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christopher8827

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Contact me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clam8/
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christopher8827··on CUDA for AMD on Windows
yeh - exactly.

Sucks like important libraries like Alphafold are locked into CUDA. Its ridiculous for researchers.

christopher8827··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
This is why people are switching over to Codex
christopher8827··on MacBook Neo
8GB of RAM? In 2026?!!!

Xcode and some browser tabs are going make this slow AF.

christopher8827··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Careful - I applied to this role and the founder (I assume) ghosted me mid-way.
christopher8827··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
What's your application process like?
christopher8827··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
Do you hire in Australia?
christopher8827··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
Hey - are you actually hiring? I applied a while back and just got ghosted after the initial email without any discussion of my experience.
christopher8827··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
Location: Currently in Sydney, Australia. Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Only in Australia - however, I am a resident of Spain and an Australian citizen.

About: I'm looking for any AI/ML engineer roles at the moment. I have experience applying ML to biology in research so I am looking to see if anything fits.

Technologies: - Web Dev: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux - Data Science: Python (SciPy, NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jupyter), Neural Networks, SVMs, PCA, MDS, Decision Trees, Random Forests, R, OpenAI Agents SDK

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jw4LC83GZvNqHLVucDDPtpuqA0k...

Email: me [at] christopheragnus.com

christopher8827··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
Hmm, good idea. I'm adding the ability to add "context" so taking a hpoto shouldn't return the same result.
christopher8827··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
Good question! I have added better UX features like the ability to record a voice memo at the end of the day to automate the logging. It would be helpful for someone like a busy professional who is having a hard time to take time out of the day to log his food at every meal... So during his downtime, or before he goes to bed - he can quickly jolt down what he ate and then AI would summarise log it for him.

Let me know what you think.

christopher8827··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
Gym goers and calorie tracking folks, lend me your ears!
christopher8827··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
I am working on an AI-powered fitness and food tracker that automatically logs your food based on the photo. One of the difficulties I had when going to the gym is keeping up and sharing macros weekly with my personal trainer. Manually logging food is a hassle and massive pain point - so my app, Eat n Snap attempts to solve this problem. You can also set weight and BMI goals and see your progress on a weekly basis.

Sign up for my waitlist (or DM me if you want to know more) here: https://www.getsnapneat.com

christopher8827··on Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU
Most apps for dev work actually work; - RStudio - VS Code - WSL2 - Fusion 360 - Docker

Only major exception is: - Android Studio's Emulator (although, the IDE does work)

christopher8827··on Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU
I'm holding my breath though. I have a Samsung Edge 4 laptop and I didn't find the battery life impressive - prob got around 6 hours under coding / programming tasks. GPU performance is terrible too.
christopher8827··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
Location: Currently in Sydney, Australia.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes. I am a PR of Spain and an Australian citizen.

About: I'm looking for any AI/ML roles at the moment. I have experience applying ML to biology in research so I am looking to see if anything fits.

Technologies: - Web Dev: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux - Data Science: Python (SciPy, NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jupyter), Neural Networks, SVMs, PCA, MDS, Decision Trees, Random Forests, R

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ytr4T52WnYPu2kx13MSjYkeu-YH...

Email: me [at] christopheragnus.com

christopher8827··on CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians
Exactly.

ACS had a hand in blowing up Aussie jobs.

christopher8827··on CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians
Its not just CBA, but Westpac, Optus and pretty much any large corporate in Australia.

ACS is being a hypocrite since: 1) they charge $$$ fees for validating IT experience so they would never advocate lowering the immgiration rate (its also a conflict of interest). So they have a hand in dismantling Australian tech jobs. 2) they inform the government that there's still a "skills shortage" of developer , when in reality, they do it to suppress wages.

christopher8827··on Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows
ayyy, they used this in one of my previous workpaces in biotech.
christopher8827··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | Worldwide timezones - Currently in Sydney but also EU-based | Willing to travel in Australia / EU

Hi, I am Chris. I am an Australia but I have an EU work visa. I have 6+ years as a Full Stack Software Developer. I am experienced in the ReactJS and React Native tech Stack, and have developed API endpoints in Ruby on Rails. I have worked with companies such as Sportsbet, AIA Australia and Optus.

