<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thirdtruck</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thirdtruck</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:10:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thirdtruck" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thirdtruck in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Location: New York City, New York, USA<p>Remote: Yes but in-office preferred<p>Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel<p>Technologies:<p><pre><code>  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
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Résumé/CV: Available upon request<p>Email: hire.hn@thirdtruck.org</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:32:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163434</link><dc:creator>thirdtruck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thirdtruck in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Location: New York City, New York, USA<p>Remote: Yes<p>Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel<p>Technologies:<p><pre><code>  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
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Résumé/CV: Available upon request<p>Email: hire.hn@thirdtruck.org</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:40:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751380</link><dc:creator>thirdtruck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thirdtruck in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Location: New York City, New York, USA<p>Remote: Yes (preferred)<p>Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel<p>Technologies:<p><pre><code>  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
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Résumé/CV: Available upon request<p>Email: hire.hn@thirdtruck.org</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:06:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426318</link><dc:creator>thirdtruck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426318</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thirdtruck in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is the job listing URL correct? Getting a 404.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:24:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352096</link><dc:creator>thirdtruck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thirdtruck in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your careers page says that you are not actively hiring for the positions listed above. Is this correct?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:35:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236699</link><dc:creator>thirdtruck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thirdtruck in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK - Frontend and Backend Developer. Available now.<p>Looking for short-term and long-term contracts. Open to full time for the right fit.<p>Location: New York City, New York, USA<p>Remote: Yes (preferred)<p>Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel<p>Industries: Consulting, education, healthcare, retail<p>Technologies:<p><pre><code>  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
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Résumé/CV: Available upon request<p>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/thirdtruck/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thirdtruck/</a><p>Email: hire.hn@thirdtruck.org</p>
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<p>Location: New York City, New York, USA<p>Remote: Yes (preferred)<p>Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel<p>Technologies:<p><pre><code>  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac
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Résumé/CV: Available upon request<p>Email: hire.hn@thirdtruck.org</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:09:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234537</link><dc:creator>thirdtruck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thirdtruck in "The Case That A.I. Is Thinking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who grew up in an evangelical household, learned about pareidolia at a young age in the course of escaping it, and who practices Zen meditation: You nailed it.</p>
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<p>Xir pleasure!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:40:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161571</link><dc:creator>thirdtruck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43161571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thirdtruck in "AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Xe highly recommend the series! Xe keep going back to them for bedtime audio book listening. Chapters alternate between fact and fiction and the mix of intriguing narrative and drier but compelling academic talk help put xir otherwise overly busy mind to rest. In fact, xe bought softcover copies of two of them just last week.<p>The science is no longer cutting edge (some are over twenty years old) but the deeper principles hold and Discworld makes for an excellent foil to our own Roundworld, just as Sir Pratchett intended.<p>Indeed, the series says more about <i>us</i> as humans and our relationship to the universe than the universe itself and xe love that.</p>
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<p>In the third person? Yes. It's a quirk of xir plurality and even more confusing from the inside, let xe tell you!</p>
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<p>Indeed. Only cracked xir enby trans egg shortly before hitting thirty.<p>But xir midlife crisis had far more to do with an abusive ex, "normative" but foolish financial choices, and other mental health issues.<p>The gender matters were and continue to <i>ground</i> xe more than not: They're an undeniable, celebration-worthy facet of xir identity and a regular source of joy. Gender euphoria is a thing! If you're cisgender but have found deep affirmation in an especially gendered outfit (e.g. a tuxedo or cocktail dress) then you've had a taste of what it's like to go beyond your baseline gender contentment. Hope that helps!</p>
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<p>And this unsolicited, off-topic comment doesn't do that as well? :3</p>
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<p>Vigorously seconding this as an enby in xir early 40s who's only <i>just</i> figuring a lot of shit out and still has so very much left to go. So much left to <i>discovery and explore</i> about xirselves, too.<p>Seconding that entire list of recommendations, as well. Xe haven't really touched the Tao Te Ching specifically but, speaking as a secular materialist post-theist, tarot and oracle decks have served xe incredibly well as introspective tools. Consider the Oblique Strategies deck if you want to sample a similar experience.<p>Wishing you luck!</p>
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<p>Correct. Xe tried xir damnedest (pun intended) to become one growing up. It didn't take.</p>
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<p>Oh! Xir entire software developer career has been built on skills xe taught xirselves from childhood (never took a CS course in college; majored in fine arts) so this sounds absolutely perfect! Probably would have crushed it there back in the day, too. Thank you!</p>
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<p>Oh honey, xe are visibly queer. None of the above is new to xe, as a matter of survival. And a matter of sanity, as xe were raised to believe that the world was created from whole cloth six thousands years ago and that dinosaurs either lived with humans or were an invention of the devil.<p>There are no such things as atheist beliefs any more than there are a-unicorn beliefs, even if many things have been done in its name. The same goes for evolution. And no, communism isn't any more inherently atheistic than German fascism was inherently Catholic (it certainly wasn't atheistic) nor US democracy inherently Protestant. Anyone doing anything "in the name of evolution" is projecting their own hate and small-mindedness onto whatever convenient vocabulary at hand, as has happened over and over and over long before science. Avoid confusing belief with confidence in replicability, not when only one was sufficient for humanity to reach the moon.<p>No, as a science-minded secular materialistic atheist, xe are burdened with expecting nuance, detail, precision, specificity, and consistency of xirselves and in xir communications. But xe also expect the same of others in kind. Tell xe again how belief will save you from junk forensic science if you are ever accused falsely of a crime? Because actual science has no patience with such nonsense whereas xir original point still stands. We can resume this discussion after that.</p>
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<p>Want to have your mind blown? The creationist fallacy of "irreducible complexity" isn't just wrong for eyeballs and flagellum but for upward complexity as well. And lateral complexity.</p>
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<p>Oh damn, xe really want to look into WGU after this.</p>
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<p>The trick here is that we can reject OP's unnecessarily binary categorization as a premise and focus on the illogical and under-developed personal systems for testing reality and challenging beliefs that represent a far greater concern than the particulars of categorically unexamined beliefs.</p>
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