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by kisamoto | 2025-11-03 16:11:29+00:00
LiveMap | Geospatial Data/Backend and Mobile Engineers | Full-Time | Switzerland or Remote (CH, EU, UK)

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As a data engineer you'll set up a data pipeline, work with product to identify relevant datasets, connect, persist and expose that data.

As a mobile engineer you'll be the UI delivering value to the customer. We are testing hypothesis in weeks and leveraging tools like Claude Code to do it.

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Happy hacking
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-03 16:11:52+00:00
There are cars with inboard brakes, although not recently. From a packaging point of view putting them out at the wheel makes sense, since there's a lot of space you're not using otherwise.

It's hard to fit inboard brakes to front wheel drive cars because there's so little space but Citroën managed it with the 2CV and various derivatives, and the GS/GSA/Birotor family. They had an inline engine with a very compact gearbox behind, with the brake discs (drums, on very early 2CVs) right on the side of the gearbox.

You got lower unsprung weight and possibly more usefully the kingpin was aligned with the centre of the tyre, so when you steered the tyre turned "on the spot" rather than rotating through a curve.

Some old Jags and Alfas had inboard discs on the rear axle, which was of course rear wheel drive. They were a bit of a pain to get at.
Ask HN: Is someone building an AI design agent?
by mrayushsoni | 2025-11-03 16:12:08+00:00
I’ve been thinking about the future of design workflows and wondering if anyone here is working on an AI design agent, not just another image generator, but something that actually understands design intent and executes creative direction end-to-end.

Something that could: - Take prompts like “create a campaign for a new streetwear drop” and generate cohesive brand visuals (logo, apparel mockups, ad creatives, etc.) - Learn a brand’s visual identity over time - Suggest new content ideas or remix existing assets - Work more like a creative assistant than a “prompt in, image out” tool

Basically, a creative automation platform that behaves like a designer who knows your brand, not just a diffusion model with style filters.

Is anyone building something like this, or thinking in that direction? Would love to see examples, prototypes, or even open-source experiments.

Also curious: what would you want an AI design agent to handle for you? Mockups? Social posts? Full brand systems?
by vablings | 2025-11-03 16:12:21+00:00
I was about to chime in. I still have a HSA? Something interesting is that the ACA was probably making normal people's insurance cheaper because for people with the Medicaid plans were specifically targeted for aggressive coding knowing that the taxpayer was footing the bill

It really does baffle me that the USA continues to subvert "socialism" by taking socialist programs and painting them with a capitalist brush^[1] and creating a worse result for everyone involved. It is the peak of government inefficiency

1: eg: fanny mae, The VA, Medicaid, The Federal Reserve....
by tosoo_simone | 2025-11-03 16:12:41+00:00
Tosoo | https://tosoo.ch | Zurich (Switzerland)

We are looking for a motivated Junior Generalist Software Engineer to join the Tosoo team. In this role, you will contribute across the entire technology stack; designing, developing, validating, and operating software components that power our products and infrastructure. Our stack includes a C++ embedded system, a Python-based data analysis framework, several Python and Go cloud services, and PostgreSQL databases. Strong competence in at least one of these areas is required, along with a curious, hands-on attitude and an eagerness to learn and work across the rest of the stack. At Tosoo, you’ll be part of a small, fast-paced team that values initiative, technical curiosity, and collaboration. We aim to make a meaningful difference in the world by maximizing the impact of each team member. We would love to hear from you! Please send us your CV along with a short cover letter describing (or just linking to) two projects: one that represents your most ambitious technical achievement (something challenging or complex, even if the code isn’t perfect), and another that showcases your most refined or professional work (something where code quality and craftsmanship were your focus).

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by troyvit | 2025-11-03 16:13:08+00:00
> I use PhoneTrack on road trips a lot

If every aspect of Nextcloud was as clean, quick and light-weight as PhoneTrack this world would be a different place. The interface is a little confusing but once I got the hang of it it's been awesome and there's just nothing like it. I use an old phone in my murse with PhoneTrack on it and that way if I leave it on the bus (again) I actually have a chance of finding it.

No $35/month subscription, and I'm not sharing my location data with some data aggregator (aside from Android of course).
by jritchie | 2025-11-03 16:13:13+00:00
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Machine learning, statistics, deep learning, data science, Python, PyTorch, Numpy, scikit-learn. Résumé/CV: https://jmsrt.ch/docs/james_ritchie_cv.pdf Email: hnhired@james.jmsrt.ch Website: https://jmsrt.ch

I'm interested in machine learning and data science roles. I have expertise in machine learning and statistics having completed a PhD applying Bayesian inference to difficult scientific modelling problems using deep learning. I also have multiple years of experience working in startups as an engineer and data scientist across a range of industries.
by riazjahangir | 2025-11-03 16:13:46+00:00
This is my own project, curious to get a sense if this is a problem others have or if it was just me.

