Hacker News: tmoravec

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

tmoravec — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:13:02 +0000

Senior EM, platform/backend background.

    Location: Prague, Czech Republic
    Remote: Yes, ideally team in Europe
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: C++, Python, AWS, GCP, K8s, Java, JS + TS, network protocols, distributed systems, ...
    Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadeasmoravec/
    Email: tadeas@moravec.xyz

Built multiple teams from scratch and created several successful products. Most recently led a core backend team that handled millions of requests per hour and enabled 20+ engineering teams to ship faster. Engineering background in CDN architecture, low-level network protocols, and on-the-wire cryptocurrency protocols. Currently active in AI: reduced support resolution from 24 hours to 1 hour.

China fell for a lobster: What an AI assistant tells us about Beijing's ambition

tmoravec — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:37:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy41n17e23go

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657652

Points: 17

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New comment by tmoravec in "The Claude Code Leak"

tmoravec — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:10:07 +0000

Why? Reddit is full of bug fixes and improved forks. Seems like it's Anthropic that's dropping the ball with it's takedown requests instead of engaging with the community.

New comment by tmoravec in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

tmoravec — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:17:22 +0000

Yes. Some important parts of the software, like complex tools, art, or the use of symbols only appeared between 100.000 and 50.000 years ago, however.

New comment by tmoravec in "Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019)"

tmoravec — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:01:55 +0000

I don't understand how that would limit evolution. Bigger bodies can evolve together with bigger hearts, as already witnessed with the very whales being researched.

New comment by tmoravec in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

tmoravec — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:25:54 +0000

Privacy protection has the exact same issue. Wiretapping laws were created at the time there was literally a detective listening to a private phone conversation as it was happening. Now we record almost everything online, and processing it is trivial and essentially free. The safeguards are the same but the scale of privacy invasion is many orders of magnitude different.

Australians must prove they are over 18 to access porn under new laws

tmoravec — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy92qpv424o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305061

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app

tmoravec — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:42:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260210-tiktok-is-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-use-the-app-heres-how-to-stop-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46973743

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by tmoravec in "Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective"

tmoravec — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:22:24 +0000

> Yet, human achievement in domains such as career success tends to peak much later, typically between the ages of 55 and 60. This discrepancy may reflect the fact that, while fluid intelligence may decline with age, other dimensions improve (e.g., crystallized intelligence, emotional intelligence).

Isn't it about accumulated human capital (aka social networks) and experience more than anything else?

Getting Real with LLMs

tmoravec — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:59:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.giladpeleg.com/blog/getting-real-with-llms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464313

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tmoravec in "'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them"

tmoravec — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:34:20 +0000

They sort of address this in the next sentence: "But if people run into problems, they can make a complaint and it will be looked into."

Random checks and whistleblowing are used in other, more "serious" processes, e.g., tax checks. At least here in Europe.

New comment by tmoravec in "'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them"

tmoravec — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:30:05 +0000

> "Others, we found, were inflating numbers and trying to show their company is growing, even if it's not."

Sounds like a fraud against investors? That could be a way to attack this problem because in the U.S., many issues get turned into laws and regulations protecting shareholders.

New comment by tmoravec in "Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem"

tmoravec — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:19:01 +0000

What do you think "loading the project" means when discussing context?

New comment by tmoravec in "Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem"

tmoravec — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:53:52 +0000

> In a monorepo, just loading the project consumes ~20k tokens

I don't work on a monorepo, and as an example, what I would consider a mid-size service in my mid-size company is 7M tokens.

I can't but ask: do all people who are so enthusiastic about AI for coding only work on trivial projects?

New comment by tmoravec in "Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'"

tmoravec — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:03:42 +0000

I've thought these frozen and snowed trees are common in all mountains.

New comment by tmoravec in "The past was not that cute"

tmoravec — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:16:18 +0000

Exactly. You might also enjoy Bret Devereaux' recent series of how life was really like for pre-modern peasants. Also includes parts focusing on women in particular. https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an...

New comment by tmoravec in "Life, Work, Death and the Peasant"

tmoravec — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:14:25 +0000

This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in settled societies (the sort with cities and writing).

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant

tmoravec — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:14:25 +0000

Article URL: https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-i-households/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46179843

Points: 3

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New comment by tmoravec in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

tmoravec — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:36:48 +0000

Drifted to the Caribbean.

New comment by tmoravec in "Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink"

tmoravec — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:28:50 +0000

Except that more often than not, Claude is blocked from reading the article.

This used to work great two years ago when chatgpt first got the Web browsing feature. Nowadays, no eyeballs on ads: no content.