I have experience with AI / Machine Learning, where in my most recent project I was collaborating with the Queensland Cancer Council to produce a research paper (still in peer review) on breast cancer and Interpretable Machine Learning.

Tech Stack: Python (Pandas, Pytorch, Matplotlib), Typescript/Javascript, OpenAi / Antropic / Openrouter APIs, ReactJS/React Native, Redux, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Elixir/Phoenix, Coolify, AWS/Google Cloud.

Available: Immediate

Website: https://www.christopheragnus.com

I can be contacted via email at infinitycoin9 [at] gmail.com

christopher8827··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
Geez, Seven Hills is like the middle of nowhere in Sydney lol. That's a massive ask for anyone going in.
christopher8827··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
I'm thinking of writing an app to manage ticketing and events in Europe. There's Eventbrite but it mostly for larger cities instead of mid-sized ones. I think there could be a niche for cheaper alternatives especially since student societies get charged like 2.50 euros on top of a 10 euro ticket.

Also, writing a Masters thesis on area-level and individual-level predictors of breast cancer... so a lot of applied ML.

christopher8827··on How fast the days are getting longer
Depends. I lived in St Kilda where the beach faces east. The sunset / golden hour seem to start from 6pm to 9pm.
christopher8827··on What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
Who's we?

I'm mostly frontend dev + done some machine learning analysis for academic institutions.

christopher8827··on What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
Good to hear from another Australian.

The tech industry is completed dead in Australia atm. I have been job hunting overseas in the EU as a result after the layoffs of 2022 but its damn hard.

christopher8827··on Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps
> I don't think that's in line with Jesus' teachings of humility and helping the poor etc, especially not given how much money goes and went around in the church.

Hmm, but in the Exodus, the ark of the covenant was glided in gold with cherubs on the four corners. Same with the Jewish Temple, it was probably decked out in marble. Unlike Protestants, Catholicism have arts, choral music and statues and architecture not because they are "worshipping it" but because these things are supposed to direct the mind upwards towards God.

I think the Catholic Mass is the ancient form of worship by the early Church. There's multiple references to the Real Presence in the Eucharist in New Testament (ie. the road to Eramus and the breaking of bread, and in John 6:53*) and the Sanctus is still in the Eucharistic Prayer, and besides, its an obvious break with the Jews who did burnt offerings in the Temple.

John 6:53–58, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

christopher8827··on [dead]
Just still a "work-in-progress" but I created a repo with notebooks and scripts that can be used to convert FASTA files for CombFold (which performs a combinatorial assembly of subunits) alongside protein prediction in AlphaFold and then generates a summary table of the predictions in Jupyter.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

christopher8827··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024)
SEEKING WORK | Australia OR Netherlands (after Jan) | REMOTE

Current location: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not until August 2024

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, ReactJS / NextJS, TailwindCSS, Supabase, NodeJS, Redux, React Native, Postgres, Github (ie. web dev stack). Python, Tensorflow, NextClone, Scikit-learn, Numpy, SciPy, Pandas (ie. data science libraries).

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DcmH4MjfT8uSnPz47v6k7_auEdj...

Email: infinitycoin9@gmail.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clam8/

I'm looking for a role that allows me to focus on web development or data science. I have over six years as a frontend web dev and have worked with major companies such as Optus, AIA Group and Sportsbet as well as some smaller startups in Australia. I can plan each step of the software development process and lead a team if required. I also have 500+ hours working as a freelancer on Moonlight Work. Please let me know what project you need assistance with.

christopher8827··on Ask HN: What moonshots do you wish were being attempted?
Supersonic jets. Australia still has a bit more to overcome the tyranny of distance.
christopher8827··on What do fintech startups use on their back end?
what's k(9)?
christopher8827··on What do fintech startups use on their back end?
You can assume that a price comparison needs to be made between the saved price & the current price from the API.
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