Hacker News: alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aleffertHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:24:12 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by aleffert in "LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo"]]>Caecilius who, spoiler for a decades old Latin textbook, dies when Vesuvius erupts, is from the Cambridge Latin Course. The dog, who survives, is in fact named Cerberus.

]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:26:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838210alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838210https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838210<![CDATA[Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808454

Points: 175

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]]>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:32:23 +0000https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdfalefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808454https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808454<![CDATA[Evaluating OpenAI’s Whisper on Community Conversations]]>Article URL: https://cortico.ai/news/insights/evaluating-openai-s-whisper-on-community-conversations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341271

Points: 2

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]]>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:47:05 +0000https://cortico.ai/news/insights/evaluating-openai-s-whisper-on-community-conversations/alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341271https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341271<![CDATA[New comment by aleffert in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)"]]>Cortico | Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote | https://cortico.ai

Cortico is a non-profit focused on raising up under-heard voices and fostering deep conversations. We don't believe we can solve these problems with technology, but we think technology can help. We work with our partners to help them understand their communities through small group conversations. We support this with a web platform and NLP tools and we're in the process of building out a mobile app.

Our stack is python, typescript, react, react native, and kubernetes on AWS.

* Backend-focused Engineer https://cortico.ai/careers/backend-engineer/

]]>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:10:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427524alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427524https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35427524<![CDATA[New comment by aleffert in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"]]>Cortico | Software Engineers, Product | Full-time | Remote | https://cortico.ai

Cortico is a non-profit focused on raising up under-heard voices and fostering deep conversations. We don't believe we can solve these problems with technology, but we think technology can help. We work with our partners to help them understand their communities through small group conversations. We support this with a web platform and NLP tools and we're in the process of building out a mobile app.

Our stack is python, typescript, react, react native, and kubernetes on AWS.

* Frontend-focused Engineer https://cortico.ai/careers/frontend-engineer/ * Backend-focused Engineer https://cortico.ai/careers/backend-engineer/ * Product Manager https://cortico.ai/careers/product-manager/ * Product Design Lead https://cortico.ai/careers/product-design-lead/

]]>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 03:46:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34991733alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34991733https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34991733<![CDATA[New comment by aleffert in "I saw a cool truck today"]]>This really has nothing to do with broken windows or probably even approaches to crime at all. Crime went down for thirty years basically everywhere. Now it is going up basically everywhere. Hard to point at a specific policy when it’s so universal across locales

]]>Mon, 09 May 2022 14:51:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31314764alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31314764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31314764<![CDATA[New comment by aleffert in "Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)"]]>Wean is large and horrible, but 1. I can't find any evidence that it was ever the largest and that never came up when I was a student (I did hear it won awards). 2. Philosophy is in the Humanities department which is in different buildings.

]]>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:29:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30278058alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30278058https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30278058<![CDATA[New comment by aleffert in "Burn My Windows"]]>A while back I made a goofy app called Appstagram that applied Instagram-like filters to the windows of your desktop applications (https://github.com/aleffert/appstagram), but Apple continually made it more difficult to inject code into every process (even after having been granted permissions by the user) and I eventually gave up.

]]>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:16:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800648alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800648https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29800648<![CDATA[Add Oracle Types for TypeScript]]>Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/43480

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661089

Points: 6

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]]>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:44:54 +0000https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/43480alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661089https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661089<![CDATA[New comment by aleffert in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)"]]>Segovia | New York (NYC) or REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.thesegovia.com/ Segovia is a small mission oriented company focused on simplifying payments to Africa. Customers include charities that want to transfer cash directly to people in Africa as well as small businesses that maintain workforces across developed and developing world and remittance apps. We use: Kotlin, Java, Axon Framework, PostgreSQL, React, Puppeteer, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Ansible

https://thesegovia.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hqg5/

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 23:19:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479692alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479692https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22479692<![CDATA[Dials – A pluggable desktop app for controlling your iOS app]]>Article URL: https://github.com/aleffert/dials

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531101

Points: 1

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]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 02:39:30 +0000https://github.com/aleffert/dialsalefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531101<![CDATA[New comment by aleffert in "Show HN: Shrink, a free menu bar app for your GitHub issues"]]>I wrote a Github menu bar app for pull requests. Code is here: https://github.com/aleffert/PullRequestMenu

]]>Fri, 15 May 2015 13:43:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9550466alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9550466https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9550466<![CDATA[Static Analysis for Objective-C with OCLint]]>Article URL: http://codeascraft.com/2014/01/15/static-analysis-with-oclint/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7077217

Points: 2

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]]>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:49:22 +0000http://codeascraft.com/2014/01/15/static-analysis-with-oclint/alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7077217https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7077217<![CDATA[Appstagram: Filters for your desktop apps]]>Article URL: http://ognid.com/appstagram/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4014964

Points: 2

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]]>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:50:44 +0000http://ognid.com/appstagram/alefferthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4014964https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4014964