<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: evaneykelen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=evaneykelen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:55:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=evaneykelen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Online Friends Are Real Friends"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My son made online friends when he was 14, playing games together with them on Steam. When he is playing a game with them, I often hear him roar with laughter, but they can also be quite serious and talk about life and school. Last month, we took him to Wrocław to meet them, and it was marvelous. My wife and I got to know the parents of these boys (16-17 yo now), had dinner together, and we separated as friends. My son had a blast that week finally meeting them in person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:44:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125529</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I lived in a house built around 1605 in the Netherlands, with some of the windows being hundreds of years old, based on expert opinion. The glass had started to droop downward in certain places, almost like the resin you see in trees. It made me realize that glass is not as rigid as I thought.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:41:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878914</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Return | REMOTE | BESS Optimization Developer (Python) | Full-time<p>Return (<a href="https://return.energy" rel="nofollow">https://return.energy</a>) is hiring a developer who will build the software that powers our BESS optimization algorithms. Return’s main activity is building and operating industrial-size Battery Energy Storage Systems. Our operations are located in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. You will be making a measurable (country-level) impact on the transition to renewable energy. Return recently raised €300M to support its growth.<p>While we employ over 130 people, our teams are deliberately small. You will join the Optimizer Quant team, which builds the algorithms that decide when and how our batteries charge and discharge. Our platform automates processes in energy storage, monitoring, market optimization, sales, project management, procurement, and construction.<p>We expect you to be strong in Python and comfortable with APIs and backend fundamentals, cloud, Docker, and basic DevOps. You should be able to reason about system design and architecture, and to build and operate reliable data pipelines. A working understanding of optimization, time-series and forecasting, and the statistics behind quant work will help you move fast and ask the right questions. You do not need a finance background, but you should enjoy working closely with the quants who design our algorithms.<p>Our tech stack/toolset is straightforward: Python, PostgreSQL, TigerData, dbt, Dagster, Grafana, Terraform, self-hosted + cloud compute. We tend to keep meetings to a minimum in order to provide at least five hours of uninterrupted coding time per day. We practice code reviews and apply automated and manual testing. Our platforms are often deployed multiple times per day.<p>The team includes people who have co-founded several companies and/or have experience with remote development teams since 2008. They will personally help you through most of the recruiting process (there is no recruiter involved).<p>Apply at <a href="https://jobs.polymer.co/return/40229" rel="nofollow">https://jobs.polymer.co/return/40229</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:42:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408853</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Return | REMOTE | DevOps / Platform engineer | Full-time<p>Return (<a href="https://return.energy" rel="nofollow">https://return.energy</a>) is hiring a DevOps engineer who will build and run the infrastructure behind platforms that accelerate the transition to carbon-free energy. Return's main activity is building and operating industrial-size Battery Energy Storage Systems. Our operations are located in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. You will be making a measurable (country-level) impact on the transition to renewable energy. Return recently raised €300M to support its growth.<p>While we employ over 120 people, Return's technical team is still small (15 people). Our platform automates processes in energy storage, monitoring, market optimization, sales, project management, procurement, construction, and customer service. Behind it sits a mix of EU cloud and on-site compute at our battery sites, with strict uptime and security requirements.<p>During the first four years of operation, we laid the foundation for our platforms, and we are ready to scale up. This is why we are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer who can own the full picture: cloud environments, self-hosted infrastructure at our BESS sites, and the operations centers in Amsterdam and Eindhoven from which we run the fleet.<p>Your primary focus will be to design, automate, and operate the infrastructure that our virtual battery platform runs on. That means EU-only cloud providers for application workloads, hardened on-premise setups at our sites, and the connectivity in between. You will be the person who decides what gets deployed where, and who makes sure it stays up and stays secure.<p><a href="https://jobs.polymer.co/return/39863" rel="nofollow">https://jobs.polymer.co/return/39863</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:36:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976769</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this a viable alternative to the Adobe PDF app on Windows? I'm looking for an alternative for our company to replace Adobe's bloatware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:22:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565695</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Structural analysis of the D'Agapeyeff cipher (1939)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am working on the D'Agapeyeff cipher, an unsolved cryptogram from 1939. Two findings that I haven't seen published before:<p>1. All 5 anomalous symbol values in the cipher cluster in the last column of a 14x14 grid. This turns out to be driven by a factor-of-2-and-7 positional pattern in the linear text.