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cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

EDIT: the position is now closed.

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We're a quantum computing non-profit organization, and we are looking for a full-stack web developer.

The job is classical — mostly building web portals — but those portals open into the quantum world.

Quantum computing knowledge is a plus, but not required. The initial project is a platform to understand the trajectory of quantum computing. The focus is on data visualization, so strong skills in that area are preferred. The candidate will work mostly alongside quantum engineers and researchers, so ownership to work independently on the classical side of things is important.

The stack of the main web project is PERN, but the organization maintains other projects in Python.

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)

EDIT: the position is now closed.

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We're a quantum computing non-profit organization, and we are looking for a web developer.

The job is classical — mostly building web portals — but those portals open into the quantum world.

Quantum computing knowledge is a plus, but not required. The initial project is a platform to understand the trajectory of quantum computing. The focus is on data visualization, so strong skills in that area are preferred. The candidate will work mostly alongside quantum engineers and researchers, so ownership to work independently on the classical side of things is important.

The stack of the main web project is PERN, but the organization maintains other projects in Python.

cosenalon Ferrari owner Exor wants to build the Italian Y Combinator

I posted it with the original title from Sifted after reading "“Our application format will be familiar, similar to that of Y Combinator’s — simplicity will be key for deploying capital fast,” says Piacentini."

cosenalon Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more than official counts show

The point of the article is how India cases are very under-reported. If it was just about officially reported death rate of the country normalized by population, as you did in your math, there wouldn't be an article at all.

cosenalon Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

This reminds me of an essay by @pg about startup names: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

cosenalon Don't ask to ask, just ask

that is linked at the bottom of the page

cosenalon Ruby vs. Crystal Performance

Some underrated live coding tutorials on Crystal on this YT channel: https://youtu.be/Q1wOFmt3yng

cosenalon Bad Beers JSON Corpus

Sadly this is very likely.

cosenalon Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?

And what if I tell you that you can work on BOTH AI and Healthcare at the same time! (Add mindblown emoji). This is a shameless hiring plug for the company where I work on, that is, Babylon Health. https://www.babylonhealth.com/careers-hub/careers-hub/vacanc... Seriously, feel free to reach out if you are interested.

cosenalon The physics of baking good pizza

about 2) there is (was?) an effort by IBM to make an AI chef using techniques from cognitive computing. See https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/cooking-with-c...

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

Yieldify | London, UK | Onsite | https://www.yieldify.com/careers-at-yieldify/ | Full-time open positions:

  * Software Engineer (UI, Backend)
  * Data Infrastructure Engineer

Yieldify is a MarTech company that helps e-commerce marketers generate more sales by making it easy for them to optimise their customer journeys. We launched our new Yieldify Conversion Platform one year ago and to date, we've delivered over 50,000 campaigns for over 500 brands on more than 1,000 websites globally, which include some of the world's most recognisable brands, including Marks and Spencer, Domino’s Pizza, Omni Hotels and Anthropologie.

We work on weekly sprints and we ship weekly releases in production; As the engineer team works very closely with the product team, you will be encouraged to influence the product roadmap. We work with a dedicated DevOps team to manage infrastructure, deployments and CI systems.

Our stack: The main stack and the newest services are in Typescript, most of the frontend is in Angular 4, whereas the data pipeline is written in Go/Python and Hadoop/Spark. Almost everything here is Docker-ized and the deployment of all the services is fully on AWS (Kubernetes deployment coming soon!).

For more details on the positions, feel free to DM me on Twitter, or you can email Cerian at cerian.thomas@yieldify.com (please mention HN).

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

Yieldify is a MarTech company that helps e-commerce marketers generate more sales by making it easy for them to optimise their customer journeys. We launched our new Yieldify Conversion Platform one year ago and to date, we've delivered over 50,000 campaigns for over 500 brands on more than 1,000 websites globally, which include some of the world's most recognisable brands, including Marks and Spencer, Domino’s Pizza, Omni Hotels and Anthropologie.

We work on weekly sprints and we ship code into production on a weekly basis; As the engineer team works very closely with the product team, you will be encouraged to influence the product roadmap. We work with a dedicated DevOps team to manage infrastructure, deployments and CI systems.

