Maybe I don't have the interview volume others do, but aren't you able to tell pretty quickly in your face-to-face or live video call interview that a person is competent or not (such as using a tool to compensate for a lack of experience)

I keep hearing of employers being duped by AI in interviews; I don't see how it is possible unless:

1) The employer is not spending the time to synchronously connect via live video or in person, which is terrible for interviewing

2) The interviewer is not competent to be interviewing

... what other option is there? Are people sending homework/exams as part of interviews still and expecting good talent to put up with that? I'm confused where this is helpful to a team that is engaged with the interview process.

This is an example that comes to mind where someone can pull of cheating with AI in a realtime interview: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/columbia-student-suspended...

I'm familiar with this story, this is the person who founded the software being discussed/linked... but what does this do to explain why a competent interviewer was unable to suss out that the person had no idea what they were doing?

Bluffing in interviews is nearly a given. Your interview should be designed to suss out the best fit; the cheaters should not even rank into the final consideration if you did a decent interview and met the person via some sort of live interaction.

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You got the wrong post. This one is for companies that want to hire. You’re looking for the who wants to be hired.

Thanks for watching out for a fellow user! Looks like they made it to the other thread.

Location: Bali, Indonesia

Remote: Yes (US/EU/AU timezone)

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Tools: Figma, Framer, Webflow, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop

Technologies: HTML/CSS/JS, Tailwind CSS, Vue, and Git

Portfolio: https://oninle.com

Résumé/CV: Available via email

Email: elnino@uisual.com

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I'm El, a senior product designer and UX/UI designer with 7+ years of experience working remotely for US/EU/AU-based companies. I've worked for B2B and B2C companies and startups in various industries: energy, entertainment, education, and finance.

I'm a designer who codes and the creator of Uisual (https://uisual.com), a free library of Figma, Framer, and Tailwind CSS components and templates. Built with Vue + Tailwind CSS.

I’m looking for full-time or contract opportunities. I’m also open to project-based work at a fixed price.

Location: Dallas, TX, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Java, Backend, Full-stack, SQL, ML, AWS, DevOps, Kubernetes, JS, React

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qzwP46HaK_d4ICk2eKLtQ-btKJU...

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ersarojmishra70

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Hi, I'm Saroj. I am a skilled full-stack software engineer with 5+ years of experience in backend development, data engineering, and AI/ML. I have experience designing scalable data pipelines, building robust APIs, and integrating AI-driven solutions. Previously, I worked at Goldman Sachs, where I contributed to high-performance systems handling billions in daily transactions. I hold a Master’s in Computer Science and have published research in AI. Proficient in Python, Java, React, AWS, Snowflake, and distributed systems. Open to new opportunities—excited to bring impactful solutions to innovative teams!

  SEEKING WORK | AI Engineer & Full-stack software developer

  Location: Thailand (GMT+7)
  Remote: Only
  Willing to relocate: Yes, but only within Thailand
  Technologies: Django, Python, HTMX, AlpineJs, Tailwind, SQL, PostGreSQL
  Résumé/CV: https://edwin.genego.io/about
  Email: edwin@genego.io
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I am looking for an AI company, startup, partner or lab who is looking for an on-hands engineer with a huge amount of passion figuring out the edge of capabilities when it comes to building AI products. If this resonates with your vision, please sent me a message. I am available full-time.

So here’s the rub.

Your product is almost irrelevant, as long as it is at least mediocre at what it does.

What matters is your marketing and your positioning. From how you describe it, it sounds like you’re selling steak, not the sizzle - you say what it is capable of but not what it does for you. You mention that it could save “ten hours for real”, and this is the point you need to drive home - this will save you money, make you money, make you more attractive to investors, give you time and peace of mind.

As to channels - social media rules the roost. Pay YouTube and TikTok influencers to shill for you. If you don’t believe enough in your product to pay for marketing, why should they believe in it?

Push out hype-laden press releases. Thump your chest. Drop emails to journalists in the space, with pre-written soundbites and a link to the release. Make it easy content for them to sling up on their platform. The bar is low.

Pick a vertical. Work it, target it, saturate it with your product. If you can find a vertical that’s underserved, then start there.

