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New comment by christophergs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

christophergs — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:48:09 +0000

Pydantic | Solutions Engineer | REMOTE (UTC-8 - UTC+1)| Full-Time | https://pydantic.dev

If you write Python, you've probably heard of Pydantic (400m downloads per month) and if you do AI engineering you've probably heard of Pydantic AI (one of the fastest growing agent frameworks). We are also building Logfire - our commercial observability platform, and we are hiring our first Solutions Engineer to take ownership of our post-sales success.

See the full description here: https://pydantic.dev/jobs/solutions-engineer

Running open-source LLMs in Python on your laptop

christophergs — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:04:27 +0000

Article URL: https://christophergs.com/blog/running-open-source-llms-in-python

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39170794

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New comment by christophergs in "What Artists Notice"

christophergs — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 06:14:39 +0000

Thank you for writing this

New comment by christophergs in "The road to success is paved with rejection letters"

christophergs — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:04:12 +0000

How do you know your skill is degrading? Could it be the old "the more you know, the more you know you don't know"?

New comment by christophergs in "How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (2013)"

christophergs — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 04:46:13 +0000

Well said. Also "that metadata doesn't leave the ivory tower" is wonderfully concise.

New comment by christophergs in "Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe"

christophergs — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:36:27 +0000

Yes. When I was very inexperienced I still remember being interviewed by an extremely big dog in the open-source world (he was VP of engineering at a very successful startup). I was probably about a 3/10 in terms of quality of interview answers, and unsurprisingly didn't get the job.

Despite that, he still managed to make me feel good about the whole experience. At some points in the interview where I was close/slightly off he'd first coax "that's quite similar to X or Y, don't you think?" then if that didn't work he'd coach "here's how X works, elegant explanation, ok, let's talk about Y".

I remember this vividly years later with a smile. Just like I remember all the negative experiences where people were dismissive or ghosted.

New comment by christophergs in "Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe"

christophergs — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:28:20 +0000

I agree that ending an interview early is a no-go. However if it's an onsite/process with multiple interviews, I think the fairest approach (and I've done this in the past) is to manage expectations ahead of time that the full interview sequence only happens if you pass each one.

This way you don't waste the candidate or your time if it's clearly a no after interview 1. They feel a bit bad because they obviously didn't pass, but if you've communicated ahead of time it's not a rug-pull.

New comment by christophergs in "The metaverse is bullshit"

christophergs — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 09:06:05 +0000

Timing matters. The latest generation of VR headsets are incredible. I feel like this point matters, the same way that Netflix needing broadband to be fast enough to stream video mattered.

New comment by christophergs in "Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement"

christophergs — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 13:32:08 +0000

I'll pay the extra money and get the valve index just to avoid doing business with FB

New comment by christophergs in "Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA"

christophergs — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:43:05 +0000

Thanks for doing the AMA!

How did you discover your repeatable distribution channel, and what did it end up being?

New comment by christophergs in "As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (2017)"

christophergs — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:29:03 +0000

Very true. This is one of the amazing things about Stripe support. They are the only large company where the first person you talk to actually has a clue

New comment by christophergs in "How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)"

christophergs — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:42:44 +0000

This guy deliberate practices

New comment by christophergs in "GitHub Issues-only project management"

christophergs — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:52:46 +0000

Yep, I do the same. I also combine with github wiki for larger projects and documentation (often these will reference a bunch of issues).

New comment by christophergs in "Supine Computing (2019)"

christophergs — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:08:43 +0000

Yep, the projector approach is what I've used before. Here are some pics/write up: https://coursemaker.org/blog/create-affordable-lay-down-desk...

New comment by christophergs in "Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming"

christophergs — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 16:59:26 +0000

This. Comments are for why.

New comment by christophergs in "38% of remote workers work from bed"

christophergs — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:31:34 +0000

This, this, a thousand times this.

New comment by christophergs in "So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming"

christophergs — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:19:24 +0000

LearnWorlds is a solid choice. If you're after a course platform tailored for technical courses, check out https://coursemaker.org

New comment by christophergs in "Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016)"

christophergs — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:40:45 +0000

Obligatory XKCD which brilliantly captures how management can fail to distinguish easy/hard tasks: https://xkcd.com/1425/

New comment by christophergs in "Planning and estimating large-scale software projects"

christophergs — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:14:23 +0000

Haha, love that show. There's definitely a parody in there somewhere

> Now that I know what software estimation is, I no longer need you.

New comment by christophergs in "Planning and estimating large-scale software projects"

christophergs — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:59:19 +0000

Great post. A key point you don't bring up is the aftermath, even if you do deliver. Especially in non-tech companies there still remains the tendency to view these projects as "done" after the end of the project/MVP etc., with no understanding that sites need ongoing maintenance and improvements. And that this work is still considerable.