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Show HN: InterviewKitHQ – AI-generated interview playbooks for HR teams
by chux52 | 2025-12-16 03:44:06+00:00
I built InterviewKitHQ to help HR teams create quality interview materials quickly.

Creating good interview guides takes time for HR and hiring managers. Enterprise tools are expensive ($75+/user/mo) and complex. Free AI tools give you generic, sometimes problematic questions.

*What I built:* A system that: 1. Researches job families across 8 dimensions (responsibilities, skills, compensation, career paths, etc.) 2. Generates complete interview kits with questions, rubrics, and red/green flags 3. Runs compliance checks (no discriminatory content) 4. Exports as editable Word documents

*Tech stack:* - Backend: Python/FastAPI, SQLite (PostgreSQL in prod) - Frontend: React + TypeScript + Tailwind - AI: Perplexity for research, GPT-4o for generation/compliance

*Business model:* - Free tier: 3 kits (stock library or custom from job description) - Paid: $99-299/mo for more kits and features
by xivzgrev | 2025-12-16 03:44:31+00:00
No one in top comments is mentioning a key point. It was cheap looking.

How the truck looks is important. Outside the bottom end of market, it's a status symbol. I got a tundra TRD earlier this year and I've gotten multiple compliments on it because it's a good looking truck.

The F150 lightning looked cheap. The grill is this crappy plastic. And there was no upgrade feature to make it cooler.

If they had the option to make it look like the Raptor or one of their higher end F150s, it may have sold better.
by analog31 | 2025-12-16 03:45:09+00:00
One big disruption in the job market was that mandatory age-based retirement was outlawed. This created a span of several years when there were virtually no retirements.

I should have mentioned that my dad's degree was in chemistry, and it might have been a different vibe. But the production of PhDs at a rate faster than they could be absorbed by academic hiring was a thing. My dad (and mom, she got her master's in chemistry) went into industry too, so maybe I was lucky to have good role models.
by simonsarris | 2025-12-16 03:45:58+00:00
It seems possible that both capital and resources are more widely distributed than ever before in human history. The number of investors, including accredited investors, may also be higher than ever before. (though its lower than before accreditation existed, by definition)

for example: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-a...
by zdc1 | 2025-12-16 03:46:04+00:00
I've tried a lot of personal cloud options (ownCloud, a Resilio Sync mesh, CloundMounter + B2) and somehow ended up back on iCloud because of this.

My next experiment is just to use NFS over Nebula/Tailscale and see how much data I can just host off my NAS, but it's surprisingly been quite a journey for a simple problem.
by password-app | 2025-12-16 03:46:31+00:00
Google discontinuing this is unfortunate timing given the recent breach surge (700Credit, SoundCloud, LinkedIn leak).

Alternatives: haveibeenpwned.com (free), 1Password Watchtower, Bitwarden breach reports.

The harder part isn't knowing about breaches—it's actually rotating passwords afterward. Most people know they should but don't because it's tedious.

Automated rotation tools are emerging but need careful security architecture (local-only, zero-knowledge) to avoid creating new attack vectors.
by lukeschlather | 2025-12-16 03:47:21+00:00
How would you suggest Signal allow you to communicate with your contacts without leaking the fact that both of you are Signal users? Should it just blackhole the message if the other number doesn't have an account?

I understand the unease about the notifications, but there are some hard tradeoffs between how you can store as little information as possible, remain as decentralized as possible, while getting the same benefits as centralized systems like Facebook.

