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New comment by NickHirras in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

NickHirras — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:50:12 +0000

In settings, enable Turbo Mode, and Auto-Approve, it will run without stopping for approvals.

Seventy Minutes of Nothing: unplugging a coding agent from the cloud

NickHirras — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:44:02 +0000

Article URL: https://littletheta.com/field-notes/seventy-minutes-of-nothing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522679

Points: 1

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New comment by NickHirras in "Docker Hub Is Down"

NickHirras — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:10:41 +0000

I've been using Amazon ECR as an alternative source.

https://gallery.ecr.aws/

New comment by NickHirras in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

NickHirras — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:55:31 +0000

This is what's happened at my workplace. We account for time spent working on developing new products differently that development time maintaining legacy applications. Because they are reported for tax purposes differently.

New comment by NickHirras in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)"

NickHirras — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:23:28 +0000

WEX Inc, a global fintech company founded in 1983. We provide tech solutions in corporate payments, fleet management, travel industry, and healthcare. We have hundreds of current openings, both fully-remote as well as on-site. I've been with the company about 3 years. Competitive pay, excellent benefits, and a great work culture. Happy to answer any questions about my experiences.

https://wexinc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/WEXInc

https://www.wexinc.com/about/careers/

New comment by NickHirras in "Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card"

NickHirras — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:53:23 +0000

Section 6.5 discusses non-payment by client, and charge backs.

https://www.upwork.com/legal#clientpayments

I think just to preserve brands goodwill, Upwork should absorb the cost (which they have to this point), pursue legal action against the client, and not punish the freelancer.

I don't know the legality of withholding payments for future work due to the freelancer. I don't believe they have a right under the terms to do that, but I would not do any future work for free. That could be a breach of contract on Upwork's part, although haven't read through these terms enough to know that.

New comment by NickHirras in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)"

NickHirras — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 05:20:15 +0000

Site Reliability Engineer - REMOTE, FULL-TIME

https://wexinc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEXInc/job/Portla...

New comment by NickHirras in "Google Is Not God of the Web"

NickHirras — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:11:48 +0000

If you direct their web vitals tool to test itself (https://web.dev/vitals/), the report isn't great:

https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com//lh/html?ur...