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Re:Zo: Intelligent Personal Servers for Everyone on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:13AM (#45979726)
I see you have connectors for a bunch of services. A Schwab / Robinhood connector would be sweet.
Re:Zo: Intelligent Personal Servers for Everyone on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:03AM (#45979615)
I was helping my dad figure out how he could set up a daily news bot for his stock portfolio, and Zo looks like the answer!

A sandboxed AI that operates on all my context (and helps me write scripts to import the necessary context from other services) is exactly the model of personal intelligence that I want.

Re:Idea Machines: LeWitt, LLMs, and Computing on Friday September 26, 2025 @10:12AM (#45386731)
Love opening with LeWitt and Eno.

I really like this para: > Another significant change is that workflows can be long‑lived and self‑healing: if run on always-on compute like servers, agents can schedule and repair persistent or recurring work like report generation, data pipelines, or crawl-and-summarize tasks, always resuming from state,with a general purpose recovery mechanism. The significance of generality is worth calling out, because in some sense it is the crux of what is new. These systems are inherently more robust than traditional symbolic programs because they have a modality that is complete at the expense of consistency: all inputs will produce some response from an LLM, whereas most possible inputs will crash most classical functions. Whether or not the general handler will “do the right thing” comes down to the quality of the specification.

And this one: > When the shape of programming changes to encapsulate multiple levels of abstraction, the basic unit of work changes from specifying lines of code to specifying any of: line of code, logic, function, capability, behavior, application. Our new programs will buy determinism with checks. Type systems, property‑based tests, schema checks, idempotent operations (declarative codegen), and permission policies make runs repeatable and failures bounded; agents work is graded by those deterministic gates.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025) on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @02:26PM (#43987671)
Maven.com | Full stack product engineer | Full-time | Remote (USA, Canada) Maven is the missing grad school for technology jobs. We have the largest collection of expert-led cohort-based-courses on the topics that matter most for today's careers.

We’re looking for full-stack product engineers to own big parts of our fast growing marketplace, from recommendation systems to data infrastructure to the course experience at the center of it.

The ideal candidate has shipped meaningful features to a real user base and is comfortable with the broad set of concerns that come with building production web apps.

You will have a high degree of ownership over our technical systems, and will be able to shape our product direction and the evolution of your own role.

We are a team of just under 20, have raised $25 million from a16z and First Round, and are growing towards profitability in the coming year and half.

We use React+Nextjs, Python+FastAPI, Postgres+OpenSearch, OpenAI, dbt+Snowflake.

Read more at https://maven.com/s/eng-jd And email eng [at] our website with your resume and a note about yourself and your work.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025) on Monday March 03, 2025 @11:44AM (#43243632)
Maven.com | Full stack product engineer | Full-time | Remote (USA, Canada)

Maven is the missing grad school for technology jobs. We have the largest collection of expert-led cohort-based-courses on the topics that matter most for today's careers.

We’re looking for full-stack product engineers to own big parts of our fast growing marketplace, from recommendation systems to data infrastructure to the course experience at the center of it.

The ideal candidate has shipped meaningful features to a real user base and is comfortable with the broad set of concerns that come with building production web apps.

You will have a high degree of ownership over our technical systems, and will be able to shape our product direction and the evolution of your own role.

We are a team of just under 20, have raised $25 million from a16z and First Round, and are growing towards profitability in the coming year and half.

We use React+Nextjs, Python+FastAPI, Postgres+OpenSearch, OpenAI, dbt+Snowflake.

Read more at https://maven.com/s/eng-jd And email eng [at] our website with your resume and a note about yourself and your work.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @10:15AM (#42306988)
Maven.com | Full stack product engineer | Full-time | Remote (USA, Canada)

Maven is the missing grad school for technology jobs. We have the largest collection of expert-led cohort-based-courses on the topics that matter most for today's careers.

We’re looking for full-stack product engineers to own big parts of our fast growing marketplace, from recommendation systems to data infrastructure to the course experience at the center of it.

The ideal candidate has shipped meaningful features to a real user base and is comfortable with the broad set of concerns that come with building production web apps.

You will have a high degree of ownership over our technical systems, and because we believe in giving people as much responsibility as they want, you will also be able to shape our product direction and the evolution of your own role.

We are a team of just under 20, have raised $25 million from a16z and First Round, and are growing towards profitability in the coming year and half.

We use React+Nextjs, Python+FastAPI, Postgres+OpenSearch, OpenAI, dbt+Snowflake.

