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kn8··on Something Big Is Coming (Annotated by Ed Zitron) [pdf]
However, it already did? Interesting how everyone seems to have a different perspective on that.
kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
Humaans (YC W21) | Engineering Leads, Senior Full-Stack Engineers | London (Hybrid, 3 days/week) | Full-time | https://humaans.io/

Hello! Co-founder of Humaans here. We’re building a best in class HR platform that automates people operations end-to-end for globally scaling companies.

What you’ll work on:

* Agentic AI for end to end automation and AI functionality all over the product

* Modern client rich UIs including workflow builders, drag-and-drop task managers, collaborative spreadsheets

* Realtime systems via WebSockets, Feathers.js, zero sync engine

* Scaling our data and AI architecture to fly for customers with 1,000s of employees

Why we like it here:

* Quality-first culture - design, performance, and DX matter

* Small, senior team with ownership from product definition to release

* Backed by great partners (YC and execs from Slack, Shopify, Figma, LinkedIn, Stripe, Intercom, Notion, etc.)

Our stack:

* TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis

* Monorepo with Turborepo, pnpm, GitHub Actions, Kube and CloudRun on GCP

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans?utm_source=7nNGnERWLP

kn8··on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
I don’t know if it’s just me, but i want more Gatekeeper, not less - help me stay safer. Or is it a security theatre? Malware producers can sign things just fine?
kn8··on React 19
https://github.com/KidkArolis/kinfolk - recoil/jotai, but simpler
kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
Humaans (YC W21) | Engineering Leads, Senior Full Stack Engineers, Senior Product Designers | London | Full-time | https://humaans.io/

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. We're bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space to build the most flexible and the most powerful HR platform. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

To date, we’ve raised $20 million in VC funding from some of the biggest names in tech, including Lachy Groom, Stewart Butterfield (Slack), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Dylan Field (Figma), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn), Claire Johnson (Stripe), Oliver Jay (Asana), Y Combinator, Moonfire, Frontline Ventures, Exor, and more.

Come join us to work on:

+ modern UIs like drag and drop task managers, workflow builders, collaborative realtime spreadsheets, rich integrations

+ building out our conversational AI powered by Gemini

+ scaling our app architecture, database, data fetching to more customers and larger organisations

+ writing TypeScript / ReScript / JavaScript - challenging the status quo and thinking from first principles

+ working in a monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces with continuous daily deploys

+ much much more in our journey of product excellence

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans?utm_source=7nNGnERWLP

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Humaans (YC W21) | Software Engineers (Full-stack, JavaScript, ReScript, TypeScript) | Full-time | London HQ, Remote (Europe) | https://humaans.io

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We closed Series A from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Stewart Butterfield (Slack) and more - and are growing the Product and Engineering team.

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans?utm_source=7nNGnERWLP.

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Humaans (YC W21) | Senior Full Stack Engineers (TypeScript, JavaScript, ReScript) | London HQ | Remote (Europe) | https://humaans.io

Our 2023 ships: https://humaans.io/product-releases-2023

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans?utm_source=7nNGnERWLP.

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
Humaans (YC W21) | Senior Software Engineer (TypeScript, JavaScript, ReScript) | Full-time | London HQ | Remote (Europe) | https://humaans.io

https://humaans.io/product-releases-2023

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. We're bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space to build the most flexible and the most powerful HR platform. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We closed Series A from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Stewart Butterfield (Slack) and more - and are growing the Product and Engineering team.

Come join us to work on:

+ Modern UIs like a task manager, workflow builder, collaborative realtime spreadsheet, rich integrations

+ Expanding our Public API and integration marketplace (https://docs.humaans.io/api/)

+ Scaling our app architecture to more customers and larger organisations

+ Writing TypeScript / ReScript / JavaScript - challenging status quo, thinking from first principles

+ Working in a Monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces with continuous deploys

+ Much much more in our journey of product excellence

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans?utm_source=7nNGnERWLP.

