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New comment by ludwigvan in "Claude Duet"

ludwigvan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:03:11 +0000

It should. They consolidated their AI offerings last week. You may need to link cursor and grok first.

You need the 30$ premium plan.

https://x.ai/news/x-subscription

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

ludwigvan — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:18:43 +0000

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (UTC+3)

Remote: Yes; European working hours or US Eastern morning overlap

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python/Django, Go, TypeScript/Node.js, React/Next.js, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Vercel AI SDK, LangGraph

Résumé/CV: https://ustunozgur.com/Ustun_Ozgur_CV_Eng.pdf

Email: ustun@ustunozgur.com

GitHub: https://github.com/ustun

I'm looking for a hands-on Staff/Principal or founding engineer role in backend, platform or applied AI. I've spent 15+ years building products and infrastructure for US startups, including as a founding engineer, CTO and VP of Engineering.

Some of my work:

Edge Delta: Built Go backend services and led the platform-wide Angular-to-React migration.

Braid Health: Led engineering in a 3–4 person team building healthcare software for customers including Walmart Health. Worked across the product, EHR integrations and CouchDB/Kubernetes infrastructure.

SellerCrowd: CTO and lead developer of a Django/React platform serving more than 20,000 members.

Most recently, I built an internal AI knowledge assistant with custom tools connecting GitHub, Linear and company resources. The same engagement included AWS/Terraform infrastructure and security controls supporting SOC 2 Type II audit readiness.

I'm particularly interested in developer tools, enterprise integrations, and the backend/platform work behind AI products. I'm also open to broader backend and product engineering roles where I can own substantial parts of the system.

Open to full-time or long-term contract work.

New comment by ludwigvan in "When did Google get so weird?"

ludwigvan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:43:07 +0000

> In 2014 the Philadelphia 76ers drafted Dario Saric, who was playing basketball professionally in Turkey at the time. He announced his intention to finish out his contract in Turkey, meaning he wouldn't come to the USA join the Sixers for a couple of years.

Trivia: Dario Saric returned to Turkey this year after spending 9 years in the NBA.

New comment by ludwigvan in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

ludwigvan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:56:56 +0000

To the contrary, isn’t the phrase the orange site used as a derogatory sense here? I have seen it used when authors think HN audience just criticize everything without substance.

New comment by ludwigvan in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

ludwigvan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:11:39 +0000

Accessibility -> Motion -> Vehicle Motion Cues.

This is on Tahoe, not sure about earlier versions.

New comment by ludwigvan in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

ludwigvan — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:49:44 +0000

Just to be clear, enterprise companies are using the enterprise option for security/auditing/enforcement reasons, not because OpenAI or Anthropic forbids them from buying a 200$/month plan for each engineer, right? Do they have any clause forbidding using those individual plans in a company?

New comment by ludwigvan in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

ludwigvan — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:20:59 +0000

I sometimes use SimplyNoise to have brown noise for sleeping or filter out distracting sounds in the office.

Also, iOS has background (white noise etc) sounds built-in: https://support.apple.com/en-us/109346 Android has something similar too?

We also installed triple-layered windows for sound insulation, but I believe it degraded the quality of the air, so sometimes have to open the windows for a few minutes before sleep to get fresh air.

New comment by ludwigvan in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

ludwigvan — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:44:25 +0000

> Can you please share some insights as to what gives it away.

The article uses too much contrast even if not as obvious as "it's not x, it is y". Also some too punchy or over confident stuff like "that era is over blah blah".

Amusingly, you can feed it to an AI to extract the patterns that gives away that it is AI written.

New comment by ludwigvan in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

ludwigvan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:21:38 +0000

I had the misfortune of having to use Azure back in 2018 and was appalled at the lack of quality, slowness. I was in GitHub forums, helping other customers suffering from lack of basic functionality, incredible prices with abysmal performance. This article explains a lot honestly.

Google’s Cloud feels like the best engineered one, though lack of proper human support is worrying there compared to AWS.

New comment by ludwigvan in "[dead]"

ludwigvan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:06:03 +0000

With the recent supply chain attacks that exfiltrate your .env files, it becomes important to find and shield those .env files

New comment by ludwigvan in "JavaScript Is Enough"

ludwigvan — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:57:58 +0000

React hooks always struck me as object-oriented programming reinvented through the back door of functions. We started with pure components, decided we needed state after all, and ended up with magic functions that stash and retrieve state from some hidden context — essentially re-deriving this with worse ergonomics and an implicit ordering contract. Some part of it was the functional language paradigms like immutability that were popular elsewhere at the time bolted on to JavaScript.

What I find refreshing about Gea is that it doesn't fight the language. Stores are classes. Computed values are getters. State mutation is just assignment. I've been waiting for a framework that embraces the actual paradigms of the language it's written in, rather than inventing a parallel universe of conventions. Excited to try this one.

That said, I'm genuinely curious where the edges are. Was React's complexity accidental due to its architecture or was it the price of solving genuinely hard problems (concurrent rendering, suspense boundaries, fine-grained error recovery) (which by the way most consumers of the library did not care that much about)?

