Hacker News: knbrlo

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

knbrlo — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:04:18 +0000

Location:

    - Lehi, Utah, USA
    - Remote: Yes, remote-only
    - Willing to relocate: No
    - Technologies: Go, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, SpiceDB, Stripe Connect, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Claude/OpenAI APIs, Eleven Labs

20+ years shipping production SaaS. Currently CTO of Allset (AI-native ops for construction trades) — multi-tenant, Stripe Connect, mobile + web; just shipped to AWS this week. Before Allset: 10 years at a private SaaS where I cut $1M+ from the AWS bill, ending as Principal Engineer. Ex-Microsoft.

I ship full features end-to-end using on a real production codebase, not a prototype.

Looking for a 12-24 month senior IC seat at a YC or AI-native startup:

• Founding Engineer / early eng at a recently-funded YC company • Forward-Deployed Engineer at a funded AI startup • Senior staff IC where speed + ownership matter

Email: kenbrlow@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/knbrlo/· X: @knbrlo

New comment by knbrlo in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

knbrlo — Fri, 10 May 2024 13:34:54 +0000

Even if it didn't have the intended effect of making everyone feel good, at least everyone is talking about it so in a sense it worked in Apple's favor.

New comment by knbrlo in "Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work"

knbrlo — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:40:49 +0000

This is exactly it. When you see story after story from corporate news outlets, pushing the idea that work from home causes all these mental health issues for everyone, work from home is isolating, work from home is bad for the company. It’s all because there is a vested interest somewhere. When you understand their base motivations, you understand why certain stories are ran on the news and others are not. Their base motivations are always money.

For some organizations, they do care about money, and people which is a shocking thing and yes it can be done. If employees are making their performance requirements, and the choices left to the employee that seems like the best case to support people and profit. It’s when that choice is taken away from people that you know the pure motivation is a vested interest in commercial real estate somewhere.

Also, no amount of complaining online is going to change any of this. News outlets have armies of reporters and endless amounts of money to run story after story until the narrative becomes what they want it to be. So, stepping out of the negative mindset for just a minute, just go work somewhere else that’s remote.

New comment by knbrlo in "LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short"

knbrlo — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:26:08 +0000

When publications put out things like this it reminds me of why I can't trust them. They're writing this article for clicks and attention and to feed that side of society that constantly pulls us down about what's not possible while the publication makes money from taking the other side of a issue. It's plain corruption.

New comment by knbrlo in "Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents?"

knbrlo — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 04:40:55 +0000

That’s a really good question, to go with that I wonder how are you thinking about interfacing with that once it’s been trained?

New comment by knbrlo in "Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?"

knbrlo — Sat, 14 May 2022 15:34:47 +0000

One word: Todoist.

- I've been using it for 7 years and there's nothing better out there.

New comment by knbrlo in "Inside the longest Atlassian outage"

knbrlo — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:13:22 +0000

My current employer uses Jira but we seem to have not been affected by this. Hopefully those customers affected are able to press Atlassian for improvements from notification time, backups, usability etc.

New comment by knbrlo in "You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen when mic is off"

knbrlo — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:11:38 +0000

Assuming the app that's using the microphone would still need to have hardware access to be able to switch back on when someone unmutes themselves, couldn't there be a higher level API within the OS that still allowed hardware access but wouldn't allow input through so that the audio couldn't be captured in third party apps? Seems like this is an OS issue that Microsoft, Apple and Linux team need to work on if that isn't already the case.

New comment by knbrlo in "The nightmare that colleges face this fall"

knbrlo — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 01:29:19 +0000

Everyone already knows the answer which is that the most adaptable schools will generate new revenue streams offering more online degrees. It’s stupid to assume that all students are willing to take the risk to show up in person when there isn’t even a vaccine. Most schools are scared about the money they’re going to lose yet they’re forgetting how much they could make if they just decided to be more adaptable and flexible.

New comment by knbrlo in "Amazon Seeks Permission to Launch 3k Internet Satellites"

knbrlo — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 04:47:41 +0000

You’ll be able to summon Alexa from anywhere... without even owning an Amazon device! :)