I'm really of the opinion that a messenger similar to Signal but more centralized in the fashion of WhatsApp or even Facebook Messenger should exist, but I also understand why Signal works the way it does.
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-16 03:47:24+00:00
So if you scroll past the header it is just text with good typography and contrast. But also there is the left side “scroll bar” on mobile. It shows you how far along in the article you are but doesn’t let you drag-scroll using it. Which is hilarious because essentially this is exactly like HTML/the browser as it was envisioned originally. It’s almost like thought went into the original design.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-12-16 03:48:10+00:00
> songs like those ARE his usual fare these days

I've seen him recently and those are not his usual fare: https://www.bobdylan.com/setlists/

He played a couple of his most well-known songs, a few off his recent albums, and one or two I didn't know. It was not 1950s covers...
by magnetowasright | 2025-12-16 03:48:28+00:00
I just hook up a (linux) laptop to my TV, personally. I have a mouse (and a bluetooth keyboard which I rarely use) to interface.

I have no idea if that would in some way impact something like streaming quality because I don't have any streaming services; I live in australia where the streaming companies simply don't bother organising streaming rights for worthwhile media. I also like to own things I want to rewatch.

If I wanted to get fancy (and if I had a TV capable of connecting to the internet, which I don't) I might consider setting it up as a media server or look at NAS solutions, but my laptop is perfect for me as is.
by maxglute | 2025-12-16 03:48:44+00:00
Yes, yes and Asian tertiary applicants has worse personality except not. Eitherway, I didn't bring up racism. I said Chinese want leadership positions, they're not getting it vs the usual other races in US, so some go where they can get it, which happens to be increasingly PRC.

X00,000 USD is... not a lot anymore. That's normal compensation for high tier jobs, aka PRC tier1 opportunities is simply default globally competitive especially when you factor in other allowances. Top tier 1000 talent tier inducements where PRC build you a lab, give 7 digit in guaranteed funding, aka exactly the kind of opportunities bamboo ceiling is cutting off in US is pretty rare, almost rounding error in overall flow of talent. NVM DoJ has prosecuted ~0/150 thousand talent cases for actual espionage, i.e. never uncovered anything but candidates double dipping on PRC and NIH/NSF grants.

I don't know what billionaires capita flighting fraction of their liquidity has to do with anything. Ultimately whats more damaging for geopolitical S&T competition, capital flight, or knowledge flight.
by password-app | 2025-12-16 03:48:46+00:00
This is why I'm skeptical of any app claiming "super secure" without open-source verification.

The real lesson: assume every service will eventually leak something. Use unique passwords everywhere, enable 2FA, and rotate credentials after breaches.

The tedious part is the rotation. I've seen people skip it because manually changing 50+ passwords is brutal. Automation helps but needs to be done securely (local-only, zero-knowledge).
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by Barrin92 | 2025-12-16 03:48:51+00:00
>People losing their house keys is not generally an Earth shattering event.

yes because if you lose your house keys you don't lose your property, precisely because there is an entire legal and governmental apparatus securing it, the exact thing the crypto people first try get rid off and then reinvent (shoddily) when they inevitably discover that nobody wants to live in the jungle
by turtletontine | 2025-12-16 03:49:15+00:00
> Will…

I think “won’t”. I could be wrong of course, but I imagine efforts to put servers into orbit will die before anything is launched. It’s just a bad idea. Maybe a few grifters will make bank taking suckers’ money before it becomes common knowledge that this is stupid, but I will be genuinely surprised if real servers with GPUs are launched.

I don’t mean to be facetious here. But saying “will” is treating it as inevitable that this will happen, which is how the grifters win.
by pembrook | 2025-12-16 03:50:07+00:00
While this sounds clever, it just isn't true. The electric F150 looks and feels virtually identical to the non-electric one.

It's not some evil big business conspiracy. It's just that the F150 buyer tends to travel longer distances for work/play over traditional car buyers (more on the edge of suburban/rural, less urban), hence the range anxiety problem with all-electric. Couple that with higher upfront costs, lower resale values, and cheap fuel in the US, it's pretty obvious why the market would prefer a hybrid or ICE F150.
by stopbulying | 2025-12-16 03:50:32+00:00
If a person prepares a document in e.g. OpenOffice with a font that Windows or MacOS don't have (like Liberation Serif or Noto Serif) and saves it as a .doc/.docx, and opens it in MS Word, doesn't it default to Calibri as the font? (Or Aptos since 2023)

IIUC, if you open an OpenOffice .doc/.docx in Word, Word replaces unknown fonts with its default font when you save it?
by didgetmaster | 2025-12-16 03:50:51+00:00
How much effect has the regulatory environment had on overall productivity? How much of a company's (or individual's) resources are wasted trying to jump through hoops that do nothing to increase output?

