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Show HN: CV Mirror – see what 5 ATS parsers do to your CV

GS_Projects — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:38:09 +0000

Article URL: https://cv-mirror-web.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936034

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New comment by GS_Projects in "An update on GitHub availability"

GS_Projects — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:16:51 +0000

The bit nobody covers in these write-ups: small teams without dual-cloud failover budget. Last big GitHub outage cost me a deploy day. Not catastrophic but the kind of thing you don't budget for when GitHub is your single source of truth.

Status page is also still doing that thing where every component is green but in practice clone is hanging, push is timing out, actions are stuck. Per-service uptime is a managed number. The user-experience number is the one that matters and it's not in the post-mortem.

New comment by GS_Projects in "Meetings are forcing functions"

GS_Projects — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:13:24 +0000

Working solo right now. The bit this misses is that meetings are forcing functions for OTHER people, not just yourself, which is half the reason they exist.

When you're alone you can cosplay urgency for weeks without actually shipping. A weekly check-in with literally anyone external is the only real deadline that bites.

Tried public commits as the substitute. "Shipping X by Friday" tweets, working in public, that whole genre. Doesn't work for me. You end up optimising for the post not the ship. Worse outcome than no deadline at all.

New comment by GS_Projects in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

GS_Projects — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:39:19 +0000

Mercor had a SOC 2, an MSA, all the right clauses. Voices still leaked. The apology email writes itself.

Why is voice and biometric stuff still server-side at all in 2026? Whisper.cpp runs on a phone. WebGPU works. Half these "we keep your voice secure" pipelines could run in the browser today.

The real reason isn't capability. It's cost. Centralised compute is cheaper to run, but that math only holds if you don't price in the periodic breach. Which nobody does until it's their own employees on the leak list.