Among fun perks, we host biweekly tech talks on a wide variety of subjects (recent examples: Ethereum, SimHash) and some of us have started a Category Theory study group. Did I mention we are trying to bootstrap our own football team? :)

The main stack and the newest services are in Typescript, most of the frontend is in Angular 4, whereas the data pipeline is written in Go/Python and Hadoop/Spark. Almost everything here is Docker-ized and the deployment of all the services is fully on AWS.

For more details on the data engineer position, feel free to DM me on Twitter. For all other positions you can email Cerian at cerian.thomas@yieldify.com (please mention HN).

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

Yieldify is a MarTech company that helps e-commerce marketers generate more sales by making it easy for them to optimise their customer journeys. We launched our new Yieldify Conversion Platform one year ago and to date, we've delivered over 50,000 campaigns for over 500 brands on more than 1,000 websites globally, which include some of the world's most recognisable brands, including Marks&Spencer, Domino’s Pizza, Omni Hotels and Anthropologie.

We work on weekly sprints and we ship code into production on a weekly basis; As the engineer team works very closely with the product team, you will be encouraged to influence the product roadmap. We work with a dedicated DevOps team to manage infrastructure, deployments and CI systems.

Among fun perks, we host biweekly tech talks on a wide variety of subjects (recent examples: Ethereum, SimHash) and some of us have started a Category Theory study group. Did I mention we are trying to bootstrap our own football team? :)

The main stack and the newest services are in Typescript, most of the frontend is in Angular 4, whereas the data pipeline is written in Go/Python and Hadoop/Spark. Almost everything here is Docker-ized and the deployment of all the services is fully on AWS.

For more details on the data engineer position, feel free to DM me on Twitter. For all other positions you can email Cerian at cerian.thomas@yieldify.com (please mention HN).

cosenalon An Interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing

The states you get are H(|0>)=|0>+|1> and H(|1>)=|0>-|1>, both of which have 50% probablity to end up as 0 or 1 once they are measured. The difference of the "-" in the second state is only visible if you carry on the computation, not if you measure.

cosenalon An Interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing

that's like asking why NOT of 1 is different from NOT of 0? If it was the same, it would be the identity gate.

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

Yieldify is a MarTech company that helps e-commerce marketers generate more sales by making it easy for them to optimise their customer journeys. We launched our new Yieldify Conversion Platform one year ago and to date, we've delivered over 50,000 campaigns for over 500 brands on more than 1,000 websites globally, which include some of the world's most recognisable brands, including Marks and Spencer, Domino’s Pizza, Omni Hotels and Anthropologie.

We work on weekly sprints and we ship code into production on a weekly basis; As the engineer team works very closely with the product team, you will be encouraged to influence the product roadmap. We work with a dedicated DevOps team to manage infrastructure, deployments and CI systems.

Among fun perks, we host biweekly tech talks on a wide variety of subjects (recent examples: Ethereum, SimHash) and some of us have started a Category Theory study group. Did I mention we are trying to bootstrap our own football team? :)

The main stack and the newest services are in Typescript, most of the frontend is in Angular 4, whereas the data pipeline is written in Go/Python and Hadoop/Spark. Almost everything here is Docker-ized and the deployment of all the services is fully on AWS.

For more details on the data engineer position, feel free to DM me on Twitter. For all other positions you can email Cerian at cerian.thomas@yieldify.com (please mention HN).

cosenalon Ask HN: Is it possible to publish research work in CS without any affiliation?

I agree that the order of Step 1 and 2 should be reverted, but how is Step 3 absolutely correct? The tier of the conference you should submit to depends on the content of the paper, not on the author/affiliation.

cosenalon Show HN: Serverless logging to S3

This should have the «Show HN» header

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

Yieldify is a MarTech company that helps e-commerce marketers generate more sales by making it easy for them to optimise their customer journeys.

We launched our new Yieldify Conversion Platform one year ago and to date, we've delivered over 50,000 campaigns for over 500 brands on more than 1,000 websites globally, which include some of the world's most recognisable brands, including Marks and Spencer, Domino’s Pizza, Omni Hotels and Anthropologie.

We work on weekly sprints and we ship code into production on a weekly basis; As the engineer team works very closely with the product team, you will be encouraged to influence the product roadmap. We work with a dedicated DevOps team to manage infrastructure, deployments and CI systems.

