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sstevenshang··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
Sepal AI | San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) | Full-Time

Things we're building out:

1. Complex RL environments for AI agents across many domains

2. Various tools to streamline eval creation

3. Various tools to streamline hiring operations

Who we've looking for:

1. Python/Typescript full-stack engineer

2. Good to have: infra and container experience

3. Have high ownership, moves fast, likes to work on highly ambiguous problems

4. Wants to work at the frontier of AL eval and RL data

If you're interested or just curious, email me directly at steven at sepalai dot com

sstevenshang··on Humans progressively feel agency over events triggered before their actions
Since the animation was “ based on the history of the players’ past movements and on the beginning of their current movement”, the human subjects did in fact have agency over the animation. Their brains probably figured out the pattern: “if I move the mouse towards a subject, it will explode”, which changes the game a little but nonetheless gives the players agency.
sstevenshang··on Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing?
Good technical writing is good writing. Just learn how to write well in general. I recommend going through The Elements of Style and basically any college level writing course materials.
sstevenshang··on Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation
Yes NFT! I keep making the same typo everywhere.
sstevenshang··on Sid Meier warns the games industry about monetisation
Excellent article, and the thing is that if you spend any time talking to gamers or on gaming platforms, there’s a near consensus on this attitude against in-game purchases that contribute nothing to gameplay. Even though people still make these purchases, I’d say most of them are conscious of the fact that the current trend is detrimental to gamers.

As a side note, the only people pushing for NTFs in games are crypto enthusiasts or profit-seeking actors who do not care about game experience at all. Even gamers who are also into crypto do not advocate for NTF in games. The whole thing is a shit show IMO.

sstevenshang··on Couple turns to viruses to beat back superbug
This feels like an episode of House MD.