Hacker News: punkbit

New comment by punkbit in "Amazon Cuts Jobs in Artificial General Intelligence Unit"

punkbit — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:35:33 +0000

paywall article

New comment by punkbit in "Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

punkbit — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:43:21 +0000

I enjoyed reading this article and learned a lot from it.

Lately I’ve been writing on paper again, sharpening pencils and slowing down. It helps me stay closer to my own thoughts and to a more human pace.

A pencil is just a tool too, but a very unique one. It disappears if we abuse it, leaving only the traces of our existence.

New comment by punkbit in "Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1"

punkbit — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:10:51 +0000

That’s true! Naysayers keep mentioning it’s due to over hiring during Covid. I’d say it’s AI investment related and AI replacing a lot of software needs. Plus, people seem to use just a couple applications or platforms nowadays.

New comment by punkbit in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

punkbit — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:25:13 +0000

C’mon! So, when HR manages to get real candidates, why do we have to go through 8 stage of interviews that take months? It’s humiliating.

New comment by punkbit in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

punkbit — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:12:00 +0000

Imagine spending 6 to 8 hours a day looking for opportunities and nothing for 1, 2 years. What are people supposed to do?

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

punkbit — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:03:58 +0000

Yes, got contract work and got a couple offers too. In the past, hired developers from the list, as a hiring manager in a previous company. Overall, it’s quite hard to predict but better than nothing!

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

punkbit — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:27:06 +0000

Location: London (UK)

Remote: Yes (Remote/Hybrid depending on location)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Primarily Typescript, React, Bash, GitHub Actions

Résumé/CV: https://punkbit.com/docs/cv-punkbit-helder-oliveira.20260417...

Email: info (at) punkbit (dot) com

I'm a Product Engineer and a creative based in London. I’ve built full-stack applications across web, mobile, blockchain and embedded platforms. My client-side work includes React, Electron, Roku’s Scenegraph, and native iOS development with Swift and SwiftUI, always with a strong focus on UX and design-first thinking. On the service-side, I’ve worked with traditional service hosting, containers, and serverless, including (but not limited to) AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Workers, CloudFormation, SAM CLI, nodejs, bunjs, MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL, grpc, Redis, Docker, nginx, and a few legacy tools best left unnamed (yes, including CodeIgniter and ftp).

I’ve also developed developer tools like CLIs and SDKs, primarily Typescript/JavaScript land, and have written code in systems languages such as Rust and Zig.

I care about clean code, great UX, developer experience, documentation, rapid iteration and automating workflows with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Bash scripts, etc).

Also familiar with modern development practices by leveraging coding agents, such as pi, opencode, claude and LLM, including kimi over fireworks inference.

Want to know more? https://punkbit.com

New comment by punkbit in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"

punkbit — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:01:00 +0000

Would they be the same person? I'd risk sounding ignorant and say they wouldn't. They could be fed the same food and knowledge, but what shapes them is every random factor encountered in the real world. How would they react when reading or hearing about all the hate they are guilty of without ever participating in it? It's not their lived experience.

New comment by punkbit in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

punkbit — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:47:06 +0000

Are you suggesting using AI/Agents to apply for roles?

New comment by punkbit in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

punkbit — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:37:41 +0000

This is actually impressive. If it can output each frame as layers, even more.

New comment by punkbit in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

punkbit — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:34:28 +0000

Sadly, some people believe that Generative AI output is the same; I find it very hard to watch and extremely cringe. I did see some good examples, but still not the same type of quality. For untrained eyes, all look the same, but I'm definitely not that type of person and very supportive of proper craftsmanship. You can see this same thing happening in software engineering and product design.

New comment by punkbit in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

punkbit — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:57:52 +0000

Finally someone else notices it!

New comment by punkbit in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

punkbit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:27:09 +0000

Job candidates keep facing a lot of hurdles, including scams, Trojan horses like the one presented here, ghosting, wasting candidates' time, nepotism, etc. As a candidate you can easily spend more than 8 hours a day looking for opportunities, switching stacks, studying, doing take-home projects, etc, for absolutely nothing. Life is precious and shouldn't be burned like that!

New comment by punkbit in "Harness engineering for coding agent users"

punkbit — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:32:57 +0000

I like this article and simple concise way of explaining what an agent is: Agent = Model + Harness

New comment by punkbit in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

punkbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:09:00 +0000

Have you tried to verify if those job positions are real? Try to apply yourself and go through the interview process to understand what's going on.

New comment by punkbit in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

punkbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:07:43 +0000

That's true! In 12 months, I got two contracts: a 3-month fixed-term contract and a previous 10-day contract role. Let's say that the landlord decides to sell the place I'm renting, I won't be able to rent another place due to unemployment.

New comment by punkbit in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

punkbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:19:09 +0000

Thanks for the sanity check!

Had a quick read on my mobile, and that was my first impression.

Guess its more of a way to make the maintainers accountable instead of making npm reputation the main focus.

New comment by punkbit in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

punkbit — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:50:14 +0000

> The resulting allowlist is written to package.json

Couldn’t this effectively result in the same process we get in pre-12 defaults?

New comment by punkbit in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

punkbit — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:05:38 +0000

Spot on "AI Native".

New comment by punkbit in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

punkbit — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:19:00 +0000

The company is hiring; the author mentioned they are talented and unemployed for the past 8 months. Why not remind the company to re-hire them?