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Ask HN: Full-stack dev looking to join an early-stage startup
by Punyakrit | 2025-09-25 06:36:04+00:00
I’m a full-stack developer with heavy experience in building, currently working at a startup. In that time I’ve built and shipped features across the stack while supporting live users. What I’ve enjoyed most is the energy of small teams — moving fast, iterating often, and turning early ideas into working products.

Recent projects I've built:

Codelens – AI-powered GitHub code analysis & collaboration tool with natural language code search, and AI-assisted pull requests.

Pulse – Website uptime and performance monitoring platform with real-time alerts and a clean analytics dashboard.

What I bring:

- Ability to take ideas from concept to production with minimal hand-holding

- Commitment to writing clean, scalable code that’s easy to maintain and iterate on

- Experience thriving in small, fast-paced, remote-first teams

- Eager to create tools that make developers’ lives easier and delight users in their everyday workflow

Tech stack:

Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

Backend: Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

DevOps: Docker, AWS/EC2, Vercel, GitHub Actions, CI/CD

I’m now exploring new opportunities, ideally at early-stage or YC-backed startups, with a preference for remote roles. I’d love to hear from the community: what’s the best way to find these kinds of opportunities? Are there particular approaches or networks that have worked for you?

Portfolio: https://www.punyakrit.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/punyakrit
by Saline9515 | 2025-09-25 06:36:34+00:00
A very short conversion time leads to a profitable business model where companies sell green cards to wealthy foreign citizens. You could pay a lump sum of 300k, company keeps 1/3 and pays back the rest to you as a salary for your fake H1-B job. At a total cost of $100k+taxes, it would be one of the cheapest "golden visa" in the world.
by alasdairking | 2025-09-25 06:37:09+00:00
Absolutely this. It is so disappointing that the big tech companies provide ANOTHER opportunity for less-skilled users to make a mistake.

And a mistake that might hurt them with security and certainly cost and functionality.

And in a core, security-sensitive function like "what third party apps should I have on my personal device?" This is not searching for fun memes on Reddit!
by mattdesl | 2025-09-25 06:39:07+00:00
A similar thing happens when you search “Canada eTA” — a $7 (required) entry visa the government typically issues instantly. But on Google, several sponsored sites appear above the gov site, and charge $100+ for the same service but slower, and they do god knows what with your passport details and personal data.

There are tons of other examples like this. It’s very easy to get tricked by Google ads if you aren’t suspecting a scam.
by OldSchool | 2025-09-25 06:39:08+00:00
This is correct. There's more. An incoming call was indicated by a solid "seizure" or activation of this bit. The receiving end would "wink" back to indicate that it would accept the call. This was ~0.5 sec blip "on" in the reverse channel. The sending channel could then transmit whatever information was arranged, e.g. internal extension number, called number, calling party number. After any data was transmitted via audio as DTMF or MF, if the receiving end decided to answer it would "seize" in return. In theory, the call ended when either end "dropped" the bit, however it was often the case that when calling into lesser modern destinations for example, the call only ended when the calling party ended it, leading to some fun empirical solutions :)
by CaliforniaKarl | 2025-09-25 06:39:25+00:00
The company I worked for in the 2000s had both kinds of T1: They had a single CAS (channel-associated, or "robbed bit", signaling) T1 from one carrier, an two PRI (ISDN) T1s from another carrier. The two PRI T1s only had one channel for signaling, and 47 channels for voice calls.

Our block of phone numbers (we had a block of 500 or 1,000 numbers) was tied to the PRI T1s; for the CAS T1, we were allowed to use our number block as the "calling party" number for outgoing calls. If the PRI T1s went down folks wouldn't be able to call us, but we could call them and the called parties wouldn't notice any difference.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-25 06:39:35+00:00
Are you saying that, because people don't want to buy browsers, the end result is we only get the ones that can be financed by companies that sell other things (which in this day and age is ads, with only a few exceptions)?