Finally, make sure your landing page speaks to the above, and hammers the point home right out of the gate. “Vidlify will help you get that Ferrari you always wanted. Here’s how:”

Save jargon for the “I’m excited, tell me more”.

Then, either it will fly, and you can progress to a broader market, or it won’t, and you either accept your loss and move on, or tweak and try again - but don’t get caught in the sunk costs fallacy - just because you’ve already spent X time and Y money, it doesn’t mean you have to commit more.

Good luck.

I’m going to tell you something from the other side…

A few jobs ago, I worked for a struggling startup that was trying to pivot and we had one large customer that kept the lights on. I was over the project that kept the lights on and survived every round of layoffs.

The customer was hesitant about giving a small struggling startup money and made us put our code in escrow that they would have access to under certain conditions. The startup failed, they got the code and the company that acquired us for scraps added an addendum to my severance agreement that released me from my non compete and allowed me to have access to my work laptops and work for the client.

A few years later I was the dev lead at another company and I found the perfect SaaS product for our needs. But the CTO wasn’t comfortable basing our entire project around a one man startup. I suggested an escrow agreement, the lawyers got involved and we signed the contract and we were now 80% of his business.

I’m not suggesting you so an escrow. I am saying that many businesses aren’t going to trust a no name one person startup until you have some referenceable clients, provide an easy migration path if you go tits up and they know you aren’t a fly by night company.

Personally, I’m in the camp of “no one ever got fired for buying $WellKnownIndustryStandardProduct”

But I don’t have too much actionable advice when it comes to top of the funnel sales. I’m a “post sales architect” as part of my job. The next step below sales.

The Browser. Just pure JavaScript, HTML, CSS and WebGPU running on a bulletproof sandbox.

Photoprism and Immich

From all the comments I've been reading, this combination seems solid. I'll definitely be checking it out thoroughly.

Did that site just got "slashdotted"? Because none of the examples want to load atm.

Js is fun.

I wonder is someone truly believing this is a good hire ("the new hire can do the JS!") or a bad hire (as in: no clue what a fun programming language is like, or "must have never used JS in anger").

It's probably worthwhile to compare this to calculators and mental math skills.

To a certain extent, yes absolutely. If you programmed more yourself, you'd be better at programming than the version of you that spends any significant amount of time generating AI code.

But that doesn't mean you'll totally atrophy the skill and magically forget your fundamentals.

Don't think so, as long as you give a quick read to the code that is being generated and you're using it as an assistant I think they're really helpful. Also, I'm having a hard time picking and sticking to one or few tools given the variety and multiple releases happening in the market.

This exactly. I find that I don't remember how to do some of the things I used to have more easily memorized, but I still need the fundamentals when things go horribly wrong and I need to dive into code myself.

There was such an standard, but it was ignored, because people don't want to be tracked, which is diametral to the targets of companies to get as much data as possible to sell you stuck you never need

"do not track" is just that

But everyone ignored it and it just provided additional entropy for identifying you!

Just about any site can use any data you provide them for anything regardless of what permission one gives. Asking them to do or not do something has the same effect as asking a mugger to not mug them. At best one would get a chuckle.

The partial exception would be if one has a mutually binding contract with said company and that company is made painfully aware that one has multiple law firms and infinite resources to go after them. They might adhere to the contract for a while until the company gets big and some new middle management want to take risks to look good for their management which means breaking ones contract behind their back.

For clarity:

Do you mean "I want to block incoming spam email to my email addresses" or "I operate an email mailing list and I want to block bots from joining the list" ?

I mean I run a SaaS and get many fake registered users / bots.

What I did for now is:

- Added a honeypot field (invisible to users, but bots might fill it) -> if it's filled, instant reject - Added a check for spammy domains -> if it's from such a domain, instant reject

This is smart. Are there scenarios you've noticed that it doesn't work?

A size constraint forces creative solutions to problems where the existing solutions are large. But that has nothing to do with conceiving of a novel mechanic. On the contrary, most creative processes start from a base of knowledge and skills, and build from there, often contrasting existing problems and solutions, brainstorming ideas until something novel arises. Size constraints would stifle that part of the creative process, not enhance it.

