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New comment by FreezerburnV in "US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover"

FreezerburnV — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:27:29 +0000

Legitimately: Could they actually do this? The EU still has so many dependencies on tech provided by the US that could be turned off pretty much immediately which would shut the country down. How are they supposed to fight back if their government stops because Microsoft shuts down their Azure accounts, Outlook, Teams, etc.?

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

FreezerburnV — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:08:44 +0000

  Location: Gambrills, MD
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Mostly no, but might for the right company in Japan.
  Technologies: Go/Golang, Bash, Python, Java, SQL, React, Javascript, Typescript, HTML/CSS, Markdown
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h5p-KTaXRjFpv-5qXTlu5pk-YeQe96TN/view?usp=sharing
  Email: hnjobs@any.unlocked-doors.com

Hi, I'm Vincent, an engineer with 10+ years of experience working in all parts of the engineering stack. Most recently I've worked on the front end side of things and am specialized in using React professionally, but I'm quick to pick up new technologies as necessary. (personally I prefer Svelte when working on my own projects) Go and Typescript are my two favorite languages. I've consistently been told by my managers that I work fast or was one of the best engineers they had on their team.

Personally I'm looking for a job that I feel like actually has some kind of positive benefit on the world, or something that seems particularly challenging or interesting. This can range anywhere from a note-taking application to managing retirement funds to writing a Typescript to Go compiler to writing a new database. I'm not interested in one of the 5 million AI hype cycle jobs (partly because I dislike LLMs), and I actively hate the blockchain, ads, and tracking users. I do not, and will never, compromise on privacy issues.

A list of things you should know about me and how I'm going to do my best work for you:

* I want to be able to work on something a bit more interesting than another simple REST application.

* I want my hours to be flexible, meaning when I start/end or being able to take some time in the middle of the day for groceries or a doctors appointment.

* I want to be able to come up with ideas I think would be useful/interesting and be given some time to work on them. I know that there are things I'm going to have to do for the business that aren't going to be these things, but I need some amount of time to do this or I'm going to struggle as a worker.

* I'm going to have strong opinions about all sorts of things, and I expect to be able to have a conversation about them and not just be dismissed.

* I'm going to want to improve things, and if I continuously get told "no", it's going to kill my morale.

I've previously lived in Japan a couple decades ago and studied the language intensively for 2 years at that time in one of the schools dedicated to helping foreigners go to university or get jobs there. (specifically at: 東京平田日本語学院. I almost passed JLPT N2 then, but I'm nowhere close to that level currently) I've recently been picking back up on studying Japanese again to maybe fulfill a long-held dream of going back to Japan longer than a vacation. So on the off chance you're someone in Japan hiring for a position you think I'd be a fit for (and you're not a black company), please reach out.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

FreezerburnV — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:22:52 +0000

  Location: Gambrills, MD
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Mostly no, but might for the right company in Japan.
  Technologies: Go/Golang, Bash, Python, Java, SQL, React, Javascript, Typescript, HTML/CSS, Markdown
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h5p-KTaXRjFpv-5qXTlu5pk-YeQe96TN/view?usp=sharing
  Email: hnjobs@any.unlocked-doors.com

A list of things you should know about me and how I'm going to do my best work for you:

* I want to be able to work on something a bit more interesting than another simple REST application.

* I want my hours to be flexible, meaning when I start/end or being able to take some time in the middle of the day for groceries or a doctors appointment.

* I'm going to have strong opinions about all sorts of things, and I expect to be able to have a conversation about them and not just be dismissed.

* I'm going to want to improve things, and if I continuously get told "no", it's going to kill my morale.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

FreezerburnV — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:18:15 +0000

  Location: Gambrills, MD
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Mostly no, but might for the right company in Japan.
  Technologies: Go/Golang, Bash, Python, Java, SQL, React, Javascript, Typescript, HTML/CSS, Markdown
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h5p-KTaXRjFpv-5qXTlu5pk-YeQe96TN/view?usp=sharing
  Email: hnjobs@any.unlocked-doors.com

A list of things you should know about me and how I'm going to do my best work for you:

* I want to be able to work on something a bit more interesting than another simple REST application.

* I want my hours to be flexible, meaning when I start/end or being able to take some time in the middle of the day for groceries or a doctors appointment.

* I'm going to have strong opinions about all sorts of things, and I expect to be able to have a conversation about them and not just be dismissed.

* I'm going to want to improve things, and if I continuously get told "no", it's going to kill my morale.

NOTE: I am going on an extended trip to Japan in November and December 2025, so while I'm open to doing interviews (time zones notwithstanding), I will not be able to start working until 2026

New comment by FreezerburnV in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

FreezerburnV — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:11:52 +0000

Not doubting you but… how? Adderall leaves your system in like 4 hours. The half life is crazy short and it’s extremely noticeable when it happens. I don’t understand how someone would fail to sleep for 3 days, or even hyper focus for 12 hours, when the drug is going to be completely gone from their system and not affecting them a fraction of the time into that period. Are you sure it wasn’t something else or they didn’t take more doses or other things?

New comment by FreezerburnV in "The anti-immigration backlash comes to Japan"

FreezerburnV — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:17:18 +0000

I think it really depends on where you are. I visited Japan early last year and encountered a decent amount of foreigners when I went to the Snow Festival or when I was in Tokyo. But when I was visiting friends in Fukuoka I don't really remember seeing foreigners, and someone in an elevator seemed kind of shocked to see my wife and me. If you don't want to see foreigners, you need to stay away from Tokyo and visit the many, many other interesting places in Japan.