Does Gea's simplicity hold up as apps get complex, or will we eventually hit patterns where the escape hatch is the complexity React already internalized?

New comment by ludwigvan in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

ludwigvan — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:18:50 +0000

I am also interested if this is the case. Anyone have any scientific evidence for this?

New comment by ludwigvan in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

ludwigvan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:50:14 +0000

> The people in charge of AI keep telling me to hate it

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei deserves a special mention here. Paints the grimmest possible future, so that when/if things go sideways, he can point back and say, "Hey, I warned you. I did my part."

Probably there is a psychological term that explains this phenomenon, I asked ChatGPT and it said it could be considered "anticipatory blame-shifting" or "moral licensing".

New comment by ludwigvan in "GitHub is down again"

ludwigvan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:47:58 +0000

Probably referring to the fact that they no longer are independent, do not have a CEO and are a division of a division within Microsoft.

New comment by ludwigvan in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

ludwigvan — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:05:17 +0000

Seems like an official ClaudeBot from Anthropic is in the works, then?

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

ludwigvan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:06:53 +0000

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (remote, overlap with US East Coast mornings & EU business hours)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Go, Python/Django, AI/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini), PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS/Azure/GCP

Resume/CV: https://ustunozgur.com/Ustun_Ozgur_CV_Eng.pdf

Email: ustun@ustunozgur.com

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Founding engineer / fractional CTO — I build AI-powered SaaS products from zero to production.

15+ years, mostly at US startups as employee #1 or early hire:

- *Runy* (2025): Head of Engineering. Built the MVP for a NYC property management startup—led a team of 6, shipped in 5 months.

- *Edge Delta* (2023-2025): Senior Engineer at this Seattle observability company. Built an AI chatbot that lets users manipulate a visual pipeline builder through natural language. Owned billing infrastructure.

- *Braid Health* (2020-2023): VP of Engineering & Principal Engineer. Integrated ML model outputs into clinician-facing radiology tools. Full-stack: React frontend, TypeScript backend, Python for ML models, cloud infrastructure.

- *Toolio* (2019-2020): Founding Engineer. Built the technical foundation for this NYC retail merchandise planning SaaS.

- *SellerCrowd* (2011-2017): CTO. Built a Django/React social network for the ad industry from scratch to 20,000+ users.

*Background:* MSc EE from Bilkent, where I did research under Prof. Erdal Arıkan (inventor of polar codes, now foundational to 5G). Conference speaker (DjangoCon Europe, Øredev).

Open to: founding engineer roles, fractional CTO engagements, or contract work on AI integration / SaaS architecture / observability systems.

New comment by ludwigvan in "Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time"

ludwigvan — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:13:50 +0000

I hate mosquitoes with a passion. Might be the only species that I would want eradicated from Earth.

From my experience (based in Turkey), mosquitoes seem to be getting more and more resilient. They have become an annoyance even in autumn, and I recall catching one last winter. A few decades ago, they used to only appear in late spring and summer. Anyone have a similar experience elsewhere?

New comment by ludwigvan in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)"

ludwigvan — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:31:20 +0000

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (remote, overlap US/EU timezones)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Python/Django, AI/LLMs, ML integration

Portfolio: https://ustunozgur.com

Email: ustun@ustunozgur.com

Founding Engineer for hire — I specialize in building AI SaaS from scratch.

I have ~20 years of experience and have been a founding engineer or senior engineer at multiple US startups:

- Edge Delta (observability): built an AI chatbot to manipulate the visual pipeline builder

- Runy (real estate): AI-driven property management platform

- Braid Health (AI radiology): integrated AI outputs into clinician-facing tools

- Toolio (retail SaaS), SellerCrowd (adtech marketplace)

I take products from 0→1: fast MVPs, production-ready SaaS, and AI-powered features that real users rely on. Open to early-stage full-time roles, fractional CTO, or contract positions.

New comment by ludwigvan in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2025)"

ludwigvan — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:29:57 +0000

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (remote, overlap US/EU timezones)

Remote: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Python/Django, AI/LLMs, ML workflows

Portfolio: https://ustunozgur.com

Email: ustun@ustunozgur.com

Freelance engineer available for early-stage startups. I specialize in building AI SaaS products from zero to production.

Recent work:

- Edge Delta: built an AI chatbot to manipulate their pipeline builder with natural language

- Runy: AI-driven property management platform

- Braid Health: integrated AI-assisted diagnostics into radiology workflows

- Previously: Toolio (retail SaaS), SellerCrowd (adtech marketplace)

What I offer:

- Rapid AI-powered MVP development (weeks, not months)

- LLM/chatbot/ML integration into SaaS

- Fractional CTO support (architecture + hands-on)

Looking for short- or medium-term freelance projects or ongoing fractional CTO work.

New comment by ludwigvan in "JavaScript Trademark Update"

ludwigvan — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 09:14:59 +0000

This is one of my all-time favorite talks! So good. Thank you Bryan Cantrill!