<p>2. Simulated annealing with Esperanto quadgrams (23M char Leipzig corpus) on a 2x98 columnar transposition consistently outscores English by 200+ points and recovers the same Esperanto vocabulary across independent runs.<p>The cipher is not solved. But the combination of structural geometry and computational linguistics narrows the search space significantly.<p>Work in progress, more to come!</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:34:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://msgtrail.com/posts/unmasking-the-dagapeyeff-cipher-a-multi-faceted-architecture</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Return | REMOTE | Senior Ruby/Rails developer (remote within EU) | Full-time (or 4 days)<p>Return (<a href="https://return.energy" rel="nofollow">https://return.energy</a>) is hiring a software engineer who will work on platforms that accelerate the transition to carbon-free energy. Return’s main activity is building and operating industrial-size Battery Energy Storage Systems. Our operations are located in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. You will be making a measurable (country-level) impact on the transition to renewable energy. Return recently raised €300M to support its growth.<p>While we employ over 100 people, Return’s technical team is still small (15 people). Our platform automates processes in energy storage, monitoring, market optimization, sales, project management, procurement, construction, and customer service.<p>During the first three years of operation, we laid the foundation for our platforms, and we are ready to scale up. This is why we are looking for an experienced software engineer.<p>You will be working on internal tools that support our business departments (origination, development, construction, operation, and general). Our tech stack is straightforward: Postgres, Ruby on Rails 8, Turbo, Stimulus, and Tailwind. We tend to keep meetings to a minimum in order to provide at least five hours of uninterrupted coding time per day. We practice code reviews and apply automated and manual testing. The platform is often deployed multiple times per day.<p>We’re very much open to remote work as long as you live in the EU. Our hiring process is swift but thorough: a 30-minute call to get acquainted and discuss financials, one or more technical interviews, and a paid visit to Amsterdam to meet the team.<p>The tech team members have co-founded several companies and have experience with remote development teams since 2008. They will personally help you through most of the recruiting process (there is no recruiter involved).<p>Apply here: <a href="https://jobs.polymer.co/return/39294" rel="nofollow">https://jobs.polymer.co/return/39294</a> (EU residents ONLY)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:37:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351165</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Return | REMOTE | Software engineer backend (Go/Golang) | Full-time<p>Return (<a href="https://return.energy" rel="nofollow">https://return.energy</a>) is hiring a software engineer to work on platforms that accelerate the transition to carbon-free energy. Return’s main activity is building and operating industrial-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems. Our operations are located in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. You will make a measurable, country-level impact on the transition to renewable energy. Return recently raised €300M to support its growth.<p>While we employ more than 120 people, Return’s technical team remains small with 13 members. Our platform automates processes in energy storage, monitoring, market optimization, sales, project management, procurement, construction, and customer service.<p>During the first three years of operation, we laid the foundation for our platforms, and we are ready to scale up. This is why we are looking for an experienced software engineer.<p>Your primary focus will be to further develop our battery virtualization platform, enabling customers to use slices of battery capacity distributed across our fleet of industrial-scale batteries.<p>Our tech stack and toolset are straightforward: Go, Python, Ruby, PostgreSQL, TigerData, dbt, Dagster, Grafana, Terraform, and self-hosted plus cloud compute. We keep meetings to a minimum to provide at least five hours of uninterrupted coding time per day. We conduct code reviews and apply both automated and manual testing. Our web apps and platforms are often deployed multiple times per day.<p>Return has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Hamburg, Munich, Madrid, and Stuttgart. We are very open to remote work as long as you live in the EU. Our hiring process is swift but thorough: a brief call to get acquainted and discuss finances, followed by one or more technical interviews, and a paid visit to Amsterdam to meet the team.<p>The tech team members have co-founded several companies and have worked with remote development teams since 2008, and they will personally guide you through most of the recruiting process (there is no recruiter involved).<p>We aim to hire you in February or March ultimately.<p>Apply here: <a href="https://jobs.polymer.co/return/37860" rel="nofollow">https://jobs.polymer.co/return/37860</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859027</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "European Alternatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>great, i’ll keep an eye on you guys</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:48:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748994</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "European Alternatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They also do not carry out the audit themselves (for the same reason) but the do all the legwork for you. Huge benefit imo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:06:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741892</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "European Alternatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting, do you also provide the actual audit for ISO 27001 as part of your service? That’s why I went with Oneleet, but a EU-based solution would be attractive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:43:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738340</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indeed, non-negotiable</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:31:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154075</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Return | REMOTE | Software engineer backend (Go/Golang) | Full-time<p>Return (<a href="https://return.energy" rel="nofollow">https://return.energy</a>) is hiring a software engineer who will work on platforms that accelerate the transition to carbon-free energy. Return’s main activity is building and operating industrial-size Battery Energy Storage Systems. Our operations are located in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Spain. You will be making a measurable (country-level) impact on the transition to renewable energy. Return recently raised €300M to support its growth.