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adamhpon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

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adamhpon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

Just wanted to say, this sounds so damn cool. I don't have the C chops, but man, what a cool endeavor. Best of luck!

adamhpon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

Put "Hand painted" in the copy somewhere. That's relevant info that people would mentally discount the price against.

adamhpon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

I built a free app, https://multiborder.io, that lets you add borders to multiple images at a time. I simply use it when I post photography to Instagram, because Instagram prefers 4:5 for maximum viewability, but most of my photos are 2:3. This preserves the aspect ratio for vertical and landscape, and also is aesthetically pleasing (imo).

adamhpon Ask HN: Any good books for a layman on history of quantum computing?

I'd also recommend studying quantum mechanics more generally, and a great intro there is Brian Cox's The Quantum Universe.

adamhpon Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?

Electron. I think the hate is undeserved (at this point, they've come along way) and there are plenty of billion dollar companies running Electron apps.

adamhpon Ask HN: How can I consistently deliver high-quality work with minimal issues?

It's the right mindset. Because code isn't the end, it's a means to an end. The end is "value". To your users. The quicker you give that to them, the better. Bugs here and there are absolutely part of the process. You are making an assumption that the least amount of bugs is "best" for your company.

It's important to consider the bigger picture here. Consider a scenario where you spend twice the amount of time delivering features, getting things perfect. Let's assume for the sake of it, that our users will "like" half the features we ship, and we'll throw out the rest. In this scenario, it's better to reduce quality to ship faster, because half of your features are going to be "thrown out" anyway.

This happens in the real world, albeit to a less extreme extent. But the point remains. That's why we have product teams that attempt to reduce the likelihood of a feature being tossed out and time being wasted. That's why we have QA teams to ensure development bugs are caught and we deliver both value and have robust systems in place.

As long as these aren't catastrophic, affects-all-users, brings-down-the-servers type of bugs, you're probably writing the optimal amount of bugs to balance the trade-off in value delivery.

adamhpon Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

If I could magic-wand my own company, I would 100% aim to hire folks who are extremely comfortable with written communication. Asynchronous, written communication is 1000% more productive than meetings imo, and makes the organization's knowledge indexable and permanent.

adamhpon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

Looking for full-stack app or web dev, 1099 or W2, ~9.5 YoE, Master's Degree in Data Science. Extremely broad skillset and product-oriented mindset.

  Location: Northern Virginia
  Remote: Required
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Full-stack, React, TypeScript, NextJS, Python, Java, Rust, multiple CSPs, infra, CICD, Spark, ETL pipelines, everything in between
  Résumé/CV: Provided via email
  Email: adamp319 (at) gmail

adamhpon ChatGPT Search

> With a search paradigm this wasn't an issue as much, because the answers were presented as "here's a bunch of websites that appear to deal with the question you asked". It was then up to the reader to decide which of those sites they wanted to visit, and therefore which viewpoints they got to see.

It is very similar. Google decides what to present to you on the front page. I'm sure there are metrics on how few people get past the front page. Heck, isn't this just Google Search's business model? Determining what you see (i.e. what is "true") via ads?

In much the same way that the Councils of Carthage chose to omit the acts of Paul and Thecla in the New Testament, all modern technology providers have some say in what is presented to the global information network, more or less manipulating what we all perceive to be true.

Recently advancements have just made this problem much more apparent to us. But look at history and see how few women priests there are in various Christian churches and you'll notice even a small omission can have broad impacts to society.

adamhpon ChatGPT Search

We have a faulty information network to begin with, and have for millenia. There's no such thing as "reliable" answers in a world full of unreliable humans.

adamhpon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

Opal is quite popular in this space, just as a point of reference/competition :)

adamhpon Boeing CEO says the company must fundamentally change

Yes, we should instead offer Boeing 50+ billion tax-payer dollars like true capitalists.

adamhpon Using static websites for tiny archives

There is a ton of content about Obsidian! Also it's a fairly intuitive interface. I'd just download it and start messing around, then check out the community plugins. If you really want to dig into notes systems, then you can Google PARA or Zettelkasten, but to me, that quickly begins to devolve into homework and needless learning curves. Just bolt on what you need it for. It's very full featured and if you feel like you're missing something, just search for a plugin.

adamhpon Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

I was in your boat. I revisited later and powered through and it does indeed get better. The narrative forms into something more cohesive and you start being less exhausted by all the lingo because you've learned it. You settle in. You have to sort of try to immerse yourself. I'd recommend trying to read in larger chunks of time and really absorb the aesthetic of the world.

adamhpon Ask HN: Let's assume AI does take developer jobs. What's the pivot?

It may sound a bit pedantic, but this is why I prefer the term "software engineer". I don't write code. I solve problems, typically by writing code. AI just shortens the gap between my intuition and solving the problems. Yes it will obviate the need for me to be in the loop in some cases, but in the same way that automation obviates the need for coal miners and other mundane, dangerous, or otherwise uninspiring jobs, AI will obviate the need for us to write boilerplate, setup the 100000th CRUD app of our careers, write the same login endpoint for the 50000th time, etc... In our lifetimes, I'm doubtful that AI will replace my creativity and ability to synthesize large amounts of multi-domain information into a reasonable solution for end-users. I'm not doubtful that will happen eventually, I just don't see it impacting my job prospects prior to my retirement.

adamhpon Ask HN: New to US, puzzled why tech hasn't simplified health insurance

"For profit" and "healthcare" are just two things that shouldn't mix, but here we are. Everything in capitalism has a profit motive. Everything in life does not.

adamhpon Ask HN: Why do centers of international power often have acute urban poverty?

Those places didn't become "centers of international power" by being equatable.

adamhpon CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Imagine being anywhere near the team that sent this...

adamhpon CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

You're so right. Pay us ludicrous sums to make your auditors feel good. Crazy.

adamhpon Panic at the Job Market

If an interviewer asked me to "show me your hands", I'd laugh in their face and immediately disconnect.

adamhpon Ask HN: Favorite Home Office Purchase?

I tried this but got motion sickness, which I almost never get. I think having to focus on a monitor while walking in place is just not for me. Sometimes I'll use it if I'm just on meetings or something.

adamhpon Effectiveness of an walking intervention for the prevention of low back pain

there was a greater number of adverse events related to the lower extremities in the intervention group than in the control group (100 in the intervention group and 54 in the control group)

This kind of confused me. Seems to imply the intervention group experienced a greater number of "adverse events"?

adamhpon TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough

> "The ceramic material used by TDK means that larger-sized batteries would be more fragile, meaning the technical challenge of making batteries for cars or even smartphones will not be surmounted in the foreseeable future, according to the company."

adamhpon Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

Recently I learned that there is a decent little video editor baked in too (and you can even open pre-existing videos).

adamhpon Instead of grinding LeetCode, learn mathematics, bro

Because it seems we have agreed that we need an arbitrary way to curtail the demand to some of the highest paying jobs on the planet, rather than an actual methodology around proving requisite skills for said jobs.

adamhpon Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

CleanShot X is one of the most well-designed pieces of software out there imo.

adamhpon Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?

I'm in the same boat man. I suggest reading "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals". I found it helpful.

adamhpon Ask HN: 36 years old, no skills, no job – what can I learn?

I literally just got an email from some Biotech company in Maryland that is hiring Python Engineers. Learn Python. Apply to some Biotech companies as a Python Engineer. I'm almost certain your biotech experience would make up for your lack of actual engineering experience if you could do a leetcode interview or whatever.

adamhpon Show HN: Real Estate CRM – The only CRM tailor made for real estate Industry

No one is going to stay on a landing page that has a loading screen.