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

ciguy — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:25:11 +0000

We are building a K8s management platform based on AI Agents and smart visualization. It's surprisingly hard to distill common issues down to generalizable agents which can solve real world issues but we've made some very exciting progress in the space.

New comment by ciguy in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

ciguy — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:31:29 +0000

Kubernetes upgrades and AI agents. www.kubegrade.com

New comment by ciguy in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

ciguy — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:35:52 +0000

I just watched someone spiral into what seems like a manic episode in realtime over the course of several weeks. They began posting to Facebook about their conversations with ChatGPT and how it discovered that based on their chat history they have 5 or 6 rare cognitive traits that make them hyper intelligent/perceptive and the likelihood of all these existing in one person is one in a trillion, so they are a special statistical anomaly.

They seem to genuinely believe that they have special powers now and have seemingly lost all self awareness. At first I thought they were going for an AI guru/influencer angle but it now looks more like genuine delusion.

New comment by ciguy in "Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics"

ciguy — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:54:06 +0000

Yes some of them are sacred sites for the Mayan peoples.

New comment by ciguy in "Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Clinics"

ciguy — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:41:14 +0000

A cenote is an inland tidal pool connected to the ocean. Mostly found along the Riviera Maya in Mexico.

New comment by ciguy in "Hacked on Stripe–$41K Gone, No Real Help from Support. What Now?"

ciguy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:13:28 +0000

Exactly. If I had to bet I would guess their server is just straight up serving the file. I've seen that way too many times.

New comment by ciguy in "Hacked on Stripe–$41K Gone, No Real Help from Support. What Now?"

ciguy — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:04:44 +0000

OP seems to think that using a .env file means your key can't be leaked because it's not in a git repo. I would bet good money one of their devs accidentally committed it, or that they put it on a server somewhere and it's being served up as a regular file.

New comment by ciguy in "Ask HN: Why did every YC startup move to hiring Founding Engineers?"

ciguy — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:09:38 +0000

Fair enough but wouldn't it make sense to find a co-founder vs getting paid a relatively small amount to build someone else's thing?

New comment by ciguy in "Ask HN: Why did every YC startup move to hiring Founding Engineers?"

ciguy — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:08:45 +0000

Certainly possible, but one of the core premises of YC is that it's easy for technical people to learn sales and marketing but the inverse is not true. So this whole trend seems weird and a bit hypocritical. I'm more curious whether it's working and if they are actually finding people that meet these insane qualifications for relatively meager salaries and equity.

New comment by ciguy in "Ask HN: Why did every YC startup move to hiring Founding Engineers?"

ciguy — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:07:11 +0000

Sure but this seems a bit hypocritical when YC prefers and recommends having 2 technical founders over 1 technical and one business oriented founder. One of their major premises is that it's easy to teach sales and marketing to an engineer but not easy to teach engineering to a non-technical person. In these cases it seems reversed where the founders are not technical and are hiring someone to build the whole product.

Ask HN: Why did every YC startup move to hiring Founding Engineers?

ciguy — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:46:35 +0000

It seems like every HN Hiring post over the last 6 to 12 months is for "Founding Engineers". When you read the job ads, what they are actually looking for is a unicorn engineer who can build the entire product including Backend, FrontEnd and DevOps while also being an AI domain expert and any number of other demands.

This post is a perfect example of this: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roe-ai/jobs/CZrzxk6-founding-engineer

They usually offer 0.25% to 2.0% equity and 150k to 200k per year.

I guess I am curious if there is a reason they all started doing this at the same time? Was there some kind of YC memo telling them to do this?

Why would someone with those skills and qualifications go work for a startup building their entire product for 2% or less vs just building it for themselves and retaining 100% equity?

This whole trend seems super misguided and somewhat exploitative from the outside but it must be working if they are all doing it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966323

Points: 7

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New comment by ciguy in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

ciguy — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:29:59 +0000

I built https://listingstory.com as a way to learn about and play with LLMs. It's unlikely to ever be a commercial success, but it served it's purpose in allowing me to learn much more about how an LLM powered app works.

Harvey's Resort Hotel Bombing

ciguy — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:47:07 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39059366

Points: 1

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New comment by ciguy in "$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people"

ciguy — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 19:02:25 +0000

So you're a beneficiary of the homeless industrial complex. Sorry but I'm not interested in anything you have to say as it's impossible for you to be objective given the amounts of money flushed through these programs.

New comment by ciguy in "$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people"

ciguy — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:17:30 +0000

This is a hilariously naive and silly take because SF did exactly this and continues to do so. Spoiler alert, they have massively exacerbated their homeless problems and very few are being reintegrated back into society.

New comment by ciguy in "$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people"

ciguy — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:15:00 +0000

I don't need to research, I deal with them on a daily basis just to go about my day because in my town they are everywhere. The fact that you are ready to simply dismiss someones lived experience based on a few flawed studies tells me everything I need to know about your agenda.

New comment by ciguy in "$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people"

ciguy — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:08:42 +0000

How many homeless people do you interact with daily? Because I'm forced to interact with many of them on a daily basis to simply go about my life in the Bay Area. And almost all of them, with very very few exceptions are both mentally ill and drug addicts. I used to think like you, but being forced to deal with them in real life on a daily basis has a way of killing preconceived convenient notions.

New comment by ciguy in "$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people"

ciguy — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:02:39 +0000

The headline as written should surprise no-one. Anyone receiving free money would probably have their life improved along some dimension, even if it just means they're not doing as many dangerous things to get money to buy more drugs. The implicit assumption seems to be that giving homeless people money to improve their lives is inherently a moral good.

Unlike many homeless advocates, I don't think it is a given that taking money by force from productive hardworking people and giving it to mentally ill drug addicts is inherently moral or good for long term societal stability.

New comment by ciguy in "AWS to start charging for IPv4 usage, but critical services don't support IPv6"

ciguy — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:19:02 +0000

Anyone that is surprised by this behavior from AWS probably has very little experience using it. The whole console is full of dark pattens to get you to setup larger than needed defaults and accidentally leave things running.

New comment by ciguy in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

ciguy — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 23:17:47 +0000

https://listingstory.com

An AI real estate listing generator. It's pretty functional for basic use cases not but needs a lot more work to handle edge cases.