After you come up with an idea, evaluate it, and decide it is good to pursue, optimization makes sense. But no, don't put that at the beginning of the process.

JS games below 13kb: https://js13kgames.com/2024/games

Blog on github(2018): https://github.blog/open-source/gaming/create-a-13kb-javascr...

A small binary size limit would force developers to focus and compete on game mechanics instead of graphics and/or sound.

Forrest Mims did a bunch of interesting hand drawings like that back then but I don’t recall the specific book or image you are thinking of. I’m curious to see if you find it - it sounds up my alley too.

... and:

I've identified several prominent DIY electronics magazines from the early 1980s in the US. The most promising candidates, based on the user's description, are 'Popular Electronics' and 'Byte'. 'Popular Electronics' was a highly circulated magazine that even inspired the founding of Microsoft, and it transitioned into 'Computers & Electronics' in 1982. 'Byte' was a leading computer magazine that often featured electronics content and was known for its distinctive cover art by Robert Tinney. Other magazines like 'Radio Electronics Magazine', 'Nuts and Volts', 'Elektor Electronics Magazine', 'Practical Electronics', 'Circuit Cellar', 'Silicon Chip Magazine', and 'Hobby Electronics' were also noted, but 'Popular Electronics' and 'Byte' seem to be the strongest fits for the US context and time frame.

I loved Byte magazine! Oh, that was the best. It was likely Popular Electronics where I found the Book of the Month club, but Hobby Electronics is a good path I'll investigate, thank you!

Try a "Show HN" for starters. Whatever you do don't post an Ask HN with a link in it because that's a classic rookie mistake -- links don't work in an Ask HN post!

If you say "people won't understand my product if they just visit the landing page" you're doing it wrong! The expectation is that people will visit your landing page with zero context so your landing page must say enough about your product that it stands on its own. If you really want to explain a bit it is OK to post a comment on your own "Show HN"

Noted for "Show HN". Btw, is it okay to "Show HN" if there is a paid feature in it? I didn't read something about that in the HN welcome part. I will definitely work on my landing so people can understand the project without me being there, explaining the thing^^. Thanks for your time :)

Good advice.

Lots of times it makes better sense to put effort into opening up the world to your project, in advance of opening the project up to the world :)

I've effectively become the "AI expert" on my team, but I still hold my same title (Sr SWE).

Being very familiar with Bedrock and its related APIs, in particular:

- running accuracy and related metrics

- building RAG solutions using Knowledge Bases, separating in the response and in the flows what is and what isn't AI-generated

- adding Bedrock Guardrails to catch the "bad stuff" and using Bedrock Reranker to improve accuracy

A giant portion of the job is just asking "What do you want?" over and over again. And also just asking "What do you want to happen when it cannot answer?" Gathering (or building) ground truth data to be able to do Accuracy evaluations.

Also doing a lot of mitigation around the limitations of the tools: adding rate-limiters, resilience4j kind of stuff.

Are you just pushing around prompts? I would think an AI engineer would actually be making changes to the LLM itself.

I would never call myself an “AI Engineer” unless I was actually building custom LLMs.

For the last 7 years, I’ve specialized in “cloud native development” and the last five working more in strategy and leading implementations working for consulting companies full time.

Gen AI is just another tool in my tool belt. One of my specialties before Gen AI was working with Amazon Connect - a cloud hosted call center + Amazon Lex (the AWS version of Alexa) for voice, text and web and chatbots. I use Gen AI to understand customer’s utterances better with Bedrock. But at the end of the day, it’s really just another AWS SDK (Boto3) call.

But my day to day is more about working with clients gathering requirements, integrating call centers with their backends, and everything that goes into a modern implementation - regular development, infrastructure as code, “DevOps” [sic], training, solving XYProblems, etc.

I spend a lot of time telling clients “Gen AI isn’t what you want”. You don’t want Gen AI being responsible for output to customers, maybe a standard ML implementation might be better, etc.

Your child wants to spend time with you. Not with a computer.

And you both will be better off for it.

