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ultra_nickon 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

Applied to over 1,000 jobs on Linkedin last year. Gave up and started using other websites or channels.

It took about 100 apps/interview last year. These ghost jobs wasted about 6 months of my life.

I'd drop $10k+ on a solution to this problem.

ultra_nickon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

I've been working on an AI Tutor or Primer that automatically generates Duolingo style curriculums. Planning to apply to YC after the next big feature release.

The current website is a rushed out MVP. It takes a significant amount of data science and prompt engineering to generate good courses, so it's taking me a bit longer to build the true vision.

ultra_nickon How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

Oh, I do similar, but using single page websites.

Last month, I read The Prince and had it make a text adventure campaign for me.

For a lot of other topics, I often just ask it to create a simple python example that I can run.

ultra_nickon Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

No right to free speech.

Then they start jailing people for posts.

Then they get rid of juries.

Then they get rid of public records.

What are they trying to hide?

ultra_nickon Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

A lot of game companies are really committed to building products that their customers hate these days. What happened to talking to your customers?

ultra_nickon Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

It's crazy how many adults think regulation is free, especially here. All consuming vague regulations like GDPR increase the cost of a startup by 500%. Europe should have just banned startups entirely. It would have the same effect.

Imagine being a college student with 240 hours and $1,000 to release an MVP over the summer. How long would it take to read GDPR yourself, 100 hours? How much would it cost to hire a lawyer verify that your startup meets GDPR guidelines, $5,000? It would be almost impossible for any young person to start a business. GDPR was obviously a failure from the start. Anyone who couldn't see that has a child's understanding of business. Grow up.

ultra_nickon AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending isn't either. It's outsourcing and can be easily confirmed by cross-referencing H1B approval rates with layoffs.

If you've been outsourced, ask your representative to support the HIRE Act: - Creates a 25% tax on outsourcing payments - Creates a “Domestic Workforce Fund” for apprenticeships/workforce development. - Prohibits companies from deducting outsourcing payments.

ultra_nickon Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

Why work at big businesses anymore? Let's just create more startups.

ultra_nickon Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims

It's nice that Musk and his companies always seem to be willing to provide free emergency services. Over various disasters they've provided free energy, internet, and cell service.

I can't believe people complain about charity when so many other companies do nothing. Same with Mr.Beast's charity acts. There's something wrong with people who do nothing and hate on other people doing charity.

ultra_nickon IPMI

Dell is working pretty hard to replace IPMI with Redfish these days. Redfish is an out of band management protocol like IPMI, but using an HTTP/JSON REST API that doesn't assume a secure management network.

https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish

ultra_nickon Accident Forgiveness

Build everything on Docker, Kubernetes, and VPS.

Run on the cheapest VPS provider with human support.

Make a quick and easy switch if they get too shifty.

ultra_nickon Quint

With LLMs getting smarter every day, the next generation might be writing specs like this instead of actual code.

ultra_nickon My Python code is a neural network

I feel like neural networks are increasingly going to look like code.

The next big innovation will be whoever figures out how to convert MOE style models into something like function calls.

ultra_nickon What Is PID 0?

People should be suspicious of statements regardless of tone. Conmen, hackers, cult members, job applicants, and AIs are all trying to trick people who only listen to tone.

ultra_nickon HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade

Why are hardware companies like this?

ultra_nickon Infections Correlate with Entrepreneurship

Maybe busy people are more likely to own cats.

ultra_nickon Let yourself be monitored: EU governments to agree on Chat Control

The EU governments will ruin the lives of random innocent people with buggy AI.

Look what happened yesterday in the UK: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-woman-mistaken-as-s...

ultra_nickon GDPR: Is It Worth It?

GDPR would be fine if they had a limits for small businesses. As written, startup founders don't have the resources to comply, so they often end up blocking all of Europe.

ultra_nickon Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero

Didn't "Zero to Hero" come from Disney's Hercules movie before Karparthy used it?

ultra_nickon Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns

IPFS can do that

https://docs.ipfs.tech/how-to/host-git-repo/

ultra_nickon Did we lose our way in making efficient software?

We learned that efficiency is just one feature of many.

ultra_nickon Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager

Bringing Ada into the 21st century bit by bit.

ultra_nickon Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24

Guys just pick a fun project and apply. If you get in then you get to build a fun project really fast. If not, then just have fun building your project.

ultra_nickon Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project

I interviewed with them in 2018. They're still kicking as far as I know. They asked me recursive and functional programming questions.

I wonder if they've adopted ML yet.

ultra_nickon After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative

There are content farms in Facebook churning out fake grandkids for old folks to fawn over.

ultra_nickon An IRC client in your motherboard

Lol, this is great. You missed your chance to release it on 4/1 though.

ultra_nickon ReALM: Reference Resolution as Language Modeling

Did they just add 2D text position to the feature vectors?

ultra_nickon Documentation for the AMD 7900XTX

NVidia is making boatloads of money because their driver works and they have a software library called CUDA that accelerates neural networks.

Nobody expects AMD to match them, but George thought they could at least write a GPU driver. If AMD can get that driver out, then George could provide a competitor to CUDA (for neutral networks only). They'd both make boatloads of money.

However, AMD was less capable than expected and their drivers were too buggy to run neural networks like those needed for the MLPerf benchmark. So now, it appears that AMD, Tinybox, and investors like me won't be making boatloads of money.

ultra_nickon More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages

Same, my wife works a 10 hour day, comes home, gets yelled at by neurotic patients for an hour, then does paperwork for another hour.

We're not even making money yet due to student loans. Sucks.

ultra_nickon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)

Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholascgilpin

Email: nicholascgilpin123 (at) gmail

Senior engineer graduating with MSCS in perception and robotics this year.