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cardimarton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

Can I ask you why you're so incredibly light on Product Designers? I only see 1 member out of 200, the standard weight given to Design is closer to 1:7 engineers. Hiring any soon or what's your unique view on Design as a function?

cardimarton Procreate Dreams

How cringe is that keynote? Hard to watch

cardimarton Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

The only explanation for why he is not monetising it is that he is Gabe Newell.

cardimarton The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money

So if every grocery was to be priced in BTC, you wouldn't eat? :)

Remember that the US was on the gold standard with a similar inflation profile to Bitcoin and consumers were consuming.

cardimarton Gitlab removed the public Compensation Calculator

Do you guys know why? I loved their transparency.

WebArchive: http://web.archive.org/web/20200606161551/https://about.gitl...

cardimarton Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?

Came to say the same. CMD+F didn't disappoint.

cardimarton Ask HN: How to keep yourself accountable?

Alternatively you could try https://getmakerlog.com It's free.

cardimarton Day Trading for a Living?

The results are fairly obvious to anyone who has read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street".

Day traders rely on technical analysis which is the equivalent of astrology in the financial sector.

cardimarton Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?

Ask why they lied to the EU when they said they couldn't merge WhatsApp's data with Facebook's data.

When they knew they could.

cardimarton Japanese Company Charges Its Staff $100 an Hour to Use Conference Rooms

Wouldn't including as many people as possible increase the cost of the meeting since you're buying more people's time?

cardimarton Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

That crowd is moving to Instagram. Facebook Inc. will survive, unfortunately.

cardimarton Ask HN: If Uber is losing so much money, why not raise the price of fares?

It's called penetration pricing.

Since it's a winner-take-all market - because of the network effects on both sides of the platform - they need to acquire users faster than any other competitor.

They'll stop when they know they're the clear winners of the market.

cardimarton A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]

"creating new solutions for previously non existing problems, like the iPhone."

I have a problem when I hear things like that. The problems are always there, the needs are always there. They're just satisfied better by the new technology. But the latent needs were there to begin with.

cardimarton Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node

cardimarton Ask HN: We didn't get a single person to pay for our SAAS – what could be wrong?

Have you ever talked to one potential customer face-to-face?

cardimarton Show HN: Jukebox, a music player for Dropbox for iOS

This is something that I needed, thanks a lot justin.

It'd be a nice improvement if you could display the length of each song next to it instead of the ººº icon.