Tax compliance. Defending against frivolous lawsuits. Chasing permits. Settling labor disputes. Sensitivity training. Wading through government red tape.

Each of these and dozens of others drain resources (time and money), but contribute little to productivity.
by chmod775 | 2025-12-16 03:51:11+00:00
The company behind this appears to be "real" and incorporated in Delaware.

> Urban Cyber Security INC

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5136044

https://www.urbancybersec.com/about-us/

I found two addresses:

> 1007 North Orange Street 4th floor Wilmington, DE 19801 US

> 510 5th Ave 3rd floor New York, NY 10036 United States

and even a phone number: +1 917-690-8380

https://www.manhattan-nyc.com/businesses/urban-cyber-securit...

They look really legitimate on the outside, to the point that there's a fair chance they're not aware what their extension is doing. Possibly they're "victim" of this as well.
by Mathnerd314 | 2025-12-16 03:51:21+00:00
Maybe one way to think about the efficiency of markets is that an efficient market is honest. So then the analysis here is essentially saying that the markets are getting more inefficient and corrupt, or at least not getting better. And this is borne out by things like the surveys of Americans' trust in government. But this corruption is more systematic than individualized. It is reflected in things like the lack of options if your Google account is banned. It is essentially the lack of human intervention and instead the use of AI systems. The failure modes of these systems are not obvious, and these "corruptions" essentially do not show up in typical statistics, only in super macro statistics like these productivity things.
by nebula8804 | 2025-12-16 03:52:56+00:00
>I personally know someone who ordered a laptop and an XYZ agency bugged his laptop (man in the middle) before it was delivered.

How did they discover it and what was the actual bug? Are you aware of Purism Anti-Interdiction service?

Link if anyone is curious: https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-services/

>FBI and DEA already used modified AirTags that won't notify anyone with an iPhone around to track drug dealers precisely.

Don't Airtags now notify the nearby user if they are being tracked? I have heard of airtags getting modded to remove the speaker but Apple bypassed this with software updates that alert you out of band(as far as I know). Your assertion would require government to have special Airtags that iOS ignores no?
by freehorse | 2025-12-16 03:53:06+00:00
This is about how array operations in matlab work. In matlab, you can write things such as

>> [1 2 3] + 1 ans = [2 3 4]

In this case, the operation `+ 1` is applied in all columns of the array. In this exact manner, when you add a (1 x m) row and a (n x 1) column vector, you add the column to each row element (or you can view it the other way around). So the result is as if you repeat your (n x 1) column m times horizontally, giving you a (n x m) matrix, do the same for the row vertically n times giving you another (n x m) matrix, and then you add these two matrices. So basically adding a row and a column is essentially a shortcut for repeating adding these two (n x m) matrices (and runs faster than actually creating these matrices). This gives a matrix where each column is the old column plus the row element for that row index. For example

>> [1 2 3] + [1; 2; 3] ans = [2 3 4 3 4 5 4 5 6]

A very practical example is, as I mentioned, getting all differences between the elements of a time series by writing `S - S'`. Another example, `(1:6)+(1:6)'` gives you the sums for all possible combinations when rolling 2 6-sided dice.

This does not work only with addition and subtraction, but with dot-product and other functions as well. You can do this across arbitrary dimensions, as long as your input matrices non-unit dimensions do not overlap.
by triceratops | 2025-12-16 03:53:15+00:00
Why does it matter whether the value of the shares is observable every day, like a public stock? The value of the shares is quite defined at the time the tax is due. We know this because the government has a specific number in mind for valuation for tax purposes.