<p>While we employ over 100 people, Return’s technical team is still small (13 people). Our platform automates processes in energy storage, monitoring, market optimization, sales, project management, procurement, construction, and customer service.<p>During the first three years of operation, we laid the foundation for our platforms, and we are ready to scale up. This is why we are looking for an experienced software engineer.<p>Your primary focus will be to further develop our battery virtualization platform that enables our customers to use slices of battery capacity distributed across our fleet of industrial-scale batteries.<p>Our tech stack/toolset is straightforward: Go, Python, Ruby, PostgreSQL, TigerData, dbt, Dagster, Grafana, Terraform, self-hosted + cloud compute. We tend to keep meetings to a minimum in order to provide at least five hours of uninterrupted coding time per day. We practice code reviews and apply automated and manual testing. Our web apps and platforms are often deployed multiple times per day.<p>Return has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Hamburg, Munich, Madrid, and Stuttgart. We are very much open to working remotely as long as you live in the EU. Our hiring process is swift but thorough: a brief call to get acquainted and discuss financials, followed by one or more technical interviews, and a paid visit to Amsterdam to meet the team.<p>The tech team members have co-founded several companies and/or have experience with remote development teams since 2008. They will personally help you through most of the recruiting process (there is no recruiter involved).<p>Apply here: <a href="https://jobs.polymer.co/return/37860" rel="nofollow">https://jobs.polymer.co/return/37860</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:56:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134504</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m surprised this feature isn’t part of the built-in Accessibility Settings. Neat little app!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:04:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062886</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Pushing the Boundaries of C64 Graphics with Nuflix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After reading the article I came to the same conclusion. Thank you for the correction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:08:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452414</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Pushing the Boundaries of C64 Graphics with Nuflix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A cruder version of this was created by the 1001 Crew already in 1986 by the name of ESCOS (Expanded Screen COnstruction Set). There's a video [1] and info page [2].<p>It was able to import images from KoalaPad, convert, and render it fullscreen using sprites both inside and outside the C64's border.<p>I will definitely take time to read the full article, it's super interesting at first glance.<p>[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/_lsgp_SBEtA?si=gTGL9X7koaYflTRx" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/_lsgp_SBEtA?si=gTGL9X7koaYflTRx</a><p>[2] <a href="https://csdb.dk/release/?id=744" rel="nofollow">https://csdb.dk/release/?id=744</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:40:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442343</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "The Amiga 3000 Unix and Sun Microsystems: Deal or No Deal?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember getting one on loan from Commodore Netherlands around 1992-1993. We were an ISV back then, and CBM provided these machines to allow us to talk to their engineers back in Pennsylvania via email and Usenet. While the emails are not preserved, I did find a post I highly likely made using an A3000UX [1]. We had the machine dial in once per day to sync email and Usenet posts. Phone costs were high, so we had to keep the phone line open as short as possible. It was actually quite handy because picking up the phone in the Netherlands to talk to an engineer in the States was prohibitively expensive (around $9 per minute in todays money, iirc). It was my first use of The Internet.<p>[1] <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.multimedia/c/Vyt00FGKmzk/m/FPVXOZn-0QMJ" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.multimedia/c/Vyt0...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 05:37:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470316</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I don’t know anyone that used the Amiga for anything other than games.<p>The Amiga was used worldwide by TV stations for CGI and titling effects, for digital signage eg arrivals/departures at airports, and video walls, besides being a tool for countless digital artists. I know because I wrote digital signage software for the Amiga and sold it to customers in 21 countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456403</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On macOS, typing two consecutive hyphens automatically gets converted to an em-dash in many applications: no AI involved necessarily.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 05:59:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142165</link><dc:creator>evaneykelen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by evaneykelen in "Visualizing 100k Years of Earth in WebGL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool viz! The demo shows the channel forming gradually but iirc there's actually evidence it happened super fast - like a giant lake in Doggerland had a dam that broke and "fast flushed" to carve the channel in one catastrophic event</p>
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