Read more and apply at https://maven.com/s/eng-jd

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:57PM (#39236172)
Maven (https://maven.com) | Senior/Staff Software Engineer (full-stack) | US, Canada Remote | $160-200k + equity

Maven is the best way to teach and learn critical career skills after college, with the largest marketplace of expert-led tech and business cohort-based courses.

We're 15 people, have raised $25 million, are earning revenue, fully remote but tight knit, very experienced, and building a new way to learn that students and instructors love.

You'll own major parts of the system, build end-to-end features, and have a voice in shaping the roadmap and company.

React (Nextjs), Python (FastAPI), Postgres (RDS). TipTap, Stream, OpenAI embeddings, dbt, Tailwind, Vercel, etc.

See more details, and apply here: https://maven.com/s/eng-jd

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @05:27PM (#38847943)
Maven (https://maven.com) | Senior/Staff Software Engineer (full-stack) | US, Canada Remote | $160-200k + equity

Maven is the best way to teach and learn critical career skills after college, through the largest marketplace of expert-led tech and business cohort-based courses.

We're 15 people, have raised $25 million, are earning revenue, fully remote but tight knit, very experienced, and building a new way to learn that we're very proud of.

You'll own major parts of the system, build end-to-end features, and have a voice in shaping the roadmap and company.

React (Nextjs), Python (FastAPI), Postgres (RDS). TipTap, Stream, OpenAI embeddings, dbt, Tailwind, Vercel, etc.

See more details, and apply here: https://maven.com/s/eng-jd

Re:How I picked up and got good at tennis on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:14AM (#38569993)
yeah tbf the title should be "how I got decent at tennis"
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:59AM (#38569096)
Maven (https://maven.com) | Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack, product) | US, Canada Remote | $160-200k

About us: building the university of the future, starting with the largest marketplace of expert-led cohort-based-courses on the Internet.

We're a 5 person eng team and a 15 person team led by the founders of Udemy, Venmo, Socratic. Raised $25 million from a16z and First Round in 2021, have 3+ years of runway, and are hitting our best months every month.

You'll own major parts of the system, build end-to-end features, and have a voice in shaping the roadmap and company.

React (Nextjs), Python (FastAPI), Postgres (RDS). TipTap, Stream, OpenAI embeddings, dbt, Tailwind, Vercel, etc.

A Loom about the company, our progress, team, and the role: https://www.loom.com/share/950987e744b64a79adca7008e32186c3

Apply here: https://maven.com/careers

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:30AM (#38099602)
Maven (https://maven.com) | Senior Software Engineer (Full-stack, product) | US, Canada Remote | $160-200k

About us: building the university of the future, starting with the largest marketplace of expert-led cohort-based-courses on the Internet.

We're a 5 person eng team and a 15 person team led by the founders of Udemy, Venmo, Socratic. Raised $25 million from a16z and First Round in 2021, have 3+ years of runway, and are hitting our best months every month.

You'll own major parts of the system, build end-to-end features, and have a voice in shaping the roadmap and company.

React (Nextjs), Python (FastAPI), Postgres (RDS). TipTap, Stream, OpenAI embeddings, dbt, Tailwind, Vercel, etc.

A Loom about the company, our progress, team, and the role: https://www.loom.com/share/5177344569214eeab996029bf64fe4cd

Apply here: https://maven.com/careers

Re:Comparison of vector databases on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:24AM (#36944030)
A slightly deeper look into vector storage, and the things you can do with embeddings: https://maven.com/blog/embeddings
Re:Comparison of vector databases on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:05AM (#36943717)
I compared a few options including OS/ES here: https://maven.com/blog/embeddings
Re:Comparison of vector databases on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:04AM (#36943698)
+1, I've been using OpenSearch (basically Elasticsearch 7.0), and have been pretty happy with the setup so far.

OpenSearch specifically has an edge over Elasticsearch because it supports vectors up to 10k dimensions, whereas ES maxes out at indexing 1024 dimensions, which isn't enough to support OpenAI's 1536 dimension vectors.

And then there's the benefit of it being well documented / Q&A'd, and able to support regular searching, faceting, etc. as well.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021) on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:32PM (#28749071)
Maven | Software Engineering / Design | Remote, US/Canada | Full-time | https://maven.com/careers

Maven is building the university of the future - empowering the world’s creators to offer cohort-based courses directly to their audiences. Courses on Maven have community at their core, focus on active learning, and are available anywhere in the world.