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
Humaans (YC W21) | Software Engineers (JavaScript, ReScript, TypeScript) | Full-time | Remote (Europe), London HQ | https://humaans.io

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We closed Series A last year from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Stewart Butterfield (Slack) and more - and are growing the Product and Engineering team.

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans?utm_source=7nNGnERWLP.

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
Humaans (YC W21) | Software Engineers (JavaScript, ReScript, TypeScript) | Full-time | Remote (Europe), London HQ | https://humaans.io

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We closed Series A last year from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Stewart Butterfield (Slack) and more - and are growing the Product and Engineering team.

Come join us to work on:

+ Modern UIs like task managers, workflow builders, collaborative realtime spreadsheet, rich integrations

+ Expanding our Public API with Webhooks (https://docs.humaans.io/api/)

+ Scaling our app architecture to more customers and larger organisations

+ Writing ReScript / TypeScript / JavaScript - challenging status quo, thinking from first principles

+ Working in a Monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces

+ Migrating to Relay and React Suspense data loading

+ Improving our observability with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Honeycomb tracing

+ Much much more in our journey of building a truly great product

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans?utm_source=7nNGnERWLP.

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)
Humaans (YC W21) | Product Engineers (JavaScript, ReScript, TypeScript) | Full-time | London HQ, Remote Europe | https://humaans.io

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We closed one of the strongest Seed rounds in Europe ($5M) from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO) and more - and are growing the Product and Engineering team.

Come join us to work on:

+ Modern UIs like task managers, workflow builders, collaborative realtime spreadsheet, rich integrations

+ Expanding our Public API with Webhooks (https://docs.humaans.io/api/)

+ Scaling our app architecture to more customers and larger organisations

+ Writing ReScript / TypeScript / JavaScript - challenging status quo, thinking from first principles

+ Working in a Monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces

+ Migrating to Relay and React Suspense data loading

+ Improving our observability with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Honeycomb tracing

+ Much much more in our journey of building a truly great product

Ping me karolis[AT]humaans.io directly if you're interested.

kn8··on Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
ReScript - super good, actively developed: https://rescript-lang.org/
kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)
Humaans (YC W21) | Full-time | London | Remote Europe | Senior Full-stack Software Engineers | https://humaans.io

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP. We've just closed our Series A round ($15M) from top tier US investors including Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO), Stewart Butterfield (Slack) and more.

Come join us to work on:

+ Implementing modern UIs such as drag-n-drop HR optimised workflow management, feature rich spreadsheet UI, and more

+ Scaling our app architecture to more customers and larger organisations

+ Writing ReScript / TypeScript / JavaScript

+ Working in a Monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces

+ Building a rich set of integrations

+ Much much more in our journey of building a truly great product

Ping me karolis[AT]humaans.io if you want to find out more or check out our other roles: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans.

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)
Humaans (YC W21) | Engineering • Design | Full-time | London Onsite, Remote UK | https://humaans.io

Hiring for:

* Head of Engineering

* Engineering Manager

* Full Stack Software Engineer

* Lead / Senior Product Designer

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP. We've just closed our Series A round ($15M) from top tier US investors including Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO), Stewart Butterfield (Slack) and more.

Come join us to work on:

+ Implementing modern UIs such as drag-n-drop HR optimised task list, feature rich spreadsheet UI, and more

+ Scaling our app architecture to more customers and larger organisations

+ Migrating our realtime websocket API to a realtime GraphQL API with live queries

+ Writing ReScript / TypeScript / JavaScript

+ Working in a Monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces

+ Building rich set of integrations

+ Much much more in our journey of building a truly great product

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humaans?utm_source=7nNGnERWLP

kn8··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
Y Combinator ;)
kn8··on Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
What is Azure AD used for?
kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
Humaans (YC W21) | Node.js Engineers • JavaScript Engineers • Product Designers | Full-time | London Onsite, Remote UK | https://humaans.io

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We closed one of the strongest Seed rounds in Europe ($5M) from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO) and more - and are growing the team.

