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by smnscu 1mo ago
I thought Common Side Effects was great, then I watched Scavengers Reign. Absolutely mindblown. Possibly the best scifi _thing_ I've ever watched. There's still hope for a second season FWIW. At least the story is mapped up, if no
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by smnscu 2mo ago
I'd be curious how it handles someone parking poorly in that bay e.g. diagonally. Presumably those lines serve as a parking guide and the door won't close unless you park correctly.
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by smnscu 2mo ago
Presumably Goldman Sachs (or any investment bank worth its salt)
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by smnscu 2mo ago
I was thoroughly confused at why the website was showing the weather for York. Since I studied there (and it's straight up a lovely place), I visit quite often and subsequently check the weather. I thought I had set it but couldn'
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by smnscu 2mo ago
I am building an interviewing and hiring platform ( https://coderba.se/ ) but I've also hired/interviewed and shaped hiring processes at several companies before. It's ridiculous how easy it is to account for s
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by smnscu 3mo ago
This entered the daily rotation (currently dominated by NYT Games) for our wife and me, thank you!
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by smnscu 3mo ago
Firecracker is fantastic technology. I'm using it for my interviewing startup to run isolated runtimes for coding interviews (and personal workspaces), and it's been rock solid and incredibly lightweight. Interfacing with it throu
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by smnscu 4mo ago
Quick NPR Short Wave episode about this https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5806598/disease-science...
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by smnscu 4mo ago
Nice post! You piqued my curiosity, so after a bit of research it turns out that, with techniques like MTP/MLA/CSA, it's quite probable that these models are much more efficient (and maybe bigger? tho 400B sounds about right)
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by smnscu 4mo ago
That's me with Google Antigravity. Switching back to vscode was such a breath of fresh air. Porting over my (extensive) settings/extensions/keyboard shortcuts was extremely easy too (just ask the agent to do it), and now I ca
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by smnscu 4mo ago
I'm working on Coderbase ( https://coderba.se/ ), a platform for running technical interviews. It started with live interviews cuz that's what I know best, having run over 3,000 interviews in my career, but I made i
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by smnscu 4mo ago
I've been through the exact same migration path and I'm so incredibly happy with Better Auth. Good reminder that I should contribute: https://better-auth.com/docs/reference/contributing
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Coderbase Product Update: Unit Testing the Interview(coderba.se)
1 points by smnscu 6mo ago|1 comments
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by smnscu 6mo ago
Hey HN, wanted to share an early peek at what I've been building over the past few weeks. I've spent the last 7 years conducting over 3,000 technical interviews. Along the way, I made the (utterly insightful) observation that most
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by smnscu 6mo ago
Otta in the UK (now eaten by the inexplicably-named Welcome to the Jungle) used to have a very involved vetting process during company onboarding, and I could verify that it was a great service as both a candidate and a hiring manager. To r
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by smnscu 7mo ago
Obligatory "this is why I love HN" but even for that standard, this is is an incredibly open account, thank you for the insight and sorry it hasn't seemed to pan out quite how you hoped. Still sounds like you got your bag, bu
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by smnscu 7mo ago
Quite chuffed someone else mentioned Djokovic, who is close to 39 and just played an Australian Open final. (Yes he got lucky with 2 freebies but he _did_ beat Sinner in the semifinal fair and square, and managed to win the first set before
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by smnscu 7mo ago
> After go-micro‘s maintainer went off the rails What do you mean by this? Genuinely curious, as someone who's followed that project in the past.
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by smnscu 8mo ago
I've interviewed 3k people with Karat as a professional interviewer, and several hundred more as a hiring manager. The very few times I received direct emails from candidates attempting to circumvent the normal process were met with un
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by smnscu 8mo ago
This is a strong contender. Other candidates (hard to find links to the first editions): - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11177063-creating-cool-w... - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show
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by smnscu 1y ago
I've been calling this context.md in my projects (alongside a progress.md for TODOs and breaking down complex tasks). I don't care what we call it as long as we settle on a convention.
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by smnscu 1y ago
I use it mostly as smarter autocomplete and it's still absolutely worth it. I really tried having it write unit tests in Go, write simple Astro websites, etc, but I'm never satisfied with how dumb it is when "vibe coding&quot
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by smnscu 1y ago
Drama aside, I thought I'd share a fun fact with the youngins: John Gruber (yes, the Apple blog guy) is the creator of Markdown. Thanks, John!
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Show HN: Ad-hoc LLM benchmark using NYT Connections(github.com)
3 points by smnscu 2y ago|0 comments
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by smnscu 2y ago
Having used Go professionally for over a decade, I can count on one hand the times I used recover(). I've actually just refactored some legacy code last week to remove a panic/recover that was bafflingly used to handle nil values.
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by smnscu 2y ago
I used to do thousands of interviews across the industry and I vividly remember Apple backend devs being almost always unmitigated disasters. They would always pick Java and could barely use it - to the point where a for loop would be chall
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by smnscu 2y ago
Here's a potential starting point: https://tech-coops.xyz/ Fairly often you see service-focused small companies (i.e. agencies) being run as coops, e.g. my friend's NZ .NET shop http://iontech.nz/
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by smnscu 2y ago
Oof, must suck to work for a company who doesn't use technical design docs well. I quite like Oxide's RFD model, based off Joyent's I assume, given who their CTO is. https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/
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by smnscu 2y ago
I've just recently this video on the engineering of Venice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77omYd0JOeA -- relevantly, it shows how they devised an "active" drainage system that relied on the tide movement (b
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by smnscu 2y ago
Enjoy https://www.srenity.online/

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