Hacker News: alexgotoi

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

alexgotoi — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:22:20 +0000

Still working on AI Hacker Newsletter, a weekly newsletter on top of Hacker News, with the most upvoted and discussed links. Currently at 1150 subscribers, started in November 2025. Growth is slow, but my goal is to reach 2000 at the 1-year anniversary mark, so let's see where this goes.

Steady 40-45% open rates (probably normal for such a small and growing newsletter), click rates at 7-8%.

Latest issues just sent today: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=d152ed72-85da-11f1-b364-7d...

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

alexgotoi — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:55:11 +0000

I don’t think HN crowd is against AI, this crowd is just more pragmatic than others. They challenge things - in a constructive way most of the times - but this does not mean an anti movement.

I run an AI newsletter on top of HN, I have seen the sentiment from the grass level: I think there is an inflation of Show HN vibecoded products that annoy a lot of people here, but other than that, I think it just pragmatism what comes up.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people"

alexgotoi — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:04:54 +0000

In 1780, once horse power was way more expensive than a real horse. At least, that’s what my intuition data suggests.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 21)"

alexgotoi — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:20:12 +0000

Still sending the weekly AI Hacker Newsletter, a roundup of the best AI links from Hacker News. Is not growing as fast as I hope, I just sent issue #33 to 1057 subscribers.

I believe that newsletter remain the best way of consuming content and will continue to be like this for a long time.

Link to the lastest issue: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=b1c3ff5c-551d-11f1-93cc-49...

You can subscribe here: https://hnxai.eo.page/9h7q4

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

alexgotoi — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:05:45 +0000

You we’re already a “warm” candidate.

Because in the last year you responded to Linkedin messages from Recruiters, this boosted your visibility in other recruiters’ searches.

That’s something I think every working person should do: if they get outreach from recruiters, respond to all messages. Maybe even jump on a call/interview.

New comment by alexgotoi in "Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from?"

alexgotoi — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:59:59 +0000

I run a newsletter on top of Hacker News - basically I make a round up of the best 35-50 links from HN and sent it in a weekly email.

Not always the latest news, since there is a delay between when articles/news are posted here and when I send the email, but for those who don’t have time to stay on HN everyday, might be good.

Here is the latest issue: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=0fa89b02-4478-11f1-a1da-23...

New comment by alexgotoi in "LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models"

alexgotoi — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:50:56 +0000

I was about to write the same thing…

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

# Comments: 3

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...