I'd agree. Although I'd also add: people don't want to sell software anymore, they want to sell subscriptions, and I personally do not have much desire to pay $10/month for a browser (and then get pitched more services to buy on top, no doubt).
by chithanh | 2025-09-25 06:39:42+00:00
You are right that Windows on ARM cannot be called a success. But if you make Windows/macOS cross platform software then your software needs to be written for ARM anyway.

So if you support macOS/x86, macos/ARM, and Windows/x86, then the additional work to add Windows/ARM is rather small, unless you do low-level stuff (I remember Fortnite WoA port taking almost a year from announcement to release due to anticheat).
by IneffablePigeon | 2025-09-25 06:39:46+00:00
Yeah I’ve just set any search starting with !m to redirect to google maps. It’s in the custom search settings somewhere.

I also find Kagi good in the UK - it wasn’t amazing when I first subscribed but got a lot better quite fast. I do occasionally add “uk” to a search when shopping but I did that on Google too.
by ssl-3 | 2025-09-25 06:40:00+00:00
The problem with kerchunk-a-wheels and real pushbuttons (and the not-smarts they imply) is that they're expensive.

They're more expensive (and more failure-prone) than the rotary encoders, mush-buttons, and brain-boxes that replaced them.

But one cool part about things like motorized kerchunk-a-wheels is that, upon failure, a motivated person on Gilligan's Island can often mend them back into service with a screwdriver and a sharp rock.
by pg3uk | 2025-09-25 06:40:36+00:00
It is true that larger organizations have economies of scale but smaller groups and individuals have more flexibility and can pivot easily.

I dont think access to tech is any different (significantly that is) at the top than itnis at the bottom. Feature sets are more austere (8 out of the 10 functions maybe that they really need) for individuals and small groups, but less wasteful, at the top they're richer but more wasteful (hundreds of features maybe but you only really need 10). The bigger you are the worst value for money because you pay for a lot of stuff you dont need which cancels out the economies of scale in my opinion because you have to pay so much for such a small edge.

Getting more out of less is better than getting less out of more.
by NaomiLehman | 2025-09-25 06:41:47+00:00
For me, the fact that a browser is based on Chromium is a deal breaker when compared to CPU/RAM usage of Safari on Mac OS. When I open the some JS heavy tabs like Notion, AIstudio.google.com, email, the difference is huge.

Orion is the only alternative, because as you said, it's built on WebKit, but I had trouble it working with extensions that I need for my work.
by avhception | 2025-09-25 06:41:59+00:00
My parent's new washing machine doesn't have a real indicator of position on the selector wheel. The wheel has a chrome-like band going around it. Somewhere in that band is a light-grey stripe. It's barely visible from the side even if you look very closely. It's completely invisible when simply looking at the machine from a normal perspective.

Who the hell approved that design?! I have drawn a big black mark on the wheel with a sharpie.
by gloosx | 2025-09-25 06:42:21+00:00
"money always comes back" view is too simplistic. Value can absolutely be destroyed or locked away:

Build a $2M missile -> launch -> it explodes. The workers get wages, sure, but the capital value is literally blown up. No ongoing benefit to the wider economy.

Stadiums for Olympics/World Cups -> billions spent -> used for 2 weeks -> abandoned. Money circulates in construction wages, but the asset sits idle, draining maintenance costs.

Buy a $450M painting -> store it in a tax-free warehouse -> never seen, never sold for decades. That capital is locked — the flow stops until resale.

So yes, wages circulate. But the end product can be waste, destruction, or dead capital. That is the difference between circulation and productive reinvestment.
by u10 | 2025-09-25 06:42:21+00:00
DHH makes it about race?

>That was then. Now, I wouldn't dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.

Unambiguously referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London, 2001 census 60% of London was white British, 36% in 2021.
by underlines | 2025-09-25 06:42:33+00:00
Reading the title, I thought: finally someone rooted/jailbroke sony cameras.

On Canon you can run Magic Lantern, an extensive mod that adds many features to Canon cameras.

Even Samsung N1 had SD Card loadable mods before they moved away from the camera market.

Rooting sony seems impossible, I never saw someone Working on it Since their Fullframe lineup launched.
by vintermann | 2025-09-25 06:43:31+00:00
These drones have lights on at night. That doesn't sound too much like Russians to me. But maybe that's just what the Russians want me to think...

