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monologicalon Jobs Without LeetCode

Thanks for the feedback. I added a classifier that’s currently running, along with a filter so you can look at engineering roles only.

monologicalon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

https://noleet.lol

Job board for companies hiring without Leetcode.

monologicalon AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC

They're just scared of China releasing better open weights, nipping at their heels. With so much investor cash on the line, they have to create this narrative to scare the public into forcing regulation. Why would they want to be regulated? It seems counterintuitive, but it's because they want regulatory capture.

monologicalon Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage

My usage limits were reset this morning. I'm already 90% through my weekly limits. This have _never_ happened before. They should reset the limits for everyone.

monologicalon Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

The only reason I don't use tmux is because of how annoying it is to look at scrollback. Am I using it wrong?

monologicalon Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes

Because they can't as a result of private equity firms and hedge funds buying houses for investment purposes. Without legislation, people are going to be renting for the rest of their lives like modern day serfs.

monologicalon Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds

It's not "casual". Did you read the paper I linked?

monologicalon Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds

Main reason is due to purging of β-amyloid by the glymphatic system, which seems to happen during deep sleep. High β-amyloid plaque build up is correlated with Alzheimer’s disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698404/

monologicalon Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

Of course, what you're saying is obvious. I'm just asking questions to get people to think about the ramifications of technology. Society is the sum of all the individual choices people make, which are influenced and amplified by technology, either for good or bad.

monologicalon Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

> A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant.

How does that change the social dynamics of mating? Is increasing promiscuity a good thing?

> A person can choose to live hundreds of miles away from their family yet still visit them every weekend.

> A person can choose to move to a new country, halfway around the world, and still have their parents be > able to see and converse with the grandchildren every night.

Why did this person choose to move physically away from their tribe? To slave away at a job they don't care about? Would they have chosen to move away if the tech to communicate long distance didn't exist?

> I can choose to talk to a person who speaks another language and have a computer translate for us.

Is it good to use translation tech as a crutch and not emotionally immerse yourself in the culture?

> I can choose to have my tooth decay treated without experiencing horrific pain.

Why do you have a poor diet? Why do you consume so much sugar? Why don't you brush and floss?

> A compound fracture is not an automatic sentence of death or lifelong severe disability.

Do you take more risks because you know that a fracture won't end you since medicine can heal you?

It seems to me that technology is often used as a band-aid solution. Or it enables certain types of behaviors that when proliferated on a societal level can have drastic consequences.

monologicalon Career Advice (2013)

It’s ok to be cringe. Try expressing yourself sometime instead of always conforming.

monologicalon Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

Am I the only one who doesn't want this dystopian future? "Designed for living in the moment"?...no, this is definitely the exact opposite of living in the moment.

monologicalon iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

Do you really need to upgrade your 3 year old iPhone if you think about it? Those are still quite fast and can do everything you need. To me it seems like a waste, but you do you.

monologicalon Ask HN: Are You Burned / Burning Out?

Your words have a lot of power. You become what you repeatedly say about yourself. If you just changed this one thing, not thinking negatively about yourself or the future, it would change your entire life. You have a lot more power than you think you do. Focus on the things you can change right now. Look around your room. I'm sure you can find at least one thing that needs fixing. Be blessed internet friend.

monologicalon iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

I feel like this is an epic joke. Except the joke is on all the suckers paying $1k for essentially the same phone, but wow, now with a usb-c port. Please Tim Apple...take my money faster. Even better, please strap it to my head so I can be even more disconnected from other people.

monologicalon Ask HN: Are You Burned / Burning Out?

step 1: save up money and pay off debt step 2: sell all your possessions except laptop, clothes and a few other things step 3: find remote job step 4: move to SE Asia, join an expat community, enjoy a low cost of living lifestyle

monologicalon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

https://www.podshorty.com/

Been working on this for 3-4 months. Summarizes YouTube videos and synthesizes podcasts that you can listen to. Also has transcripts so you can follow along. Click on the timestamp to jump ahead.

Summarization target percentage is set to about 50%. So if you want to listen to a Lex Friedman podcast, this can save you half the time.

monologicalon Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily

I'm just pointing out that there is a lot of legal gray area when it comes to AI-synthesized voices and copyright. It still remains to be seen how the courts end up ruling.

What's the difference between using an AI voice and Bill Hader or Jimmy Fallon doing a celebrity impersonation on his show and monetizing that?

monologicalon Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily

Actually, according to US law, it doesn't appear to be copyright infringement. Do you have anything to back up those claims?

According to Butler v. Target Corp., it was held that although lyrics to a song are copyrightable, the underlying voice is not. As such, there is no copyright protection available to the infinite number of words or phrases a person might utter in their distinctive voice.

Additionally, the synthesized audio can be considered derivative, as it transforms the the "audio" into something entirely different than original, and so falls under 17 U.S.C.A § 103.

So, I'm not sure what you mean when you say there are plans for tighter controls. Care to back that up?

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is my personal opinion.

monologicalon Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily

Podshorty does something kind of similar, but it takes any YouTube link, summarizes it and generates a podcast using the voices of the original speakers. Also creates transcripts so you can follow along. https://www.podshorty.com

monologicalon Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?

Started a company to build chip testers. Didn't go anywhere, but I had a ton of fun doing the hardware and software. One specific example is writing a Linux driver to interact with your IP block running on the FPGA. Got to see what happens on the other side of the kernel.

https://www.geminicomplex.com/

monologicalon Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand

what are you talking about. George has been working on comma.ai for years. It's shipping actual products and has revenue.

We need more people who "think different" and push back against the status quo instead of carrying out ad hominem attacks on public forums.

monologicalon The NVIDIA AI Red Team

If you don’t build it, someone else most definitely will. This has already become an AI arms race.

monologicalon Pinecone raises $100M Series B

Why not just use pgvector for Postgres. It’s free and works great. You can even do cosine distance between embeddings.

monologicalon The 1Password classic extension will stop working soon

> In the future, Google will stop supporting Manifest V2 in Chrome. > Because of this change, in 2023, the 1Password classic extension for > Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave will no longer be supported.

> If you have a standalone vault, you’ll need to migrate to a 1Password > membership to use 1Password in your browser.

Anyone else frustrated by this?

monologicalon Show HN: Create Stripe Payment Links in Seconds

Here's a clickable link: https://prodbump.com

monologicalon Apple's Tim Cook says AR and VR headsets are for connection and communication

Because it's path of least resistance, but not a path to well being.

monologicalon Apple's Tim Cook says AR and VR headsets are for connection and communication

I think people crave real world connection, not another iDevice that's strapped to your head.

monologicalon Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health

It's not even only children, it's literally everyone. Who thought it would be a good idea to put a screen in everyone's hand with infinite content that's engineered to be highly addictive. It's a fucking no-brainer.

monologicalon Flurly has been shut down by Stripe

I don't understand. Didn't he use Stripe Connect? All the accounts are then siloed out and have to pass KYC. Is it just because he let them keep selling knowing full well that they are doing something sketch?