Hacker News: bihla

Money in Postgres

bihla — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:48:23 +0000

Article URL: https://numeric.substack.com/p/money-in-postgres

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154054

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Upgrading DrizzleORM logging with AsyncLocalStorage

bihla — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:38:47 +0000

Article URL: https://numeric.substack.com/p/upgrading-drizzleorm-logging-with

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621656

Points: 29

# Comments: 3

New comment by bihla in "Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)"

bihla — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:53:53 +0000

I think this depends on what you consider to be the fundamental trait of double-entry accounting: the error-checking or the explanatory power.

It is true that by enforcing that value movement have both a source and a target, we make it possible to add a useful checksum to the system. But I believe this is a side benefit to the more fundamental trait of requiring all value flow to record both sides, in order to capture the cause for each effect.

I agree with your general perspective though: technology has afforded us new and different tools, and thus we should be open to new data models for accounting. I don't agree with other commenters that we should tread lightly in trying to decipher another field, nor do I agree with the view that the field of Accounting would have found a better way by now if there were one. Accountants are rarely, if ever, experts in CS or software engineering; likewise software developers rarely have depth in accounting.

Source: just my opinions. I've been running an accounting software startup for 5 years.

New comment by bihla in "Accounting has only CRUD APIs"

bihla — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:52:33 +0000

I agree with your first statement, but a little lost on the last one—I would think of the first idea as a question of data modeling, whereas the last (bad inputs) is one of enforcement and ownership.

Both present challenges, but better inputs don't help without a better model for business objects (as I see it)?

Accounting has only CRUD APIs

bihla — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:32:12 +0000

Article URL: https://numeric.substack.com/p/accounting-will-retrace-the-path

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877635

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by bihla in "You can now legally walk with drinks on SF's Valencia St"

bihla — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:11:29 +0000

This is essentially a no-op measure. There is already no enforcement against drinking in public anywhere in SF

Righting Integration Testing's Wrongs with PGLite

bihla — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:28:49 +0000

Article URL: https://numeric.substack.com/p/righting-integration-testings-wrongs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929573

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Accounting's Data Problem

bihla — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:15:48 +0000

Article URL: https://numeric.substack.com/p/accountings-data-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43818165

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

We doubled Zod performance to speed up TypeScript validation

bihla — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:59:26 +0000

Article URL: https://numeric.substack.com/p/how-we-doubled-zod-performance-to

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348067

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Engineer's Onboarding: Advice for New Hires

bihla — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://numeric.substack.com/p/a-numeric-engineering-leads-pov-on

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124115

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bihla in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)"

bihla — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:07:27 +0000

Numeric | Software engineer (4+ YOE) | ONSITE in NYC, NY or San Francisco, CA | https://www.numeric.io

Series A announcement: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/10/numeric-grabs-28m-series-a...

Eng blog: https://numeric.substack.com/

We're building the modern data platform for accounting and finance. Customers like Brex, Plaid, OpenAI, Anthropic, and many more depend on Numeric to automate their work, to collaborate, and to monitor, analyze, and share insights on their financial data.

Seeking product-centric engineers w/ 4+ YOE. Full stack, backend, frontend, whatever; more focused on general ability and thinking than specific skillsets. Engineers here meet directly with users, have substantial ownership over product decisions, and work quickly together in person in our offices in SF & NYC.

Apply: Email andrew+hn@numeric.io (please mention hackernews in subject)

Creativity vs. Toil

bihla — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:07:57 +0000

Article URL: https://numeric.substack.com/p/creativity-vs-toil

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808559

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by bihla in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

bihla — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:19:37 +0000

Ha I guess that's fair. Were you expecting a DJ set?

New comment by bihla in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

bihla — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:12:10 +0000

Did he... link the wrong URL at the end of the post? I thought for sure it was going to be some sort of heartfelt speech, or motivational message, or something. But it's an instrumental DJ set which seems totally out of left field

New comment by bihla in "Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others"

bihla — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:13:16 +0000

WorkOS now has AuthKit which we use happily.

No one should use Firebase today.

