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woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
New Lantern | https://newlantern.ai | Software engineers (backend and generalist product engineers, founding recruiter) | Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.

We are a series A startup with ~20 engineers (~40 total staff), have a number of live customers generating revenue, plenty of runway, and are backed by Benchmark, Anthropic, and other great investors. Our customers have told us they would cry if they couldn't use our product anymore.

We're hiring for backend and product engineering, as well as a founding recruiter to help us scale. You'll work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologists, and our end users to build a product that radiologists rely on daily. You'll have real ownership and autonomy, and ship meaningful work frequently.

I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai. I've already hired one engineer from HN this year and interviewed many more!

[1] a radiology image archive & viewer, a medical report dictation system, and work management system

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
New Lantern | https://newlantern.ai | Software engineers (backend and generalist product engineers, founding recruiter) | Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.

We are a series A startup with ~20 engineers (~40 total staff), have a number of live customers generating revenue, plenty of runway, and are backed by Benchmark, Anthropic, and other great investors. Our customers have told us they would cry if they couldn't use our product anymore.

We're hiring for backend and product engineering, as well as a founding recruiter to help us scale. You'll work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologists, and our end users to build a product that radiologists rely on daily. You'll have real ownership and autonomy, and ship meaningful work frequently.

I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai. I've already hired one engineer from HN this year and interviewed many more!

[1] a radiology image archive & viewer, a medical report dictation system, and work management system

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
New Lantern | https://newlantern.ai | Software engineers (backend and generalist product engineers, founding security engineer) | Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.

We are a series A startup with ~15 engineers (~30 total staff), have live customers generating revenue, several years of runway, and are backed by Benchmark, Anthropic, and other great investors.

We're hiring for several engineering roles. You'll work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologists, and our end users to build a product that radiologists rely on daily. You'll have real ownership and autonomy, and ship meaningful work frequently.

I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai. I've already hired one engineer from HN this year and interviewed many more!

[1] a radiology image archive & viewer, a medical report dictation system, and work management system

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
New Lantern | https://newlantern.ai | Software engineers (frontend and backend product engineers) | Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.

We are a series A startup with ~15 engineers (~30 total staff), have live customers generating revenue, several years of runway, and are backed by Benchmark, Anthropic, and other great investors.

We're hiring for several engineering roles. You'll work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologists, and our end users to build a product that radiologists rely on daily. You'll have real ownership and autonomy, and ship meaningful work frequently.

I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai. I've already hired one engineer from HN this year!

[1] a radiology image archive & viewer, a medical report dictation system, and work management system

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
I can't access your resume—you need to make it shared/accessible.
woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
New Lantern | https://newlantern.ai | Software engineers (frontend and backend product engineers) | Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.

We are a series A startup with ~15 engineers (~25 total staff), have live customers generating revenue, several years of runway, and are backed by Benchmark, Anthropic, and other great investors.

We're hiring for several engineering roles. You'll work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologists, and our end users to build a product that radiologists rely on daily. You'll have real ownership and autonomy, and ship meaningful work frequently. Learn more and apply at https://careers.newlantern.ai

I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai. I've already hired one engineer from HN this year!

[1] a radiology image archive & viewer, a medical report dictation system, and work management system

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
New Lantern | https://newlantern.ai | Software engineers (frontend and backend product engineers) | Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.

We are a series A startup with ~15 engineers (~25 total staff), have live customers generating revenue, several years of runway, and are backed by Benchmark, Anthropic, and other great investors.

We're hiring for several engineering roles. You'll work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologists, and our end users to build a product that radiologists rely on daily. You'll have real ownership and autonomy, and ship meaningful work frequently. Learn more and apply at https://careers.newlantern.ai

I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai.

[1] a radiology image archive & viewer, a medical report dictation system, and work management system

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
New Lantern | https://newlantern.ai | Software engineers (infrastructure engineers & backend-leaning product engineers) | Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is hiring software engineers to help build an AI copilot [1] for radiologists.

Radiologists are experts at diagnosing disease in medical images, but they spend the majority of their working hours on tasks that have nothing to do with diagnosis: reading prior reports, transcribing handwritten notes, taking manual measurements, dictating reports, and chasing down follow-ups. New Lantern is building an AI copilot for radiologists to automate this non-diagnostic work, so radiologists can focus on the diagnostic & patient care work they love the most.

We are starting to find product-market fit and recently raised a $19M Series A from Benchmark [2]. Demand for our product is growing, and we're hiring software engineers in San Francisco to help us scale our product and our team. We work together in person five days a week from our office in Jackson Square.

