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Location: Las Palmas, Spain Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (can work in EU & UK) Technologies: Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Apache Spark, Airflow, LangGraph, RAG, gRPC, Postg…

A RAG search accross all HackerNews comments is back online with a new design: https://hn.fiodorov.es/

The running costs are very low. Since posting it today we burned 30 cents in DeepSeek inference. Postgres instance though costs me $40 a month on Railway; mostly due to RAM usage d…

Daily updates I do on my m4 mac air: takes about 5 minutes to process roughly 10k fresh comments. Historic backfill was done on an Nvidia GPU rented on vast.ai for a few dollars. I…

I've been embedding all HN comments since 2023 from BigQuery and hosting at https://hn.fiodorov.es Source is at https://github.com/afiodorov/hn-search

Apparently Persian and Russian are close. Which is surprising to say the least. I know people keep getting confused about how Portuguese from Portugal and Russian sound close yet t…

I've found that building my side projects to be "scalable" is a practical side effect of choosing the most cost-effective hosting. When a project has little to no traffic, the on-d…

Data all-rounder with 10 years building everything from low-latency Go microservices to training ML models to large-scale AWS data pipelines. Looking for a senior, autonomous role …

RAG search that contains all HN comments since 2023 https://hn.fiodorov.es I treat it more like a homework exercise for a Coursera course but I like the result.

> It was uncomfortable at first. I had to learn to let go of reading every line of PR code. I still read the tests pretty carefully, but the specs became our source of truth for wh…

sign of serious organizational disfunction. You're not wrong, but it's a "dysfunction" that many successful tech companies have learned to leverage. The reality is, most engineers …

I live next to an abandoned building from the Spanish property boom. It's now occupied illegally. Hype's over yet the consequence is staring at me every day. I am sure it'll eventu…

The crux of the article is asking whether such a large investment is justified; downplaying the article saying it's only X% of the GDP compared to Y doesn't address the issue.

Nice clip yet it does not make it clear why 9% is the good value of GDP. Why not 7%?

My rule of the thumb is that Dataclasses are for compile-time type-checking, pydantic classes are for run time type checking.

You're right, they can try to manipulate you on a thousand tiny things. My counter-argument is that at a certain point, it's not worth the mental energy to fight over what amounts …

Let's be clear: it's entirely possible to leave the "herd". People can and do go completely off-grid and thus disengage from capitalism. The crucial point is that the vast majority…

There's nothing an algorithm can do against disciplined, intentional engagement. If you know which car you want to buy it doesn't matter what the salesman has to say.

We should not underestimate the timeless human response to being manipulated: disengagement. This isn't theoretical, it's happening right now. The boom in digital detoxes, the dumb…

We've been visited by alien intelligence that is simultaneously fascinating and underwhelming. The real issue isn't the technology itself, but our complete inability to predict its…

If you're hiring 16 year olds just because of their ability to write code sounds like you're bottlenecked by writing code. Your comment doesn't clarify why you disagree.

I think the "more capital than ideas" problem is highly contextual and largely a Silicon Valley-centric view. There is immense, unmet demand for good software in developing countri…

Even without LLMs, we were approaching a point of saturation where software development was bottlenecked by market demand and funding, not by a shortage of code. Our tooling has be…