Hacker News: scottndecker

New comment by scottndecker in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

scottndecker — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:06:13 +0000

Why isn't this a thing on Amazon I can buy?

New comment by scottndecker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

scottndecker — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:32:49 +0000

SDLC is totally different than even 12 months ago. AI reading meeting transcripts, generating user stories/requirements, generating questions, generating engineering/architecture solutions, writing code and creating PRs.

Those changes have allowed us to operate with a team of about 6-9 engineers producing like a team of twice that 5 years ago.

New comment by scottndecker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

scottndecker — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:21:45 +0000

Interesting. Pretty much none of that is true for us. We had achieved strong enough success that were past the stage VCs want to participate in a first round. Partnering with the PE firm gives us a war chest to land grab while the turf is being claimed in our space.

New comment by scottndecker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

scottndecker — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:17:32 +0000

Eisenhower box is immensely helpful. Some amount of intuition. Unblocking the team is always important and urgent.

Staying up to date is hard. HN, LI, the Rundown email, and a private tech execs group on WhatsApp are primary sources.

New comment by scottndecker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

scottndecker — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:13:25 +0000

Great question. That's not been our experience. Right now, we're in growth mode. Hire hire hire. Go faster.

Are we watching product margin and taking action to maximize it? Absolutely. But that's all revolved around technical steps (LLM token caching for example). Our current Product and Engineering headcount is only around 15 so we're already lean. We need to hire more, but we're keeping the bar high. I have no goal for bloating an engineering team just to make it look like we're doing the right thing (hiring). Every hire has to add immense value.

We're living in a time where success as a small team doesn't have to mean the team growing to be so big it's not fun anymore. The best cultures I've been a part of have always revolved around highly skilled small team of people that work their tails off and depend on each other.

New comment by scottndecker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

scottndecker — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:19:23 +0000

Employees have stock options, not stock. Those options are now worth more. Probably can't share too much more detail than that on financial specifics.

New comment by scottndecker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

scottndecker — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00:42 +0000

Came to us. Some of our founders had previous success and were funding out of their own pocket. We had just turned profitable, but PE money allows a different velocity which we wanted. So when they approached us looking for a solution in our space, we took the meeting. One thing led to another.

New comment by scottndecker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

scottndecker — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:58:37 +0000

Started by a team of 3 three years ago. I knew one of them from my time spent in grad school and living in NH. I joined a year after it formed but before it really took off. Founder #5 type of situation. Significant equity but can't claim I was there from day 0.

New comment by scottndecker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

scottndecker — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:44:26 +0000

Ha, no. Southwest, boarding group 5.

I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA

scottndecker — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:27:53 +0000

Career developer turned CTO at a healthcare startup. We're two years in, profitable, and took a PE investment 6 months ago. Happy to answer any questions on that journey, startup life, how we're using AI, the PE investment, etc.

On an airplane and sounded like a fun way to pass the time if anyone has questions :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434779

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New comment by scottndecker in "County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'"

scottndecker — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:17:42 +0000

If everyone turned off their lights 100% of the time they left their workstation, they could power those additional data centers for about one second.

The Entrepreneur's Epilogue and the Paradox of Success [pdf]

scottndecker — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:29:50 +0000

Article URL: https://som.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/What%E2%80%99s%20Next%20The%20Entrepreneur%E2%80%99s%20Epilogue%20and%20the%20Paradox%20of%20Success.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267557

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New comment by scottndecker in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

scottndecker — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:45:14 +0000

Based on title, I was figured it was referring to USA moving to the metric system

Deer antler size best predicted by mother's health

scottndecker — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:56:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORv-p7npls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829773

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New comment by scottndecker in "Show HN: A Daily Bible Game"

scottndecker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:02:52 +0000

I can only do a verse every 15 hours? Why the rate limit?

Ask HN: What B2B SSO solution are you using and do you like it?

scottndecker — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:29:24 +0000

Seems like there are quite a few options out there. Looking for recs on something that can handle the various identity providers of a B2B context (e.g. Azure AD, Okta, etc), don't cost a fortune, and are straightforward to implement and support.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422231

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Tell HN: No, your Lambda credentials aren't being used outside of AWS

scottndecker — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:51:16 +0000

AWS just sent out a poorly worded sns announcement that looks like your Lambda credentials have been compromised.

{ "version": "1", "type":"NEW_FINDINGS", "findingDetails":[{ "findingType":"UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/ResourceCredentialExfiltration.OutsideAWS", "link":"", "findingDescription":"This finding informs you that a host outside of AWS has attempted to run AWS API operations using temporary AWS credentials that were created on a Lambda resource in your AWS environment." }] }

I opened up a case with AWS and am told this is only a product announcement. You can see this finding type was released just yesterday (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/doc-history.html).

If anyone hears differently, would love to know. For now, we're standing down with the understanding that there is no incident.

Super poor wording of email. That just took a few hours of my life I'll never get back.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305340

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The Most Intense Shoe Salesman You'll Ever Meet

scottndecker — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:49:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H4MMvaIpyk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281214

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New comment by scottndecker in "GPT-5.2"

scottndecker — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:17:13 +0000

Still 256K input tokens. So disappointing (predictable, but disappointing).

Ask HN: Azure Open AI Issues?

scottndecker — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:42:07 +0000

Anyone else seeing latency issues with Azure OpenAI this morning? Status page says it's up but we're seeing timeouts. Specifically, on a gpt-4o models. Happening across multiple apps, multiple subscriptions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937327

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