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bpicheon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Oakland, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, JS/node/react/ts, Java, R, vector/relational/nosql dbs, docker/k8es, terraform, GitHub actions, tensorflow/pytorch/gensim etc etc

Resume: Available on request

Email: ben.h.piche@gmail.com

Github: https://www.github.com/bpiche

Hi, I'm Ben Piché, a full stack AI/NLP engineer with about 15 years of experience. Have worked at lots of startups as well as big companies like Apple, Capgemini, Deloitte, Twitter, Wells Fargo and SAP. Specializing in AI architecture, agents, conversational AI, digital transformation, and related solutions.

bpicheon From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

I still think of this video often and wonder if it is building on any of that technology, almost 10 years old now. Just looking at this whitepaper it seems like they both use some kind of infrared transcranial light, but never imagined the machine in the original iteration was so big [Regina Dugan's Keynote at Facebook F8 2017 | Inverse] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI

bpicheon Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG

Likewise

bpicheon Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

This is the plot of The Peripheral, right? Love the way the second half of that book turned out. Never finished Agency..

bpicheon Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

IA is hosting a couple more of Rick Prelinger’s shows this month. Looking forward to visiting

bpicheon Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

Kirlian Selections rocks

bpicheon Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonders why AI companies don't have to 'follow any laws'

I didn't see any mention of this in the article, but: not sure if his wife is still on the board of OpenAI or not. He must have a unique and intimate view into some of this stuff and it's probably why they asked him about this stuff instead of another good actor. Big fan of his movies

bpicheon Meta Ray-Ban Display

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

regina dugan's f8 keynote 8 years ago

where they announced they were working on a 'haptic vocabulary' for a skin interface as well as noninvasive brain scanning technologyu\

bpicheon Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please

After Doug's recent passing, I sincerely doubt it.

bpicheon Best Pens for 2025

I've had a few TWSBIs over the last 5 years or so and I love them. Haven't had any hairline fractures yet - any idea what may have caused them? Am curious now

bpicheon Ask HN: How are you reading (nonfiction) books/pdfs in 2025?

https://www.kavitareader.com

Kavita is awesome. I host it on my pc and serve it to my iPad/iPhone over a zerotier VPN

bpicheon That dark matter video aged like milk

Well for what it’s worth I wouldn’t have watched it without this retrospective. Very skeptical of dark matter and find this topic highly interesting

bpicheon Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)

Yeah that makes sense. Got me wondering to what extent it’s possible with something like load balancing too. Maybe meetups don’t have to corner the market on that kind of info sharing

bpicheon Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)

I live here too. I'm biased, but 1) this place is not full of awesome engineers, it's mostly full of overworked contractors and newbies with eighth grader syndrome. And 2) you can't just walk up to them and ask them to explain everything about their project. That's a huge security issue and if it were true it would be a lot easier to social engineer places today. Not to say that it isn't possible, but this comment paints an unproductive, idealized, and inaccurate view of the bay.

edit: it is a very cool e-ink project, and there are some cool communities like the maker faire. Reflexively reacting against the generalization

bpicheon 3 Days in Space Were Enough to Change 4 Astronauts' Bodies and Minds

Spacenoid and newtype neonates

bpicheon Is Apple about to launch the real Siri?

People have a lot more faith in ReAct than they should, for applications like this

bpicheon Hudson Yards Video Game

Ahh yes the early beta version of endorphin port

bpicheon Hi, AI: Our Thesis on AI Voice Agents

Theyre so out of touch it’s almost funny

bpicheon Ask HN: So.. what's next after LLMs?

As a Gibson fan: this sounds like his robot avatars from The Peripheral and the VR glasses from Virtual Light.

In his most recent book, Agency, he describes 'laminar agents'. They're basically uncensored multimodal LLMs that can see the world through VR glasses.

Interestingly, Neal Stephenson named his metaverse company Lamina1. I like to think he named it after the term in Agency.

bpicheon Ask HN: So.. what's next after LLMs?

I agree with your assessment that a lot of this stuff is BPO. There is only so much customer service that can be automated. That being said, AI is a big tent and has been around for decades, despite the media claiming that OpenAI has been the first company to take it into the mainstream. AI flies fighter jets without any human pilots. I personally think there is already a lot of impressive stuff happening with reinforcement learning and am excited to see where large action models go, despite rabbit's failures.

bpicheon Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

Luke skywalker shooting torpedoes into the Death Star vibes. Burn it down.

bpicheon Scarlett Johansson lawyers up over ChatGPT voice that 'shocked and angered' her

Go for the throat ScarJo!

bpicheon Intercom to make $94M bet on AI centric efforts

It’s gonna take a lot more than that if they want to do it in house. The moat is financial, and it is wide and deep

Also I gotta say their billboard on the 101 outside of SF really irritates me

bpicheon OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT

Immanetizing the eschaton

bpicheon Ask HN: Bootstrapped founder. Does it make sense to move out of SF for a while?

Rent is not cheap in Walnut Creek. Maybe next door in Concord, but not WC lol

bpicheon Ask HN: How do you get started writing "predicting" software?

That's character-level n-gram modeling

bpicheon Senators unveil plan to regulate AI

AI.

It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

It's a baby. We can regulate it.

bpicheon Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

I just want to point out that you have noted this falsehood like five times in this thread already. Noncompetes have been unenforceable in California since 2008, and for over a month federally.