Among fun perks, we host biweekly tech talks on a wide variety of subjects (recent examples: Ethereum, SimHash) and some of us have started a Category Theory study group. Did I mention we are trying to bootstrap our own football team? :)

We are looking for engineers with experience in relevant industries and a versatile knowledge of languages used in data-intensive applications. We aim at producing a very stable and high quality platform, so passion with testing of all kind is a big plus for the ideal candidate.

The main stack and the newest services are in Typescript, most of the frontend is in Angular 4, whereas the data pipeline is written in Go/Python and Hadoop/Spark. Almost everything here is Docker-ized and the deployment of all the services is fully on AWS.

For more details on the data engineer position, feel free to DM me on Twitter. For all other positions you can email Cerian at cerian.thomas@yieldify.com (please mention HN).

cosenalon An off-grid social network

I didn't know about netlify, it looks neat!

cosenalon An off-grid social network

You can make sure that the author wrote this post by copy-pasting [this signature](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/staltz/staltz.github.io/ma...) <-- 404: Not Found. Now I am not so sure on who the author is anymore...

cosenalon List of Quantum Computing Simulators

The OP's link is actually a wiki page. If you find it out of date, I encourage you to enrich it with your findings.

cosenalon Graph Isomorphism update

This update is actually a big deal. The algorithm runs in subexponential time, but not quasipolynomial time after all.

cosenalon Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS

See comments below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12978192 Content Blocker extensions only run on 64-bit devices and iPhone 5C is 32-bit.

cosenalon Why Tokyo Is the World’s Best Food City

I usually come to HN to read articles that are the opposite of this one. I don't care who wrote this, I don't care who David Chang is, I come to HN to find facts, data, and rationality. I like the word fucking to emphasize something but I fucking hate reductio ad fuckingum arguments.

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

Bending Spoons | Milan (Italy) | Software Engineer/QA Tester | http://www.bendingspoons.com | Full time, Visa, Onsite

Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. We think, create, and market our own apps. We're young (3 years of activity, average age 27 years old), but we've achieved explosive growth: the apps that we've invented, developed, and published have been downloaded more than 40 million times, and millions of people use them every week. We are currently looking for a QA Tester and for exceptional Software Engineers to join our team of backend and iOS engineers. Our backend stack consists for the most part of Python, node.js, MongoDB, and Redis. Our iOS work is every bit as extensive and challenging as the backend one, if not more.

We pursue extreme flexibility, and this requires everyone to be able to morph and adapt to new roles as needed. Hence, you may be exposed to a number of other areas, such as App Store and data analysis, UX and UI design, and several more. We’ll teach you what you don’t know, as long as you’re eager to learn it.

More information and application form at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html (Please mention that you found out about us on HN in your cover letter.)

cosenalon Donkey – A computer game included with early versions of PC DOS

Context here (Jeff Atwood's blog post dated 2007): https://blog.codinghorror.com/bill-gates-and-donkey-bas/

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

Bending Spoons | Software Engineer | Milan (Italy) | Full time, Visa, Onsite

Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. We think, create, and market our own apps. We're young (3 years of activity, average age 27 years old), but we've achieved explosive growth: the apps that we've invented, developed, and published have been downloaded more than 40 million times, and millions of people use them every week. We are currently looking for an exceptional Software Engineer to join our team of backend and iOS engineers. Our backend stack consists for the most part of Python, node.js, MongoDB, and Redis. Our iOS work is every bit as extensive and challenging as the backend one, if not more. More information and application form at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html (Please mention in your cover letter that you found out about us on HN.)

cosenalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

Bending Spoons | Software Engineer | Milan (Italy) | Full time, Visa, Onsite

Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. We think, create, and market our own apps. We're young (2 years of activity, average age 27 years old), but we've achieved explosive growth: the apps that we've invented, developed, and published have been downloaded more than 35 million times, and millions of people use them every week. We are currently looking for an exceptional Software Engineer to join our team of backend and iOS engineers. Our backend stack consists for the most part of Python, node.js, MongoDB, and Redis. Our iOS work is every bit as extensive and challenging as the backend one, if not more. Among the perks we offer: free lunch five days a week, a cool office, top equipment, and the opportunity to join an incredibly skilled team. More information and application form at http://bendingspoons.com/en/careers.html (Please mention that you found out about us on HN in your cover letter.)

cosenalon First Ascent – 3-day retreat for European computer science students

OP here, I work in the same company that organizes the retreat. If you have any question on the event, I'll gladly reply.