New comment by bihla in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)"

bihla — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:41:29 +0000

Numeric | Software engineer (3+ YOE) | ONSITE in San Francisco, CA | https://www.numeric.io

We're building the platform to automate accounting and tackle the underlying data issues which plague accounting and finance departments. Customers like Plaid, Brex, Wealthfront, AngelList, Mercury, and more depend on Numeric to automate their work, to collaborate, and to monitor, analyze, and share insights on their financial data. We've raised $10M to date from excellent investors like Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, and more.

We're a product-first company with technical founders and an engineering team whose past experiences include Brex, Segment, Carta, and more. This will be a fit if you're excited to understand your users and the domain, as well as to have substantial responsibility and impact. We work in person in our SF & NYC offices, and prioritize speed and ownership (both technical and product ownership). We're growing rapidly, we're well-funded, and building out our team to continue investing in ambitious product goals.

Product-oriented engineers appreciated, bonus points for startup experience and/or full-stack experience with Typescript. >=3 YOE.

Apply: Email andrew@numeric.io (mention hackernews in subject)

New comment by bihla in "Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?"

bihla — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:12:19 +0000

Generally people have a recovery option (“Forgot Password”) which routes to the same email, meaning it’s effectively already a single point of failure.

But it’s generally a well-secured one (2fa, ip monitoring ). So in effect we’re not making it more of a single point of failure, we’re just removing the various other means of attack by removing site-specific identities (passwords)

New comment by bihla in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)"

bihla — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 22:18:53 +0000

Numeric | Software engineer (4+ YOE) | ONSITE in San Francisco, CA | https://www.numeric.io

We're building the platform to automate accounting and tackle the underlying data issues which plague accounting and finance departments. Customers like Plaid, Wealthfront, AngelList, Mercury, and more depend on Numeric to automate their work, to collaborate, and to monitor, analyze, and share insights on their financial data. We've raised $10M to date from excellent investors like Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, and more.

Product-oriented engineers appreciated, bonus points for startup experience and/or full-stack experience with Typescript. >=3 YOE.

Apply: Email andrew@numeric.io (mention hackernews in subject)

New comment by bihla in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)"

bihla — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:18:06 +0000

Numeric | Software engineer (4+ YOE) | ONSITE in San Francisco, CA or NYC, NY | https://www.numeric.io

We're building the platform to automate accounting and tackle the underlying data issues which plague accounting and finance departments. Customers like Wealthfront, AngelList, Mercury, and more depend on Numeric to automate their work, to collaborate, and to monitor, analyze, and share insights on their financial data.

We're a product-first company with technical founders and an engineering team whose past experiences include Brex, Segment, Carta, and more. This will be a fit if you're excited to understand your users and the domain, as well as to have substantial responsibility and impact. We work in person in our SF & NYC offices, and prioritize speed and ownership. We're growing rapidly, we're well-funded, and building out our team to continue investing in ambitious product goals.

Product-oriented engineers appreciated, bonus points for startup experience and/or full-stack experience with Typescript. 4+ YOE.

Apply: Email andrew@numeric.io (mention hackernews in subject)

New comment by bihla in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)"

bihla — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 06:17:52 +0000

Numeric | Software engineer (4+ YOE) | ONSITE in San Francisco, CA or NYC, NY | https://www.numeric.io

We're tackling fundamental issues that underlie the finance and accounting departments. Companies like Wealthfront, AngelList, Clearbit, and more depend on Numeric to collaborate & automate their workflows, as well as to monitor, analyze, and share insights on their financial data.

This will be a fit if you're excited to understand your users and the domain, as well as to have substantial responsibility and impact. We work in person in our SF & NYC offices, and prioritize speed and ownership. We're growing rapidly and have a wide range of opportunities within the product team. As an engineer, you might work on building out our data & analytics platform, iterate on our self-serve offering, automate recurring workflows for our users, and more.

Generalists appreciated, bonus points for startup experience and/or full-stack experience with Typescript. 4+ YOE.

Apply: Email andrew@numeric.io (mention hackernews in subject)

More info on the role: https://numeric.notion.site/Software-Engineer-f641816581fc4f... On product development at Numeric: https://www.numeric.io/blog/80-20-rule-for-product-developme...