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lxchase··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
Location: New York, NY Remote: Open to remote, I find I enjoy hybrid/in-person Willing to relocate: Unlikely Technologies: Python, Git, SQL, HTML/CSS, Data Engineering/ETL platforms, JS, AI implementation, Network Engineering Resume/CV: On Request via Email Email: In my profile I'm an former operator, CEO experience, with a marketing/engineering background. Led marketing at an acquired $350M+ ice cream brand, as well as launched a $1B vertical farming startup. Looking to get back into STEM which I just love. I specialize in marketing and go-to-market (working always with quantitative data to make decisions), breaking through barriers, and leading/hiring teams. Having worked in various industries, with programming and engineering chops, I speak multiple "languages" well; people have described me as the missing piece of the puzzle / Seal Team Six, who can distill the needs of various stakeholders/customers and move projects forward. Can code and defended against Tbps DDoS attacks.
lxchase··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
Location: New York, NY Remote: Open to remote, I find I enjoy hybrid/in-person

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Python, Git, SQL, HTML/CSS, Data Engineering/ETL platforms, JS, AI implementation, Network Engineering

Resume/CV: On Request via Email

Email: In my profile

I'm an former operator, CEO experience, with a marketing/engineering background. Led marketing at an acquired $350M+ ice cream brand, as well as launched a $1B vertical farming startup. Looking to get back into STEM which I just love. I specialize in marketing and go-to-market (working always with quantitative data to make decisions), breaking through barriers, and leading/hiring teams. Having worked in various industries, with programming and engineering chops, I speak multiple "languages" well; people have described me as the missing piece of the puzzle / Seal Team Six, who can distill the needs of various stakeholders/customers and move projects forward. Can code and defended against Tbps DDoS attacks.

lxchase··on Show HN: PandoCast: open-source Pandora player to solve an annoyance I had
I appreciate you for sharing how this feels more real. That makes me smile. As for the Pandora API, surprisingly pretty stable. The JSON api is 10-13 years old from what I can tell and still functional. It can do mostly everything. The new REST endpoints are more recent, so I suppose it depends on if they change features. The station modes are fairly new I believe.
lxchase··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
Location: New York,

NY Remote: Open to remote, I find I enjoy hybrid/in-person

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Python, Git, SQL, HTML/CSS, Data Engineering/ETL platforms, JS, AI implementation, Network Engineering

Resume/CV: On Request via Email

Email: In my profile

I'm an exiting CEO, with a marketing/engineering background. Led marketing at an acquired $350M+ ice cream brand, as well as launched a $1B vertical farming startup. Looking to get back into STEM which I just love. I specialize in go-to-market (working always with quantitative data to make decisions), breaking through barriers, and leading/hiring teams. Having worked in various industries, with programming and engineering chops, I speak multiple "languages" well; people have described me as the missing piece of the puzzle who can distill the needs of various stakeholders/customers and move projects forward.

lxchase··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
Location: New York, NY Remote: Open to remote, I find I enjoy hybrid/in-person

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Python, Git, SQL, HTML/CSS, Data Engineering/ETL platforms, JS, AI implementation, Network Engineering

Resume/CV: On Request via Email

Email: In my profile

I'm an exiting CEO, with a marketing/engineering background. Led marketing at an acquired $350M+ ice cream brand, as well as launched a $1B vertical farming startup. Looking to get back into tech which I just love, no earlier than Jan 2026. I specialize in go-to-market (working always with quantitative data to make decisions), breaking through barriers, and leading/hiring teams. Having worked in various industries, with programming and engineering chops, I speak multiple "languages" well; people have described me as the missing piece of the puzzle who can distill the needs of various stakeholders/customers and move projects forward.

lxchase··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
Location: New York, NY

Remote: Open to remote, I find I enjoy hybrid/in-person

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Python, Git, SQL, HTML/CSS, Data Engineering/ETL platforms, JS, AI implementation

