Hacker News: geuis

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

geuis — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:04:38 +0000

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript/JS, React, node.js, Redis, Postgres, pgvector, LLM agents, Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), ci/cd pipelines, other tech
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: charles@geuis.com

New comment by geuis in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

geuis — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:31:41 +0000

I'd like a security patch for 18. I have no desire to upgrade to iOS Vista or whatever it is we're calling it

New comment by geuis in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

geuis — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:54:21 +0000

I really hate to say it, but this article in particular needs a tldr. The author does a web recipe take. Don't put the actual factual info upfront and require parsing through everything to find anything important.

Kinda done with this.

If you have something important to say, say it up front and back it up with literature later.

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

geuis — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:41:20 +0000

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript/JS, React, node.js, Redis, Postgres, pgvector, LLM agents, Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), ci/cd pipelines, other tech
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: charles@geuis.com

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion and more books, dies at 77

geuis — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:51:22 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47192469

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by geuis in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

geuis — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:12:58 +0000

Ok.

I completely support the sentiment of what you wrote. But it doesn't directly seem relevant to the parent question.

New comment by geuis in "Colorado proposal moves age checks from websites to operating systems"

geuis — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:56:04 +0000

Query: Are there any current legal challenges to this rapid spread of age verification that have a chance of hitting the Supreme Court?

From my admittedly poor understand of legal stuff, these are largely proactive measures happening at company and state level. Congress nor Supreme Court have issued any rulings around this yet.

New comment by geuis in "OpenScan"

geuis — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:51:48 +0000

Love the idea. But it's not terribly useful. At least on mobile, there's no way to click into individual models. My expectation is that about be a feature so I can zoom and scan more closely on the models.

Again, just mobile experience, there's no way to download the models. That's fine if there are licensing issues. But the text needs to indicated this.

New comment by geuis in "xAI joins SpaceX"

geuis — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:09:59 +0000

Of course it isn't "too big to fail". Even banks aren't. Despite recent history large banks have failed often throughout history. There's no such thing. It may take down the supporting sovereign government (Dutch East Indies) but life goes on and new political orgs appear. People be people.

Too big to fail is a very recent modern myth. Go back 100+ years and lots of banks failed leading into the Great Depression.

Every system has a break point.

New comment by geuis in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

geuis — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:46:56 +0000

Not obvious. Astronomers are actively looking for signatures of exomoons around exoplanets. So "sun plus moon" could mean that too.

New comment by geuis in "The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)"

geuis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:23:32 +0000

Just a guess. But after the first couple of paragraphs I realized it was a tree. Kept reading. Yup. Tree.

The rain would move branches out of the way.

This is why experience helps. Good life and professional experience helps to short circuit many problems.

New comment by geuis in "Ask HN: Notification Overload"

geuis — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:23:09 +0000

Have dealt with the same issue.

Prefer mobile web over specific apps.

On your phone, turn on contacts-only for calls. Should also work for regular text messages.

If also using apps like WhatsApp there may be a similar app-level setting.

Get a couple of well reviewed ad blockers for your browser. I'm still astounded when I see people on their phones and dealing with ads. Especially YouTube. There are browser blockers that work for YouTube.

Adding to the previous point, never install/use a company's native app. You have NO control over that. Use their web version.

Addding to the previous point, iOS safari has an option to view any website in desktop mode. I imagine Android has something like that but I dunno. If a particular site has an annoying mobile web interface, try the desktop web version. If they don't allow that, use a different product. One case in point: I use Reddit heavily. I use old Reddit on web. Their app and mobile website are complete garbage.

Some ad blockers may help with the "accept cookies? Gdpr bullshit". I don't personally bother. They're fairly innocuous and the sites are collecting all cookies anyway so it doesn't matter.

The reason I'm not mentioning the specific web extensions I use is because despite being common and easy to find, I'm EXTREMELY hesitant to provide a curated list in a public forum that will get vacuumed up and probably lead to circumventions within a few weeks to months. This stuff is easy to find, is completely available in the platform-relevant app stores and only takes a little extra effort to customize after a couple of weeks of running into minor inconveniences. This isn't a "compile Linux from scratch" kind of problem.

New comment by geuis in "Proof of Corn"

geuis — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:21:49 +0000

That game is entirely too addictive especially at 3am.

New comment by geuis in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

geuis — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:07:32 +0000

Sounds like you could use some resume review help. And I'm not talking about bs AI linkedin level "resume review". I mean some review from someone who's been in the industry for a while. There's a way to contact me via my profile. If you can find that I'll try to help you out.

New comment by geuis in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

geuis — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:04:53 +0000

Screws weren't standardized until ww2. And even then, they really haven't been.

Related video for those curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKNB04slCUA&t=3s

New comment by geuis in "Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?"

geuis — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:59:43 +0000

I don't. I actually write code.

To answer the question more directly, I've spent the last couple of years with a few different quant models mostly running on llama.cpp and ollama, depending. The results are way slower than the paid token api versions, but they are completely free of external influence and cost.

However the models I've tests generally turn out to be pretty dumb at the quant level I'm running to be relatively fast. And their code generation capabilities are just a mess not to be dealt with.

New comment by geuis in "Slop Is Slop"

geuis — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:29:26 +0000

Rewatched The Matrix the other night. The on-board food nozzles seem like an apt visual metaphor for ai slop.

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

geuis — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:56:23 +0000

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yesd
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript/JS, React, node.js, Redis, Postgres, pgvector, LLM agents, Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), ci/cd pipelines, other tech
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: charles@geuis.com

Senior engineer with 15+ years of full stack and backend experience, as well as experience at startups and as a founder.

New comment by geuis in "Ask HN: How did you learn to code?"

geuis — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:06:44 +0000

BASIC on an Apple II back in elementary school. That was at least my first exposure.

A few years later, it wasn't exactly programming but I was able to learn a bit about assembly on Macs in the 90s with ResEdit.

New comment by geuis in "US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee"

geuis — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:48:06 +0000

Almost absolutely everything you said is not true.

I almost get the sense you aren't a US citizen.