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mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
Equall | Product Engineer (Full Stack) | NYC (In-Person / Hybrid) | Full Time | $150K–$250K depending on experience | dani@equall.com We’re building the OS for legal risk — a real-time AI platform that does legal work (not a co-pilot). Custom knowledge graphs + multi-agent systems = outputs that replace 100s of lawyer-hours.

You’ll:

- Own and ship full-stack features across SvelteKit, GraphQL, and Python

- Work in person with a high-output team, solving real pain points for top law firms

- Build AI-native product.

Must:

- Be NYC-based (or willing to move)

- Be serious, fast, and ready to work long hours on hard problems

- 2+ years experience

Nice: FastAPI, GraphQL, Tailwind, Svelte, Bun/Deno, AI/ML infra, structured concurrency

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
Equall | Product Engineer (Full Stack) | NYC (In-Person / Hybrid) | Full Time | $150K–$250K depending on experience | dani@equall.com

We’re building the OS for legal risk — a real-time AI platform that does legal work (not a co-pilot). Custom knowledge graphs + multi-agent systems = outputs that replace 100s of lawyer-hours.

You’ll:

- Own and ship full-stack features across SvelteKit, GraphQL, and Python

- Work in person with a high-output team, solving real pain points for top law firms

- Build AI-native product.

Must:

- Be NYC-based (or willing to move)

- Be serious, fast, and ready to work long hours on hard problems

- 2+ years experience

Nice: FastAPI, GraphQL, Tailwind, Svelte, Bun/Deno, AI/ML infra, structured concurrency

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)
Equall | Product Designer | Full-time | NYC, Lisbon, Paris, or Remote

Equall is on a mission to transform legal work and expand access to law through Artificial Legal Intelligence. We are developing advanced AI systems for use in legal practice and aim to shape the future of law.

If you're interested, reach out to michael@equall.ai

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)
Two Lions | Chief of Staff | https://twolions.co | Full-Time | REMOTE (Global)

We're a Startup Studio based out of San Francisco. We're focused on building all of our startups using Clojure.

Chief of Staff @ Two Lions - We're looking to get more engaged in the crypto community.Ideal candidates should have 2-3 years of experience working at startups and deep exposure to the crypto community.

Send email to michael@twolions.co for more information.

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
Two Lions | Engineer & Chief of Staff | https://twolions.co | Full-Time | REMOTE (Global)

We're a Startup Studio based out of San Francisco. We're focused on building all of our startups using Clojure.

Chief of Staff @ Two Lions - We're looking to get more engaged in the crypto community.Ideal candidates should have 2-3 years of experience working at startups and deep exposure to the crypto community.

Engineer @ Warmer - We’re building automation and power tools for the commercial aspects of every startup (sales, marketing, recruiting, and fundraising). We’ll be user obsessed, and rapidly iterating on the ui which will be focused on ultra simplicity. There will be a great deal of crawling, parsing, and some ML & NLP.

Engineer @ Two Lambda - Building an algorithmic trading firm. If you're interested in building trading systems or strategies, this would be a great role for you.

Send email to michael@twolions.co for more information.

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
Two Lions | Founding Engineer & Chief of Staff | https://twolions.co | Full-Time | REMOTE (Global)

We're a Startup Studio based out of San Francisco. Looking for a founding engineer. We're focused on building all of our startups using Clojure. The company we're currently focused on is called Warmer where we’re building automation and power tools for the commercial aspects of every startup (sales, marketing, recruiting, and fundraising). We’ll be user obsessed, and rapidly iterating on the ui which will be focused on ultra simplicity. There will be a great deal of crawling, parsing, and some ML & NLP.

Additionally, we're working on an algorithmic trading system. If you’re interested in ML/Finance, we’d love to chat.

At the studio level, we're looking to bring on a Technical Chief of Staff. Ideal candidates should have 2-3 years of experience working at startups and an interest in crypto.

Send email to michael@twolions.co for more information.

mjdesa··on Banking in uncertain times
> The claim that, "when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall" seems, uhm, somewhat off.

It’s a necessary condition of the discounted cash flow asset pricing model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow?wprov=sft...

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)
Two Lions | Founding Engineer | https://twolions.co | Full-Time | REMOTE (Global)

We're a Startup Studio based out of San Francisco. Looking for a founding engineer. We're focused on building all of our startups using Clojure. The company we're currently focused on is called Warmer where we’re building automation and power tools for the commercial aspects of every startup (sales, marketing, recruiting, and fundraising). We’ll be user obsessed, and rapidly iterating on the ui which will be focused on ultra simplicity. There will be a great deal of crawling, parsing, and some ML & NLP.