So put your child on your lap and let the computer be an excuse until you give yourself permission not to need an excuse. Because they are only little once, turn out amazing, get their own lives, and you miss them like hell. Good luck.

Love this response. Remember that having the time and space to give to your kids like this is a luxury not everyone has.

It is not a luxury.

It is decision about who you are.

apple. tiny light gray text on white background, barely visible.

My theory is it's due to the prevalence of Apple Macbooks which have horrible glossy screens so users have to crank up the brightness to full to see anything at all.

There is no reason. Configure your browser to always open sites in reader mode, and you have solved all problems with the modern internet. Both for desktop and mobile.

See if you can auction it off - at least you'll make some money that way.

What is the product and source code about?

See if you can put it under the [a]GPL and create a consulting niche around it.

Funny that it is not just Apple doing that. Samsung also and that has happen ty Galaxy. They break the device you pay'd for. But any Android device will have Android unwanted apps, vender unwanted apps and spy crap like Facebook app for UI and 3 more to keep sending Facebook all data. So if you don't connect any Andoid to a PC and remove that crap, you're out of luck. It is not just bloatware. It's spyware.

Murena Pixel Tablet

...

Google Pixel Tablet runs GrapheneOS just fine.

Personally for me Windsurf has been my saving grace whenever I run into issues with a lot of my React projects. I have also had great results with Cursor but was looking for something that can not go overboard but still be able to handle a lot of the complex commands and tasks that I put out within the prompt. There are a handful of tools I still need to try but with AI there's always something new each week.

Windsurf seems good to me too, Cursor sometimes generates the wrong code and when repromted to fix it does not always do a great job. But again, it really depends on the what type of project you are using it for :)

I am not. They can all burn.

> Has anyone else run into this?

Yup. Did some attempts at appeal but ended up abandoning LinkedIn for good (well, I guess it was mutual). I encourage everyone to do the same.

> Are other platforms doing this now too?

Facebook also does this (lock accounts demanding govt ID).

Both LinkedIn and FB/Insta were >1y ago.

In a business context verification is pretty normal…Credit Checks, Letters of Credit, Insurance Binders, Bank Statements, References, etc.

LinkedIn is a business platform. Anonymity does not seem consistent with its value as such.

Anyway, Persona is going to verify your submission against what is already in its database. Which after two decades of facial recognition and fifty years of credit reports is just about everything.

But if it matters, hire a lawyer. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.

There's a pretty difficult line between making it easy to install "random software from friendly relative" and "random software from a not-so-friendly person who wants to steal your bank info", so I think I'm OK with the balance they've found. You can help her bypass the warnings, but it needs to be pretty difficult for someone over the phone to tell her to bypass the warnings.

Yeah. Switching to Nightly or Dev seems like a reasonable step for someone who's already writing their own extension (or using someone else's.)

wait you're telling me to develop i need the developer version?!

the previous post was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42157556

This is also a repost from the original thread, but FSF maintains a list of projects that may need help: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:High_Priority_Proj...

Super ZZ Zero

A game engine with many similarities like ZZT and MegaZeux.

Written in C with SDL1.

There are many things that help is possible (you are not required to help with all of these things):

- Bug reports (and patches to fix them if you have them)

- Feature suggestions

- Complaining if some documentation is unclear or incorrect (and suggestions about how to improve it)

- Porting

- Code review

- Testing

- Use of the software, if you are interested to use it for making any game

https://github.com/zzo38/superzz0

You may also use my NNTP server for communication (e.g. in case you do not have a account on GitHub).

? Wait, what is it?

>In my profile, what is noprocrast?

> It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on HN. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I’ve noticed the same thing. Horrible for my productivity. Paging @dang

Not answering your question or building anything, but what your'e making sounds like what I'm looking for!

I've been experimenting with a concept called Propheciple — a decentralized, cryptic platform for exploring new ideas in the evolving economy. Would love feedback or thoughts on this direction:

https://www.caard.net/profile/propheciple/ce562ce7-a75d-4a0e...

I'm a magazine journalist who's usually working on multiple stories at once. I collect a lot of tabs.

