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dhatch387··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
North Island Ventures | Software Engineer | NYC (4x / wk in office) | ONSITE

North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused investment firm. We are hiring a 2nd engineer to join our CTO in building out an AI investment stack using Python, Typescript, and React. We built out an investment agent that our research team is already using for hours a day, and finding it much more efficient than using Excel for modeling.

The role will involve full stack work and working closely with our investment team - who sit next to you - to figure out how to best integrate LLMs into a real business.

If this sounds interesting please apply here, and mention you found us on HN!

https://form.typeform.com/to/WDaBGW33

You can also email me at david [at] northisland [dot] ventures

Read more on us: https://northisland.ventures/ and https://tech.northisland.ventures/

dhatch387··on Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also damaging to businesses
This amounts to copyright violation. CelebrityNetWorth went to great extent to organize this data and holds copyright on their site. Google is duplicating and redistributing this research without permission of the author.
dhatch387··on Introducing Topics
It's surprising that GitHub is significantly putting out much more innovation after the open-source repos moving to GitLab fiasco of a year or so ago. Are there any changes that can explain this besides more incentive?
dhatch387··on The MongoDB hack and the importance of secure defaults
The v2.6 open access issue in MongoDB is no new revelation, and has been rehashed over and over again. It's worth noting that this post comes from a company that profits from convincing its customers that the products they are using are insecure.
dhatch387··on The Case Against Python 3
A programming language "is said to be Turing complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any single-taped Turing machine" [1]. This author doesn't seem to understand this concept properly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

dhatch387··on The War Against Boys
An interesting follow up, women continue to gain on men in college enrollment rates as of 2014: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/06/womens-colle...
dhatch387··on The War Against Boys
Why was this post flagged and deleted?
dhatch387··on Jezen/is-thirteen: Check if a number is equal to 13
> tap.equal(is("B").thirteen(), true); // B looks like 13
dhatch387··on What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
"But the kinds of people who work at Google are often the ones who became software engineers because they wanted to avoid talking about feelings in the first place."

Problematic stab at engineers. I don't think people go into software because they prefer computers to humans.

dhatch387··on Why Tim Cook Is Wrong
Unfortunately this writer does not understand the boot loader security on iOS. Since Apple's signing key is burned into the device, Apple is the only one who can modify its functionality by loading new firmware. Even in that case, the only firmware that can be modified without unlocking the device is the lowest level boot loader, which likely has numerous size and functionality limitations, as all the device features probably are not enabled. I would not deem this a flaw in device design. If Apple creates a signed piece of software that allows for a brute force exploit, it is creating a backdoor for the FBI.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

dhatch387··on New GitHub Tool Lets Coders Build Software Like Bridges
Surprised Wired is writing about this. Scientist is a great release from GH. I think the technique is powerful, but not particularly novel.
dhatch387··on The iPad Pro
From the OP:

> The entire x86 computer architecture is living on borrowed time. It’s a dead platform walking. The future belongs to ARM, and Apple’s A-series SoC’s are leading the way.

> The A9X didn’t come out of nowhere. Watching Apple’s A-series chips gain on x86 over the past five years, we’ve all been speculating about whether Apple might someday start using ARM chips in MacBooks. As of now, it’s only a question of whether they want to.

The most interesting point of this review in my opinion. x86 is hampered by backwards-compatibility. Could anyone comment on some of the more technical CPU architecture reasons for this? Do A64 CPUs have potential to outpace x86_64 processors in power consumption and performance simply because of the architecture?

dhatch387··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
You easily could have this in SQL if you designed a poor schema or failed to migrate data from the previous field name.
dhatch387··on [dead]
While the behavior of the men involved in this story is inappropriate, the responding behavior–"the 'wins' in this bit of a gender clash"—are just as detrimental to building a unified community. Having more women in the software industry would be great for everyone, however I don't know if this kind of response is the best way to do it.

It's a difficult problem, and one that exists in plenty of communities outside of technology. While it's unreasonable to expect completely equal representations of each gender, more can be done to make women feel welcome. Most of which is just men acting professional.

That said, sexualization of either gender will never disappear until we start producing children as the World State does.

dhatch387··on Open-sourcing OvertureJS – the JavaScript lib that powers FastMail
It would be interesting to hear more about where Overture and Ember diverge. The templating system is a clear difference, however with Ember moving to HTMLBars, which emits DOM instead of string, I'm not sure how relevant the innerHTML performance comparison is.