After leaving my full-time Eng job I tried freelancing and struggled with how to price myself. Price negotiations are an imperfect information game: there's a range I'm willing to accept as pay, and there's a range my client's willing to pay, but we're always kind of guessing at the other's range to find something palatable.

Had an idea to introduce a 3rd party that does know both ranges, and chooses a fair price that works for both parties.
by exabrial | 2025-11-03 16:13:52+00:00
Correct, instead it made them unaffordable and disappeared them out of existence. Previously to ACA, I paid $280/month for a direct (non-employer sponsored) plan that had a $5k deductible. The plan was discontinued as the base fell out.

There is so much wrong with ACA and the hardliners are not capable of self-reflection, and cannot admit that overregulation has done nothing but make things incredibly expensive.
by reenorap | 2025-11-03 16:13:56+00:00
You can't have a sustainable ecology when China sends a city of trawlers to devastate fish stocks around the world and then sends it all back to China. It leaves the countries that were depending on that fish suffering with no repercussions for China. As far as I'm concerned, those cities of fishing boats should be sunk because it's an act of war by China.
by shepherd-eng | 2025-11-03 16:14:11+00:00
Shepherd | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA

Shepherd is an all-in-one commercial insurance platform. We provide savings on insurance premiums for commercial businesses that are leveraging modern technology on their worksites. While we began with commercial construction, we're expanding into adjacent sectors, like energy.

We’ve raised over $20M and we’re looking for product-minded engineers to join us as we continue to scale! We’re looking for someone who thrives on ownership, drives results, and cares deeply about both technical excellence and customer impact.

We’re hiring for:

* Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

* Senior Software Engineer, Backend

* Senior Software Engineer, AI Products & Agents

* Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

* Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

* Data / MLOps Engineer

Our stack includes:

* Typescript, React, Next.js, GraphQL w/ Apollo, Node.js, Postgres & Redis

Apply here: https://shepherdinsurance.com/careers In the form, be sure to mention that you heard about this opportunity via Hacker News.

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by ljf | 2025-11-03 16:14:11+00:00
Side note - it always amazes me (and people when I tell them) that when you lose fat from your body, they main way for that fat to leave your system, is to burn it then breathe the co2 out - that is one of the limits on how much fat you can burn a day. You do lose some of the results of the burning, and a little through sweat, but the vast majority is down to co2 leaving your system.

(Note you can temporarily also lose weight through water loss - but that isn't the loss of actual fat from your system.)
by nhatcher | 2025-11-03 16:14:18+00:00
Frequenz Energy-as-a-Service GmbH | Full-Time | Berlin/Hybrid-Possible, Germany We are a technology company developing groundbreaking solutions that help companies to rapidly transition from being passive electricity consumers to becoming fully self-sustaining prosumers, capable of leveraging various renewable energy assets.

We are currently looking for Rust and Python software developers to join us in Berlin.

Our homepage: https://www.frequenz.com

Apply here for Rust: https://www.frequenz.com/jobs/senior-rust-engineer and here for Python: https://www.frequenz.com/careers/senior-python-developer

Feel free to attach links to your code examples from github, gitlab, or the like to your application.

These roles are not fully-remote. These are based in Berlin, with a possibility for hybrid-model, which can be discussed during the course of the interview.

(PS: If you choose to apply, we would appreciate if you could mention that you have come from HN :) )
by blacklion | 2025-11-03 16:14:27+00:00
I'm using FreeBSD for self-hosting, home NAS and router from version 2.2.0. As it is my hobby projects, I don't want to migrate to Linux which is, IMHO, over-represented.

But it become harder and harder in recent years.

Reason? Docker.

Many current «server-side» products doesn't have good instructions how to install them «by hands» and is not very suitable for system-side packaging (creating port), as they have build systems designed to be used in CI with online access in build time (especially node.js-based and go-based ones, but rust goes same way).

Installation instructions, well-defined dependencies, good versioning, immutable source distribution files? Nah. «Take this Docker file and run it».

It is pity.
by tptacek | 2025-11-03 16:14:35+00:00
Every time this subject comes up, or really any math subject comes up, someone recommends 3Blue1Brown. I love 3Blue1Brown. Just like when The Shawshank Redemption plays on TBS for the 389248th time, I will stop what I'm doing and rewatch any 3Blue1Brown video as soon as it appears in my feed.

But I'm not sure I've ever really learned anything from one of those videos. Appreciated something more? Absolutely. And maybe, sure, that's a kind of learning. But I cringe every time eigenvalues come up and people point to the 3B1B evector video.

In fact, if your goal is to actually get any kind of facility with the concept, this "weaksauce" blog post probably has a better didactic strategy than 3B1B. It strips the concept down, provides specific, minimized worked examples, and provides a useful framing for the concept (something basically at the core of 3B1B's process).