Our team has raised $25 million from incredible investors including Andreessen Horowitz, First Round, Naval, and Arlan Hamilton, and we've launched sold-out courses with instructors like Li Jin, Anthony Pompliano, Lenny Rachitsky, and Sahil Lavingia.

We're the leading player in a massive and growing market, but are still early enough for you to make a big impact. Join us!

#education #course #creators #platform

- Senior Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/maven/jobs/4023548004 - Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/maven/jobs/4138335004 - Lead Product Designer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/maven/jobs/4036844004

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021) on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:10PM (#28050936)
Maven | Full-stack, Front-end Engineers | Remote (US timezones) | Full time | $120-$170k + equity | https://maven.com Maven helps anyone build a cohort-based course and deliver an incredible student experience at scale.

Unlike small workshops or on-demand online classes, we integrate both live and asynchronous components to engage students without needing to scale up instructor time or support staff.

Our mission is to democratize education through online cohort-based courses. Right now, many experts and creators don't have the team, budget, or bandwidth to create a high quality cohort-based course. Inspired by the simplicity and power of tools like Shopify and Substack, we are building a platform that enables the best instructors to build the most engaging courses.

Our team of 12 has built and run educational experiences at Udemy, AltMBA, Minerva, Google, General Assembly, Socratic, and Shopify. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Naval Ravikant, Arlan Hamilton, and many more. We've launched sold-out courses for incredible instructors like Li Jin, Anthony Pompliano, Lenny Rachitsky, Sahil Lavingia, and more.

We're looking for our 2nd designer, and 6th and 7th engineers whose work will span across our system and will have a big impact on our product. We're experienced, ambitious, and supportive. We work with React/Typescript/Next.js, Python/FastAPI, AWS/ECS/RDS.

Reach out to me at shreyans at maven.com, or read more at https://maven.com/careers

- Product Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/maven/jobs/4023548004

- Sr. Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/maven/jobs/4024409004

- Product Designer (no post up yet but email me!) shreyans at maven.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021) on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:29AM (#27700128)
- Product Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/maven/jobs/4023548004

- Sr. Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/maven/jobs/4024409004

- Product Designer (no post up yet but email me!) shreyans at maven.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021) on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:28AM (#27700111)
Maven | Full-stack, Front-end Engineers | Remote (US timezones) | Full time | $120-$160k + equity | https://maven.com

Maven helps anyone build a cohort-based course and deliver an incredible student experience at scale.

Unlike small workshops or on-demand online classes, we integrate both live and asynchronous components to engage students without needing to scale up instructor time or support staff.

Our mission is to democratize education through online cohort-based courses. Right now, many experts and creators don't have the team, budget, or bandwidth to create a high quality cohort-based course. Inspired by the simplicity and power of tools like Shopify and Substack, we are building a platform that enables the best instructors to build the most engaging courses.

Our team of 12 has built and run educational experiences at Udemy, AltMBA, Minerva, Google, General Assembly, Socratic, and Shopify. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Naval Ravikant, Arlan Hamilton, and many more. We've launched sold-out courses for incredible instructors like Li Jin, Anthony Pompliano, Lenny Rachitsky, Sahil Lavingia, and more.

We're looking for our 6th and 7th engineers whose work will span across our system and will have a big impact on our product. We're experienced, ambitious, and supportive. We work with React/Typescript/Next.js, Python/FastAPI, AWS/ECS/RDS.

Reach out to me at shreyans at maven.com, or read more at https://maven.com/careers

Re:GitHub Codespaces on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:35AM (#23100029)
I imagine a lot of projects will start here, whether it's new developers or existing developers who want to spin up a straightforward service.

I just used Glitch.com for the first time to set write and deploy a Node server in 10 minutes, and it was an incredible experience.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017) on Monday May 01, 2017 @08:50PM (#14243140)
Socratic | Generalist Engineer + Android Lead | New York City | Onsite, Full-time | https://socratic.org

Socratic is a top education app where students take a picture of a homework question and we instantly teach them how to answer it.

We're one of the top iOS education apps and our Android app is launching this week! We combine cutting edge machine learning with high quality custom content. Students asked 10 million questions last month, and we're just getting started.

We're looking for an experienced Android lead to own our Android app.

We're also looking for a generalist engineer to work on all aspects of our backend and dabble in mobile.

Descriptions of both jobs are at: https://socratic.org/jobs.

Reach out to [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017) on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @01:25PM (#13320709)
You can reach us at [email protected]

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