At least one of the videos published recently was likely of a school plane from Copenhagen Airtaxi, according to a Norwegian drone trade magazine: https://www.dronemag.no/dansk-droneobservasjon-kan-ha-vaert-...
by grumbel | 2025-09-25 06:44:27+00:00
> In my opinion is the most innovative way of communicating that I've seen in the last 20 years.

The sad irony of this is that this is really not all that innovative, it's just reinventing the 45 year old Usenet with public-crypto. The server-independence was present in Usenet right from the start, that's why Dejanews/GoogleGroups could exist, and why Usenet wasn't provided by a specific server, but by your ISP. The modern Internet has completely regressed in that regard, getting rid of protocol specific clients, and moving everything to the browser and HTTP that don't allow that kind of distribution, that's why Nostr feels fresh again.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-09-25 06:44:27+00:00
I don’t really know what the studies show or how accurately they represent the effect of restricting H-1B today. I do believe there is a chance it could help the native population, partly because a lot more Americans studied CS in the last few years after it became a prestigious and high-paying career compared to its usual immigrant dominated status. I'm tired of the constant slurs and hatred. It’s better for immigrants too to be turned away before getting a visa than live amongst people that hate them. I know many people believe that eliminating it would cause less competition and they have many anecdotes to back this up - including discrimination by some hiring managers, caste system stuff, poor work quality, etc etc. Ive seen enough evidence that this is not just a fake bot created trend - a lot of people really do not want immigrants. Democracy demands that the government run the experiment and gives the people what they want.
by leenify | 2025-09-25 06:44:28+00:00
> The real problems with Gecko is just that it’s harder to fork

That goes contrary to my experience. I'm a maintainer of a Firefox fork (with rather extensive changes to a lot of the internals), and it is pretty manageable to maintain. We manage to keep it roughly up to date and add new features without financial backing or folks working full-time on it.

If all you do is change the branding and apply some superficial stuff, Chromium might be doable, but that is hardly a new browser. Everybody who forked Chromium from the folks I know (mostly research/security testing people) gave up due to the constant churn.

For this reason, from my experience, Firefox forks are much easier to maintain once you start applying changes to internal things. Firefox is changing at a slower pace, making keeping up to date much more manageable, but that also has its drawbacks, as it does not support every crazy feature Google pushes out, e.g., WebUSB. But, for example, folks I know maintained a v8 fork that was shelved as the introduction of Torque (which has spotty public documentation, to be very kind) means it is a complete rewrite.
by artificialLimbs | 2025-09-25 06:45:18+00:00
You don't know what you're talking about when you decide that 'well regulated' means what you think it means. It is because you have done no research on the topic. Here: https://www.heritage.org/the-essential-second-amendment/the-...

If a person shouldn't have firearms, then they shouldn't be on the street. They should be in jail/prison. Period. I don't know that anyone that has argued that prisoners should have guns. You would have to be a fool. If a person shouldn't have access to guns, then they shouldn't have access to any other freedom. The ultimate purpose of owning firearms is to fight a tyrannical government. For that purpose, less limits is better for the people. This right is absolute, and anyone espousing otherwise is a tyrant or a fool.
by clan | 2025-09-25 06:46:33+00:00
In Oslo a 50 year old mand was arrested and his drone confiscated.

Link:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/drone-ved-oslo-lufthavn

BREAKING now is additional drones over 4 other smaller Danish airports: Aalborg, Esbjerg og Sønderborg samt Flyvestation Skrydstrup.

Link:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/droner-set-over-koebenhavn...

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/overblik-droner-over-flere...

(In Danish - Google Translate is your friend)
by Symbiote | 2025-09-25 06:47:12+00:00
I was curious about Apple's complaint that Samsung wasn't required to follow the same rules.

I found the EC's decision. Samsung isn't acting as a gatekeeper, they have little if any lock-in. For example, on any phone they sell an alternative browser can already be installed etc.

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2...
by lucfranken | 2025-09-25 06:47:32+00:00
Really cool!

