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

mustaphah — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:17:28 +0000

Location: Baghdad (UTC+3)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends

Technologies: TypeScript/Node, Ruby/Rails, Python, frontend (JS, React, Tailwind, ...), microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub, Redis, Postgres/MySQL, Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Splunk, Kubernetes/Docker, Ansible.

Website: https://hadid.dev

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GitHub: https://github.com/mhadidg

Email: career+hn @ [my website domain]

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Hi! I'm a backend engineer (~8 YOE) with strong backend & DevOps experience and decent frontend skills. Looking for a backend or backend-leaning full-stack role.

I worked at Automattic (US), the company behind WordPress; fully remote, async teams across the globe.

I've worked with time-sensitive, high-throughput, distributed services (millions of ops daily) and owned features and small- to mid-sized projects end-to-end from design to deployment. I do my best working autonomously, and I like to think of myself as a generalist.

I've been part of teams focused on speed and rapid iteration, and I've also worked on high-quality systems where long-term maintainability and reliability matter the most. I'm a pretty flexible and adaptable person.

New comment by mustaphah in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

mustaphah — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:10:01 +0000

Maybe this explain it:

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-just-discovered-that-a-hi...

New comment by mustaphah in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

mustaphah — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:15:55 +0000

That's a fair clarification.

I never said we have sufficient evidence to act. But "too good to be true" + "singular paper" together can become an unfalsifiable dismissal - by that logic, every important result looks suspicious before it replicates. The interesting question is what priors should update our confidence here.

Stanford/Arc Institute and published in Nature + mechanistic grounding + prior research on gut-brain axis gives me way more confidence than average, but you're right, that's not nearly enough for most, but quite sufficient for me, and surely others with informed priors or a strong motive.

New comment by mustaphah in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

mustaphah — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:37:00 +0000

I guess "too good to be true" is not a decent argument to convince a rational mind

Tell HN: Claude two rate limits don't know about each other

mustaphah — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:23:21 +0000

I was using Claude actively today right before my weekly limits reset. Weekly quota is now fresh - 0% used. But the session limit doesn't care. It's still at 100% from the previous session, so I'm locked out for another ~4 hours despite having a full week of quota available.

I get that session limits exist to manage burst load, but shouldn't a weekly reset also reset the session? Feels like a gap in the UX.

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/67D7tNHN

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364121

Points: 2

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New comment by mustaphah in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

mustaphah — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:51:52 +0000

> After you read a lot of those you learn not to take individual papers seriously

Can't disagree, but keep in mind that almost all meds are tested first in mice/animal models before human trials verify the effects.

New comment by mustaphah in "Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication"

mustaphah — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:25:54 +0000

I guess it's because most major disorders and diseases have so many pathways at play that figuring out which one's actually causing the problem at the individual level is just too tricky.

The other thing concerns how potent the effect is to be therapeutic. In many cases, the effect is just marginal to be meaningful.

New comment by mustaphah in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

mustaphah — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:04:49 +0000

Chili could work [1], but not too much of it [2]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27079706/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31137805/

New comment by mustaphah in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

mustaphah — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:47:56 +0000

Yeah, it's a mouse study, but there are tons of human studies backing the whole gut-brain connection. There are even a bunch of books on it [1][2].

What's really cool is that the paper used low-dose capsaicin (just 5 μg/kg injected), and it completely restored hippocampal FOS activity and memory in older mice. Basically, that's the same stuff you get in cayenne pepper supplements - pretty easy to get your hands on.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28837738-the-mind-gut-co...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35210457-the-psychobioti...

Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice

mustaphah — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353533

Points: 386

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Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged

mustaphah — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://metr.org/notes/2026-03-10-many-swe-bench-passing-prs-would-not-be-merged-into-main/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341645

Points: 278

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New comment by mustaphah in "[dead]"

mustaphah — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:03:52 +0000

Well, it's fixed now. Apparently, Claude Code was still up and running!

New comment by mustaphah in "[dead]"

mustaphah — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:54:59 +0000

I'd bet it's Cloudflare's fault

AGI is an unscientific myth

mustaphah — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:22:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23738871.2025.2597194

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172173

Points: 4

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New comment by mustaphah in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

mustaphah — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:53:50 +0000

Even worse, I got contacted through YC Jobs (workatastartup.com) with a message that was basically: "Star, fork, and submit PRs to our open-source repo and we'll review you for a contract."

I immediately realize it's engagement farming + free labor. I said "No thanks."

Got this reply: "(...) I'm looking forward to reviewing your PRs. Feel free to share me any of your questions. (...)"

Apparently, no one read my reply - not even AI. They are automating this shit. It's sad that many fall for it (check their Github repo)

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Company: Aden (W20)

Contact: Vincent Jiang, Founder

Github: https://github.com/aden-hive/hive

New comment by mustaphah in "Never buy a .online domain"

mustaphah — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:19:08 +0000

Worth noting: emails from .online domain (and many other TLDs [1]) are also way more likely to end up in the spam folder.

https://www.spamhaus.org/reputation-statistics/gtlds/malware...

Web Verbs

mustaphah — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:09:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nlweb-ai/MSR-Web-Verbs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111603

Points: 1

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New comment by mustaphah in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

mustaphah — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:09:37 +0000

That's been my experience too; can't disagree. Still, when it comes to tasks that require deep intelligence (esp. mathematical reasoning [1]), Gemini has consistently been the best.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10177

New comment by mustaphah in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

mustaphah — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:42:34 +0000

Google is terrible at marketing, but this feels like a big step forward.

As per the announcement, Gemini 3.1 Pro score 68.5% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, which makes it the top performer on the Terminus 2 harness [1]. That harness is a "neutral agent scaffold," built by researchers at Terminal-Bench to compare different LLMs in the same standardized setup (same tools, prompts, etc.).

It's also taken top model place on both the Intelligence Index & Coding Index of Artificial Analysis [2], but on their Agentic Index, it's still lagging behind Opus 4.6, GLM-5, Sonnet 4.6, and GPT-5.2.

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[1] https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0?agents=...

[2] https://artificialanalysis.ai

OpenAI's 5-month experiment: building a product with no human-written code

mustaphah — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:02:46 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063238

Points: 2

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