Engineering is at the heart of New Lantern. Our engineers work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologist, and our end users to build features that radiologists rely on daily. Everyone has real ownership and autonomy, moves quickly, and ships meaningful work frequently. We're a small, sharp team of frontend, full-stack, and backend engineers building a React-based web app backed by Python services, cloud infrastructure, and LLMs.

We're hiring for several engineering roles but top of mind right now is a Senior+ (ideally Staff-level) Infrastructure Engineer. We're looking for someone who's excited to help our team go from 0.25->1 on observability, availability/reliability, and scalable & easily deployed infrastructure to help us grow to meet customer demand. Once we level up our infrastructure, this team member will be instrumental in helping us build towards very high availability and reliability systems that enable high product development velocity.

I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai.

[1] We translate "AI copilot" to "AI radiology resident" when we speak with medical professionals, but the former is the clearest way to communicate what we're building here.

[2] https://newlantern.ai/blog/new-lantern-19m-series-a-led-by-b...

woodrow··on Startup Equity 101
FYI the whole point of early exercise + 83b election is that you "pay" all tax due, but the tax due is $0, so you don't pay anything. There _is_ non-trivial risk of sinking liquid cash into illiquid startup stock, but this risk has nothing to do with tax.
woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
New Lantern | https://newlantern.ai | Software engineers (infrastructure engineers & backend-leaning product engineers) | Full time in San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)

New Lantern is hiring software engineers to help build an AI copilot [1] for radiologists.

Radiologists are experts at diagnosing disease in medical images, but they spend over half their working hours on tasks that have nothing to do with diagnosis: reading prior reports, transcribing handwritten notes, taking manual measurements, dictating reports, and chasing down follow-ups. New Lantern is building an AI copilot for radiologists to automate this non-diagnostic work, so radiologists can focus on what they do best: caring for patients and interpreting images.

We are starting to find product-market fit and recently raised a $19M Series A from Benchmark [2]. Demand for our product is growing, and we're hiring software engineers in San Francisco to help us scale our product and our team. We work together in person five days a week from our office in Jackson Square.

Engineering is at the heart of New Lantern. Our engineers work directly with our founder/CEO, our staff radiologist, and our end users to build features that radiologists rely on daily. Everyone has real ownership and autonomy, moves quickly, and ships meaningful work frequently. We're a small, sharp team of frontend, full-stack, and backend engineers building a React-based web app backed by Python services, cloud infrastructure, and LLMs.

I'm Steve, New Lantern's Head of Engineering. If you're interested or want to learn more, shoot me a note at (my HN username)@newlantern.ai.

[1] We translate "AI copilot" to "AI radiology resident" when we speak with medical professionals, but the former is the clearest way to communicate what we're building here.

[2] https://newlantern.ai/blog/new-lantern-19m-series-a-led-by-b...

woodrow··on Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
The author is excited to talk about helping the employee grow and have more impact, which (if successful) should make them more valuable to the company, resulting in promotion and increased compensation.

He perceives employees who want to talk with him about "leveling" as seeking the formula or checklist to get paid more, and not necessarily about growing or putting in the work.

The latter is fine if your performance objectives are objective and directly aligned with company success (i.e. achievement of sales quotas). It's more fraught if your performance objectives are more subjective or defined in ways that are proxies for company success—it's easy to fall prey to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law where employees do the things that get them promoted, which may actually make them or the company more valuable.

woodrow··on Minuteman III test showcases readiness of U.S. nuclear force's deterrent
Especially notable is the Sprint accelerated at 100g! That's Mach 10 in < 4s.
woodrow··on CA insurance crisis: Thousands to lose coverage as two more insurers withdraw
California law has established the FAIR plan [1] which is insurance of last resort for people who can't otherwise get fire insurance coverage for their home. It's a mandatory association of insurers who are operating in California.

It's my understanding that FAIR plans are very expensive compared to market-provided homeowners insurance. I presume this is because of adverse selection--if you buy FAIR insurance you're in the same risk pool as people who live in very high fire risk areas and have no other insurance options.

[1] https://www.cfpnet.com/

woodrow··on Skin in the Game
The author seems particularly hung up on the legal implications and consequences of being an open source contributor or project maintainer: "not all legal consequences can be waived", "distance to the legal system", "the real world legal consequences are then stuck with me", etc. It would benefit us all for the author to be specific about these if they are indeed real, as to my knowledge these are mostly FUD.

There are certainly negative aspects to being an open source project maintainer [1] but being legally liable for code offered as-is that you did not author, or being droned by a foreign military intelligence service for accepting a backdoor contribution are not it.

