Hacker News: autotune

New comment by autotune in "Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to"

autotune — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:04:05 +0000

UTM is another great example of this, which is basically a GUI for QEMU. They have a Mac App store $9.99 version and the free open source version:

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

New comment by autotune in "The senior engineer death spiral"

autotune — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:23:18 +0000

It is hard to take almost any mentorship program seriously that is not a formal university education, and even then, at most universities they do not teach skills that are directly applicable at companies given they are not intended to directly be job training programs. Not that I am on any hiring committee currently, but if I was, I would rather see a candidate with a degree and open source project contributions than App Academy dreck, for example.

Sharks are not the nemesis of the internet

autotune — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:46:22 +0000

Article URL: https://iscpc.org/documents/?id=1959

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777500

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

autotune — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:24:32 +0000

I love the JIRA integration. I built something similar but it's more of a toy project compared to yours: https://github.com/elliotechne/SOC2.

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

autotune — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:21:27 +0000

Contributing larger PRs to terraform-provider-aws because apparently my contributions so far do not have enough lines of code as a metric. Getting familiar with Floci for usage with Terraform over LocalStack since it is a true open source project rather than freemium. Also getting my AAS from Maestro. Ride or die since I can not afford college anywhere else despite their current accreditation issues with COE.

New comment by autotune in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

autotune — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:05:23 +0000

I lost access to my Revolut account a while back and recovery did not work after losing access to my primary email address and MFA. They also removed the ability to deposit checks on their mobile app. For these reasons I can not treat it like a real bank anymore as much as I love their 4% APY savings account rate. Unlike gmail, which had recovery options with a secondary email address. They could have implemented something similar.

New comment by autotune in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"

autotune — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:05:09 +0000

Their web app functions perfectly as a replacement, however.

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

autotune — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:35:58 +0000

Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/elliotechne

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

autotune — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:03:35 +0000

Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/autotune

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

autotune — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:26:29 +0000

Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/autotune

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

autotune — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:11:54 +0000

Role looks super interesting and would love to work for Space tech, even though I have no specific experience in the domain.

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)"

autotune — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:31:33 +0000

I want to get fired from my job search. We'll have to see if SSDI (been about 6 months since applying) or a job opportunity comes through first.

New comment by autotune in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

autotune — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:24:23 +0000

Books have been replaced by DVDs at my library. I spent almost all my time at a book store for a year in Austin and can count the number of active readers I saw in there on one hand. It's depressing.

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

autotune — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:54:48 +0000

CloudFormation and ECS are bright yellow flags for me. I'd be interested in knowing why you went with this proprietary tooling vs the open source Terraform and Kubernetes/EKS alternatives. Also, is paid relocation available if I wanted to relocate to NYC? Currently in Charleston, SC.

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

autotune — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:35:57 +0000

Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/autotune

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

autotune — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:53:06 +0000

Location: Charleston, South Carolina.

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/elliotechne

New comment by autotune in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

autotune — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:38:38 +0000

That sounds absolutely terrifying.

New comment by autotune in "So where are all the AI apps?"

autotune — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:04:36 +0000

Specifically because it generates Terraform code along with the diagrams, but I guess it's not the selling point that I thought it would be.

New comment by autotune in "So where are all the AI apps?"

autotune — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:28:40 +0000

I launched a draw.io competitor to the point that it is in production, but there is little activity on the site as far as signups are concerned. Doesn't deliver enough business value.

New comment by autotune in "Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance"

autotune — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:25:50 +0000

Q+a interview talking about past experience on the resume and quiz format of various technologies. The quiz format gets on my nerves, but not as much as leetcode and live coding rounds.