Resume/CV: On Request via Email

Email: In my profile

I'm an exiting CEO, with a marketing/engineering background. Led marketing at an acquired $350M+ ice cream brand, as well as launched a $1B vertical farming startup. Looking to get back into tech which I just love, no earlier than Jan 2026. I specialize in go-to-market (working always with quantitative data to make decisions), breaking through barriers, and leading/hiring teams. Having worked in various industries, with programming and engineering chops, I speak multiple "languages" well; people have described me as the missing piece of the puzzle who can distill the needs of various stakeholders/customers and move projects forward.

lxchase··on I'm Wirecutter's water-quality expert. I don't filter my water
I had the same conclusion in searching for filters that specifically address a microplastics concern. I was unsuccessful in finding one that was not made of plastic.
lxchase··on Crawl AI – A Web-Based Platform for Building Custom AI Assistants
Is it supposed to go straight to a log in page? If that is your intention, I don't believe people will explore further without any landing page information about your service.
lxchase··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
Anyone know how these devices may have been triggered that would be different from pagers? I imagine these radios would have to be modified to listen to multiple channels in case a radio was on a different channel than planned.
lxchase··on Ask HN: Best UI design courses for hackers?
My personal opinion based on the examples provided, is that while it may provide a good baseline, I disagree with some of the examples as being the correct thing to do. Information density intention and audience is important.

For example, I don't know if I agree with the removal of borders. Old reddit looks better for many folks because of the information density even if its an "uglier reddit".

Another example for a good UI but would not meet the "recommendations" of this book is https://www.mcmaster.com/

lxchase··on The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
A number 4. would be: Buy from an established lighting company that publishes compatibility tests. It may not have all the bells and whistles but focuses on doing one thing right, which is to switch a light. My Lutron’s have never needed a debug since install and I get all the convenience and forget about it. I think a lot of people get into home automation to constantly tweak stuff. If that is what tickles them sure. For me, like anything automated, I want it to work in the background and provide some quality of life improvements and never have to think about it again.
lxchase··on Use clean energy charging on your iPhone
I hope it is not just me (please someone tell me), but I find that if you let a load of wet laundry sit overnight, it starts to stink?
lxchase··on The hidden cost of air quality monitoring
I have a Aranet4 linked with home assistant. For quick glances at trends though their app is perfectly fine in my opinion.
lxchase··on DDoS Protection
Magic Firewall exists now which is pretty powerful a la wire shark filters if I remember correctly. Otherwise MT filters are pretty good now. However I have encountered a few cases where a valid connection may drop depending on how sensitive your application is but pretty rare.
lxchase··on DDoS Protection
You rent with a provider that uses Magic Transit by CF, Corero appliances, OVH, Psychz, or Path networks.
lxchase··on DDoS Protection
Very vague. Doesn’t specify if it is in-line or offload. Linode, with some research you can figure out they use Corero appliances that will cover 40 gbps floods.

Also didn’t see what their policy on tweaks are and or expectation on mitigating a more advanced attack.

I.e. DNS, NTP floods are low hanging fruit but it doesn’t take much nowadays to do something more custom.

lxchase··on DDoS Protection
Depends what you are protecting. A website or http traffic? Stick it behind cloudflare. Services on other ports or protocols like TCP or UDP? You could rent a cheap VPS at a provider that DOES have inline protection and use that instance to reroute traffic to your own server via a GRE tunnel.
lxchase··on DDoS Protection
Nothing, if your self hosting in your home. Volumetric floods will saturate your ISP link.

If you’re hosting with a provider, your maximum factor will be how much your provider will “tank” for you.

Otherwise harden your ports, drop anything via IPTables, turn on NOTRACK. Better but more advanced would be to use tc (traffic control) to drop bad packets before they enter the net filter lifecycle

lxchase··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
Late to the party and this may get buried, but wanted to add a contextual POV. I'm an Apollo user, and I am also someone who was Reddit's earliest enterprise advertisers. As in, the campaigns I've green lit are perhaps still in their advertising media decks as case studies.

