MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivxn | 2026-02-12 10:09:41+00:00
Location: EU (UTC+0)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Canada (Toronto) | UK | US
Technologies: Python, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Temporal, LLMs, Qdrant, NATS, Dagster, GitOps. I'm not sticky with stacks and experiment a lot.
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/NominalTrajectory/cv/blob/main/dist/cv.pdf
Email: i [at] ivxn.sh
Website: ivxn.sh

Software/Platform Engineer (AI, DevEx) - Full-time / Contract

Hi. I'm a Platform Engineer who started as a dev and treat the role as primarily SWE. 5+ years experience, mostly in startups' founding roles building platforms from zero to scale.

Recent work:

- Helped build and productize a European managed multi-cloud/BYOC Kubernetes PaaS (aka "get managed K8s in your own datacenter / on your own infra")

- Shipped multiple multi-tenant SaaS (50+ microservices) on EKS/GCP (multi-cluster scheduling & networking, tenant isolation guarantees)

- Recent focus on durable AI agents with advanced memory/context management, safety guardrails (finetuning classifier), optimizing latency for real-time voice agents (LiveKit, KEDA, autoscaling)

Looking for:

- Area: Work at intersection of AI, Infra/Platforms, developer experience

- Problems: Long-running agentic workloads, AI memory, durability, realtime requirements, cost optimization, unblocking devs.

- Team: Early stage startup / startup within larger org vibe. International and culturally diverse.

- Split: 50%+ hands-on building, 30% dev enablement, 20% other glue work

Reach out if you think we can help each other grow.
by kotaKat | 2026-02-12 10:10:27+00:00
It’s because the writer keeps having to parrot the same garbage he guesses over and over again to prop up his paid newsletter.

I am so tired of every Sunday when he unleashes his garbage out upon the masses and every Apple blog shits it back out as reliable info.

One of his recent “guesses” was that iOS 26.4 beta would be out soon. Like, really?
by latexr | 2026-02-12 10:10:52+00:00
Not really. In the EU they make you specifically agree that you won’t ask for one (or they did, I stopped buying from the App Store many years ago). Which does feel like a failure of the law that that is even allowed. Even when they did, it was never like Steam’s “no questions asked as long as you bought it less than 14 days ago and used it for fewer than 2 hours”, it was still conditional on their approval.
by arcadia_leak | 2026-02-12 10:11:03+00:00
I'd rather say that the GC is the superpower of the language. It allows you to quickly prototype without focusing too much on performance, but it also allows you to come back to the exact same piece of code and rewrite it using malloc at any time. C# or Java don't have this, nor can they compile C code and seamlessly interoperate with it — but in D, this is effortless.

Furthermore, if you dig deeper, you'll find that D offers far greater control over its garbage collector than any other high-level language, to the point that you can eagerly free chunks of allocated memory, minimizing or eliminating garbage collector stops where it matters.
by HowardMei | 2026-02-12 10:11:44+00:00
It's amazing to make it go through a whole book with little hallucination. It still lacks multimodal capabilities though.

I hope they open-source DeepSeek v4 in Q1 2026 with enhancements to coding, agentic, and multimodal capabilities. Usage limits and timeouts are the pain points of all other models.
by 47282847 | 2026-02-12 10:12:43+00:00
There are many things I would want to know but don’t press people on, out of respect. I have seen many industries and not one really needs these numbers, beyond what you can already deduce from GDPR-compliant logs. I know people and businesses can act greedily, but don’t let us collectively fool ourselves into thinking it was an inherent necessity of commerce. It is our decision whether we want to live in and contribute to a humane society.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-02-12 10:13:10+00:00
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/6/2509

"Indeed, a natural ore mine can produce 5 g of gold (Au) per ton of ore, while 200–250 g Au can be recovered from the same mass of computer boards (300–350 g Au/t for mobile phones) [6]."
by KellyCriterion | 2026-02-12 10:13:34+00:00
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/6/2509

"Indeed, a natural ore mine can produce 5 g of gold (Au) per ton of ore, while 200–250 g Au can be recovered from the same mass of computer boards (300–350 g Au/t for mobile phones) [6]."
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-12 10:14:22+00:00
I had no idea that people seriously think that the film isn't satire - I thought it was just people who had barely paid attention to it and weren't really giving it much thought that didn't spot the satirical elements throughout the film.

