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Ask HN: What do your job interviews look like?

Hixon10 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:43:53 +0000

For those who have recently (Summer 2026) gone through software engineering job interviews, have you noticed any changes in the interview process?

Is it still the usual Leetcode, system design, behavioral and leadership questions, and maybe technology specific questions (e.g., Spring for Java devs, borrow checker details for Rust devs, etc.)?

Or have you noticed something completely different because of the AI agentic era, with companies taking a fundamentally different approach to interviewing engineers? If so, could you share some of the more unique or unusual things you've seen?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505033

Points: 25

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New comment by Hixon10 in ".NET 11 Preview 7 is now available"

Hixon10 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:09:20 +0000

Runtime async/await is getting better. New progress on CoreCLR for WebAssembly.

.NET 11 Preview 7 is now available

Hixon10 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:09:20 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-11-preview-7/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340285

Points: 1

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New comment by Hixon10 in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

Hixon10 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:36:31 +0000

Some examples for the upcoming release https://go.dev/doc/go1.27

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

Hixon10 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:35:51 +0000

Article URL: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218

Points: 370

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New comment by Hixon10 in "Silk: A silky smooth fiber runtime for ClickHouse"

Hixon10 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:25:08 +0000

Yeah, Recently Alexey Milovidov said that they might start using Rust in some parts, but clearly it felt that he prefers C++ - https://youtu.be/PW_jmFwYy5U?si=Y-mM4sjaHBLm96gz

Silk: A silky smooth fiber runtime for ClickHouse

Hixon10 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:24:46 +0000

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/silk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683023

Points: 5

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YaFF – High-performance C++ serialization library

Hixon10 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:25:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/yandex/yaff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580789

Points: 1

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New comment by Hixon10 in "Discover container machines – WWDC26 – Videos Developer"

Hixon10 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:28:11 +0000

It is interesting, that both non-Linux OS build similar solutions. Microsoft showed https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-container last week.

Ask HN: How do you use Local LLMs? (April 2026)

Hixon10 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:27:19 +0000

Recently, we've gotten a few new local LLMs (Gemma 4, Qwen 3.6).

I'm curious, what use cases do you have for local LLMs (beyond the obvious ones, like replacing Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude for coding tasks due to privacy, cost, or other reasons)?

If possible, please describe your setup (software, hardware, model, and use case) so people can replicate it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816187

Points: 3

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New comment by Hixon10 in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

Hixon10 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:53:47 +0000

It sounds super cool, your idea and implementation for await and transactions. Because of my limited Rust knowledge, it's hard for me to understand how difficult it was to implement such a plugin.

Also, your idea of using different domain specific colors is interesting. It might be possible to express this via some kind of effect system. I'm not aware of any popular Rust libraries for that, but it could be worth borrowing some ideas from Scala libraries.

Ask HN: What high-effort, high-reward skills have you developed in 2025?

Hixon10 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:00:36 +0000

It would be interesting to hear what current tech skills have a steep learning curve but pay off a lot afterward.

Some examples (not sure they're the best ones, but just to illustrate):

1. Vim motions

2. Rust

3. Jujutsu (as an alternative to Git)

4. Formal methods in software engineering (Alloy, TLA+)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46227143

Points: 3

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New comment by Hixon10 in "I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency"

Hixon10 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 23:22:40 +0000

I see, thanks! I don't have much experience in Rust, aside from some pet projects. Which features of Rust's type system are needed to implement such behavior? (It's unclear to me why I wouldn't be able to do the same in, for example, C++.)

New comment by Hixon10 in "I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency"

Hixon10 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:45:09 +0000

"Zero-Copy In-Memory Cache Abstraction: Leveraging Rust's robust type system, the in-memory cache in foyer achieves a better performance with zero-copy abstraction." - what does this actually mean in practice?

Google is replacing Assistant with Gemini

Hixon10 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 23:15:02 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-assistant-gemini-mobile/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375796

Points: 7

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New comment by Hixon10 in "Go 1.24 Is Released"

Hixon10 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:15:45 +0000

Yeah, I like your examples. In such scenarios, it makes sense when we're just trying to protect against our own bugs rather than a user deliberately sending a path that leads to the password.txt file.

New comment by Hixon10 in "Go 1.24 Is Released"

Hixon10 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:05:19 +0000

> Why would it use `chroot`?

I am not sure, is this custom Os.Root implementation good enough to relay on it? I see that it is based on openat, and validation of paths/symlinks. But should we expect CVEs, which will break this protection layer?

New comment by Hixon10 in "Go 1.24 Is Released"

Hixon10 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:46:25 +0000

What would be an use case for `os.Root`? Based on my understanding ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/67002 ), it is related to security. However, under the hood, it doesn't use `Chroot`, so I could imagine, that eventually someone finds a way to escape from the Root.

Go 1.24 Release Notes

Hixon10 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:43:11 +0000

Article URL: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022559

Points: 4

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Perforator is a modern eBPF profiling tool

Hixon10 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 07:16:39 +0000

Article URL: https://perforator.tech/docs/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42896487

Points: 2

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