Hacker News: heldrida

New comment by heldrida in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

heldrida — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:07:32 +0000

It happens to candidates! Let's not forget what we have to go through, 6 or 7-stage interview processes, that requires a lot of preparation, as if we don't deserve the time to have a life too. Fake jobs, scammers, dodgy "take-home tests" containing malicious packages, cancelled interviews on the day, cancellation of the role in the middle of the hiring process, change of hiring plans, requests to record videos before talking to someone, ghosting, interviewers not interested in interviewing, zero feedback, etc.

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

heldrida — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:36:32 +0000

Location: London (UK) Remote: Yes (Remote/Hybrid depending on location) Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Primarily Typescript, React, Bash, GitHub Actions

Résumé/CV: https://punkbit.com/docs/cv-punkbit-helder-oliveira.20260417...

Email: info (at) punkbit (dot) com

I'm a Product Engineer and a creative based in London. I’ve built full-stack applications across web, mobile, blockchain and embedded platforms. My client-side work includes React, Electron, Roku’s Scenegraph, and native iOS development with Swift and SwiftUI, always with a strong focus on UX and design-first thinking. On the service-side, I’ve worked with traditional service hosting, containers, and serverless, including (but not limited to) AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Workers, CloudFormation, SAM CLI, nodejs, bunjs, MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL, grpc, Redis, Docker, nginx, and a few legacy tools best left unnamed (yes, including CodeIgniter and ftp).

I’ve also developed developer tools like CLIs and SDKs, primarily Typescript/JavaScript land, and have written code in systems languages such as Rust and Zig.

I care about clean code, great UX, developer experience, documentation, rapid iteration and automating workflows with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Bash scripts, etc).

Also familiar with modern development practices by leveraging coding agents, such as pi, opencode, claude and LLM, including kimi over fireworks inference.

Want to know more? https://punkbit.com

New comment by heldrida in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

heldrida — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:21:33 +0000

Maybe they want to build their own cloud infrastructure, host open source models themselves as an inference service provider?

New comment by heldrida in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

heldrida — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:17:33 +0000

Just curious, given the $113M investment, and the state of the economy as you described. Why don’t you build it then?

New comment by heldrida in "Bodycam reveals UFO-linked general met Pentagon unit before he vanished"

heldrida — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:42:29 +0000

"Daily Mail" is an embarrassment! For example, naming Nuno Loureiro in these conspiracy theories is shameful; he was killed by an ex-colleague from IST in Lisbon due to jealousy.

New comment by heldrida in "Last.fm is now independent"

heldrida — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:33:08 +0000

They have a lot of users paying to track their listening habits; I'm surprised.

New comment by heldrida in "Last.fm is now independent"

heldrida — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:26:39 +0000

Originally, it kind of worked like radio; it curated music for you, you could like, comment or skip tracks. It'd reinforce the algorithm, and you'd start finding great artists. I liked the Blues catalogue a lot, even though I was listening to reggae, ska, punk, etc. It just seemed they had the best music catalogue. I remember checking how big the catalogue was, comparatively with others, which was much smaller, but much, much better!

Today, we have Generative AI, generating an incomprehensible number of songs that no one will ever listen to.

I don't remember if I had to pay for Last.fm or not back then, but I'd definitely pay to have access to that old system.

New comment by heldrida in "Last.fm is now independent"

heldrida — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:13:09 +0000

Last.fm used to be special, but this was a long time ago. Just tried to login, recovered the password and seems that its just a tracker nowadays. In the past I could listen to music and drop a comment, meet new people, etc.

New comment by heldrida in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

heldrida — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:33:41 +0000

I bought three Harley Benton models across the years. Fender is much better quality!

Bun unsafe audit (not the blog post)

heldrida — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:24:08 +0000

Article URL: https://bun.com/bun-unsafe-audit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229561

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

A hidden ClickHouse bottleneck slowed Cloudflare billing pipeline

heldrida — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:49:46 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/clickhouse-query-plan-contention/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135358

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by heldrida in "Bun's rewrite in Rust was merged"

heldrida — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:54:13 +0000

Consequently, one of the most popular projects in the web today just merged a single thousand of lines PR to main successfully without having to go through human comments and nitpicking! Do you understand what this means?

New comment by heldrida in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

heldrida — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:17:06 +0000

Makes sense! I’ve worked with teams where the main bottleneck wasn’t technical complexity or even the company itself; it was a people problem.

Things like long discussions over formatting that should just be enforced by linters, pushing non-idiomatic patterns despite official docs and tooling recommending otherwise, or turning simple problems into meetings scheduled “for next week”, "in two weeks", "let's have a meeting and invite everyone" instead of just fixing the issue and opening a PR. Which sometimes takes 10 minutes!

At some point it starts to feel like responsiveness and initiative are treated as threats rather than strengths. Autonomy and ownership matter a lot more than people realize. Wonder how that'll look like!

New comment by heldrida in "Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years"

heldrida — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:06:03 +0000

Related HN posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074260

A book was released…

20 years after the BBC mix-Up, Guy Goma's story becomes a book

heldrida — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:00:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO0kaSHAOSE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074260

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by heldrida in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

heldrida — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:38:26 +0000

Thats true, but the author might have decided on its own. Not everything is a marketing plan.

New comment by heldrida in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

heldrida — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:12:55 +0000

An update on Bun’s experimental migration from Zig to Rust:

The Rust rewrite now passes 99.8% of Bun’s pre-existing Linux x64 glibc test suite.

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

heldrida — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:12:55 +0000

https://xunroll.com/thread/2053047748191232310

Recent and related: Zig → Rust porting guide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880 - May 2026 (540 comments)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680

Points: 718

# Comments: 698

New comment by heldrida in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

heldrida — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:29:19 +0000

It seems that Bill.com and UpWork, too!

New comment by heldrida in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

heldrida — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:15:29 +0000

Wow! Is there any good read on that, like even if a "YouTube" show or something? This is quite interesting.