Reddit for the past few years have been changing the UX to benefit their revenue streams. Visit any reddit thread on a mobile browser, and get a nag to download the official app. Their app is less likely to be blocked by ad blockers, has advertising SDKs, and can link advertising parameters.

I believe certain threads need you to login. It is also in their best interest to find opportunities for you to login to again link browse behavior. Forgot to mention, the app also allows a logged in state to persist easier than browser.

TL;DR All of Reddit's UX decisions have been to grow their revenue stream.

Do they have the right to do so? Of course. Does it suck for this audience in particular, probably. In my opinion, they will lose their early adopters and perhaps some power users. Is that a risk they are taking? Clearly.

lxchase··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
The downside is what makes Apollo great, is the time to content for the consumer. It is in Reddit's best interest in their current business model to have the user spend as much time on a page as possible, in a format that has advertising. Apollo does not have advertising. The official Reddit app does.
lxchase··on Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?
The question becomes how you define "herbalism" and in what cultures? i.e. Chinese herbalism is different from Jamaican. That said, in the United States, you can become a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild, which involves seeing at least 200 patients over 2 years, a board interview with case studies.

As for the supplements that are "lab tested" by a lab owned by the supplement industry, I can't speak for other companies, but I'm sure that happens, unfortunately. I know that we test ours by independent and good labs, though. I wish there was more transparency around this, but it's been up to the companies to be transparent and the consumer to seek the information.

Edit: Sorry, was off on one number, not 200. 80 patients over 2 years, 400 total hours of clinical experience.

lxchase··on Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good?
This topic always garners a lot of polarizing views. One thing I would recommend people take a look at is the caffeine and cortisol relationship.

I'm the CEO of Rasa, one of the "coffees" made from chicory root and other adaptogenic herbs. If anyone has questions, happy to bring in our Chief Herbalist to answer.

lxchase··on NASA's planetary radar captures detailed view of oblong asteroid
3 times as long as its wide? They do everything in threes.
lxchase··on Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case
Likely marginally higher, but if you wire the house up with fiber, you can run USB/TB docks over fiber.
lxchase··on Coffee won’t give you extra energy, just borrow a bit that you’ll pay for later
Check out Rasa (https://wearerasa.com/). We use adaptogenic herbs instead of caffeine that manage your cortisol (stress) levels. One example is Rhodiola[0] which promotes increased energy, and mental capacity. We have a "dirty" version that includes coffee at lesser caffeine levels as well.

Disclosure: I work at Rasa

[0] https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/rhodiola

lxchase··on Replace the “very” in your sentence
Looks like you can see what adjectives are in the database at this endpoint: https://api.airtable.com/v0/appHLMobCaTLuVQQy/Data?api_key=k...
lxchase··on TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
Actual. Tiktok: https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article?aid=10003669 FB: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/conversio... Google: https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/serve...

You're right most are doing the simplest things as most marketers do not have tech experience to understand the advanced methods. As more people try to prevent Javascript, you'll start to see more and more companies adopt these methods.

lxchase··on TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
I can shed some light on this maybe, don't have a SO account. You're completely right about "SEEM". It does do enough that it significantly lowers the resolution of data and ability for systems to infer your behaviors / persona. It will force more of the ad ecosystem to server to server data pass through: https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/serve...

I mention it in a post above, but data brokers have existed for a decade, which don't really care about any of this. Your email/phone/credit card + purchase behavior for instance, is likely sent to 3rd parties (as md5/sha hashed values) It boils down to sample resolution and sample size. Javascript made it really easy for literally every website to collect browse behaviors. ITP makes the skill ceiling / investment to collect this data much higher.

lxchase··on TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
It depends what you're trying to solve. I would say it will lower the resolution of any "profiles" built on you in aggregate, but it does not stop a profile being built.
lxchase··on TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
If your goal is to limit tracking, this does help, however it won't stop any server to server (versus client browser to server) data pass through. Any events the advertiser/publisher deems important, they can first-party collect the relevant tracking data and pass it from their server to the ad server (i.e. TikTok, Google, MS, FB etc.)
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