to code?Our belief: AI will handle much of code generation, so developers will be assessed more on SDLC skills with AI assistants.To explore this, we’re benchmarking LLMs on real-world...
Re:Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?
on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @07:19AM (#42558284)
That's awesome. I'm sorry, I couldn't find your email / contact info from your profile. Any chance you can email me: vivek [at] hackerrank?
Re:Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?
on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:19AM (#42546977)
Before you replace, can I show you how the LLM integration works on HackerRank?
Re:Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?
on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:16AM (#42546967)
What would a solution like that look?
Re:Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?
on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:15AM (#42546963)
We already have this but perhaps we should make it more prominent
Re:Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?
on Saturday December 28, 2024 @09:19PM (#42536834)
Thank you for logging back in! I’d say the biggest differentiator among the ones you have mentioned is our connect to 3000+ companies who use our enterprise platform to screen & interview candidates. They would also like to interview interested candidates from the community.
On the pure play practice, we are working on introducing more real-world challenge set up + a real AI tutor
Re:Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?
on Saturday December 28, 2024 @09:17PM (#42536826)
Thanks for the transparency. We will continue to get better at making it easy to get started
Re:Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?
on Saturday December 28, 2024 @09:16PM (#42536823)
Super good feedback. It’s on top of our list to move to more real-world set up like how you are mentioning
Ask HN: What can HackerRank do better?
I'm the founder/CEO of HackerRank and started this ~12 years ago with the mission of enabling hiring to happen with skills vs pedigree. There's still a long way to go in making this a reality and have had my fair share of highs and lows.Curious to hear from you on your opinion (either as a hiring manager or a candidate looking for a job) on what we can do better.
Ask HN: Future of Technical Interviews
Assuming developers as a profession still exists, what do you think is the future of technical interviews given the increasing ability of LLMs to solve clear bounded problems (leetcode or otherwise) which was always used as a proxy
Re:Rippling Raises $500M in Emergency Funds After SVB Fails
on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:28PM (#35215400)
There’s no universal agreed upon definition for a startup but if at all you want to think of one, use growth rate. They have 1000 employees and $1b in the bank now. They had 1000 employees and $500m 48 hours back. They had 500 employees and $250m a year ago. They had 250 employees and $100m 2 years ago and so on..
No “non-startup” can grow at that pace.
Re:Rippling Raises $500M in Emergency Funds After SVB Fails
on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:47PM (#35212936)
Wow, I'm surprised at the level of cynicism here. As a startup, the last thing on your mind is trying to optimize for a situation when a major bank collapses that too in a matter of days. There are many more urgent fires to put off. Sure, as a payroll company, you may wonder if this is indeed an edge case they need to take care of but the way the team, VCs harnessed in such a short period of time to delight customers is commendable. Think about all the things that needed to happen.
--> Move the primary banking provider from SVB to JPMC.
--> Get a set of engineers to have all-nighters to ensure the new payment system actually works. This is hundreds of millions of dollars worth of risk.
--> Raise $500m(?!!) in 48 hours to fund the payroll without any assurance from FDIC whether depositors are going to get the money back or not.
--> While doing all of this, respond to a massive influx of support tickets.
What this really shows is they are willing to go to a crazy extent (raise $500m in 48 hours!) to delight customers.
FWIW, I'm not affiliated with Rippling in any way but I do have a ton of respect for Parker for his ability to bounce back after the Zenefits debacle.
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @11:12PM (#31092402)
I'm sorry. I should have clarified and I can't edit my original comment now. I meant plagiarized problem statements. Usually these sites have the entire problem statements from our website along with the solution (aka code snippets to solve.)
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:42PM (#31092200)
Here's what we are doing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31092085
You are right. HN thread triggered this. And we are working on fixing this at the core.
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:38PM (#31092173)
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:30PM (#31092112)
It is fucking happening.
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:29PM (#31092109)
Yes, absolutely. Apologies for the disruption we caused. We are going to make a donation and here are the changes we are making https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31092085
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:26PM (#31092085)
Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, here are the actions we are going to take:
(1) We have withdrawn the DMCA notice for sympy; Sent a note to senior leadership in Github to act on this quickly.
(2) We have stopped the whole DMCA process for now and working on internal guidelines of what constitutes a real violation so that these kind of incidents don't happen. We are going to do this in-house
(3) We are going to donate $25k to the sympy project.
As a company we take a lot of pride in helping developers and it sucks to see this. I'm extremely sorry for what happened here.
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:39PM (#31091777)
Oscar, thank you for responding and I'm terribly sorry for the disruption this has caused. I should have taken this more seriously when it sprung up on HN the first time but for whatever reason we just fixed that problem and moved on. This is a serious one and we are working on a strategy that is sustainable.
Meanwhile, if we need to make a monetary contribution for your effort or anything more we could do to promote, what would be the best way to do it? If you'd like to send me an email to discuss further, I'm available at vivek at hackerrank
Thank you & sorry!
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:10PM (#31091556)
Good distillation. Will follow-up with a blog post on this.
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:09PM (#31091547)
I literally said this in the comment above -- "That said, ultimately, we are accountable for this because it's our reputation is at stake."
Re:HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]
on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:00PM (#31091487)
Phew, this sounded like a scene from a Tarantino movie. We engage a 3rd party for this service. That said, ultimately, we are accountable for this because it's our reputation is at stake. We are looking into it ASAP and this action will be reverted. We do need to get to the RCA to ensure we are giving strict guidelines on DMCA activity with the 3rd party or perhaps even consider switching to a new one.