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bongripperon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

I'm currently building and maintaining 36flats.de (https://codeberg.org/MagnoliaElectricCo/flathunter) and looking for a new local position as a back end or full stack engineer, data engineer or similar. I've worked in health tech in the past, and this project sparked my interest in working with geospatial data and building data pipelines. I'm happy to hear about your leads in either of those fields, or anything else you might think I could be a fit for!

Location: Berlin

Remote: Yes, or hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Enjoy working with Python and Svelte the most, full list is at the bottom of my CV below:

Résumé/CV: https://36flats.de/resume.pdf

Email: hn@36flats.de

bongripperon Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study

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bongripperon Wired headphone sales are exploding

The idea is that you're at home with the other person and want to listen to some music from a bluetooth speaker.

bongripperon If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it

The author may not be as smart, educated, hot and successful as you, but the fact that today, people around the world, including students and educators, use LLMs as knowledge machines and take their output at face value shows that such critical posts are still urgently needed.

bongripperon Missile Game

Its too hard for me.

bongripperon Responses to unicycling

> I imagined it to be similar to how some "blue collar" professions attract mostly men who openly discuss women in sexual ways with each other while at work and will cat-call a pretty woman walking by.

Bro if you're trying to count those responses by class you can't use those same responses to put them into the bins in the first place, and reproducing a classist stereotype for no reason doesn't make the point any more valid.

bongripperon Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference

Where do you source your chargers now where you can track the entire supply chain?

bongripperon OpenAI suspends bot developer for presidential hopeful Dean Phillips

"just spend $1000 on a new GPU"

bongripperon Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel

Dude you're literally so retarded

bongripperon Why I Like Obsidian

> Knowledge is a mosaic crafted from interconnected ideas.

source?

bongripperon How to Be More Agentic

>I told her that she was a really inspiring person, and that I would keep her in my life indefinitely whether or not we ended up together

Whats wrong with men

bongripperon How to Be More Agentic

There are some interesting points in there, but the author sounds like a bit of a narcissistic jerk.

> In many contexts, the way to get good feedback is to give people a way to provide it anonymously. Anything else creates friction by layering on social dynamics. To get honest feedback, you want to make it as comfortable as possible for people to give it. You also want to make it easy to find -- I have a link to my feedback form in my Twitter bio, and get a few comments a week through it.

> I imagine resistance from some people on the grounds that anonymity frees people to be assholes, but in my experience they rarely are. 90% of what I get in my inbox is either nonsense or nice -- I get lots of “keep up the good work!” type messages

So 10% are assholes, and the rest are "nonsense" or nice - does she get any actual criticism in her "feedback inbox" (kind of a strange concept in my opinion in itself)?

Also, all of the accomplishments she bragged about in the intro are from business. Impressive as they may be, it seems a bit narrow minded to be only focusing on that part of life when recounting what you are most proud of.

bongripperon Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)

Yeah, I read some of his essays. I like some of the ones where he stayed in his area of expertise, like "Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics" ( https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-con...). The other ones I've read are big fancy word salad unfortunately. Can you recommend others like the series I linked above?

bongripperon Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)

Broke: Reading books or attending classes on philosophy and cognitive science to learn from hundreds of years of combined research from the world's greatest minds.

Woke: Pulling up a new theory of intelligence and for why everyone else is too damn stupid for "fourth order thinking" out of thin air, talking to it about an LLM and deeming it so important it has to be shared with an online community.

bongripperon Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)

>I don’t think I’m overselling myself too much to expect that I could argue circles around the average uneducated person. Like I mean that on most topics, I could demolish their position and make them look like an idiot. Reduce them to some form of “Look, everything you say fits together and I can’t explain why you’re wrong, I just know you are!” Or, more plausibly, “Shut up I don’t want to talk about this!”

> And there are people who can argue circles around me. Maybe not on every topic, but on topics where they are experts and have spent their whole lives honing their arguments.

He is admitting he might lose an argument against experts with decades worth of experience in their topic (most humble rationalist.)

bongripperon Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAiPcPRZlBk

The main character is nicknamed "Big Head", just referencing his big ol' dome.

bongripperon Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite

There have been scientific breakthroughs throughout human history and none of them "liberated" humanity in regards to sickness, poverty, energy, travel, entertainment. Why should this one now be different? There will always be sickness and poverty in a capitalist system that is built on the exploitation of others to sustain itself. During capitalism, medical ånd technological advances such breakthroughs might bring will always disproportionately benefit the rich. Sickness, poverty at least could already be "solved problems", as some people I think say, if not for class injustice in a system that depends on inequality to function.

bongripperon Thinking About Internet History

I much rather think about real history, there is more to learn from it for the future.

bongripperon DRµGS: Deep Random Micro-Glitch Sampling

"Despite GamerGate’s positive changes on the industry, it has been met with heavy criticism from the journalists and publications under fire and their supporters, as well as third-wave feminists involved who have attributed the harsh criticism towards female offenders to misogyny and sexism."

That summary seems a bit tendencious!

bongripperon NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances

I would argue the people of Hungary would be better off without hatred against asylum seekers and minorities, political opponents, lies and misinformation.

bongripperon NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances

I agree with your general point but Hungary is probably the worst example you could have chosen from any EU country! The Orbán government is famously using it to spread propaganda and fake information in unprecedented levels.

The level of control governments exert on public broadcasting networks is widely different. Since Meloni, the RAI in Italy is facing similar issues, but Hungary is still the canonic example of government misinformation and propaganda.

bongripperon NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances

That's not true. You can have Independent public broadcasting that is not owned by the government and is reporting critically on it.

bongripperon Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

No, he does not seem surprised as he had his mind made up about an important life decision and a carefully crafted resignation letter ready in a matter of hours.

bongripperon OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

Why is the site not loading? I keep spamming F5 every 1-2 seconds and its not loading..

bongripperon Volkswagen tracking firm sued for refusing to find stolen SUV with kidnapped boy

https://archive.is/5tCup

article not available in VW country

bongripperon Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

Buying drugs from shady people online like on Telegram channels is a good way to get you not high or killed. Apparently they're selling HHC now that looks like bud? No thanks. I'll stick to my local guy straight from behind the bushes next to the park.

bongripperon Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

Signal already has a very hard time competing against the network effects of WhatsApp and Telegram and getting people on the app, a fee would only increase that. But making it n$/year but with the option for an account withiot a phone number like other people are suggesting sounds nice, peace

bongripperon Removed: Document

The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared today on social media without its original context. Therefore we have decided to take it down."

bongripperon Desert Island Tourism

It's unsustainable and bad for the environment.

bongripperon Sunflower (Mathematics)

I didn't mean to sound so negative, it's still interesting, it was just a chore as a teenager/early twenties college student.