They're even wearing fascist style uniforms and all the commercials are so over-the-top.

Maybe part of it is due to how it was promoted - in the UK, it was promoted as satire, but I believe the USA promoted it as a straight action film.

from: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/anti-fascist-leanings-paul-verh...

> “I remember coming out of Heathrow and seeing the posters, which were great,” Verhoeven added. “They were just stupid lines about war from the movie. I thought, ‘Finally, someone knows how to promote this.’ In America, they promoted it as just another bang-bang-bang movie.”
by deaux | 2026-02-12 10:14:23+00:00
Where you live, maybe. It really depends on the country even outside the US. A lot of it is, to this day, because of things like Final Cut and Logic. Either because they dabble in it as a hobby or professionally.

A lot of the recent growth is developers in general, there's really been a huge shift there. 2010 developers using Macs vs 2026 developers using Macs, if you look at personal devices or workplaces that give them a choice. Biggest driver being Apple Silicon.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-12 10:14:32+00:00
This. I've never met anyone in any setting that complained about receiving too much money.

If you ask pensioners if they should get higher pensions, they'll say YES. If you ask students if they should get more subsidies, they'll say YES. If you ask unemployed people if they should raise unemployment benefits, they'll say YES. If you ask people on minimum wage if they should raise the minimum wage, they'll say YES.

Everyone is quick to be very generous when it's from other peoples' money without accounting for the second order effects of those decisions, which is especially a big problem of the extended welfare state, since everyone pays taxes and so then everyone wants more and more subsidies so they can feel they're getting their money's worth out of the system, or else they feel cheated.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-02-12 10:14:43+00:00
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/6/2509

"Indeed, a natural ore mine can produce 5 g of gold (Au) per ton of ore, while 200–250 g Au can be recovered from the same mass of computer boards (300–350 g Au/t for mobile phones) [6]."
by neya | 2026-02-12 10:14:48+00:00
I agree completely. This sort of emotional immaturity was acceptable a decade ago. But today? They are behind everything. I have 3 Macs, 2 iPads and 1 iPhone and their software is sh*t. iPad pro is a joke. It should be illegal to use the label pro as it constitutes false marketing. It's such a dumb OS for the kind of hardware you get. What's the use if it has M3 Pro or whatever if the OS can't keep up. Half the time, it's filled with bugs. Same story for iOS. Mac OS is great..so far. But, their phones are garbage. I have to save my documents into Google drive just so they work fine. What a joke.
by fransje26 | 2026-02-12 10:15:00+00:00
> The proper safe answer to driving in snow is top quality snow tires, not chains. Chains is the worst possible idea. The chain laws are laws created by politicians who live in sunny Sacramento and have never seen snow and have no clue.

Although I understand the sentiment, and agree with the general idea, I must say that living in the mountains, I have encountered snow conditions on uncleared roads where I did not manage to get home due to the icy/slushy/snow depth mixtures encountered on relatively steep sections. I would probably have made it home with chains if I had them, and had bothered to put the on.
by olafmol | 2026-02-12 10:15:11+00:00
This is exactly what my team told me when they switched from Concourse CI to CircleCI. I was surprised, this wasn't really discussed, but the pressure on the team to deliver features was increasing, and they were struggling to much with all the tooling instead of delivering functionality. So they deciced to switch to something not so sexy but dependable and stable. Funny thing, about 1 year later we got acquired by CircleCI :)

I like to compare CircleCI to a Volvo, not the most sexy thing in the world, but when you need something dependable that gets the job done and helps you to focus on what really matters, getting from A to B, it's one of the bettter choices.

(disclaimer, i'm still with CircleCI)
by jon-wood | 2026-02-12 10:15:37+00:00
For the last 5 years or so I've been keeping daily journals, which have migrated from one piece of software to another over time. Ultimately they all boil down to Markdown files named `YYYY/MM/DD.md`, the format has evolved into me just throwing a timestamp in as a header and then typing whatever thoughts I have.