As someone who lived on a military base in Japan when I was a kid, the country does feel like it's changing in places. But other places that are more out of the way still feel like "home", almost unchanged from that time a couple decades ago. (sometimes literally: I visited the area around that base last year and found billboards that were exactly the same as a couple decades ago)

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Ask HN: How do I buy a typewriter?"

FreezerburnV — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:47:15 +0000

I’ve bought multiple antique typewriters that all work just fine. Might need a little maintenance to clean the slugs/hammers or need a new ink ribbon (which you can buy on Amazon), but it hasn’t felt hard for me to find them at places like antique stores or estate sales.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon"

FreezerburnV — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:42:13 +0000

Why did retailers hate you? Wouldn’t they want a solution that brings people to their store because you listed their product as being there and available?

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Yep, X was down again"

FreezerburnV — Sat, 31 May 2025 02:44:52 +0000

The only unfortunate part is that it came back online. Sad.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "AI's energy footprint"

FreezerburnV — Wed, 21 May 2025 02:13:27 +0000

Because training costs are sky-high, and handling an individual request still uses a decent amount of energy even if it isn't as horrifying as training. Plus the amount of requests, and content in them, is going up with stuff like vibe coding.

If you want to know more about energy consumption, see this 2 part series that goes into tons of nitty-gritty details: https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2024/08/18/is-ai-eating-all-th...

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Go 1.24's `omitzero` is another of the best additions to the ecosystem in years"

FreezerburnV — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:12:12 +0000

No uninitialized values, same as Java. You don’t get junk values that are whatever were in that memory previously. It’s actually a lack of ambiguity in that an int will always be 0 when initialized, not like 19692847376 sometimes.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Making Software Fun"

FreezerburnV — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:04:28 +0000

One of my absolute favorite pieces of software of all time is "Toot!", the Mastodon client on iOS. It's because it exemplifies this type of development extremely well, with most interaction in the app having some kind of fun little thing attached to it. Favorite a post? It starts an animation from the start turning the entire post gold, which persists and IIRC shimmers occasionally. Boost a post? It pops it out and moves the post up the screen before putting the post back. There are lots of little fun things it does, and it just makes it so fun to interact with. We need more software that embodies this type of design, letting things be more fun or whimsical, instead of super serious or "corporate fun" (e.g.: Notion).

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Servo's progress in 2024"

FreezerburnV — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:58:44 +0000

Has it ever been made easy to use on mobile? That’s the big thing that’s always given me pause on investing heavily in using it. Especially since it uses weird syntax in places and isn’t “just a browser”.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Florida Woman Arrested for Saying Delay, Deny, Depose to Her Ins Company"

FreezerburnV — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:23:33 +0000

Guess that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence is just out the window then. Also I guess all the response to actually gross and scary death threats online is good history for how- wait, what's that? Nobody does anything about those? Yet this lady has been arrested? Huh, how odd.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "As Wolf Populations Rebound, an Angry Backlash Intensifies"

FreezerburnV — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:08:07 +0000

Deer are more dangerous to people than wolves. They help spread disease, they destroy plants, and they run in front of cars. Wolves are generally skittish creatures around people that don't want anything to do with you, and will only approach people in an aggressive way if they are starving due to lack of game to hunt.

Leave the wolves alone, they solve problems in an ecosystem increasingly being taken over and damaged by actually very destructive and harmful creatures. Because people are afraid of the propaganda that wolves are going to do everything in their power to eat you and your baby.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Show HN: I made a tool for voice cloning"

FreezerburnV — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:49:23 +0000

As someone with aspirations of voice acting, and who generally believes in consent for usage of voices, stuff like this raises my hackles. I know the cat is out of the bag and there’s legal stuff happening right now around this, but I don’t like seeing more of them pop up. I know you’re doing this for fun and to relax, so I don’t want to be a jerk and assume bad faith or anything, but wanted to be honest about my opinions around this tech.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers"

FreezerburnV — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:57:32 +0000

Would you be open to having people email if they send an application and get ghosted so that you can potentially take action on future hiring threads? (or stuff like the mentioned copy-pasted job posting that got caught in an argument) Since I know that emailing you is already the best way to ask for moderation help.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week"

FreezerburnV — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:14:14 +0000

I can absolutely, 100% guarantee, that there is code out there that if you consulted for might kill someone of a weaker constitution written by 100% organic humans. While LLM-generated code is likely to be various degrees of messy or incorrect, it's likely to be, on average, higher quality than code running critical systems RIGHT NOW and have been doing so for a decade or more. Heck, very recently I refactored code written by interns that was worse than something that would have come out of an LLM. (my work blocks them, so this was all coming from the interns) I'm not out here preaching how amazing LLMs are or anything (though it does help me enjoy writing little side projects by avoiding hours of researching how to do things), but we need to make sure we are very aware of what has, and is being, written by actual humans. And how many times someone has installed Excel on a server so they could open a spreadsheet to run a calculation in that spreadsheet before reading the result out of it. (https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Excellent-Design)

New comment by FreezerburnV in "I have no constructor, and I must initialize"

FreezerburnV — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:36:28 +0000

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” - Bjarne Stroustrup

Not disagreeing that C++ is awful in a lot of ways and super difficult though. But I still weirdly like it, personally. I find it a fun challenge/puzzle to work with.

New comment by FreezerburnV in "Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain"

FreezerburnV — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:13:39 +0000

There was a really interesting panel I went to a few years ago talking about the idea of Kojima writing some shockingly ahead-of-their-time things: https://youtu.be/6kPOj0msHCE?si=CF1wlvE0N0ZL2Yzn