I asked an AI to write this for me so my bosses can’t identify me based on my writing style.<p>I work at a YC company. It’s not really a startup anymore — we’re well past that phase. We’re hiring at an insane pace right now, roughly one new software engineer per day.<p>The weird part is… I don’t fee...
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I asked an AI to write this for me so my bosses can’t identify me based on my writing style.<p>I work at a YC company. It’s not really a startup anymore — we’re well past that phase. We’re hiring at an insane pace right now, roughly one new software engineer per day.<p>The weird part is… I don’t fee...
In the past year we could observer Coding Agents proliferation. They are more popular than ever.<p>I'm studying IT and want to enter the market. Along with a friend from school we observed that it's very difficult to land a job interview and that there seem to be quite a few openings for J...
We're looking for researchers, principal investigators, software engineers, and project leads, including those with expertise in functional programming, formal methods, machine learning, embedded systems, computer security, or networking. We have two offices: one in Portland, OR, and one in Arlingt...
Does it matter when they occur in the hiring process (i.e., whether they're being used as a first-pass technical screen or whether they're only being presented to candidates who've already passed a couple rounds of interviews)? Does it vary with the seniority of the position?
I've known about the [Spread Tookit](http://www.spread.org/) for years now but never had any real use for it, until now. I find its design well thought and given that it's been there for more than 10 years it seems pretty solid.
Ther are two things that worry me, though:
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This is still a very rough idea and I'm not sure if I'm going to go forward with it, but if I do I'd want to do a good job, so getting all your takes on it.
A lot of people claim that software engineering is different from "other" kinds of engineering, either to criticize or defend how we write s...
I'm experiencing this scenario, and I would love to hear from people with similar experiences and how things panned out.
I've been working as a senior engineer at a company for roughly 7 years. We have gained a lot of experience over the years.
We have been acquired by a larger company with an...
MIT and Harvard Engineers Create New Face Mask That Can Detect COVID-19 Infection
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The sensor technology could also be used to create clothing that detects a variety of pathogens and other threats.  Engineers at MIT and Harvard University have designed a novel face mask that can diagnose the wearer with COVID-19 within about 90 minutes. The masks are embedded with tiny, dispo...
It seems like every HN Hiring post over the last 6 to 12 months is for "Founding Engineers". When you read the job ads, what they are actually looking for is a unicorn engineer who can build the entire product including Backend, FrontEnd and DevOps while also being an AI domain expert and ...
I've got a popular Github project, and want to start putting some "social proof" on the README. But since it's open source and we don't have a login, I don't know definitely who is using it for what (by design, and I'd like to keep it that way).<p>What I do have:<p...
Xitter and reddit are full of people very hyped about coding agents, and prophesying the end of the SWE role. I wonder what the sentiment is on the decision making side
It feels like every major AI company — OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google, etc. — is now rolling out its own agentic framework, orchestration library, or tool for managing LLM “agents.” We’ve seen LangChain and similar projects actively evolving in this space, but now each big player is launching so...
Now that llm's are starting to get pretty good how has your company's adapted to the new environment. It's no longer good enough to see if someone's good a programing, instead we need to screen if someone is good at engineering. In my experience Software Engineering is starting t...
I feel like my cover letters are uninteresting. Searching google for guidance just gets me templates and reddit flame wars.<p>Was there a cover letter that stood out for you? Do you prefer longer or shorter letters?<p>Thanks
What would happen if a tech company/startup based itself in a LCOL area like the US midwest or south?<p>Then the company offers say only 70% of tech salaries because it can't compete but with the incentive that everyone can easily afford houses?<p>The actual salary would be lower but the o...
Exploring how technical hiring happens in practice vs how we talk about it happening.<p>If you've hired engineers where GitHub was part of your evaluation:<p>- What specifically did you look at?<p>- How much time did you spend per candidate?<p>- Did it change your hiring decision, or just confi...
We recently ran into something frustrating while training and fine-tuning open-weight TTS models.<p>Instead of working on the model itself, we spent days dealing with:
- CUDA version mismatches
- Driver / PyTorch conflicts
- OOM crashes when scaling to multi-GPU
- Broken or outdated open-source...
I have heard a lot about people misusing REST, and I would rather do it properly than improperly when writing an API for myself, since it seems like I could learn something about good APIs, since the people who came up with REST thought so long about how they should work. What are the best resource...
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