These are useful for a couple of purposes, the first is simply getting thoughts out of my head and into a document. The other thing they've been good for is tracing back through what I've been doing - my job involves a lot of context switching, and it can be good (and sometimes also useful) to be able to scroll back through the last month and be reminded that I have in fact achieved something.
by dgxyz | 2026-02-12 10:16:27+00:00
I do this by hand and always will.

The moment this is automated and overseen by an AI implementation it'll turn into a marketing game like SEO did. You'll end up staying at the hotel which spends the most money on getting itself into the training data and forcing reviews on people immediately before the stay is up.

It's bad enough already. But I do not want someone making decisions for me on that and booking things, which is the only uplift that an AI implementation can give over the current situation.

It's a race to the bottom. Nothing more.
by Noaidi | 2026-02-12 10:16:50+00:00
> What Apple does best lies at the combination of hardware, software, physical materials, and human-computer interface design.

And they’re failing at that too! I purchased an iPhone 16e thinking it would be like the iPhone SE, but what I got was worse than an SE. They used an old chip and I can tell you this phone cannot keep up with liquid glass, which they forced me to use and did not let me roll back.

And now we have the iPhone 17 suffering from chipping on the back of the phones.

The only reason Apple is succeeding is the only other thing is worse. And yes, I’m talking about android.
by fakedang | 2026-02-12 10:18:12+00:00
India has way too little native job creation for the population size it has of young folks entering the job market. There's a reason the largest Indian tech startups are basically gig marketplaces or some variation of that (Zomato, Swiggy, Meesho, Zepto, etc).

The other alternative is working entry-level at the usual WITCH BPO companies, where the starting pay is ridiculously low for the hours worked - even lower than a gig worker.

Manufacturing jobs are far too few and scattered across the country, and there's no way to actively recruit for them most of the time.

And of course, the lucky ones get to work for an American company in a swanky office because of more jobs being shifted there. Perhaps they'll get to work on a novel software system for aircraft stabilization like MCAS (true story).
by didierbreedt | 2026-02-12 10:18:41+00:00
Hey HN. I've been doing backend and DevOps work for 20 years. About a year ago I started building RunOS after watching a company I worked at spend a small fortune on AWS for infrastructure that didn't need to be there. We moved some of it to Hetzner and the savings were ridiculous. That experience stuck with me.

RunOS is a platform that lets you run your own cloud on any hardware. Today I'm sharing a new feature called Vibe Deploy that connects AI coding tools (currently Claude Code) to your infrastructure through an MCP server.

The flow looks like this: you describe your app in conversation, the AI writes the code, constructs a minimal runos.yaml file, and RunOS handles everything else. Server provisioning, Kubernetes setup, database creation, building, deploying. The runos.yaml for a typical app with a Postgres database is about 10 lines:

-----

app: news-api

port: 3000

requires:

news-api-db:

type: postgresql

class: postgresql.c0.tiny

config:

databaseName: newsapi

databaseUsername: newsapi

env:

url: DATABASE_URL

-----

The MCP server uses lazy docs loading rather than stuffing the full RunOS documentation into the LLM context window upfront. The base instructions just tell the AI how to pull additional information on demand via REST API. It fetches only the docs it needs based on the conversation. Keeps context lean and responses accurate.

An accidental nice find was the debugging loop. When a deploy fails, the AI automatically checks build logs, reads app logs, finds the error, fixes the code and redeploys. I've watched it catch a TypeScript type error in a database pool config, fix it, redeploy, then catch a bad migration, fix that too, and get the app running. All without intervention.
After deploy, the MCP connection stays useful. You can query your database in natural language, check object storage, read logs. No separate database client or CLI needed.

The cost angle matters too. A 10 node cluster on AWS runs roughly $2,500/month. Same thing on DigitalOcean is under $1,000. On Hetzner through RunOS it's under $250.