The shares are illiquid and that poses a problem for the taxpayer because the government only accepts cash. If instead they could sign over an equivalent number of shares then morally (and arithmetically), they've paid what they owed.

The government may subsequently choose to dispose of the shares on a secondary market, if one is available. Or it may hold on to the shares until there's a liquid, public market for them. Or it may never sell. It all depends on how the sovereign wealth fund is managed and structured. Way smarter and more knowledgeable people than me would have to design how the fund actually works and prevent market manipulation and insider trading.
by dml2135 | 2025-12-16 03:53:21+00:00
If your goal is just to easily sync your own ebook library with a Kobo device, I've found that something like this isn't really necessary.

There is a config file on the stock OS that you just need to change, and you can point the Kobo store to your own instance of Calibre Web.

This lets you sync and download your own books to the device over wifi.

I played around with KOReader a bit but found the stock software simpler to use. All I really need is to not be tied to an ebook store.
by echelon | 2025-12-16 03:54:32+00:00
> I suspect that there are bigger strides to make with electrics that may eventually turn that around.

After many more billions are spent.

Is the American consumer going to eat that cost? The government clearly lost its appetite as it isn't subsidizing EVs anymore.

The US has cheap fuel and it isn't a strategic issue to develop EVs except to keep US auto internationally competitive.

US consumers are still really into big SUVs and trucks and almost all of the models are ICE instead of EVs. The EV manufacturers don't really fit the shape of the American consumer that they haven't already sold to.

China jumped on EVs because they wanted to start an automotive sector for (1) heavy industry, (2) adjacency to national defense, (3) strong new domestic and export market they could corner, (4) it's adjacent to their other manufacturing industries. Critically, they had a deep reservoir of Chinese citizens who were first time car buyers that they could nudge into buying domestic auto. No other nation on earth has the outsized advantage of having such a deep bench of new customers to subsidize a new industry. The stars aligned for China.

America has neither the interest nor the capital to chase EVs or force them down American consumer throats.
by danpalmer | 2025-12-16 03:55:42+00:00
My understanding was that anything at ~500km needed readjustments every few months in order to not come down. Much less than 2-3 years.

I'd be interested to know what the average lifespan or failure rate of Starlink has been. That's good that some are still up there 6+ years later, but I know many aren't. I'm not sure how many of those ran out of fuel, had hardware failures, or were simply obsolete, but an AFR would be interesting to see.
by coppsilgold | 2025-12-16 03:55:44+00:00
> have a database of all the phone numbers

They have exactly that. They rely on TPMs for "privacy" which is not serious.

> Perfect privacy would mean not sending any messages at all

Not sending messages is incompatible with secure messaging which is the subject of the discussion...

> ZKP system where you make a public record of your zero-knowledge proof sounds anti-privacy to me.

A zero-knowledge proof provably contains zero information. Even if you use a type of ZKP vulnerable to a potential CRQC it's still zero information and can never be cracked to reveal information (a CRQC could forge proofs however).

> especially when you're suggesting cryptocurrency as a solution

Would you elaborate on why cryptocurrencies are not a solution? Especially if combined with ZKPs to sever the connection between the payment and the account. When combined with ZKPs, they could even accept Paypal for donations in exchange for private accounts.
by bradlys | 2025-12-16 03:56:04+00:00
It’s closer to 0.40-0.70c/kwh. My lowest rate is $0.40c/kwh and that goes away insanely fast just doing almost nothing. PGE is criminally priced in CA. I get maybe 200kwh before it jumps to $0.50/kwh rate and will keep jumping.

