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New comment by farmdawgnation in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

farmdawgnation — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:40:18 +0000

One of these days I'm going to learn the lesson that my tongue in cheek doesn't always come across on HN.

New comment by farmdawgnation in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

farmdawgnation — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:25:43 +0000

I think you could also make the case that the existing abstractions aren't actually fully deterministic themselves. The compiler or interpreter may not behave as it should. Therefore, for any correct C code, there's probability that the GCC compiler will turn it into correctly formed machine code. But it may not!

Is the probability much higher with GCC? Sure. But it's still a probability.

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

farmdawgnation — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:23:46 +0000

There may not be many constants in this life, especially in this day and age, but I do find it humbling that "there is always an xkcd for that" holds true.

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Claude Sonnet 5 Is Imminent – and It Could Be a Generation Ahead of Google"

farmdawgnation — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:29:13 +0000

IMO If you're not using the tools regularly, you should start from the assumption that you're being heavily influenced by the folks that are trying to sell you something. I'm using these agentic tools for writing and improving software many times a day. The way I describe this to people is that it has changed the balance between "do I need to teach the computer to do this" or "do I just do it myself" farther in realm to the former. It's really good a boilerplate which I think is a welcome thing altogether. It's not actually doing the hard thinking that's required to scale something in production, reconcile a conflict between privacy and functionality effectively for your particular customers, or determine with any reliability what will actually sell.

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)"

farmdawgnation — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:32:18 +0000

Censys | Product Detection Engineer | Full Time | Remote US

Hey everyone. I'm a Principal Engineer at Censys. We are the source for Internet Intelligence. We conduct a full internet survey every day and turn that into actionable data for folks to identify risk, research emerging internet threats, and make the internet a safer place. If you also get a bunch of data breach mailers in your mail box every year, you're familiar with the impact of security breaches at tech companies. We're trying to put a stop to that by helping companies understand their risk and mitigate it.

HQ is in Ann Arbor, MI, but we're all over the US. We're looking for a Product Detection Engineer. Organizations around the world depend on Censys to help them identify threats in their infrastructure. This person will be involved in helping fingerprint and identify relevant risks using Censys data so that response teams can close vulnerabilities faster. You'll be directly responsible for helping organizations identify issues with their systems quickly and correctly.

Apply using the link below!

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/censys/jobs/8182209002

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

farmdawgnation — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:08:29 +0000

Censys | Senior SRE & Staff Software Engineer Roles | Full Time | Remote US

HQ is in Ann Arbor, MI, but we're all over the US. We're looking for a Senior SRE to help improve reliability and developer experience, and a Staff Software Engineer to join our Attack Surface Management product team. If you're a little bit more senior or junior than either of the postings, please do still apply. We care a lot more about getting the right people than we do matching the level exactly to the posting.

Please please apply to these role if:

- You can take ownership of improving a part of the product (Staff SWE) or the application platform we build for product engineers (SRE).

- You're game to navigate the messy middle of a small, nimble company with really high customer expectations. You'll have to navigate some ambiguity to be successful in either of these roles - don't expect pristine PRDs coming down from on high.

Our application stack is primarily Go and TypeScript with some seasoning of Python here and there where appropriate. Our primary cloud is in GCP and we also maintain our own physical servers (prior experience with physical hardware is great, but not required).

The links below will cause you to show up as a social referral from me. Feel free to reach out to me directly on Linked In (https://www.linkedin.com/in/farmdawgnation/) with any questions.

Senior SRE Posting: https://grnh.se/nnk6qmx92us

Staff SWE Posting: https://grnh.se/k1xqqjsl2us

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Show HN: Metashot: API for generating images from Metabase questions"

farmdawgnation — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:46:28 +0000

Hey all - wanted to share this because it's a problem I've run into a few times now and I figured other people might benefit from the solution.

Additionally, this is a pretty cool example of what AI Agents enable me to do in my spare time now. Before I had a family I had a lot more time to wrangle code myself and build things like this. With the emergence of AI Agents I'm getting to a point where I can actually build "for fun" again in a way I haven't been able to in years.

Enjoy!

Show HN: Metashot: API for generating images from Metabase questions

farmdawgnation — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:44:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/farmdawgnation/metashot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489293

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by farmdawgnation in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

farmdawgnation — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:43:03 +0000

This seems like a relatively empty threat considering many international folks don’t want to come here anyhow. There are some parallels here to when my toddler tries to give me consequences for doing things she doesn’t like.

Argue over Artifacts

farmdawgnation — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:33:35 +0000

Article URL: https://functionoverfad.com/argue-over-artifacts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43241546

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by farmdawgnation in "“Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees"

farmdawgnation — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:50:02 +0000

"Less true" is a bit of a bold statement here. It's still _true_, but you're right in saying that the additional percentage you would need to affect the change might be different between different industries.

It's also possible to optimize costs on the benefits themselves to avoid needing to do that, at times.