Where we're at honestly: it's late beta. Four services are available for AI provisioning right now (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, MinIO), more coming. There are probably bugs. We're heading to production in the next couple of months.
The scope ranges from single node setups for prototypes to multi-cluster, multi-node environments. The goal is to be a serious enterprise offering, not just a toy for side projects.

One use case I'm particularly interested in: teams where developers want to spin up prototypes quickly without bothering DevOps every time. Provision a server in your own network, deploy through AI, iterate fast. No tickets, no waiting.

2 min demo at runos.com. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or approach.
by olafmol | 2026-02-12 10:20:14+00:00
Debug with SSH(1) is still one of our (CircleCI) most loved and praised features. I really believe that these little QoL features can make a world of difference for sw developers and engineers, and this stays a strong focus for us.

1: https://circleci.com/docs/guides/execution-managed/ssh-acces...

(Disclaimer: i work at CircleCI)
by SPICLK2 | 2026-02-12 10:20:14+00:00
I don't see why you need to bring your kids into this, and as a parent any suggestion of being distracted by tech during time with the kids raises my suspicions.

We have a strict no laptops and no phones rule when the kids are around (unless we're specifically doing something with them using those tools - looking at the weather forecast, or looking up some information).

"I can prompt AI while playing with the kids" is not a future I want.
by andai | 2026-02-12 10:21:01+00:00
My perspective aligns with this: I used to obsess over the Best Model, which I defined as "top of benchmarks", which also meant Biggest, Slowest and Most Expensive.

Then I gave two models a Real World Task.

The "Best" model took 3x longer to complete it, and cost 10x more. [0]

Now I define Best Model as "the smallest, fastest, cheapest one that can get the job done". (Currently happy with GLM-4.7 on Cerebras, at least I would be if the unlimited plan wasn't sold out ;)

I later expanded this principle when model speed crossed into the Interactive domain. Speed is not merely a feature; a sufficient difference in speed actually produces a completely new category of usage.

[0] We recently arrived at an approximation of AGI which is "put a lossy solver in an until-done loop". For most tasks we're throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks, and the smaller models throw faster.
by Orphis | 2026-02-12 10:21:12+00:00
There are also alternatives that can be good enough, such as the Swedish BankId system, which is managed by a private company owned by many banks. They provide authentication and a chain of trust for the great majority of the population on about all websites (government, healthcare, banking and other commercial services) and is also used to validate online payments (3D Secure will launch the BankId app).

While it's not without faults (services do not always support alternative authentication which may support foreigners having the right to live in the country), it has been quite reliable for so many years.

So just to say, you can have successful alternatives to a government controlled system as many actors may decide it is quite valuable to develop and maintain such a system and that it aligns with their interest, and then have it become a de-facto standard.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-12 10:22:16+00:00
> (People who want that sort of stupidity already have Go and Java, they don't need D.)

Go wasn't around when D was created, and Java was an unbelievable memory hog, with execution speeds that could only be described as "glacial".

As an example, using my 2001 desktop, the `ls` program at the time was a few kb, needed about the same in runtime RAM and started up and completed execution in under 100ms.

The almost equivalent Java program I wrote in 2001 to list files (with `ls` options) took over 5s just to start up and chewed through about 16MB of RAM (around 1/4 of my system's RAM).

Java was a non-starter at the time D came out - the difference in execution speed between C++ systems programs and Java systems programs felt, to me (i.e. my perception), larger than the current difference in performance between C++/C/Rust programs and Bash shell scripts.
by eddythompson80 | 2026-02-12 10:23:07+00:00
There are plenty of brilliant people who use python. However, in every one of these boom cycles with python I dealt with A LOT of developers with horrific software engineering practices, little understanding of how their applications and dependencies work, and just plane bizarre ideas of how services work. Like the one who comes with 1 8k line run.py with like 3 functions asking to “deploy it as a service”, expecting it to literally launch `python3 run.py` for every request. It takes 5 minutes to run. It assumes there is only 1 execution at a time per VM because it always writes to /tmp/data.tmp. Then poses a lot of “You guys don’t know what you’re doing” questions like “yeah, it takes a minute, but can’t you just return a progress bar?” In a REST api? Or “yeah, just run one per machine. Shouldn’t you provide isolation?”. Then there is the guy who zips up their venv from a Mac or Windows machine and expects it to just run on a Linux server. Or the guy who has no idea what system libs their application needs and is so confused we’re not running a full Ubuntu desktop in a server environment. Or the guy who gives you a 12GB docker image because ‘well, I’m using anaconda”