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/

woodrow··on PG&E claims no connection between rate increases and $2.2B jump in earnings
Urban ratepayers would still be subsidizing the infrastructure upgrades, utility undergrounding, and legal settlements involving wildfires in more rural/wildland areas. Profit notwithstanding, there's a reason why SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District) rates are significantly lower than PG&E: https://www.smud.org/en/Rate-Information/Residential-rates.
woodrow··on Two-thirds of North America at risk of energy shortages during extreme demand [pdf]
Thanks. Fixed.
woodrow··on Two-thirds of North America at risk of energy shortages during extreme demand [pdf]
It’s a matter of capacity. ERCOT only has 1220 MW of interconnection capacity across 4 asynchronous links [1]. Compare this to e.g. California ISO which seems to have about 10,000-15,000 MW of synchronous interconnection capacity [2]. Neither is adequate to fully support historic peak demand in the system [3-4], but California has much more flexibility in emergencies.

[1] https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2020/07/30/ERCOT_DC_Tie_Ope...

[2] http://www.caiso.com/Documents/ISOMaximumResourceAdequacyImp...

[3] https://www.caiso.com/documents/californiaisopeakloadhistory...

[4] https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2022/07/20/ERCOT%20Monthly%...

woodrow··on The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
Parts of Alaska (eg Fairbanks, Juneau) are not as cold as the Canadian prairies, where it frequently gets well below -20C in the depths of winter. In Winnipeg the average low in January is -21C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_climate_of_Winni...
woodrow··on CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows
Looks like it might be this? https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/commit/976e88d430e0c5...
woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
Truework | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite or Remote (US) | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring software engineers to help overhaul employment and income verification and build a trusted identity layer for internet commerce. A full list of roles can be found here: https://www.truework.com/careers

Truework is building a platform to make it easy for lenders and fintech companies to leverage verified income and employment information in their products and offers. Our platform enables faster closing of loans and other transactions, increases access to financial products (that are often limited to W-2 employees with good credit), and gives employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others.

We are growing quickly. We currently handle tens of thousands of verifications every month for top US mortgage lenders and are on track to handle millions of verifications annually for fintech and lending verticals. That said, our team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility.

We also have a strong financial foundation. We just closed our Series C funding round and we have several years of runway in the bank. We are well positioned to weather and potentially even take advantage of current macroeconomic situation. I'd be happy to tell you more about this all if we end up having a conversation.

Finally, in case you're curious, we are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS.

I (Steve) am Truework's head of engineering. If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at (my HN username)@truework.com.

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Truework | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite or Remote (US) | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring software engineers -- especially frontend software engineers -- to help overhaul employment and income verification and build a trusted identity layer for internet commerce. A full list of roles can be found here: https://www.truework.com/careers

Truework is building a platform to make it easy for lenders and fintech companies to leverage verified income and employment information in their products and offers. Our platform enables faster closing of loans and other transactions, increases access to financial products (that are often limited to W-2 employees with good credit), and gives employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others.

We are growing quickly. We currently handle tens of thousands of verifications every month for top US mortgage lenders and are expanding into other fintech and lending verticals as we speak. That said, our team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility.

We also have a strong financial foundation. Truework has resisted raising capital at extreme revenue multiples and we have several years of runway in the bank. We are well positioned to weather and potentially even take advantage of current macroeconomic situation. I'd be happy to tell you more about this all if we end up having a conversation.

Finally, in case you're curious, we are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS.

I (Steve) am Truework's head of engineering. If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at (my HN username)@truework.com.

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
Truework | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite or Remote (US) | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring software engineers -- especially frontend software engineers -- to help overhaul employment and income verification and build a trusted financial identity layer for internet commerce. A full list of roles can be found here: https://www.truework.com/careers

Truework is building a platform to make it easy for lenders and fintech companies to leverage verified income and employment information in their products and offers. Our platform enables faster closing of loans and other transactions, increases access to financial products (that are often limited to W-2 employees with good credit), and gives employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others.

We are growing quickly. We currently handle tens of thousands of verifications every month for top US mortgage lenders and are expanding into other fintech and lending verticals as we speak. That said, our team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility.

We also have a strong financial foundation. Truework has resisted raising capital at extreme revenue multiples and we have several years of runway in the bank. We are well positioned to weather and potentially even take advantage of current macroeconomic situation. I'd be happy to tell you more about this all if we end up having a conversation.

Finally, in case you're curious, we are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS.

