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New comment by hurrrr in "Monzo Stand-In"

hurrrr — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:25:57 +0000

I've never run a bank either, but their current setup is very cost effective. A true multi cloud architecture would be "much" (a couple of 9s) more available, but I believe it would introduce other issues. The goal was to ensure the use of a subset of features for short periods of time, which is probably already above the market standard.

SpacetimeDB: a short technical review

hurrrr — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:19:53 +0000

Article URL: https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378933

Points: 114

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New comment by hurrrr in "Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis"

hurrrr — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:34:41 +0000

everybody knows that bankers in manhattan throws their plastic bottle into the hudson from their skyscrapers

New comment by hurrrr in "Challenging the Narrative of European Decline"

hurrrr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:53:56 +0000

I'm European. I think Europe’s main problem is that its leaders and citizens are more concerned with how to distribute wealth than with creating it. In many countries, much more importance is placed on pensions than on the education of the younger generations.

Krugman’s analysis may well be accurate, but the problem is that China is now beginning to assert itself in sectors where Europe used to be strong (manufacturing, automotive, etc.). If our software is American and our hardware is Chinese, who will pay for the pensions?

Chasing Two Sigmas: Preparing for the Power-Law Era of Software Engineering

hurrrr — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://laflamme.io/posts/chasing-two-sigmas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733985

Points: 1

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New comment by hurrrr in "Europe converged rapidly on the United States before stagnating"

hurrrr — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:48:08 +0000

Yes, but this only works as long as the economy remains competitive. Europe is rapidly squandering the human and economic capital it has accumulated over centuries, while the US and Asia continue to grow. Welfare exists as long as someone pays for it.

New comment by hurrrr in "Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024)"

hurrrr — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 08:56:26 +0000

This is a bit naive. Why are the same companies that do RTO starting to replace SWE in the US with counterparts in India/Poland/Romania?

New comment by hurrrr in "Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience"

hurrrr — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:50:54 +0000

The best cars were built between 2000 and 2010. Pretty much the pinnacle of the internal combustion engine without all the millions of lines of buggy code that apparently no longer allow you to open your car freely.

Help Your Body Heal Ep. 1 – Plants Meat and Carbs [video]

hurrrr — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:13:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyuA2BTfcnA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41323997

Points: 1

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New comment by hurrrr in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

hurrrr — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:02:00 +0000

can you share some names of these hft/crypto firms?

New comment by hurrrr in "Ask HN: How to get into quantitative trading?"

hurrrr — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 06:41:58 +0000

What are some great Twitter account to follow?

New comment by hurrrr in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)"

hurrrr — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:55:11 +0000

what is the remote policy? on the company website only a few positions are listed as remote.

New comment by hurrrr in "Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data"

hurrrr — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:21:17 +0000

The reality is: they have the data and the data shows that productivity is more or less the same. However, they (the execs) prefer to have everyone back in the office to keep tax incentives, real estate value and probably also because they (old school executives with strong people skills) genuinely think that in office is better.

New comment by hurrrr in "Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out"

hurrrr — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:51:50 +0000

Amazon does not have data to motivate the RTO

Source:

- https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-no-data-re...

- https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-relies-o...

New comment by hurrrr in "Meta threatens to fire workers for return-to-office infractions in leaked memo"

hurrrr — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:22:50 +0000

I work remotely and I'am a big remote work enthusiast and I think that Meta is right on this one. They are (at least at the moment) one of the most remote friendly company among the big tech ones and I think that they are following the plan that Zuck draw. He never said that Meta would become a fully remote company overnight. In fact in may 2020 he said the he expects half of the company to work remotely in 5 to 10 years[1]. Around 25% of the Meta workforce is remote and this figure could increase. They are also the only company that admitted that onboarding is harder remotely. This can happen for a number of reasons (for example, processes not optimized for remote workers and not for an inherently inferiority of remote work) and the fact that they also said that engineers that switch from office/hybrid to remote performs the same as the ones in offices suggests that they are not done with remote work. I guess we'll see how it will end, but I don't think that a cautios approach to remote work must necessarily be considered negative.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/zuckerberg-50percent-of-face...

New comment by hurrrr in "The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent"

hurrrr — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 20:14:06 +0000

I think that the Gartner hype cycle can be applied to remote work. The peak was in 2022 and now we are in the trough of disillusionment. I think that an improvement in market conditions (low rates), the realization that remote first/fully remote can work at scale (it's a matter of time before the remote startups founded in the last 3 years will become unicorn/decacorn) and a stabilization in the commercial real estate and service sector (a huge crash is an hard pill to swallow, let the market adjust slowly) will push remote work In The slope of enlightenment.

New comment by hurrrr in "Ask HN: What is the most complex software that you have built/worked on?"

hurrrr — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:36:47 +0000

cool. can you share more? what was the most difficult challenge? is something open source?

Ask HN: What is the most complex software that you have built/worked on?

hurrrr — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:50:18 +0000

For example: a distributed system with multiple databases and a lot of data, some high frequency trading system with ultra low latency, etc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36359806

Points: 26

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New comment by hurrrr in "A new CEO says employees can’t work remotely after all, and they revolt"

hurrrr — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:28:24 +0000

> CEOs are actually smart, rational people who can think 2-3 steps ahead

the same CEOs that decided to over hire during the pandemic and then started to layoff people when money stopped going in?

New comment by hurrrr in "Fire Sale: $300M San Francisco Office Tower, Mostly Empty"

hurrrr — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:23:44 +0000

Remote work became mainstream only 3 years ago. It's early for this kind of considerations. Let's see in 5 years how many remote first unicorn there are going to be.