Containers have certainly helped a lot with python deployments these days, even if the Python community was late to adopt it for some reason. throughout the 2010s where containers would have provided a much better story especially for python where most libraries are just C wrappers and you must pip install on the same target environments, python developers I dealt with were all very dismissive of it and just wanted to upload a zip or tarball because “python is cross platform. It shouldn’t matter” then we had to invent all sorts of workarounds to make sure we have hundreds of random system libs installed because who knows what they are using and what pip will need to build their things. prebuilt wheels were a lot less common back then too causing pip installs to be very resource intensive, slow and flaky because som system lib is missing or was updated. Still python application docker images always range in the 10s of GBs
by cassepipe | 2026-02-12 10:23:53+00:00
I would love to take the bait to talk about how Elon is very good at demonizing himself and does not need anyone to do it for him but I don't care that much about Elon as I care about climate change.

I would like to agree with you but saying "the people who care about that issue are irrational and should be doing X instead of Y" should not be used in defense of "I will deny the issue even exists and attack anyone who tries to alert about the issue"

That was my whole point and you missed it apparently. You just reformulated yours.
by haute_cuisine | 2026-02-12 10:25:07+00:00
I mean, if you look visually it looks like it's working. Once I tried interacting with it, everything is broken in a subtle way. Website has the same vibe, it has nav bar, it does it's thing, but it's broken in many different ways (media breakpoints, animations, etc).

I think companies who buy software by feature checklists would love this sort of products.
by fellerts | 2026-02-12 10:25:28+00:00
I’m surprised that they chose to add a bunch of components to feed the AC line frequency to the microcontroller instead of just using a 32.768 kHz crystal. A single crystal oscillator seems like both the cheaper and more accurate option

The power line frequency is carefully monitored and adjusted to ensure that deviations from the ideal (60 Hz in OP's case) are smoothed out [0]. Even a single ppm deviation equates to 2.6 seconds per month, and your cheap 32.768 kHz crystal is going to be orders of magnitude worse than that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Stability
by miav | 2026-02-12 10:26:39+00:00
The reaction to Discord age verification fiasco once again makes me believe that HN users just don’t have friends.

There is no alternative for Discord for bigger groups.

If there was, I still couldn’t move multiple social circles to it, no matter how much I evangelised.

The “just don’t use the less morally aligned platform” argument has always been valid only for those without a strong need for it, whether it’s X or Discord.
by jxdxbx | 2026-02-12 10:27:36+00:00
I think it looks better (on Mac and iOS) than any other Liquid Glass app. And I can’t blame Brent for adopting it. One of the standout features of the app is just being native, not trying to re-invent the wheel with custom GUI, and taking advantage of built-in platform features.

My favorite NNW feature is iCloud syncing: Not needing a separate RSS back-end (but of course you can use one if you want to sync with other clients).
by vaxman | 2026-02-12 10:28:12+00:00
Maybe have a look at this video from 1987. After sidelining Steve, John Sculley came up with the term PDA and intended to evolve that vision as the mission of Apple, beginning with the break through Apple Newton (that ran on DEC's revolutionary StrongARM chip).

https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0

PS: One of the first things Steve did upon returning to Apple a decade later was to KILL OFF Sculley's baby (Apple Newton). As far as its replacement, iPad, that reportedly was developed (but not released) before iPhone, it really has always been a dumpster fire software-wise, not because Apple didn't have capability to do it right, but because of their INTERNAL POLITICS. [https://youtu.be/J7al_Gpolb8?t=2286] FWIW, I "sense" that with many of those personalities out of the way now, Apple is finally unifying macOS and i{Pad}OS for the upcoming devices.