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smnscu
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About smnscu
hit me up at google's email service, same username
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Comment #49058984
I'd be curious how it handles someone parking poorly in that bay e.g. diagonally. Presumably those lines serve as a parking guide and the door won't close unless you park correctly…
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Comment #49058955
Presumably Goldman Sachs (or any investment bank worth its salt)
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Comment #49053473
I was thoroughly confused at why the website was showing the weather for York. Since I studied there (and it's straight up a lovely place), I visit quite often and subsequently che…
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Comment #49053428
I am building an interviewing and hiring platform ( https://coderba.se/ ) but I've also hired/interviewed and shaped hiring processes at several companies before. It's ridiculous h…
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Comment #48740801
This entered the daily rotation (currently dominated by NYT Games) for our wife and me, thank you!
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Comment #48578068
Firecracker is fantastic technology. I'm using it for my interviewing startup to run isolated runtimes for coding interviews (and personal workspaces), and it's been rock solid and…
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Comment #48363846
Quick NPR Short Wave episode about this https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5806598/disease-science...
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Comment #48203653
Nice post! You piqued my curiosity, so after a bit of research it turns out that, with techniques like MTP/MLA/CSA, it's quite probable that these models are much more efficient (a…
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Comment #48195203
That's me with Google Antigravity. Switching back to vscode was such a breath of fresh air. Porting over my (extensive) settings/extensions/keyboard shortcuts was extremely easy to…
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Comment #48094869
I'm working on Coderbase ( https://coderba.se/ ), a platform for running technical interviews. It started with live interviews cuz that's what I know best, having run over 3,000 in…
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Comment #48042388
I've been through the exact same migration path and I'm so incredibly happy with Better Auth. Good reminder that I should contribute: https://better-auth.com/docs/reference/contrib…
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Comment #47350767
Hey HN, wanted to share an early peek at what I've been building over the past few weeks. I've spent the last 7 years conducting over 3,000 technical interviews. Along the way, I m…
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Comment #47292921
Otta in the UK (now eaten by the inexplicably-named Welcome to the Jungle) used to have a very involved vetting process during company onboarding, and I could verify that it was a …
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Comment #47031314
Obligatory "this is why I love HN" but even for that standard, this is is an incredibly open account, thank you for the insight and sorry it hasn't seemed to pan out quite how you …
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Comment #47031302
Quite chuffed someone else mentioned Djokovic, who is close to 39 and just played an Australian Open final. (Yes he got lucky with 2 freebies but he _did_ beat Sinner in the semifi…
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Comment #47013776
> After go-micro‘s maintainer went off the rails What do you mean by this? Genuinely curious, as someone who's followed that project in the past.
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Comment #46686591
I've interviewed 3k people with Karat as a professional interviewer, and several hundred more as a hiring manager. The very few times I received direct emails from candidates attem…
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Comment #46646327
This is a strong contender. Other candidates (hard to find links to the first editions): - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11177063-creating-cool-w... - https://www.goodreads.c…
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Comment #44960568
I've been calling this context.md in my projects (alongside a progress.md for TODOs and breaking down complex tasks). I don't care what we call it as long as we settle on a convent…
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Comment #43851016
I use it mostly as smarter autocomplete and it's still absolutely worth it. I really tried having it write unit tests in Go, write simple Astro websites, etc, but I'm never satisfi…
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Comment #43497015
Drama aside, I thought I'd share a fun fact with the youngins: John Gruber (yes, the Apple blog guy) is the creator of Markdown. Thanks, John!
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Comment #43252700
Having used Go professionally for over a decade, I can count on one hand the times I used recover(). I've actually just refactored some legacy code last week to remove a panic/reco…