As already seen in the comments there are lots of desires to add more data compared to just screen input.

Could be things like:

- Apple HealthKit / watch - custom apps - Phone logs

Also you stated, and true, that there is much focus needed on improving your core feature.

It might be interesting to allow some kind of API / plugin area. So that people can expand on your core feature and add the desired parts. Might in the future expand to some kind of AppStore like feature with plugins.

That would keep your work focused and allows others to make it complete in their vision, and for others.
by treetalker | 2025-09-25 06:47:44+00:00
The way I managed to quit smoking was Skinnerist: I pinched myself on the inner forearm whenever I had, or thought about having, a cigarette — and I consciously associated that pain with smoking and the idea/visualization of damage to my lungs (and the rest of my body).

Humans can learn very efficiently from pain. The hitch with smoking is that the feedback loop is far too slow.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-25 06:49:47+00:00
Do people actually find IKEA explanations helpful?

I always thought they were a cost-cutting measure to avoid text in different languages. For me, they tend to be incomprehensible. Maybe because I have a very verbal style of learning, but I think it's not only that because I do find Lego instructions easy.

This captured the IKEA experience perfectly in the sense that I can understand it because I already know Quicksort, but otherwise, I don't think I would figure it out.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-25 06:50:20+00:00
I tried Opera a few months ago and could not stick to it. All the features they were pitching at me felt a little off. The various panel integrations were clunky and didn't seem to offer anything over just... tabs.

Maybe not surprisingly, I'm currently on Vivaldi (although it has its own issues of not infrequent slowness or hangs).
by chartered_stack | 2025-09-25 06:51:40+00:00
> Governments have no right or authority to stop us from being idiots if we want to be idiots.

This sounds fine in theory but it ignores the fact that gambling today isn’t just about individuals making free choices in a vacuum. There’s an active, systemic push to get people hooked. Millions (billions?) are spent on ads, algorithms, and dark patterns designed to keep people hooked. That's not freedom - that's exploitation.

With modern tech like gambling apps on your phone, 24/7 internet access, social media tie-ins the problem multiplies. You don't have to go to a casino when you have one in your pocket. The same tricks that make people lose hours on TikTok are being weaponized to make them lose their money.

Freedom matters. But if the entire system is engineered to trap people in endless dopamine hits, then society has to step in. Not to ban choice, but to create a framework that tilts people away from predatory addiction loops and toward things that actually build resilience and meaning. Otherwise “freedom” just becomes another word for “you’re on your own while other people drain you dry.”
by httpsoverdns | 2025-09-25 06:52:42+00:00
I recently purchased Firefox relay because I thought it was a nifty service to start using to prevent spam and preserve my privacy, but also a driving factor in my purchase was giving money to Mozilla. I didn't really look into it beyond that internal thought process. Your comment made me wonder, are things so segmented at Mozilla that supporting something like relay doesn't actually help Firefox in general?
by canucker2016 | 2025-09-25 06:52:52+00:00
the OEMs who used the Snapdragon X1 Elite in windows laptops, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_using_Qualcomm... :

Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, Samsung

Looking at the SOCs used, only Dell, Microsoft, and Samsung used the 2nd fastest SoC, the X1E-80-100 - the Dell and Microsoft laptops could be configured with 64GB soldered.

Samsung also used the fastest SoC (the only OEM to do so), the X1E-84-100. From a search of their USA website, you're stuck with only 16GB on any of their Snapdragon laptops. :(

I'd hope whichever OEM(s) uses the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme SoC (X2E-96-100) allows users to configure RAM up to 64GB or 128GB.
Show HN: Merge JPG – Free, In-Browser Image Merger for Collages, Screenshots
by SherlockShi | 2025-09-25 06:53:33+00:00
Hi HN,

A few months ago, I was working on a remote project and constantly needed to combine screenshots, diagrams, and reference images into a single file to share with my team. Most online tools I found either required registration, imposed watermark limits, or uploaded my images to their servers—none of which felt right for quick, private tasks.

