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okhobb··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
It would also be nice to note if it's 6DWW or 7DWW. I've been told GenZ is very into the these options.
okhobb··on Lore – Give your coding agent the decisions your team made
It seems naive to suppose you might get an LLM to admit it is one just in a HN comment exchange.
okhobb··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
The purpose of prediction markets is to communicate insider knowledge.
okhobb··on The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
Is CEO likeability a reliable predictor?
okhobb··on Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
I'll give that and agree the underlying is a quibble.
okhobb··on Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
Pretty sure Ramp uses Elixir.
okhobb··on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
No one is forcing you to give birth in a hospital. Rational people do it at home all the time to this day.
okhobb··on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
Figma is also one dude.
okhobb··on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
I'm sure if the original developer bothered to show up again he could fix it in a weekend.
okhobb··on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
HN users want to know if you're allowed to host the whole Internet on it.
okhobb··on Pain Points of OCaml
My favorite part about Ocaml is the type checker fwiw. Pretty much as soon as I appease it I'm guaranteed a 'working' program that usually does what I intended.
okhobb··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
Wait until you hear about how much wealth Salomon Bros extracted from the market.
okhobb··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
I suspect the root argument is really against the efficacy of markets and capitalism as a useful system for humanity, in which case I say that is a fair debate. The benefits are hardly obvious today.
okhobb··on macOS Tahoe
Lol same. Wasn't there something like it in System 7 that also got deprecated. I think back then it was called "Launcher" ... https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Launcher

Launching seems easy enough from Finder but you never know about innovation.

okhobb··on Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud
How does this play out? They pay a fine? Tim Cook is extradited? Something in between?
okhobb··on Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That ChangedLife as Software Engineer?
'Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets' by Peter van der Linden
okhobb··on Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)
Is the voltage the reason power lines are buried in Europe? I do wish we would do so in the US.
okhobb··on Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse
Correct. It would be hard to find a stock where some combination of these players were not the largest shareholders based on the aggregation of all their managed funds.
okhobb··on First Republic Bank files 8-K – Tech only 4% of total deposits; no sector >9%
This might be downvoted due to the FED finger point, but that aside it is exactly right. A responsible banker would have invested in floating-rate securities or hedged the fixed-rate risk via interest rate swaps. SVB was certainly sophisticated enough to know this.
okhobb··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Pretty sure the Fed "wants" to bring up unemployment. I.e. make wage inflation decrease. To put it another way, they want everyone to feel more poor so they spend less frivolously.
okhobb··on Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
I've found NestJs to be a very thoughtful application framework. I'd argue it demonstrates pro-level typescript coding.

https://github.com/nestjs/nest

okhobb··on We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX
> My concern is how much funding FTX and SBF in particular were giving to EA/AGI Safety research labs and charities.

Did a malicious AI orchestrate this downfall?

okhobb··on TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants
Rich people got them in the 1890s. $10 a "roll" back then; ~$300 today. You had to mail the camera back to Kodak to get the film developed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090306221410/http://www.kodak....

The Eastman Museum in Rochester is worth a visit if you're in the area.

https://www.eastman.org/about

okhobb··on The new wave of React state management
Try checking out the options:

      refetchInterval: false,
      refetchOnMount: false,
      refetchOnWindowFocus: false,
      refetchOnReconnect: false,
      staleTime: Infinity,
I was similarly surprised at how 'chatty' react-query was by default, but changing these defaults quieted it down. Great library though, and I understand the argument for these defaults.
okhobb··on Convex vs. Firebase
This is a strawman and no one would actually design a messaging app using a NoSQL db like that. Typically one would employ a strategy to fan-out data such that the message document has everything needed to render a message in the UI.
okhobb··on Fresh – Next-gen web framework
I generally prefer keeping all the configuration in as few languages as possible and preferably in a single language. Adding filesystem-based config where a config option object in the main language of javascript would suffice goes against that.

Also, given a filesystem config, now I'm forced to have many very small files around for each route where each file is most likely just a call to another service handler. I'd prefer to mash most into bigger files that handle related but distinct routes.

Less important, but comes up, it's nice to be able to match routes based on code and not just string equality ... e.g. everyone seems to like having routes for usernames start with '@'

okhobb··on Fresh – Next-gen web framework
This is the same thing I dislike about NextJS. What is the argument for using the filesystem as part of a framework's API?
okhobb··on Launch HN: Courier (YC S19) – Developer infrastructure for product notifications
I am curious how this compares to an older YC company OneSignal. https://onesignal.com ... Sounds quite similar on the surface. Does YC bet on multiple companies in the same space?
okhobb··on How SoftBank’s costly bet on the ‘internet of things’ backfired at Arm
Investors in Vision Fund likely have the goal of returns for this investment that are not similar to the S&P 500 or other public equity indices. I'd further bet that 15-20% annualized is considered a very good result for this part of those investors' portfolios.
okhobb··on Ask HN: Should an experienced engineer join a startup?
US tech industry has been staggeringly right place/time for the last decade. As a proxy, the NASDAQ has roughly increased 6x in that timeframe.
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