I learned linear algebra from Strang's 18.06. I later did a bunch of Axler helping my daughter through UIUC linear algebra. I like both. Strang is much closer to what the median HN person probably wants. In both cases though: don't do what I did at first, and just watch the videos and read the book. If you're not doing problems, you're probably not learning anything.

This blog post comes closer to "actually doing problems" than 3B1B. Ergo: its sauce is stronger, not weaker.

I came to the blog post expecting to roll my eyes. No discussion of inner product spaces? Not even a mention of conjugate symmetry? I was pleasantly surprised.

It's not easy to come up with a simple, accessible framing for a topic like this, and, maybe, the dot product is particularly tricky to give an intuition for (I'll go out on a limb and say that neither Strang nor Axler do a particularly great job at it --- "it" being, explaining the "why" of the dot product to someone who doesn't really even know what a vector is). The post doesn't purport to teach all of linear algebra. It's just an exercise in trying to explain one small part of it.

I'm not asking you to give the author a break, so much as suggesting that you're closing yourself off from appreciating different strategies for explaining complex topics, which is a valuable skill to have.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-11-03 16:14:40+00:00
Your idea of what would "make the user experience better" can be very different from what actually makes the experience more profitable to Meta.

As far as I can tell, the things that actually drives engagement are ragebait political videos, thirst traps, and fake AI generated videos of cats robbing liquor stores.

The investors have rewarded Meta with something like 5x stock increase since abandoning the Metaverse.

It's time to realize that "embrace the stupid" is indeed a viable business strategy and an accurate reflection of our society.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-11-03 16:14:42+00:00
ACA didn't do away with HSAs, but the way the Bronze and Catastrophic plans were designed made them incompatible with HSAs. Only this year was that changed. The plans covered certain non-preventive services before the deductible was met, which was not permitted under older HSA rules. It was really dumb, and took 15 years to fix.
by tacoooooooo | 2025-11-03 16:15:07+00:00
for sure people are running pgvector in prd! i was more pointing at every tutorial

iterative scans are more of a bandaid for filtering than a solution. you will still run into issues with highly restrictive filters. you still need to understand ef_search and max_search_tuples. strict vs relaxed ordering, etc. it's an improvement for sure, but the planner still doesn't deeply understand the cost model of filtered vector search

there isn't a general solution to the pre- vs post-filter problem—it comes down to having a smart planner that understands your data distribution. question is whether you have the resources to build and tune that yourself or want to offload it to a service that's able to focus on it directly
by nonameiguess | 2025-11-03 16:15:30+00:00
Reading the comments is hilarious. That "healthy 34 year-old male with minor sports injuries" was exactly me when I was 34. Then I hit my out-of-pocket max 7 out of the next 10 years and exceeded a million in insurance spend twice due to a whole lot of major surgeries. It also feels male-centric. Surely pregnancy and childbirth are all but guaranteed to put you over an out-of-pocket max, especially with how common c-sections are these days.
by philipallstar | 2025-11-03 16:15:38+00:00
> which has the benefit of avoiding taxation. That's a "trick" in my book

But why? Minimising tax legally is...legal, and not a trick. That's all tax avoidance is.

> The tax paid on capital gains is not the same as the withholding tax.

That seems totally fine - if the rules are different then that's up to the people who write the rules. It's not a trick to choose to be paid via one method or another.
by thinkafterbef | 2025-11-03 16:15:41+00:00
JetKVM | Senior Fullstack Engineer | Remote (CET ±3) | Full-Time | Go / TypeScript / WebRTC | Open Source

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We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to work across our stack — Go, Node.js, React, and WebRTC — from backend APIs to low-level firmware integrations. You’ll shape architecture, improve video streaming and authentication, and ship features end-to-end in a small, fast-moving team. Open-source, async, and remote(CET+/-3).

Apply → https://jetkvm.com/careers
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-03 16:15:49+00:00
So many use cases. It serves as my mail server because it is secure and simple. It serves as my gateway via wireguard to my homelab. It serves as a daily driver on my x220. It is a simple and straightforward operating system. It can 100% serve you as a daily driver even on desktop (excluding maybe running Steam).

But the simplicity also yields stability. Upgrading Arch for example can sometimes backfire. Upgrading OpenBSD? Almost blindly. It just works (tm).
by jacksplash | 2025-11-03 16:15:58+00:00
Splash Tech| Backend Mid-Senior/Senior | Remote( +-2 EU CET) | Full Time | https://splash.tech/

We’re a small UK-based free-to-play gaming company with a distributed EU team, growing fast after recent success and scaling our backend platform. We’re looking for two roles, from mid-senior to senior engineer with at least 5+ years of experience.

Backend: Strong in backend development, ideally Java, but open to those willing to learn. DevOps experience is a plus, or a strong desire to build it.You’ll be expected to do devops as part of this role.

