Hacker News: romanhn

New comment by romanhn in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

romanhn — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:18:31 +0000

This Key & Peele is appropriate here: https://youtu.be/14WE3A0PwVs

New comment by romanhn in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

romanhn — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:56:39 +0000

Absolutely. That's when I use my dang-given right to flag left and right. Or if that doesn't work, ignore. I don't think I've entered any Grok thread in ages. But I also can't say that I've seen a ton of them, so maybe the ecosystem is working?

New comment by romanhn in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

romanhn — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:51:04 +0000

The flagged comments given as examples are exactly the type I don't want to see here. Not because they are wrong (they are not), but because they are boring, low-calorie declarations of obvious that add very little value to the topic at hand. It's like every mention of an iPhone got a comment about poor conditions of Chinese assembly workers. These, and the Musk rants, absolutely belong on threads about those topics, but let's not turn every thread into a holy war - you're just pushing people that already agree with you away.

For the record, I vouched for this thread to keep it from being flagged, but that didn't seem enough. I think it's an interesting discussion.

New comment by romanhn in "Ask HN: Looking for an old submission about sneering culture"

romanhn — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:39:08 +0000

Is this it? https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/. There are several HN threads discussing this post over the years.

New comment by romanhn in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

romanhn — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:32:28 +0000

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline is great and is exactly on this topic.

New comment by romanhn in "Ask HN: How do you feel about the new 5H usage limit in Codex?"

romanhn — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:33:54 +0000

Yes and yes. I've so far switched from Sol to Terra but not sure even that will be sufficient. This also feels like it neuters a lot of the utility of banked/paid resets, since I'm not willing to re-up the weekly limit when I'm at 50% or whatever, but can no longer use it after hitting the 5h limit.

Round Rects Are Everywhere

romanhn — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:03:40 +0000

Article URL: https://folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450444

Points: 3

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New comment by romanhn in "Is AI slowing you down?"

romanhn — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:47:12 +0000

Their comment in this thread is clearly AI-generated. The rest also show many of the tells. That's against the HN rules.

New comment by romanhn in "There's no such thing as a small software team anymore"

romanhn — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:44:07 +0000

Have you had to deal with a microservices environment? Because there's significantly more operational and architectural complexity with a distributed system compared to a monolith. Now you have to deal with reliability, retries/backoffs, versions, distributed transactions, consistency issues, service discovery, idempotency, and a million other things. I would generally not recommend adding all this overhead unless absolutely necessary. Or at least that was the recommendation pre-AI, but I don't think I've changed my mind on it yet.

New comment by romanhn in "Show HN: Permanym – for hiring teams overwhelmed by AI resume spam"

romanhn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:06:10 +0000

To answer a couple of questions that are likely to pop up:

Is there an ATS integration?

Not at the moment, but once value is proven, ATS integration is for sure the first natural step. In the meantime, adding this to an existing job listing couldn't be easier. Simply include the verification link in your application instructions to get started. Then look up applicants by email to see whether they've been verified. This does mean that filtering spam is the primary benefit today, but a proper ATS hookup can help stop it at the source in the future.

What’s your stance on data privacy/security?

Liveness data is only visible to the hiring company, with time-limited access. The data is stored on AWS using managed services, with all sorts of best practices (that I can get into if needed). I've done technical due diligence for work the last few years, so very familiar with what good and bad look like re: data and privacy.

Show HN: Permanym – for hiring teams overwhelmed by AI resume spam

romanhn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:05:55 +0000

Employers are facing a growing wave of automated AI submissions, fake applications, and low-effort spam. It’s not unusual for recruiters and hiring managers to receive thousands of resumes within hours of posting a job. Qualified candidates can easily get drowned out by all the noise.

Permanym brings just enough friction to the application process to make automated abuse impractical, without getting too much in the way of legitimate applicants. As a former hiring manager, the idea of adding friction to hiring, rather than removing it, goes against every fiber of my being, but the current situation is simply unsustainable and erodes trust across the board.

