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New comment by baristaGeek in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026)"

baristaGeek — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:54:56 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Colombia (US Timezones) | Remote or Hybrid in Colombia (can fly to the US or elsewhere for offsites)

Email: estebanvargas94@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tebanvargas/

Technologies & Skills: Software Engineering, React, Node, TypeScript, AI Engineering, System Design, AWS, Leadership.

I'm looking for a full-stack engineering role. I can be either be a pure IC or a tech lead. The main thing that I'm optimizing for is for solving the problems that I want to solve.

9+ years of experience in the industry, the past 4 in tech lead roles. I have mostly worked for US SaaS companies, and have also been a founder in the past (backed by Techstars).

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d0-tqGvQdwnN0sXtFfUW6qdE3l9...

New comment by baristaGeek in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

baristaGeek — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:21:53 +0000

Ok I actually like the idea of flatter orgs and player-coaches a lot.

However, do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that as a lot of companies, this company over-hired during ZIRP? Do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that the crypto hype is gone, therefore their business is smaller? “Company as intelligence” and “AI productivity” are just buzzwords so their stock price doesn’t suffer.

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:35:26 +0000

Interesting perspective

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:41:12 +0000

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:41:05 +0000

Staying pretty much the same, at least with the current state of technology (just way more bottlenecked by this, but with the same process). What have you seen?

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:40:40 +0000

Agree! I'm not saying that people are ditching all of Agile, just certain parts of Agile. Let's call it Agile 2.0 or something completely different

New comment by baristaGeek in "Agile Is Dying"

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:39:55 +0000

Could be the case! Without being to strict on the terminology I just wanted to give a clear message: Our planning processes and time range expectations are changing completely

Agile Is Dying

baristaGeek — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:55:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/helloteban/status/2045244584880451748

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810459

Points: 4

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Post-AI Boom Predictions

baristaGeek — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:27:33 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@baristaGeek/post-ai-boom-predictions-e2ef499e12c1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767750

Points: 3

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Show HN: A game to teach teenagers coding in the age of AI

baristaGeek — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:09:10 +0000

I built this mini-game (only 1 level) to teach kids how to code in the age of AI.

It teaches them basic syntax, prompting, system design, and CLI usage. I thought it would be cool to build something that doesn't focus on syntax only given how much this has changed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494446

Points: 2

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Show HN: Weekly Updates – Multiplayer productivity with monthly leaderboards

baristaGeek — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:23:11 +0000

I built this arcade-style productivity mini-game to help me push myself to meet my personal goals by having mutual accountability with other people.

You post your weekly update. Every monday you and other people vote on each other's update, then the leaderboard is recalculated and if you did good progress you climb up the leaderboard.

You can optionally ask for and/or provide advice/feedback when voting other people's updates as well.

Lmk what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425497

Points: 2

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Show HN: Personal Standup

baristaGeek — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:04:36 +0000

Companies do standups. People say what they did last week, and they’ll do the next one. I thought there should be a personal version of this. Keeping you accountable with other people pushes you to progress. Send your weekly update, vote on other people’s update, and climb up on the leaderboard.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289957

Points: 2

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New comment by baristaGeek in "Show HN: I built a live race between LLMs to see which generates tokens fastest"

baristaGeek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:29:18 +0000

I built this because I just thought it would be cool to show which LLMs respond faster (between GTP-4o mini, Claude 3 Haiku, and Gemini 2.5 Flash) and show some metrics (TTFT, avg tok/s, total time, and nTokens)

Show HN: I built a live race between LLMs to see which generates tokens fastest

baristaGeek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:13:56 +0000

Article URL: https://llm-racing.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249649

Points: 1

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New comment by baristaGeek in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

baristaGeek — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:45:52 +0000

Are you open to UTC -5?

Show HN: Open-Source Postman for MCP

baristaGeek — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/baristaGeek/open-source-postman-for-mcp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225882

Points: 6

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New comment by baristaGeek in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

baristaGeek — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:03:31 +0000

This very interesting blog post got me thinking how English would look like in 2100 or 2200 driven by the changes of the internet and AI. Spelling matters less so alphabet gets reduced? Simpler grammar as it gets more spoken worldwide? Emojis as punctuation?

window unseal nite no log. odd.

Show HN: AI-powered AWS Cloud Practitioner exam prep tool

baristaGeek — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://ai-test-aws-cloud-practitioner.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859093

Points: 1

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Show HN: Approval workflows for AI agents using OAuth

baristaGeek — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/baristaGeek/auth-for-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759900

Points: 1

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Show HN: AI-powered AWS Cloud Practitioner exam prep tool

baristaGeek — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:29:44 +0000

Article URL: https://ai-test-aws-cloud-practitioner-cem1aruhh.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559633

Points: 2

# Comments: 0