So I built a free, privacy-focused online tool for merging JPG, JPEG, PNG, or WebP images—entirely in your browser, with zero server upload.

Key features:

· Multiple format support: JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP

· Flexible layouts: Merge images vertically or horizontally

· Batch processing: Up to 10 images (10MB each) at once

· Output formats: Download as PNG, JPEG, or WebP

· Drag & drop interface: Fast, intuitive uploading and ordering

· Image arrangement & rotation: Reorder and rotate before merging

· Real-time preview: See the result instantly

· Full commercial rights: Use merged images anywhere

· Responsive design: Works on desktop and mobile

· Privacy-first: 100% client-side; your images never leave your device

It's perfect for creating photo collages, sharing annotated screenshots, or prepping images for presentations—no sign-up, no ads, no tracking.

I'd love for you to try it out, break it, and share feedback or suggestions. If you have ideas for new features, edge cases, or just want to say hi, please comment below!

Website: https://merge-jpg.net
by ejolto | 2025-09-25 06:53:36+00:00
The arrest in Oslo were a married couple from Signapore in their 60s. The man was fined and 8000 NOK for admitting to flying the drone and might get deported. They were flying in central Oslo, and it seems unrelated to the drones in Denmark.

There were also unconfirmed sightings of drones around the airport in Oslo. The director of police states that "It is still unclear what was observed. There are conflicting interpretations of the observations that were made".
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-25 06:53:38+00:00
These actions were a direct consequence of the situation at the end of the 19th century. People here often forget that the Sherman act was a regulation against trusts, large integrated companies, and not monopolies.

We knew from the start that large companies were bad for democracy and the civil society. The issue is just that the elite decided in the 80s that their economic interests trumped the public interested and the democrat kept doing what Reagan started.
by maxlin | 2025-09-25 06:53:41+00:00
> Note that installing Deno is probably not necessary if you don't want to, only downloading it. Just like yt-dlp, Deno is available as a fully self-contained single executable from their GitHub releases: https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases.

> Yeah, you can just extract the zip and put deno.exe in the same folder as yt-dlp

I hope they just make this automatic if this truly becomes necessary. yt-dlp not having requirements, or having them built-in, isn't something just "convenient", I think there's users that wouldn't use the tool without that simplicity. Most people really don't like and try to avoid having to fight dependencies.
by ayewo | 2025-09-25 06:56:00+00:00
Congrats on your launch!

Some feedback on your messaging.

1. I didn’t realize you were also targeting teams that release mobile apps in your pitch until you very last sentence where you mention Apple and Google’s mobile app stores.

Consider qualifying your opening sentence with a hint about the platforms you support i.e.

> I've been building a tool for teams to manage their software binaries and releases for desktop and mobile.

2. There’s a small mismatch between your Show HN title and who your target customers are.

You wrote that the inspiration for your idea:

> Idea for Buildstash is to bring binary and release management to all software teams, making it so accessible even for small teams that it becomes as much a no-brainer as having source control or CI.

so might be better to rework your title to read: “Show HN: Binary artifact and release management, for small teams”

It’s really really hard to make a product that appeals to everyone, especially when you are still a start up.
by vikarti | 2025-09-25 06:56:35+00:00
Possible option(will it BE Option?): EU:Here is my phone. Yes, it's working. It's chinese one with Huawei's Harmony OS, photos are great. or it's Russian one, I really like Pushkin so decided to get their model. Russia: Here is my phone. Yes,it's google pixel with GrapheneOS (it's more secure - Mother Russia is danger so everyone must be vigilant! I banking app via RuStore). USA: Here is my phone. I really like French. it's phone with with stock e/OS Point is - if it's impossible NOT to be observed - you (for now) still have choice which security service will observe you. $NOT_YOUR_COUNTRY_OR_ALLIANCE security services/police is unlikely to arrest $CITIZENS_OF_YOUR_COUNTRY_OR_ALLIANCE without $NOT_YOUR_COUNTRY_OR_ALLIANCEtroops be here FIRST (and you will knew it). Only potential threat is that $NOT_YOUR_COUNTRY_OR_ALLIANCE could try to be interoperable with each other