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)"

farmdawgnation — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:41:31 +0000

Greenlight Financial Technology | Cloud Engineers, SRE | Atlanta, GA or Remote USA (no international) | Full Time

Greenlight is building tools to help parents raise financially smart kids. We provide a direct-to-consumer product and partner with various organizations to provide our experience in a more tailored fashion for their customers’ context. We’ve built an amazing product so far and we are now working fervently to make it more reliable. For July 2021, my department is hiring for Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers.

You can read more about our product at greenlightcard.com. I’m happy to answer any questions you may have directly. You can reach out at matt.farmer+hn at the domain mentioned above.

You can view the postings below and apply for each of the positions:

Cloud Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/6f1e35c8-ec1c-40ff-9a21-7b3...

SRE: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/08d24da4-7433-437f-a1e0-b8d...

None of these quite what you’re looking for? You can check out the general job listing page too. We’re hiring across various departments: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight?lever-via=p-SMUT5lDn

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?"

farmdawgnation — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 12:32:43 +0000

In my first job as a software engineer I was working on an inventory management system for the University I attended. The original source for the data was a wacky Access database. We had a copy of the data imported into MySQL in production and it was not uncommon for me to try something, corrupt my local database, and need to restore it from backup.

When doing so I would typically run "TRUNCATE items;" on my local and repopulate it with the content from the not-yet-live production copy. This worked great until the afternoon where I was doing a demo for my boss in the office, realized my local datastore was in a bad state, and then got my tabs for "production" and "local" mixed up in my terminal. I truncated the entire dataset on production while my boss was standing behind me.

I got to learn a lot about how to export from Microsoft Access and import to MySQL that month. Lol.

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?"

farmdawgnation — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 12:26:22 +0000

Ha, I've had this experience recently. I was working on a private pototype of automated dependency updates in GitHub repos before it was a thing that was widely available. Ended up abandoning it. Of course, a few years later....

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)"

farmdawgnation — Tue, 04 May 2021 15:34:42 +0000

Greenlight Financial Technology | Staff Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Platform Engineers, SRE | Atlanta, GA or Remote USA (no international) | Full Time

Greenlight is building tools to help parents raise financially smart kids. We provide a direct-to-consumer product and partner with various organizations to provide our experience in a more tailored fashion for their customers’ context. We’ve built an amazing product so far and we are now working fervently to make it more reliable. For May 2021, my department is hiring for a Staff Engineer/Architect, Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineers, and Core Services Engineers.

You can read more about our product at greenlightcard.com. I’m happy to answer any questions you may have directly. You can reach out at matt.farmer+hn at the domain mentioned above.

You can view the postings below and apply for each of the positions:

Cloud Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/6f1e35c8-ec1c-40ff-9a21-7b3...

Site Reliability Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/08d24da4-7433-437f-a1e0-b8d...

Staff Engineer, Platform Services: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/5b008547-6d38-4a05-a8b6-01f...

Platform Services Core Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/729ef982-922e-48f4-893c-afa...

None of these quite what you’re looking for? You can check out the general job listing page too. We’re hiring across various departments: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight?lever-via=p-SMUT5lDn

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)"

farmdawgnation — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:53:51 +0000

Greenlight Financial Technology | Cloud Engineers, SRE, Tooling Engineers, and more | Atlanta, GA or Remote | Full Time

Greenlight is building tools to help parents raise financially smart kids. We provide a direct-to-consumer product and partner with various organizations to provide our experience in a more tailored fashion for their customers’ context. We’ve built an amazing product so far and we are now working fervently to make it more reliable. My department, Platform Engineering, is hiring Cloud Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, and Tooling Engineers to help Greenlight take on the next set of challenges ahead.

You can read more about our product at greenlightcard.com. I’m happy to answer any questions you may have directly. You can reach out at matt.farmer+hn at the domain mentioned above.

You can view the postings below and apply for each of the positions:

Cloud Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/6f1e35c8-ec1c-40ff-9a21-7b3...

Site Reliability Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/08d24da4-7433-437f-a1e0-b8d...

Software Engineer, Operational Tools: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/ee845a75-2bf7-4063-a59e-5b3...

Engineering Manager, Operational Tools: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/069e2adc-d25d-4e8c-95d9-a41...

None of these quite what you’re looking for? You can check out the general job listing page too. We’re hiring across various departments: https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight?lever-via=p-SMUT5lDn

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?"

farmdawgnation — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:02:59 +0000

They also offer an object storage product, it seems: https://bunnycdn.com/solutions/cdn-cloud-storage

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go"

farmdawgnation — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 14:01:12 +0000

They also neglect to mention that there are active conversations in the Java community around how to effectively implement Data Classes. For example: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/datum.html

Show HN: Get an SMS when someone leaves a voicemail on your Twilio number

farmdawgnation — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 04:31:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/farmdawgnation/voicemail-notifier

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16950704

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by farmdawgnation in "Bill seeks to put porn block on computers sold in SC"

farmdawgnation — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:00:24 +0000

I suspect that the author is suggesting that consumers who don't wish to be subject to the filter or the tax would just drive over the border to North Carolina to purchase a computer.