The core idea is to ensure there is a human behind the keyboard during application submission, primarily via a video liveness check. This verification can be completed in under 30 seconds, from start to finish. You can experience it here: https://permanym.com/verify/jJAiul58nF7kJ5FS/. If you use any @example.com email address, it will take you straight to the liveness check demo, skipping email verification.

Any and all feedback is sincerely appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085054

Points: 2

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New comment by romanhn in "Ask HN: Share Your Eccentric Hobby"

romanhn — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:14:04 +0000

Here's a recent similar thread that got a lot of traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654062. I posted about my hobby of banknote collection on there, so won't repeat here.

New comment by romanhn in "Show HN: AI resume spam ruined hiring so I built a tool to keep the bots out"

romanhn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:11:42 +0000

Looks like the verification link above is not sufficiently open for testing, and the email address box was pushing people away - that's fair! Now you can use any @example.com email address and it will take you straight to the liveness check, skipping email verification for demo purposes.

Show HN: AI resume spam ruined hiring so I built a tool to keep the bots out

romanhn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:48:47 +0000

Permanym introduces just enough friction into the application process to make automated abuse impractical, without getting too much in the way of legitimate applicants. As a former hiring manager, the idea of adding friction to hiring, rather than removing it, goes against every fiber of my being, but the current situation is simply unsustainable and erodes trust across the board.

No ATS integration is required. Simply include the verification link in your application instructions to get started. Then look up applicants by email to see whether they've been verified. Filtering spam is the primary benefit today, but a proper ATS hookup can help stop it at the source in the future. Liveness data is only visible to the hiring company, with time-limited access.

I think there are many opportunities for deeper ATS integrations and additional signals, but I wanted to start by solving the most immediate problem: verifying that every application comes from a real person. The end goal is to help both sides of the hiring process by taking bad actors out of the equation. If this goal resonates, let’s talk!

In the meantime, any and all feedback is sincerely appreciated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008695

Points: 2

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California to impose sales and use tax on digital products including SaaS

romanhn — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:40:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/tax/library/california-imposes-sales-and-use-tax-on-digital-products-and-saas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982122

Points: 6

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New comment by romanhn in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

romanhn — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:08:01 +0000

AI resume spam has absolutely ruined hiring. I've seen countless stories of hiring managers complaining about receiving thousands of resumes within an hour of opening up a new job listing. Likewise, good qualified candidates are getting drowned out by loads of customized junk. I'm building a tool for the recruiters and hiring teams to combat this and bring some sanity back to the already challenging process. The general idea is to introduce a small bit of friction that will hopefully be not-too-impacting for legit applicants while stopping bots from proceeding.

First iteration is ready to fly, just working out the infrastructure at the moment. Hoping to drop this on Show HN soon. If anyone is interested in test driving this prior to launch, I've temporarily added my email to my profile.

New comment by romanhn in "GPT-5.6"

romanhn — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:50:38 +0000

The banked resets have been a game changer for me. I've been sticking to 5.4 medium mostly because 5.5 seemed to eat into my quota significantly faster. The reset bank gave me confidence to seriously start using 5.5 high. Lo and behold, I have yet to actually need a reset, but I'm now less likely to explore non-OpenAI models since there's an escape hatch with new models in case a coding session gets a bit crazy.

New comment by romanhn in "Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art"

romanhn — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:50:29 +0000

I don't think we can conclusively say anything like that. Sure, a bunch of modern art is... odd, but that's more to do with the world generally being more ok with experimentation, and there's plenty of more classical work happening around the globe, even if it doesn't get the same recognition as various "clickbait", if you will. For instance, the bronze work of Luo Li Rong channels the art of the past pretty well, I'd say. https://mymodernmet.com/realistic-sculptures-luo-li-rong/

New comment by romanhn in "Napster is now "AI agents you can see, talk to, and create with.""

romanhn — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:26:13 +0000

The only thing not AI-generated on their website, as far as I can tell, is the original Napster logo.

Napster is now "AI agents you can see, talk to, and create with."

romanhn — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:26:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.napster.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700041

Points: 3

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