Hacker News: ogou

New comment by ogou in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

ogou — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:17:07 +0000

Most commercial websites, especially tech, run multiple A/B experiments in parallel to optimize signup funnels and tier conversions. Even so, there should always be a source of truth for people. We should have some way of verifying what we get for what we pay. There are laws about this as well.

This guy's casual and crass response is a sign of disrespect for customers. Unfortunately, that is pervasive in the industry. The bubbles these teams work in are corrosive to empathy and real world impact.

New comment by ogou in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

ogou — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:58:02 +0000

Thanks for the compliment. Linocuts and monotypes have been considered printmaking for hundreds of years. Those pen plots are also collaged and modified by hand, so not only mechanical. I see all that as traditional printmaking. As for having nothing to saw, there can be a lot of fulfillment in exploring basic themes, like geometric shapes or silhouettes of animals.

New comment by ogou in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

ogou — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:52:04 +0000

Not one actual app is mentioned. As with most articles that are about this, few if any public facing examples are described. Where are the lists of actual production software that was vibe coded and also successful?

New comment by ogou in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

ogou — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:20:41 +0000

Printmaking. In a tiny apartment I did linocuts and Gelli prints on my kitchen counter for a few months. https://lucidbeaming.com/art/prints

New comment by ogou in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

ogou — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:59:26 +0000

Everything is fandom now. I grew up around people obsessed with Nascar and NFL. So much of the discourse sounds exactly the same. It beats listening to people talk about their dogs though.

New comment by ogou in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

ogou — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:19:17 +0000

Don't sleep on Mistral. Highly underrated as a general service LLM. Cheaper, too. Their emphasis on bespoke modelling over generalized megaliths will pay off. There are all kinds of specialized datasets and restricted access stores that can benefit from their approach. Especially in highly regulated EU.

Not everyone is obsessed with code generation. There is a whole world out there.

New comment by ogou in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

ogou — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:30:22 +0000

https://joshuacurry.dev/chatjc

New comment by ogou in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

ogou — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:29:30 +0000

https://github.com/lucidbeaming/chatjc

New comment by ogou in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

ogou — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:28:42 +0000

https://github.com/lucidbeaming/chatjc

New comment by ogou in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

ogou — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:26:53 +0000

I did exactly that and open sourced the API for it. https://joshuacurry.dev/chatjc

New comment by ogou in "Show HN: ChatJC – chatbot for resume/LinkedIn/portfolio info"

ogou — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:22:39 +0000

It's more than time. That program requires explicit authorization from them. It's designed for larger corporate integrations, not developer experiments. I seriously I doubt I would get approved even if I went through all the paperwork. It's not just a matter of just signing up for an API key.

As for your plan, gathering user data is probably the main thing they want to prevent.

New comment by ogou in "Show HN: ChatJC – chatbot for resume/LinkedIn/portfolio info"

ogou — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:31:09 +0000

Manually. I went to my profile and saved 4 key pages as html. Then Claude converted those to markdown. Took less than 5 minutes. Automating that would have been more trouble than it's worth. The LinkedIn API is fairly useless unless you're in their partner program. Scraping could have gotten my account blocked because ToS violation. That core information rarely changes so it doesn't need to be dynamically imported anyway.

New comment by ogou in "Show HN: ChatJC – chatbot for resume/LinkedIn/portfolio info"

ogou — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:37:24 +0000

A RAG-powered chatbot API that answers questions about a developer's professional background. I built it with Hono, LangChain, Mistral AI, and SQLite. I serve it on a Svelte site for my dev portfolio, but it works as a general API as well.

I dumped all my job background info into it: resumes, LinkedIn, cover letter snippets, GitHub repos, recommendations, projects, languages, volunteering, personal work, and even the story of building the thing itself.

It uses structured markdown files I created from all that as a RAG context. It doesn't automatically ingest LinkedIn or other services.

Here it is live:

https://joshuacurry.dev/

Here is the anonymized and secured API repo for general release:

https://github.com/lucidbeaming/chatjc

Show HN: ChatJC – chatbot for resume/LinkedIn/portfolio info

ogou — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:37:24 +0000

Article URL: https://joshuacurry.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317751

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

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

ogou — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:28:27 +0000

  Location: San Francisco, CA
  Remote: Yes, prefer on-site/hybrid in SF
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Svelte 5 & Sveltekit, React & React Native, LangChain, Typescript, Node.js, PHP, Python, Linux admin, WCAG, UX/UI, Writing & content creation
  Résumé/CV: https://joshuacurry.dev
  Email: see dev portfolio above

15+ years frontend and full-stack. Lots of experience at content companies. Teaching, writing, video, and DevRel experience. Leadership experience. Recently leveled-up with a bunch of AI middleware courses.

New comment by ogou in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

ogou — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:42:30 +0000

The maker movement evolved. It didn't disappear. Once the tools became accessible to a much wider audience, such as children, it became an integrated aspect of education. It also became a cultural tool. The author is focusing on a very narrow path to monetization and manufacturing. That wasn't the goal of the movement at all. That was how startup pitches tried to capture the movement and extract value. I see 3D printing machines that create structures out of adobe now. Huge ones. I see whole niche industries coming from laser cutters and CnC machines. People who started on Arduino boards now build music synthesizers and modular synth components. That movement continues and now offers a wide array of dividends.

New comment by ogou in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

ogou — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:50:45 +0000

You're right, none of these new tools are disciplines. They are vendor specific approaches that are very recent. That's part of my overall point. Who is out there with 2+ years of very narrow tooling experience at another company at a senior level and is available for a rando startup (or desparate enterprise looking for bolt-on AI features) at a fraction of the pay? Not many, I'm sure. We can level up, do training, and maybe stand up a demo project. But that won't satisfy an ATS scan. It's unrealistic.

New comment by ogou in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

ogou — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:07:43 +0000

This is a good tooling survey of the past year. I have been watching it as a developer re-entering the job market. The job descriptions closely parallel the timeline used in the post. That's bizarre to me because these approaches are changing so fast. I see jobs for "Skill and Langchain experts with production-grade 0>1 experience. Former founders preferred". That is an expertise that is just a few months old and startups are trying to build whole teams overnight with it. I'm sure January and February will have job postings for whatever gets released that week. It's all so many sand castles.

New comment by ogou in "AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies"

ogou — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:03:59 +0000

There are multiple services that verify and rate NGOs and nonprofits. The key is to look them up on the service website and not just Google the name. Personally I use Guidestar, but that's for U.S. orgs.

New comment by ogou in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

ogou — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:47:06 +0000

According to the post, it's a usability issue of the open source app layer and not some failure of moderation principles. "Blacksky is dependent on Bluesky’s application server to give users a fast experience, which also means that it is dependent on Bluesky’s labeling system and its moderation choices." Also, Singal's name is mentioned multiple times throughout the the article in irrelevant contexts. I still see the agenda here and I've seen this tactic before.