Come join us to work on:

+ Scaling our app architecture to more customers and larger organisations

+ Migrating our realtime websocket API to a realtime GraphQL API with live queries

+ Migrating to Relay and React Suspense data loading

+ Writing ReScript / TypeScript / JavaScript

+ Working in a Monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces

+ Improving our observability with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Honeycomb tracing

+ Implementing modern UIs such as drag-n-drop HR optimised task list, feature rich spreadsheet UI, and more

+ Building rich integrations

+ Expanding our Public API with Webhooks (https://docs.humaans.io/api/)

+ Much much more in our journey of building a truly great product

Ping me karolis[AT]humaans.io directly if you're interested.

kn8··on OCaml at First Glance
ReScript community is well and alive and is actively working on improving the ReScript compiler and tooling. V10 just came out with records with optional fields - https://forum.rescript-lang.org/t/ann-rescript-v10-released/.... Async/await is in the works. The language is really really good (especially say comparing to TypeScript). Make sure to check it out.
kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Humaans (YC W21) | Node.js Engineers • JavaScript Engineers • Product Designers | Full-time | London Onsite, Remote Europe | https://humaans.io

At Humaans we're creating the best in class HR software. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We closed one of the strongest Seed rounds in Europe ($5M) from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO) and more - and are growing the team.

Come join us to work on:

+ Scaling our app architecture to more customers and larger organisations

+ Migrating our realtime websocket API to a realtime GraphQL API

+ Migrating to Relay and React Suspense data loading

+ Writing ReScript / TypeScript / JavaScript

+ Working in a Monorepo with Turborepo and pnpm workspaces

+ Improving our observability with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Honeycomb tracing

+ Implementing modern UIs such as drag-n-drop HR optimised task list, fully editable spreadsheet UI

+ Building rich integrations for pulling and pushing data

+ Expanding our Public API with Webhooks (https://docs.humaans.io/api/)

+ Much much more in our journey of building a truly great product

Ping me karolis[AT]humaans.io directly if you're interested.

kn8··on OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful
> What is needed is to bridge the good things from OCaml, the type system, the pattern matching with tagged types into a modern, imperative programming languages.

Like https://rescript-lang.org/?

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)
Humaans (YC W21) | Full Stack JavaScript Engineers • Product Designers | Full-time | Remote Europe, London HQ | https://humaans.io

Humaans is the fastest way to onboard and manage your staff.

A fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We just closed one of the strongest Seed rounds in Europe ($5M) from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO) and more - and are growing the team.

Apply here: https://www.notion.so/humaanshq/Careers-at-Humaans-730aad9f1...

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
Humaans (YC W21) | Full Stack JavaScript Engineer, Product Designer | Full-time | Fully Remote Europe or On-Site London | https://humaans.io

Humaans is the best way to onboard and manage employees. We're building the future of HR tech, focus relentlessly on customers’ needs, prioritise quality, design and performance.

We just closed one of the strongest Seed rounds in Europe ($5m) from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Figma CEO, Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), LinkedIn CEO, Stripe COO, Notion COO and more - and are growing the team.

Our stack is React, Node.js, Websockets, Postgres, Redis, running on Kubernetes in GCP.

Apply here: https://www.notion.so/humaanshq/Careers-at-Humaans-730aad9f1... or email me directly karolis[AT]humaans.io if you want to find out more.

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
Humaans (YC W21) | Full Stack JavaScript Engineers • Product Designers | Full-time | Remote Europe, London HQ | https://humaans.io

Humaans is the fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. It's a fresh take on HR software bringing a much needed design and engineering mindset to this space. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP.

We just closed one of the strongest Seed rounds in Europe ($5M) from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO) and more - and are growing the team.

