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New comment by cmpaul in "Fine-grained HTTP filtering for Claude Code"

cmpaul — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:52:31 +0000

``` GET https://mysite.com/?query=all+the+secrets ```

New comment by cmpaul in "Show HN: Air Traffic Control Radio and Chill Music for Focus"

cmpaul — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:20:26 +0000

This is awesome. Where do you get this music stream?

New comment by cmpaul in "Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini"

cmpaul — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:23:17 +0000

Great example of how LLMs are eliminating/simplifying giant swathes of complex tech.

I would love to use this in a project if it could also caption embedded images to produce something for RAG...

New comment by cmpaul in "Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time"

cmpaul — Wed, 10 May 2023 20:35:44 +0000

Take my money.

New comment by cmpaul in "Why the conventional wisdom on how to grow muscles is wrong"

cmpaul — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:52:47 +0000

What is the magnesium glycinate for?

New comment by cmpaul in "Thinking Forth (1984)"

cmpaul — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:30:24 +0000

YES! I worked on the FedEx Enhanced SuperTracker software from 1999-2006, which I believe is the "Version II" you're referencing. The core software was still written in Forth, but we rebuilt the package routing logic in in C, which might be what you're referring to. Very curious to know how you are familiar with all the history, did you work there or at Forth, Inc?

New comment by cmpaul in "5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds"

cmpaul — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:18:29 +0000

Bingo

New comment by cmpaul in "5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds"

cmpaul — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:26:38 +0000

Technical aspects aside (and congrats on the achievement!), I love the implications of the author's "Aside":

1. An otherwise inconvenient situation (snowpocalypse) was turned into a learning opportunity. I would've probably turned it into a Netflix binge.

2. People took the time to detail the CPU design in a document. I'm always looking for examples showing the benefits of documenting design (I'm an EM) and it's rare to find one that changes someone's life trajectory. :)

New comment by cmpaul in "Turn your phone into a wireless webcam"

cmpaul — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 19:56:07 +0000

Been using this since my MBP webcam died. Works well, doesn't seem to lag much.

New comment by cmpaul in "A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse"

cmpaul — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:55:26 +0000

Agreed, could probably have avoided giving away the plot here. The book is definitely worth the read!

New comment by cmpaul in "‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’"

cmpaul — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:23:50 +0000

> Just accept that regret is part of all lives.

So true, and so hard to do.

New comment by cmpaul in "Study shows massive insect loss"

cmpaul — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:00:08 +0000

> The invertebrates that live there, likewise, are adapted to these temperatures and fare poorly outside them; bugs cannot regulate their internal heat.

This makes me think that the insects which do survive will be better adapted to the higher temperatures. Hopefully the change is slow enough they have time to adapt. And this is nothing to say about the impact of that adaptation time on other species...

New comment by cmpaul in "Erlang/OTP 20.0"

cmpaul — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:59:27 +0000

Looking for work? :)

https://jobs.lever.co/hellosign/39ea6c41-8ff8-4c93-b0fd-4a62...

New comment by cmpaul in "G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft"

cmpaul — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:44:22 +0000

The "short-term car rental hubs... where people who do not own cars can pick up a vehicle and drive for Lyft to earn money" is a nice idea in the short-term. I still think Uber has the right idea long-term with a completely autonomous fleet, but once those hit the market, there will still be a pretty large demand for NON-autonomous vehicles -- take my parents, for instance, who refuse to get into a car not driven by a human.

New comment by cmpaul in "Cultivating Psychological Safety for Engineering Teams"

cmpaul — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:14:25 +0000

This feels a little like a troll, but I'll bite. :)

I'm new to management so I'll be the first to admit that I'm not great at it. I do wish I'd had someone to tell me some of these things when I first started, so you could think of this as advice to my younger self. YMMV.

As for whether asking tough questions makes people feel safe, I'd say, "... maybe?" I can think of hard questions that would certainly make me feel less safe. Two things: 1. Asking the question I lead with got me some great info, so I'm going to continue trying this; 2. I'd want to encourage people on my team to feel able to do the same, so I look at this as leading by example.

New comment by cmpaul in "Cultivating Psychological Safety for Engineering Teams"

cmpaul — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:52:19 +0000

Author here. The answers were beside the point. The thought I was attempting (perhaps poorly) to convey was that I asked something that felt risky and was rewarded. This was encouraging. What if the rest of my team felt as open to ask questions in which the answer might raise some eyebrows or incur flat out ridicule or judgement from teammates?

New comment by cmpaul in "Cultivating Psychological Safety for Engineering Teams"

cmpaul — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:34:29 +0000

> Why celebrate hard work just for the sake of work?

Why do hard work at all? My answer would be to risk building something great. I doubt anyone wants to do hard work for the sake of it. Building a culture that rewards honest effort would encourage the same hard work in the future despite risks of failure -- though admittedly it's easy to go overboard in either direction! Use your best judgement here.

New comment by cmpaul in "Cultivating Psychological Safety for Engineering Teams"

cmpaul — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:27:24 +0000

Author here. In an attempt at being pithy, this might have been worded poorly. My experience is that rewarding success is the standard approach in most industries, but teams that become accustomed to only being rewarded when they succeed can develop an aversion to failure (and therefore taking risks).

I realize it might also be easy to extrapolate this out to always rewarding a team, no matter what, and I don't want to suggest that in all circumstances... you know if your team put forth an honest effort and should be rewarded despite building something that fails. Definitely don't mean for this to be a hard and fast rule, but more of a tip for encouraging a smart, hard-working team to feel safer taking risks.

New comment by cmpaul in "[dead]"

cmpaul — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:34:35 +0000

I manage the engineering team at HelloSign (YC11) and wrote a little response to Google's team success study that came out a few weeks ago. It tries to answer the question: How the heck do you foster psychological safety in the first place?

New comment by cmpaul in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)"

cmpaul — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:02:39 +0000

HelloSign | San Francisco | React & Symfony PHP | YC11

- Senior Backend Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/hellosign/jobs/88292

- Engineering Manager: https://boards.greenhouse.io/hellosign/jobs/94411

- Lead QA Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/hellosign/jobs/69005

HelloSign has seen tremendous growth over the past two years, primarily through word-of-mouth, and we are now focusing on building out an API that enables anyone to integrate eSignatures directly into their own website. We are funded by some of the top investors in the valley, including Y Combinator, Greylock, Google Ventures, and US Venture Partners. Our goal is simply to be the way people sign documents everywhere.

We are centrally located in downtown San Francisco by Union Square. Currently at 40 employees, we are growing the company deliberately, with an eye towards maintaining a culture that values lifestyle, fun, and continuous improvement (we were recently awarded the Hirepalooza Culture Award for Lifestyle in early 2015!).

Be sure to check us out on Glassdoor too.