Hacker News: alexgotoi

New comment by alexgotoi in "Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees"

alexgotoi — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:14:49 +0000

This is the worst flex ever, its like going in a vacation and posting about how expensive the flight ticket was.

New comment by alexgotoi in "[dead]"

alexgotoi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:23:17 +0000

This newsletter issue marks the 6 months milestone of this newsletter - hard to believe I kept being consintent with sending it.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: What Happened to HTTPS://Www.keyvalues.com/?"

alexgotoi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:41:33 +0000

Thanks! Looked her up, found the archieve of email newsletters of Key Values and it seems that she stopped the site in 2024: https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=2f12805812a2c078784bbfe...

Too bad, it was a nice product.

Ask HN: What Happened to HTTPS://Www.keyvalues.com/?

alexgotoi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:45:35 +0000

Does anyone know what happened to https://www.keyvalues.com/? It was a nice project to inspect values of some startups, it had some traction, does anyone know why it’s not around anymore?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198798

Points: 4

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SAP's New Bonus System Rewarded Underperforming Bosses

alexgotoi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:26:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/sap-s-new-bonus-system-ended-up-rewarding-underperforming-bosses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190828

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexgotoi in "The future of software engineering is SRE"

alexgotoi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:36:14 +0000

There were several cheaper than programmers options to automate things, Robot Processing Automation being probably the most known, but it never get the expected traction.

Why (imo)? Senior leaders still like to say: I run a 500 headcount finance EMEA organization for Siemens, I am the Chief People Officer of Meta anf I lead an org of 1000 smart HR pros. Most of their status is still tight to the org headcount.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell"

alexgotoi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:16:16 +0000

The jobs come about 70% from the feeds with the paying parters. I pull about 20k jobs their feed, then run my script to select about 100 relevant jobs. The other 30% I get them manually from Linkedin, Indeed, etc. I have alerts on all big sites with some deep filtering.

It took about 2 months to get a constant 100/day average visits, but I had ~5000 connections on Linkedin in the HR space (I work in HR Tech). I also got to 2000 newsletter subs in about 2 months.

My advantage was that I was already active in the HR community, I would need another “me” to build in more industries.

AI isn't "just predicting the next word" anymore

alexgotoi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://stevenadler.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-just-predicting-the-next

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538213

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell"

alexgotoi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:59:55 +0000

Just subscribed to the shepherd - the Book DNA is pretty cool, it either recommended books that I’ve read or I have on my to read list. What I can’t figure out is how I highlight a book for to be read? Do I need to purchase a membership before being able to do this?

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell"

alexgotoi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:46:45 +0000

Most of them have out of the box partnerships models. Basically they give me a big xml of jobs, esch job has a price (cpc) specified, and I select the ones applicable to my site (remote). The usual suspects in this space are Adzuna, Jooble, Joblookup, etc.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell"

alexgotoi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:39:37 +0000

I’ve been running a job board for remote Human Resources roles since 2019. In 2022 I started generating some revenue by referring traffic to large job aggregators on a cost per click model. I still do everything manually from curating the jobs to daily uploads but it has become a good routine for me. You can see it here: https://www.hrjobsremote.com/ It now grosses around 1,000$ per month on average. Money left after taxes and fixed costs (~650$) I put in a all world index for retirement.

Recently I also started a newsletter built on top of Hacker News that curates a weekly roundup of AI links and the discussions around them. I am not sure whether it will be monetized at some point but that is how I started the job board too. It is a side project to keep me occupied during evenings and weekends. The latest issue is here if you are interested: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=df548fb0-e8b0-11f0-97f9-35...

New comment by alexgotoi in "Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management"

alexgotoi — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:19:51 +0000

This looks great and I see it’s potential, but only for startups and 1-2 layers of management. I can’t imagine a scenario where a VP would make a direct request to a dev in a corporation.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: Are you missing daily email alerts from HN?"

alexgotoi — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:12:41 +0000

You might be talking about this daily newsletter? https://buttondown.com/tech-daily

This is run by the same person who runs https://hackernewsletter.com/, but just checked my email and got today’s issue and the last one was on 2nd of Jan (sent only on week days).

Shameless plugin: I also run a hacker news curated links newsletter, focused on AI threads. If interested, here is the latest issue: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=df548fb0-e8b0-11f0-97f9-35...

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: How is your work making the world a better place?"

alexgotoi — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:00:23 +0000

The hard part I think it’s attracting users. The jobs section is nice to have, but the users come mostly for the news section, I guess?! i know that’s why I am there. Investing in filtering it’s worth when you have a big list of sort to filter.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: How is your work making the world a better place?"

alexgotoi — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:30:26 +0000

Love this project - just registered. I will bookmark and try to be active - we need this in Europe: we have both startups, companies, innovation and awesome people, but we don’t have such an outlet to share these things. Keep up the good work!

New comment by alexgotoi in "Take One Small Step"

alexgotoi — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:24:47 +0000

This reminded me of James Clear’s: do one pushup. I think all good books about habits are build around this idea, of small tasks that can be sustained, but somehow our brains are still smarter and still find ways to move away.

Prompt for Nassim Taleb's Black Swan Risk and Antifragility Framework

alexgotoi — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:57:25 +0000

Article URL: https://tools.eq4c.com/persona-prompts/chatgpt-prompt-for-nassim-talebs-black-swan-risk-antifragility-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345269

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alexgotoi in "Skills Officially Comes to Codex"

alexgotoi — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:13:08 +0000

At any HR conference you go, there are two overused words: AI and Skills.

As of this week, this also applies to Hacker News.

New comment by alexgotoi in "What makes you senior"

alexgotoi — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:49:12 +0000

> this isn’t talent, but practice

This. Totally agree. Seniority level it’s based on the volume of practice someone has. Period.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

alexgotoi — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:18:28 +0000

> * The fundamental challenge in AI for the next 20 years is avoiding extinction.

This reminded me of the Don’t look up movie where they basically gambled with the humans extinction.