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New comment by KernelPryanic in "Are tech companies even hiring?"

KernelPryanic — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:40:55 +0000

Quality of generated code is honestly trash, Claude can build you a thing that will work somehow, but under the hood is unmaintainable, entangled, dirty, full of workarounds code :) You need to spend a lot of time controlling every its move to achieve decent code quality.

New comment by KernelPryanic in "Are tech companies even hiring?"

KernelPryanic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:23:37 +0000

Hmm, interesting, maybe I should look into the UK market then... Because I often see open positions in the UK segment on the company job boards, just didn't know if it's mostly fake ones as in NL and FR.

New comment by KernelPryanic in "Are tech companies even hiring?"

KernelPryanic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:42:03 +0000

Yes, I have such thoughts. I'm building something constantly, have a history of attempting different projects, some of them got into startups fueled purely by passion and lasted for years, but didn't attract investments. Currently I'm working on MASS - Modular AI Scheduling System, basically it's a scheduler and package manager for AI-native applications/services. As I see a huge part of future AI as dedicated small fine-tuned models, local to user and on-site programs and services. But it's another story :)

New comment by KernelPryanic in "Are tech companies even hiring?"

KernelPryanic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:39:42 +0000

Yeah, by all signs this is how hiring works (or actually doesn't work) right now. I have info from Datadog (France) that they don't hire anybody right now despite lots of openings on their career board. And yeah, originally I'm from Russia, though in EU for almost 8 years by now...

Are tech companies even hiring?

KernelPryanic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:13:27 +0000

I'm Backend / DevOps engineer with 12 years of official professional experience. Have been looking for a job for about half a year. Went through about 15-20 interviews, passed ALL technical ones. But in the end I hear almost the same things all the time: "we really liked your technical expertise, but there was no personal fit with the team", "we appreciate deep knowledge you have, but decided to proceed with another candidate", etc. Are tech companies even hiring right now or most of them have just dummy openings for internal procedures/investor reports? Anybody with the same/different experience? P.S. I'm based in the Netherlands, picture in France looks the same.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601190

Points: 21

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Why Opus is worse at extracting symbols from images than 8B model?

KernelPryanic — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7o2tq/why_opus_is_worse_at_extracting_symbols_from/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573059

Points: 3

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New comment by KernelPryanic in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

KernelPryanic — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:01:58 +0000

I’ve been taking them when I was in hell, for abotut half a year, you know what? I think they didn’t help me a bit. But Mirtazapine did.

Semantic job search and application tracking platform, built in the EU

KernelPryanic — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:32:40 +0000

Article URL: https://jsa.works/auth/login

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793557

Points: 4

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Show HN: Spent 2.5 years building better job search (now using it to find a job)

KernelPryanic — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:35:43 +0000

Hello HN! After 2.5 years of development, I'm sharing Job Search Assistant (https://jsa.works) - even though I still don't feel quite ready. It's an open alpha of a job search platform that actually matches positions to your resume properly.

The problem: Major platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. have terrible search despite huge resources. Search for "senior backend engineer" and you'll get frontend internships in the top results. They optimize for engagement, not relevance.

My solution: JSA uses LLMs for resume/job parsing and semantic vector search for matching. Upload your resume, set filters, get jobs that actually fit your profile. Clean interface, no noise. Only fresh jobs (15-day retention) to avoid stale listings for now. Freemium model - essential search/filters are free with reasonable limits, paid tier adds kanban-style application tracking.

Tech stack: ~78k lines of Go backend organized as microservices (scraper, indexer, searcher, etc.) communicating via NATS. Qdrant for vector search, PostgreSQL for relational data. HTMX frontend (shoutout to my friend @romshark who introduced me to HTMX - I'm not a frontend expert, so this is where AI agents helped to finish it). Scraping with go-rod. Self-hosted on a mini-PC in my utility room with scrapers running on Raspberry Pi - no cloud, just bare metal. Only SSO via Google/Microsoft for now.

The scraping challenge: Modern job boards have sophisticated anti-bot measures. I built a simple deterministic fingerprint generator (https://github.com/chinese-room-solutions/fakebro) using Wave Function Collapse-like generation to create coherent browser profiles from a seed - matching user agents, Client Hints, and WebGL renderers that correspond to real hardware. The platform scraper rotates Chrome versions with unique fingerprints and handles Cloudflare challenges.

Current status: Amsterdam and Paris only (data collection is expensive). If there's demand, I'll expand to EU and beyond. I'm using it myself right now to job hunt in those cities.

Open alpha means bugs are expected, but I'm actively improving stability. The codebase is mostly pre-2025 human-written code, though AI agents helped me push through to completion in late 2025 after I went through the literal hell, mentally, and managed to stay alive and almost recover by the end the year.

Fun story: Google suspended the project's GCP account citing "policy violations" with zero details or successful appeals, so I'm running Google SSO from my personal account for now. Classic cloud provider experience these days.

Would love feedback, especially from folks in Amsterdam/Paris who could use this!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647465

Points: 8

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New comment by KernelPryanic in "Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?"

KernelPryanic — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:05:23 +0000

Agree. Few years ago I asked my employer to change Mac for something else and I got the 7th gen (Intel 8th gen processor) X1 Carbon, I fall in love and now I bought the latest 10th gen model (Intel 12th gen) and I very much like it. Super light and silent, great keyboard and also I like the touchpad on the latest model, it become even better. Build quality is the best, hinges are balanced very well that when you shake the laptop screen doesn’t move a bit but you can still open it with one hand. From the cons - it’s hot comparing to the 7th gen and also the battery life is slightly lower.

New comment by KernelPryanic in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

KernelPryanic — Wed, 18 May 2022 07:19:00 +0000

Yes, yes, yes!

New comment by KernelPryanic in "Ask HN: Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?"

KernelPryanic — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:08:25 +0000

Ofcourse no, why do you even think this way? If the job burned you out in a couple of months you shouldn’t even questioning it.

New comment by KernelPryanic in "EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones"

KernelPryanic — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:57:09 +0000

That’s a good move

New comment by KernelPryanic in "Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful"

KernelPryanic — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 14:12:59 +0000

Just quit and don’t torture yourself