I don’t have AC. I don’t have anything. That’s just a fridge, computer, and a little bit of cooking. Genuinely have no idea how I even hit 10kwh/day because I have nearly nothing on in this place.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-16 03:56:28+00:00
Also, a truck can be used like a car. But a car cannot be used like a truck. If you need to haul 4x8 sheets of plywood or drywall, dimensional lumber, piping, ladders, etc a truck (or work van) is pretty much it. If I could only afford one car it would be a truck.
by stopbulying | 2025-12-16 03:56:28+00:00
CSS has font fallback; so its good practice to include serif, sans, or monospace as the last in the list of fonts to try:

p, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h7, { font-family: "Times New Roman", "Times", "Liberation Serif", "Noto Serif", serif }

But what about monospace text like source code and when line endings should be preserved; this is the default:

code, pre { font-family: monospace }
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-16 03:56:38+00:00
So, you have n options, you ask a question, and now you're down to m options.

The number of bits of information you gained is -log₂ (m/n).

If you ask a question which always eliminates half of the options, you will always gain -log₂ (1/2) = 1 bit of information.

If you go with the dumber approach of taking a moonshot, you can potentially gain more than that, but in expectation you'll gain less.

If your question is a 25-75 split, you have a 25% chance of gaining -log₂ (1/4) = 2 bits, and a 75% chance of gaining -log₂ (3/4) = 0.415 bits. On average, this strategy will gain you (0.25)(2) + (0.75)(0.415) = 0.8113 bits, which is less than 1 bit.

The farther away you get from 50-50, the more bits you can potentially gain in a single question, but - also - the lower the number of bits you expect to gain becomes. You can never do better than an expectation of 1 bit for a trial with 2 outcomes.

(All of this is in the article; see footnote 3 and its associated paragraph.)

The article explicitly calls out the expectational maximum of one bit:

>> You'll also notice that you're never presented with a question that gives you more than 1 expected information, which is backed up by the above graph never going higher than 1.

So it's strange that it then goes on to list an example of a hypothetical (undescribed, since the scenario is impossible) yes/no question with an expected gain of 1.6 bits.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-12-16 03:57:59+00:00
It depends on if you frame it as a service versus as infrastructure that a service uses. The public roadways are similar streams of unfiltered sewage yet we see billboards along them and large businesses that care about appearances connect to them. Meanwhile gated communities also exist but are far from the norm.

> showing up in another context with your name attached, directly next to some extremely degenerate trash

Check out police bodycam footage on youtube for real world examples of exactly this.
by mattmaroon | 2025-12-16 03:58:22+00:00
I love Hacker News because there are people smart enough to write passably well but insane enough to get to this sort of thing within two hops of discussing a vacuum maker going bankrupt.

I won’t engage the insanity of calling anything we’re doing genocide (I guess we’re just really bad at it because the targeted populations are growing while we do it despite all our weaponry) because what’s the point? But if you think Amazon is more evil than the CCP because police shoot more Americans than the population of China, my only hope is that you learn to use logic as coherently as the language.

It is, however, about as likely as my Roomba assassinating me because the CIA ordered it to. I say this without malice and not as an insult: therapy can help. This is likely trauma response.
by ethersteeds | 2025-12-16 03:59:29+00:00
Your first formulation I agree with:

> privacy was not their objective. Only secure communications was.

> Signal is demonstrably anti-privacy by design.

But your second is uncharitable and misses Signal's historical context.

The value of a phone number for spam prevention has been mentioned, but that's not the original reason why phone numbers were central to Signal. People forget that Signal was initially designed around using SMS as transport, as with Twitter.

Signal began as an SMS client for Android that transparently applied encryption on top of SMS messages when communicating with other Signal users. They added servers and IP backhaul as it grew. Then it got an iOS app, where 3rd party SMS clients aren't allowed. The two clients coexisted awkwardly for years, with Signal iOS as a pure modern messenger and Signal Android as a hybrid SMS client. Finally they ripped out SMS support. Still later they added usernames and communicating without exposing phone numbers to the other party.

You can reasonably disdain still having to expose a phone number to Signal, but calling it "anti-privacy by design" elides the origins of that design. It took a lot of refactoring to get out from under the initial design, just like Twitter in transcending the 140-character limit.