I (Steve) am Truework's head of engineering. If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at (my HN username)@truework.com.

woodrow··on Heroku Security Notification
I reset my password and then closed my Heroku account today. What a sad end for something that was once a model for software deployment and developer experience.
woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
Truework | Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Designer | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite or Remote (US) | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring engineers, data scientists, and designers to help overhaul employment and income verification and build a trusted financial identity layer for internet commerce. A full list of roles can be found here: https://www.truework.com/careers

Truework is building a platform to make it easy to leverage verified income and employment information to do business on the internet. Our platform enables faster closing of loans and other transactions, increases access to financial products (that are often limited to W-2 employees with good credit), and gives employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others.

We are growing quickly: we currently handle tens of thousands of verifications every month for top US mortgage lenders and are expanding into other fintech and lending verticals as we speak. That said, our team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS.

I (Steve) am Truework's head of engineering. If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at (my HN username)@truework.com.

woodrow··on I was wrong, we need crypto
Canada obviously doesn't have jurisdiction over foreign donors, so depending on how GiveSendGo implemented their money transmission flows it may not have been possible for the government to distinguish between domestic and foreign financing sources. I agree that domestic money flowing within Canada (to e.g. support Charter-protected actions of others) should not be impeded without a higher degree of scrutiny.

This said, I love Canada and don't believe Canada should tolerate one iota foreign interference in our domestic affairs, especially if it sows division or reduces trust in Canada's institutions. Whether you believe the blockading of border crossings, occupation of Parliament Hill, and disruption of peace in Ottawa were peaceful protests or unlawful assemblies, they were amplified and prolonged by foreign money. Canada should rightly do what it takes to nip foreign influence in the bud.

woodrow··on I was wrong, we need crypto
Remember that these financial controls are about limiting access to donations received from outside of Canada —- over half of the contributions to GiveSendGo were _not_ from Canadians.

Canada has the right (just as the US does) to limit foreign influence in its domestic affairs and its democratically elected government is exercising that right.

woodrow··on Great thread on what’s problematic with Canada’s anti-protest actions
It is illegal for anyone who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident to contribute to a Canadian political party or campaign. This is also true in the United States.
woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)
Truework | Software Engineer, SRE, EM, PM, Designer | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite or Remote (US) | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring engineers, engineering managers, product managers and designers to help overhaul employment and income verification and build a trusted identity layer for internet commerce. A full list of roles can be found here: https://www.truework.com/careers

Truework is building a platform to make it easy to leverage income and employment information to do business on the internet. Our platform enables faster closing of loans and other transactions, increases access to financial products (that are often limited to W-2 employees with good credit), and gives employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others.

We are growing quickly: we currently handle tens of thousands of verifications every month for top US mortgage lenders and are expanding into other fintech and lending verticals as we speak. That said, our team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS.

I (Steve) am Truework's head of engineering. If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at (my HN username)@truework.com.

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
Truework | Software Engineer, SRE, EM, PM, Designer | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite or Remote (US) | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring engineers, engineering managers, product managers and designers to help overhaul employment and income verification and build a trusted identity layer for internet commerce. A full list of roles can be found here: https://www.truework.com/careers

Truework is building a platform to make it easy to leverage income and employment information to do business on the internet. Our platform enables faster closing of loans and other transactions, increases access to financial products (that are often limited to W-2 employees with good credit), and gives employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which has enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and helps employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS.

I (Steve) am Truework's head of engineering. If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at (my HN username)@truework.com.

woodrow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)
Truework | Software Engineer, Product Manager, Product Designer | San Francisco, CA | Full time | Onsite or Remote (US) | https://www.truework.com/careers/

Truework is hiring senior software engineers, a senior product manager (PM), and a product designer to help overhaul employment and income verification and build a trusted identity layer for internet commerce. A full list of roles can be found here: https://www.truework.com/careers

Truework is building a platform to make it easy to leverage income and employment information to do business on the internet. Our platform enables faster closing of loans and other transactions, increases access to financial products (that are often limited to W-2 employees with good credit), and gives employees visibility and control into how their employment information is shared with others. We are growing quickly and currently handle thousands of verifications every month, which has enabled the approval of billions of dollars in loans and helps employees in regulated professions (e.g. nursing) start work more quickly than before.

Our team is still small, which means you’ll play big a part in shaping the future of Truework, and your work will have a significant impact and visibility. We are a Django and React (Typescript) shop, and run our infrastructure on AWS.

I (Steve) am Truework's head of engineering. If you’re interested or want to know more about working at Truework, send me a note at (my HN username)@truework.com.

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