Fullstack: FE and APIs, you’ll also be asked to write SQL and some Java Controllers that access data. It’s ok if you don’t know Java, but our controllers are written in Java and you’ll need willingness to learn.

Our stack includes Java, Python, TypeScript, Angular, SQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Trino, Flux, Flagger, and Terraform.

Our engineers must be able to think product-first, and take a task from idea to production, work across the full cycle. You must write your own code, AI assistance is fine, but you must be able to produce all your work independently.

We are looking for candidates that can write SQL, our approach when it comes to the DB is SQL first. We also value clear thinking and communication, you should be comfortable sketching simple architecture or flow diagrams (boxes and lines, nothing formal) to explain your ideas.

To apply, please send an email to jack[at]splash.tech with the subject “Backend Hackernews 2025” or “Fullstack Hackernews 2025”.

Please send any git/bitbucket/source-forge project that represents your coding otherwise I’ll ask you to complete a small test project.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-11-03 16:16:13+00:00
"could easily"

I just asked ChatGPT: when using a fry pan, does the smoke contain formaldehyde and benzene?

> Cooking at very high temperatures (over 450°F or 232°C), especially with oils or fats, could theoretically contribute to benzene formation.

That is a mighty hot fry pan. The hottest cooking that I know of in common practice is "wok hei"-style from China. When you start cooking, the food rarely exceeds 230C. When you are heating the pan, the oil may exceed 230C for a few seconds. If you use a fry pan, but cook in Mediterranean-style, the temperatures are much lower.

"could easily"? Hardly.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-03 16:16:15+00:00
People used to say they would only get a Tesla if it was offered with a manual transmission.

It's easy to laugh at, but there are still many people who haven't shifted, in their mind, to the differences.

Even after driving EVs for over a decade, I still need to shift. My habit is to turn the car off and close the garage inside the car. My new EV only controls the garage if it's on, so I had to get used to closing the garage with the car on. There's still a part of my brain that screams "but carbon monoxide" every time I do it.
by notfried | 2025-11-03 16:16:22+00:00
The article mentions early a "cancer diagnosis" but puts that aside and moves on, when this is pretty much the crux of the issue. Prostate and Breast cancers are a 1 in 8 chance. The risk of no insurance at 25 is very different than 50, and than 75. And everyone at all ages is paying for those expensive treatments.

The system is broken, but going without insurance is you basically toying with the odds of life.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-11-03 16:16:28+00:00
The larger issue, of course, is that eccentric individuals and niche special-interest groups are able to use the planning process and the legal system to jam up all sorts of infrastructure projects in America, from simple turn lanes all the way to high-speed rail. This is not the only reason America has trouble building infrastructure, but it is an important reason. See Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson‘s new book Abundance for a long-form analysis of this… or for a contrast with the US’s “lawyerly society” (and, of course, the disadvantages of leaning too much in the other direction) Dan Wang’s Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future that just came out.

Both are excellent books and will probably appeal to a lot of Hacker News folks with an engineering/builder mindset.
by edubart | 2025-11-03 16:16:35+00:00
This is cool because it avoids emulation. However I think it has many shortcomings today which could all be solved by emulating a real CPU architecture (e.g memory protection support, ecosystem with tooling and Linux distributions).

By the way I have developed a similar project, WebCM, a RISC-V emulator capable of running full Alpine Linux that can be embedded in the Web browser and can reach up to 500 MIPS for some users, which I think is pretty fast despite the emulation, you can try at https://edubart.github.io/webcm/. Booting is also fast, it always boots from scratch when you open the page, so you can boot fast even with emulation.
by electric_mayhem | 2025-11-03 16:17:05+00:00
Direct primary care was a completely game-changing improvement in healthcare for me.

$95/mo to basically subscribe to a local doctor. Covers most things other than tests or surgery or limb setting. But tests are often very discounted relative to what insurance charges for them (with my previous dpc provider an entire battery of tests cost less through them than just the copay for two of them added up to).

It’s remarkable how different it is when the healthcare provider is focused on you and your health rather than on gaming the metrics by which insurance companies judge them.

Make other plans for catastrophic things (ie, a high deductible insurance plan).

https://www.dpcfrontier.com/
by thesuitonym | 2025-11-03 16:17:33+00:00
> alternatively more up to date books.

One of the reasons you don't see a lot of books around OpenBSD (aside from the very small userbase) is that the built-in documentation is so good. The manpages are actually worth reading, and for the more complex services, include examples and additional reading.

But still, the rest of your points are very true. OpenBSD is really not for everybody, but I think that's one of its strengths. It works extremely well for the people it works for, because it's not trying to coax new users into the fold.

Also, you know, like you don't have to use OpenBSD for everything. I still have plenty of Linux servers, and Linux computers, because there are some things OpenBSD is not suited to.