Hacker News: aloukissas

The Flawed V02 Max Craze

aloukissas — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:38:59 +0000

Article URL: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-flawed-v02-max-craze

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140010

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Effects of Zepbound on Stool Quality

aloukissas — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 04:31:20 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ScottHickle/status/2020150085296775300

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931340

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Software Factory Ran Autonomously for 15h, 2x Speed Up on TPC-H, ASAN-Verified

aloukissas — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:17:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.deeplake.ai/blog/coding-agent-15h

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864394

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Explain Plan Visualizer

aloukissas — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:00:16 +0000

Article URL: https://explain.datadoghq.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817312

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by aloukissas in "Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp"

aloukissas — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:45:31 +0000

I love how Meta will do anything but prevent phishing and prepaid credit card scams in Whatsapp/Messenger

New comment by aloukissas in "How I estimate work"

aloukissas — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:08:19 +0000

I love this - it's very similar to what the book Shape Up (https://basecamp.com/shapeup) calls "appetite". I've been using this method even before I came to read this book for years, it works great! Estimates otoh, really don't.

S3 processes over 100M reqs/sec with strong consistency

aloukissas — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:03:09 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/MarcJBrooker/status/2008670722613539292

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529966

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Scientists think they found two key bacteria that cause multiple sclerosis

aloukissas — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:40:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-think-they-found-two-key-bacteria-that-cause-multiple-sclerosis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518362

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Spurious Correlations

aloukissas — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:45:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45697809

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society

aloukissas — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:01:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/02/americans-increasingly-see-legal-sports-betting-as-a-bad-thing-for-society-and-sports/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45478749

Points: 555

# Comments: 490

New comment by aloukissas in "Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work?"

aloukissas — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 07:40:47 +0000

Similarly, my father had a delicate CV issue recently (he's fine now!). We were only able to do the best research on risks, best approaches, etc with the help of LLM deep research. We would be mostly flying blind-trusting the first doctor we talked to.

New comment by aloukissas in "Go is still not good"

aloukissas — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:57:23 +0000

I also sing "Fade to Black" when I have to write go :D

New comment by aloukissas in "Go is still not good"

aloukissas — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:52:21 +0000

Elixir, with types

Inside TSMC, the $1 Trillion Ghost Foundry Behind Nvidia's Crown

aloukissas — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:45:38 +0000

Article URL: https://howardyu.substack.com/p/inside-tsmc-the-1-trillion-ghost

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44749345

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aloukissas in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)"

aloukissas — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:04:34 +0000

Topps.com (Fanatics) | Senior Engineering Manager | ONSITE (Los Angeles) | Full-time

We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale the engineering team behind Topps.com (https://topps.com), our global e-commerce platform built on Shopify. This high-impact role focuses on maintaining platform reliability, accelerating innovation, and delivering outstanding customer experiences to collectors worldwide.

[Key Responsibilities]

  - Site Reliability: Ensure 24/7 uptime, performance, and scalability of Topps.com for global users.
  - Product & Engineering Innovation: Lead the development of high-quality features with speed and rigor. Guide technical strategy, ensure system security and compliance, and champion engineering best practices.
  - Team Leadership: Manage and grow engineers and engineering managers. Foster a culture of accountability, mentorship, and rapid iteration. Use data to guide decision-making and continuous improvement.
  - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Align closely with product, design, operations, marketing, customer support, and external platform partners to drive business impact and streamline execution.
  - Strategic Roadmapping: Translate business needs into a long-term technical roadmap. Balance near-term priorities with future-facing innovation.
  - Platform Ownership: Own the technical health of our Shopify architecture and identify areas for optimization, extensibility, and performance improvements.

Link to JD: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4226041025/

New comment by aloukissas in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)"

aloukissas — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:52:44 +0000

We're building the best experiences for collectors.

Hiring for Staff+ level roles across frontend, backend, and DevOps in our LA office:

1. Staff Frontend Engineer: https://fa-exki-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Can...

2. Staff Backend Engineer: https://fa-exki-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Can...

3. Staff DevOps Engineer: https://fa-exki-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Can...

New comment by aloukissas in "Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation"

aloukissas — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:34:41 +0000

What does real-time mean here? Would it work e.g. in a live stream?

Robinhood to Offer Super Bowl Betting via Kalshi

aloukissas — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:00:16 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mansourtarek_/status/1886404890353627362

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920935

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025

aloukissas — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:56:14 +0000

Article URL: https://genai.owasp.org/resource/owasp-top-10-for-llm-applications-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731970

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aloukissas in "Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS"

aloukissas — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:52:09 +0000

This is fantastic! Interestingly, I was one of the early engineers at Maginatics [1], a company that built exactly this in 2011 - and Netflix was one of our earliest beta customers. We strived to be both SMB3 and POSIX compatible, but leaning into SMB3 semantics. We had some pretty great optimizations that gave almost local disk performance (e.g. using file and directory leases [2], async metadata ops, data and metadata caching, etc). EFS was just coming out at that point (Azure I think also had something similar in the works).

I'll be looking closely in what you're building!

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/welcoming-spanning-maginatic...

[2] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/maginatics-sdcdwl/39257...