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Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

threeturn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:39:55 +0000

Dear Hackers, I’m interested in your real-world workflows for using open-source LLMs and open-source coding assistants on your laptop (not just cloud/enterprise SaaS). Specifically:

Which model(s) are you running (e.g., Ollama, LM Studio, or others) and which open-source coding assistant/integration (for example, a VS Code plugin) you’re using?

What laptop hardware do you have (CPU, GPU/NPU, memory, whether discrete GPU or integrated, OS) and how it performs for your workflow?

What kinds of tasks you use it for (code completion, refactoring, debugging, code review) and how reliable it is (what works well / where it falls short).

I'm conducting my own investigation, which I will be happy to share as well when over.

Thanks! Andrea.

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New comment by threeturn in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

threeturn — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:30:40 +0000

# UniCredit [https://www.unicreditgroup.eu/en.html] | Multiple Roles | Romania, Poland, Italy | Hybrid I'm Andrea, I'm the Group Chief Architect and I lead a team of architects and engineers at UniCredit, a pan-European commercial bank with a unique service offering in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Central and Eastern Europe. We're a global team with a strong presence in 14 countries.

I'm looking for skilled Enterprise Architects and DevOps engineers to make our strong team even stronger. Our technology landscape is a mix of heritage technologies like Mainframe and a modern, cloud-native stack including Kafka, Quarkus, React, and Apigee and many more cool technology. We're committed to a cutting-edge approach for new projects and are actively migrating a significant portion of our systems to GCP.

Our leadership team is a fantastic blend of tech-savvy digital leaders and seasoned bankers who embody a "can do" attitude, making for an exciting and dynamic work environment.

Below is a detailed description for one of the key roles we're hiring for. If you're interested or want to learn more about other opportunities, please feel free to contact me directly at YW5kcmVhLmdyYW5hdGFAdW5pY3JlZGl0LmV1

More info here:

https://gist.github.com/threeturn/755d72fa31e6cbc5e35809216f...

New comment by threeturn in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

threeturn — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:57:25 +0000

# UniCredit [https://www.unicreditgroup.eu/en.html] | Multiple Roles | Romania, Poland, Italy | Hybrid

I'm Andrea, I'm the Group Chief Architect and I lead a team of architects and engineers at *UniCredit*, a pan-European commercial bank with a unique service offering in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Central and Eastern Europe. We're a global team with a strong presence in 14 countries.

I'm looking for skilled Enterprise Architects and DevOps engineers to make our strong team even stronger. Our technology landscape is a mix of heritage technologies like Mainframe and a modern, cloud-native stack including *Kafka*, *Quarkus*, *React*, and *Apigee* and many more cool technology. We're committed to a cutting-edge approach for new projects and are actively migrating a significant portion of our systems to *GCP*.

Our leadership team is a fantastic blend of tech-savvy digital leaders and seasoned bankers who embody a "can do" attitude, making for an exciting and dynamic work environment.

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https://gist.github.com/threeturn/755d72fa31e6cbc5e35809216f...

New comment by threeturn in "Ask HN: Thoughts on using American-based cloud vendors in the Trump era?"

threeturn — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:17:23 +0000

Depends on who your adversaries are. I have no doubt that all top cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI) are doing a great job keeping my data secure. But they need to obey US authority, and considering what is happening right now is not very reassuring. At the bare minimum, if I need to pick a cloud region, I will pick one within the EU. But after the cloud act (see: https://www.justice.gov/criminal/cloud-act-resources) not even Europe is secure. So, no is not foolishness.

New comment by threeturn in "GitLab 15.5"

threeturn — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:51:21 +0000

Same here, very unhappy customer. The new pricing is just nonsense, and now I'm looking for alternatives but migrating out 500 users is not trivial.

Moreover, I'm not too fond of the GitLab approach of replacing all the other typical tools in the DevOps toolchain. I'm happy with Jenkins, artifactory, etc., and I don't understand why I need to pay for something I'm not using or planning to use.

Is anyone in the same situation? :)

New comment by threeturn in "Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year's comp review cycle?"

threeturn — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:16:26 +0000

I tend to agree leetcode is not always reflecting fundamental skills. Some people just freeze even if they are good software engineers. I'm wondering how to assess the ability to write some code and decent problem-solving? What is your approach?

New comment by threeturn in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)"

threeturn — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:10:54 +0000

Luminor Bank - https://luminor.ee/ | Multiple Roles | Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius | ONSITE or REMOTE EU

Luminor is a contemporary, new-generation bank and financial services provider in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with a local understanding of its home markets and customer needs. Built on the extensive experience of the two leading Nordic banks and a corporate partnership with a global investment firm - Blackstone, Luminor is the third-largest financial services provider in the Baltic region.

For my team of architects and software engineers, I am looking for cloud architects, digital channel architects, engineering managers, java developers and front-end developers.

The bank has a mix of older technologies (ex: OpenEdge 4GL) and shiny modern technologies (Kafka, Spring boot, React, Apigee etc). The approach for new projects is cloud-native and we are migrating all legacy to AWS.

Below are some open positions, but if you want to understand more contact me directly here: andrea.granata@luminorgroup.com

Enterprise architect: https://luminorbank.teamtailor.com/jobs/1604725-enterprise-a...

Senior Software Engineer: https://luminorbank.teamtailor.com/jobs/1553988-senior-softw...

Senior Software Engineer https://luminorbank.teamtailor.com//jobs/1543985-senior-soft...

Team lead IT: https://luminorbank.teamtailor.com//jobs/1599838-team-lead-i...

IT Project managers https://luminorbank.teamtailor.com//jobs/1354508-senior-proj...

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For more info https://luminorcareers.ee/

New comment by threeturn in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)"

threeturn — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:02:00 +0000

Basiglio (Milan), Italy | DevOps Engineer | Fulltime | Onsite

https://github.com/BancaMediolanum/devops_and_engineering_te...