Hacker News: gbrits

New comment by gbrits in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

gbrits — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:15:01 +0000

Location: Netherlands / GMT+2

Remote: Yes. Experienced with US / UK clients; open to timezone overlap.

Willing to relocate: No, occasional travel OK.

Technologies: Data engineering, backend architecture, event-driven systems, low-latency pipelines, analytics infrastructure, product engineering, Node.js, ClickHouse, DuckDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, Vue, Tailwind

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: gbritsgmailcom

Hands-on CTO / principal engineer with 20+ years in software engineering. Technical co-founder, CTO/CPO, architect, fractional product owner, and engineering lead.

I work best at the intersection of architecture and implementation: designing data-heavy systems well, then staying close enough to the engineering to keep latency, operability, failure modes, and tradeoffs grounded in reality.

Selected work: fractional lead/architect for ground-up KPI platform rewrite; 5-person FTE team; company later exited for €10M. CTO/CPO for crypto/data product; live matching of 1M+ complex dynamic slices against continuous on-chain/off-chain metric streams; high-throughput, near-real-time latency suitable for trading workflows. ClickHouse-backed worker pipelines processing billions of rows/day while preserving near-real-time downstream availability.

Looking for freelance, contract, fractional CTO, principal engineer, technical lead, or data engineering work.

Best fit: backend-heavy products, analytics/data infrastructure, complex internal tools, low-latency pipelines, or early-stage teams that need one senior person with both breadth and depth.

New comment by gbrits in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

gbrits — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:40:38 +0000

Location: Netherlands / GMT+2

Remote: Yes. Experienced with US / UK clients; open to timezone overlap.

Willing to relocate: No, occasional travel OK.

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: gbrits@gmail.com

Hands-on CTO / principal engineer with 20+ years in software engineering. Technical co-founder, CTO/CPO, architect, fractional product owner, and engineering lead.

Looking for freelance, contract, fractional CTO, principal engineer, technical lead, or data engineering work. Best fit: backend-heavy products, analytics/data infrastructure, complex internal tools, low-latency pipelines, or early-stage teams that need one senior person with both breadth and depth.

New comment by gbrits in "Everything I know about good API design"

gbrits — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:59:05 +0000

Indeed. Extending idempotency to the response not merely the action wherever possible

New comment by gbrits in "What happens when clergy take psilocybin"

gbrits — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:22:24 +0000

Fwiw at least xtc and coke can be legally tested in the Netherlands. https://www.drugs-test.nl/en/testlocations/

New comment by gbrits in "A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years"

gbrits — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:15:18 +0000

Imagine iPhones with Geiger counters. Nicely aggregated in bite sized daily stats through Apple health

New comment by gbrits in "Show HN: ScratchDB – Open-Source Snowflake on ClickHouse"

gbrits — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:51:33 +0000

Congrats with the launch. This looks great. Inferring schemas on the fly is awesome to get started quickly, but are there ways to explicitly define a schema if I wanted to? For example, thinking of setting column specific compression

New comment by gbrits in "How to Build Your Own AI-Generated Images with ControlNet and Stable Diffusion"

gbrits — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:23:55 +0000

Yep. Lora's are the easiest way to go. Loads of tutorials on Youtube. This is a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70H03cv57-o

New comment by gbrits in "Autocomplete – A JavaScript library for building autocomplete experiences"

gbrits — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:31:54 +0000

Isn't the Angolia backend just one of the possible 'sources' as they put it? You can easily add your own backend as a source I imagine

New comment by gbrits in "ChatGPT plugins now support Postgres and Supabase"

gbrits — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:29:43 +0000

Awesome! Going to check it out

New comment by gbrits in "ChatGPT plugins now support Postgres and Supabase"

gbrits — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:15:54 +0000

Slightly tangent, but it would be really powerful to be able to train a model (through LoRa probably) on your datawarehouse, having table structures of facts and dimensions.

Self service BI would be a solved problem. No more building tedious widgets, but simply ask ChatGPT or similar for 'last 5 yours pNl by business unit'. Bonus points if based on cardinality, etc. it will properly choose the correct chart type (e.g.: stacked bar).

New comment by gbrits in "The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT"

gbrits — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 23:25:27 +0000

Q: But what if all signs in the building are in mirror writing? A: If all signs in the building are in mirror writing, it would be a consistent theme throughout the building. In this case, the "push" sign written in mirror writing on the glass door should also be interpreted in the context of the building's theme. As a result, you should still push the door as the sign indicates, even though it's written in mirror writing.

New comment by gbrits in "Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL"

gbrits — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 01:00:19 +0000

I for one would welcome a second blogpost with the stateful example. I’ve been doing running totals (basically balances based on adding financial tx per account) but had to do it in some client code because I couldn’t figure out how to do a stateful resume in Sql

New comment by gbrits in "Show HN: A benchmark for analytical databases (Snowflake, Druid, Redshift)"

gbrits — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:40:43 +0000

Clickhouse support for Tableplus landed 2 months ago. https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus/issues/670

New comment by gbrits in "Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg"

gbrits — Tue, 17 May 2022 18:11:18 +0000

mea culpa

New comment by gbrits in "Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg"

gbrits — Tue, 17 May 2022 18:03:14 +0000

DAI did not loose peg. This story is completely fabricated. There's a tendency on HN to hate on everything crypto, but come on. Please just look at the data.

In fact, along side USDC and BUSD, DAI is (or at least has been) trading at a slight premium the last couple of days.

New comment by gbrits in "Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components"

gbrits — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:45:21 +0000

If you can spare the $200 or something and you need a solid base to work from, Tailwind UI is the best money can buy.

New comment by gbrits in "Ask HN: What would you do with a million dollars today?"

gbrits — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:20:52 +0000

So short vol?

New comment by gbrits in "Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes"

gbrits — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:59:37 +0000

check 12

New comment by gbrits in "Ligne Claire"

gbrits — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:45:54 +0000

Same here. The semi-realistic backdrops is what's most off-putting to me. Part cartoon / part realistic messes with my suspension of disbelief or something

New comment by gbrits in "RabbitMQ Streams Overview"

gbrits — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:16:56 +0000

This seems comparable to redis streams. How is it different?