Hacker News: GoldenMonkey

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: The death of software development as a job?"

GoldenMonkey — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:22:41 +0000

Work for any enterprise software company. And you will know coding is the easiest part of shipping software. Organizing, working with other teams, understanding the domain, coordinating. All higher level and higher order tasks than coding.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor"

GoldenMonkey — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:55:46 +0000

Aren't mac's more secure by default. Receive the warning using mac with h&r block 2025 installed.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree"

GoldenMonkey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:08:34 +0000

AI generated content?

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

GoldenMonkey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:03:17 +0000

Why is the independence of the Federal Reserve sacrosanct? For one, they should have oversight and they should have accountability.

Not ever passing an audit of any kind. And the FED chairman spending $2.5B on renovations to an office complex. While misleading congress about the kinds of renovations.

There should be less 'independence', if it means zero accountability.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: What's one small habit you started that surprisingly changed your life?"

GoldenMonkey — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:38:40 +0000

Pull-up bar and dumbbells in my bedroom. 10 minutes a day, every morning. Wall calendar, marking each day I do my exercises.

Stronger, leaner, fitter, healthier. Been doing this for years. It accumulates over time.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: What do you wish existed? (October 2025)"

GoldenMonkey — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:21:09 +0000

a better dating app. a better job matching service.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: ML Engineers not negatively impacted by AI?"

GoldenMonkey — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:55:31 +0000

Even ML engineer jobs are hard to come by. Not sure how many job postings are real.

In my current experience, in applying to 300 jobs, I am qualified for. Leads to exactly 1 interview.

Very tough, unusual IT market.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: Are startups still using Ruby on Rails to start new products/projects?"

GoldenMonkey — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:17:28 +0000

Never seen ruby/rails at any company or startup. react seems to be the standard.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?"

GoldenMonkey — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:19:20 +0000

It is a very tough job market. I have been looking for 11 months myself with zero interviews. And 500+ applications to jobs I am qualified for.

The summary of your resume is very dense. Opening it felt like a wall of text, I wanted to immediately close.

Have chatgpt rewrite it.

Because of ATS resume systems, your resume may be getting screened out. After chatgpt has rewritten it.

Throw it into an ATS resume checker like https://www.jobscan.co to see how it is performing for ATS filters.

I particularly like https://simplify.jobs that can tailor your resume and autofill for applications. Will save a lot of time if you do not have this already.

Best of luck. It is extremely tough and unusual. Apply for jobs in your immediate city or a place you could relocate to, as a priority... as the remote ones are extremely competitive.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately"

GoldenMonkey — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:12:43 +0000

We all know this was a way for tech companies to keep wages down and replace local labor with cheaper labor.

Now instead of 500 applications for 1 interview. Maybe, jobs vs labor will return to a normal balance.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do"

GoldenMonkey — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:21:29 +0000

Avoid thinking of the pain of the task at hand. Imagine and focus on the reward of these tasks.

Lifting weights... imagine the stronger person you will become. Studying for that exam.. picture the career you aspire to. Avoiding that donut... imagine the healthier you.

Habit stacking helps to remind one of the task to do. To avoid the struggle of doing them, picture the desired outcome.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Is 42 too old"

GoldenMonkey — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:58:36 +0000

It is absolutely a brutal job market for all software developers. Never seen anything like the current market. Seems like there is an oversupply of H1B's and recent graduates.

If Stanford Computer Science graduates aren't landing jobs.

And even 'AI Engineer' roles are hard to come by. I'd be wary.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: Should we stop worrying that AI will replace developer jobs?"

GoldenMonkey — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:37:23 +0000

The demand will be for developers to be phenomenal debuggers of massive ai code bases.

Time to retire. Unless one enjoys debugging instead of coding.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: Recently laid off developer looking for solo product ideas"

GoldenMonkey — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:46:30 +0000

this site has many Micro SAAS ideas... could find some inspiration...

https://microsaashq.com

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the impact of AI on programming careers?"

GoldenMonkey — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:01:54 +0000

No kidding. There's a lot more to software development than mindless coding.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the impact of AI on programming careers?"

GoldenMonkey — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:00:45 +0000

If you want to stay as a software developer. Lean into AI. As per bill gates. Lean into AI Engineering. Develop the models. This will be an in demand skill for 100 years.

Get that AI Engineering master's degree. Learn the math, the statistics, the models.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/bill-gates-s...

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: Do you have a side project making more than $100 monthly?"

GoldenMonkey — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:34:34 +0000

crypto trading bot.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "U.S. nuclear base hidden under Greenland's ice for decades"

GoldenMonkey — Wed, 14 May 2025 16:37:00 +0000

A Different take. Greenland is strategic to the security of North America. And had been severely neglected by Denmark. Just like all Nato countries, not contributing financially to security as required.

This saber rattling had the desired effect and result. More military investment in Greenland. But, using other ppl's money... Denmark.

And in Canada's case with becoming a 51'st state... they too are now committed to meeting NATO $ obligations.

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: I don't want to work in software anymore. Where do I go?"

GoldenMonkey — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 04:15:37 +0000

Read the book - what color is your parachute.

It will help you figure out the type of career that will work for you.

In particular, knowing the ‘language’ that you speak… will help you find the right career path.

A language being… do you enjoy working with numbers, with people, outdoors… etc…

New comment by GoldenMonkey in "Ask HN: Ways from the EU to the USA"

GoldenMonkey — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:39:37 +0000

Really? Absolutely not the case. But, keep your head in the sand and read the slanted media.