Hacker News: 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Books have been replaced by DVDs at my library.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.

New comment by autotune in "Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance with an LLM in 7 days"

autotune — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:47:35 +0000

Interesting. I am going for a broad search rather than being targeted. Maybe it's as you say, an industry specific problem. At my last fintech job they just quizzed me a bit on Terraform and asked me about experience, though that role ended up being a disaster later on.

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

autotune — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:11:25 +0000

They don't, at least in the SRE space. I have been interviewing for 6 months without a single coding challenge or LeetCode-type challenge. Though I would passively avoid companies that offer them, as in I would avoid them if offered, I have yet to be offered the chance to avoid it in an interview.

New comment by autotune in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

autotune — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:32:17 +0000

Definitely this. I like seeing issues reasonably populated with OSS projects. Otherwise, how am I supposed to contribute back to it? Granted it's a newer project so I will be keeping track in the future.

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

autotune — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:01:42 +0000

https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/1805

Love learning about crossplane and diving into its internals, so I am working on fixing issues it has on its "issues" page in GitHub.

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

autotune — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:56:23 +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 "Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026"

autotune — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:50:02 +0000

Not a fan of their curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh - installation method. Kind, on the other hand, has multiple installation methods, including via wget for their binary: https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#installing-f....

New comment by autotune in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

autotune — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:53:10 +0000

You open to adding a new mentee to the mix? I have 10 years of XP and looking to grow doing DevOps work.

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

autotune — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:58:51 +0000

Location: Charleston, South Carolina.

Remote: Preferred.

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

Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir, github.com/elliotechne

Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com

New comment by autotune in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

autotune — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:09:00 +0000

LE has some gnarly rate limiting rules, so I use ZeroSSL. Works out great for my purposes.

New comment by autotune in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

autotune — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:36:00 +0000

https://github.com/elliotechne/soc2 is a SOC2 compliance checker using checkov and Terraform. Using it with https://github.com/elliotechne/tfvisualizer.