The other project we’re working on is a algorithmic trading system. If you’re interested in ML/Finance, we’d love to chat.

Send email to michael@twolions.co for more information.

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
Two Lions | Founding Engineer | https://twolions.co | Full-Time | REMOTE (Global)

We're a Startup Studio based out of San Francisco. Looking for a founding engineer. We're focused on building all of our startups using Clojure.

The company we're currently focused on is called Warmer where we’re building automation and power tools for the commercial aspects of every startup (sales, marketing, recruiting, and fundraising).

We’ll be user obsessed, and rapidly iterating on the ui which will be focused on ultra simplicity. There will be a great deal of crawling, parsing, and some ML & NLP.

Send email to michael@twolions.co for more information.

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
Two Lions | Founding Engineer | https://twolions.co | Full-Time | REMOTE (Global)

We're a Startup Studio based out of San Francisco. Looking for a founding engineer. We're focused on building all of our startups using Clojure.

The company we're currently focused on is called Warmer where we’re building automation and power tools for the commercial aspects of every startup (sales, marketing, recruiting, and fundraising).

We’ll be user obsessed, and rapidly iterating on the ui which will be focused on ultra simplicity. There will be a great deal of crawling, parsing, and some ML & NLP.

Send email to michael@twolions.co for more information.

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Spivak's Calculus - https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/091409...
mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)
Two Lions | Full-time | Remote | https://twolions.co

Two Lions is a startup studio that's focused on deep tech, vertical ai/ml, and automation tools. We're an entirely Clojure based team and are looking for a founding engineer at our portfolio company Warmer.

For for information, email michael@twolions.co

mjdesa··on Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays?
> the world is already over-populated, and however hard it is for you to compete with your peers, it'll be even harder for your children

I’m not sure this is true. Most modern economies in the world have a declining birth rate.

My perspective on children has changed recently. We need more people and in the world to solve the problems that we’ve created. We don’t know if life exists outside of the earth and I want living things to thrive, and for that to be the case, I think we need more people.

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)
Two Lions | Remote | Full-Time | https://twolions.co/

Two Lions is a startup studio based out of SF. We’re building automation and power tools for the commercial aspects of every startup (sales, marketing, recruiting, and fundraising). All these processes end up with contact management, sourcing, campaign management, pipeline views, and analytics. Team is currently three people (all with backgrounds in engineering). We're looking for a lead engineer.

If you're interested, send an email to michael[at]twolions.co.

mjdesa··on Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
Because they’re open ledgers.

I think of blockchain like I do JavaScript / JSON.

Are the perfect? No. But there’s a lot of time and energy being put into them and sometimes that’s all you really need to get things going.

mjdesa··on Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
Why has interoperability failed in the past? Why don’t we have it today?
mjdesa··on Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
I owned a pretty decent amount of crypto back in 2012, but sold all of it and own essentially none now. I think what you’re missing here is that there is actually potential in the space and that there are a decent amount of people trying to solve real problems that exist today.

The two big ones I can think of are payments and ownership.

Payments has always been a difficult part of the web. Multi billion dollar companies have been created around this difficulty. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a native, protocol level way to handle payment?

Similarly, digital ownership is totally fragmented. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way that I could take my digital things with me between different services? I own a number of videos on Amazon, but why can’t I take that ownership right with me to view them on Hulu, or some other service.

mjdesa··on Ask HN: Anyone else noticing long delivery times with Amazon?
Yeah, that's my current thinking as well, but I haven't seen anything about it written anywhere.
mjdesa··on Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
That’s not what I read in that article at all. What I read was that their data and methodology was flawed, and they weren’t willing to pay the price to fix it.
mjdesa··on Ask HN: Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?
This issue with take home interviews is that the time commitment on the side of the candidate is super high. If every company gives you some variant of this take home, you spend at 2-10 hours on each take home, and you're interviewing at 10-20 companies, it very quickly becomes a full time job.
mjdesa··on Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
The big use cases are devops/monitoring data and IoT data. But it also applies to pretty much any use case where you want to answer questions about data in relation to time.
mjdesa··on Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code
The best WYSIWYG LaTeX I've come across is http://mathquill.com
mjdesa··on Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
Which is a derivative of "Stop trying to make 'fetch' a thing" from Mean Girls.
mjdesa··on Facebook was down
SREs?