Apply here: https://www.notion.so/humaanshq/Careers-at-Humaans-730aad9f1...

kn8··on Can Apple change ads?
It might be that personalised ads are only marginally better (if at all), but the perception of the advertisers and publishers is that it’s very important, thus creating a (fakeish) moat for Google, as it’s more difficult to execute. Or maybe that’s really not that important, as the biggest moat remains Google being number one web destination.
kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Humaans (YC W21) | Full Stack JavaScript Engineers • Product Designers | Full-time | Remote Europe, London HQ | https://humaans.io

Humaans is the fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. It turns complex processes like employee onboarding, offboarding, and compensation management into simple workflows. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance.

We just closed one of the strongest Seed rounds in Europe ($5m) from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO) and more - and are growing the team.

Our stack is React, Node.js, Postgres and Redis, running in Kubernetes on GCP.

Come join us to:

* work on an awesome product (sign up to try!)

* work in a small team with lots of ownership

* get competitive salary and meaningful equity

Let me know if you have any questions at karolis@humaans.io

Or find out more and apply here: https://www.notion.so/humaanshq/Careers-at-Humaans-730aad9f1...

kn8··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
Humaans (YC W21) | Full Stack JavaScript Engineers • Product Designers | Full-time | London | https://humaans.io

Humaans is the fastest way to onboard and manage your staff. It turns complex processes like employee onboarding, offboarding, and compensation management into simple workflows. We focus relentlessly on customers’ needs and experience, prioritising quality, design and performance. We care deeply about product and set out to build the Slack of HR.

We just closed one of the strongest Seed rounds in Europe ($5m) from top tier US investors including Y Combinator, Dylan Field (Figma CEO), Scott Belsky (Behance/Adobe), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO), Claire Johnson (Stripe COO), Des Traynor (Intercom), Akshay Kothari (Notion COO), David Clarke (former Workday CTO) and more - and plan to grow the team significantly this year.

Our stack today is React, Node.js, Postgres and Redis, running in Kubernetes on GCP. We obsess over details and quality of the user facing features and their implementation. Yet we move fast by creating focus and leveraging high quality foundations.

We're currently fully remote, but are planning to open an office in London for working a few days per week when that becomes possible in the future.

Apply here: https://www.notion.so/humaanshq/Careers-at-Humaans-730aad9f1...

kn8··on Snowflake Generator
Very cool ^_^
kn8··on Using State Machines with React to Make a Confirmation Dialog (2020)
For what it's worth, I've been working on a state machine library that's more deeply integrated into React: https://github.com/humaans/react-machine.

It does a few things differently from XState / Robot bindings:

1. Use React's useReducer for state transitions and useEffect for applying the effects.

2. Allow reacting to component props (or machine context) and transitioning within the same render where props changed (achieved with a dispatch in the render body). This means the component's children get rendered with props and machine state that is in sync.

3. Separate machine's context (often component props) from machine's state. This reduces the number of unnecessary rerenders, while allowing your machine's reducers and effects to use up to date data and functions passed via props.

All in all, it's my exploration of how to more tightly integrate statecharts into React's render lifecycle and programming model.

kn8··on CRDTs are the future
I recently blogged about using CRDTs in building privacy focused software, e.g. how would one approach building an end-to-end encrypted Google Docs: https://www.kn8.lt/blog/building-privacy-focused-collaborati...

The nice thing about CRDTs is that each individual message can be end-to-end encrypted (like WhatsApp messages), and then re-merged by all the clients locally.

A local-first database with such an encrypted sync property would would be amazing for building lots of apps with the ability to sync data between users or between your devices seamlessly. The challenge I ran into my initial experiments is that CRDTs need to be compacted/merged in various ways to stay efficient, but encryption gets in the way of that a little when considering server backups / high availability.

kn8··on Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates
Reminds me a bit of TeuxDeux (https://teuxdeux.com/), specifically the rollover feature. But the addition of “next week” or “next month” is cool.
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