So the other day I used Claude to make a browser extension that saves all in an active window to the specified "Writing Project" so I can easily open/close them all as needed.

Basically, a more streamlined bookmark system.

How do you want to change thinking towards those problems of a whole nation? It's not like "it's the company doing it" - it's japanese people doing this to their own people. So this would be were to start.

.. uprising workers are needed here. New thinking towards well-being of employees must be adapted. Without a social overthrow, I think, it's impossible to change such system.

Or, you found an company yourself and do it differently, addressing the very each problems and market yourself, so that everyone is fighting to be with your company and you as the boss.

So you see, it's near to impossible. One can't wish for uprising, as it won't be happening. One can't wish for change of the Japanese society. It won't be happening as long traditional thinking is still state of the art.

May be in 30y when there's a new generation of managers who think like you and are keen to to different.

Good luck my friend from Japan! Greetings from Germany.

In case you really want to know and still didn't Google it:

On Germany/Europe, we have strong laws for employees. That's a big part of the working culture over here, as each of the employees know about and have the chance to exercise his/her rights given by law. For example , the working day is defined as 8h + 30mins of break. If you're about to work longer, then you get better money/compensation for it. There's a strong law for recreational times/vacation, where each one oughta get min. 24d of payed off-time. There are laws saving employees from mobbing, and if it happens, it's easy to sue because of the employees rights. And so on...

So, urge your legislation to pass such laws as a start. With the time, everyone gets accommodated to this and everything will change for the good.

Wish you success.

You haven't experienced Korea yet.

You are no doubt right that it will be difficult to change this situation. In fact, it is impossible to change society as a whole. Let's face it. There may be real managers who are starting companies privately and making them easy to work for. However, it is not possible to change all companies.

I just think there are people suffering all over the world. So ... I hope those people can be saved. I also want people around the world to know that there are many people suffering. That's why I made this animation based on my own experience. zoom I want people to know that there are many people in the world who are suffering. I want everyone to see my animation and know what is going on. I know that nothing will change the situation.

https://youtu.be/qyCEpMlesJU

This post came to mind: https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/

I doubt anyone wants to search a f-91w.

You can participate in discussions like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416093

Have you offered them money?

no.i am looking to create open source and non-profit ones.

I'm just curious: does your local dictionary and thesaurus lack some feature that those sites used to provide for you? Maybe I'm just in a privileged position because the dictionary and thesaurus Spotlight integration is so handy, and I'd bet that Windows doesn't have nice things, or if they have them they're now also enshittified

There's no such thing in a Windows installation as iOS and macOS offer out of the box. There are apps, though, available via the Microsoft Store. A free one, called Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus says this in its privacy policy:

III. Types of personal data collected

3.1 While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain Personal Data. The categories of Personal Data may include, but are not limited to:

• First name and surname

• Country and country code

• Email address

• Phone number (if applicable)

• Habitual residence (if applicable)

• Google, Facebook, Huawei, Microsoft and/ or Apple credentials and profile pictures (if applicable)

• Billing and payment data – credit or debit card number, bank account information (if applicable) and information about payments

So, yeah.

• Cookies and Usage Data – device type, device ID and/ or IP address, crash logs data, diagnostic data, music files data and other information as clarified below (if applicable)

• Communications and content, including audio, video, text (typed, inked, dictated, or otherwise), in a message, email, or chat (if applicable).

Gee you make it sound like Windows and macOS are the only games in town :)

The treaty returning sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, disestablishing the British Indian Ocean Territory, seems to be on track for ratification:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

The consequences for the .IO ccTLD are still unclear and ultimately will depend on how the United Nations, the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, and ICANN respond. I’m not aware of anything more definitive than ICANN’s blog posting from November 2024, which emphasizes that “much of the discussion about .io is simply speculation” but also acknowledges the possibility that “a five-year time window will commence during which time usage of the domain will need to be phased out.”

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelag...

I wouldn’t use a .IO domain name for anything important.

What other country can it be transferred to?

My two biggest clients are exclusively running on .io domains and have hundreds of subdomains each - I really hope they don't end up doing something dumb here, I know two companies that don't want to deal with this.