Hacker News: urda

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

urda — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:32:32 +0000

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Happy with In-Office, Hybrid, or Remote.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Java, polyglot development, AWS, distributed systems, backend engineering, infrastructure, various web technologies, Docker, Linux, Django, team building, mentoring

Résumé/CV: Resume available on request, please email

LinkedIn profile: https://linkedin.com/in/urda

Email: peter.urda@gmail.com

Additional Info:

I’m looking for my next opportunity to build great products and services, especially in the Seattle area. I’m a Senior Engineer with experience across DevOps, backend, and infrastructure, and I’ve worked at both startups and larger companies. I also enjoy building strong teams and mentoring younger engineers.

New comment by urda in "Goodbye to Sora"

urda — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:10:36 +0000

I honestly forgot about Sora until this post, and yeah same behavior played with it for a bit, then moved on with my life.

New comment by urda in "When did the job market get so rude?"

urda — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:42:44 +0000

> I'm in a hiring position, and I would blacklist any candidate that wasted my time like this.

> It's childish and just adds to the current state of Gen Z making it impossible to hire them (and then complaining they can never find a job).

This is an unacceptable interviewing posture. As a Bar Raiser (or whatever your equivalent is) with authority over interview standards and interviewer eligibility, I’d pull you from loops for retraining. Repeat it, and you’re removed from interviewing.

New comment by urda in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

urda — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:05:22 +0000

> Show the fact that the EU made the decision to not have this feature instead of apple.

It is thanks to EU regulations, which are literal facts in front of us. That’s why the feature isn’t shipped in the EU, because of EU’s own choices. At this point it’s clear you’d rather ignore that, so no reason to keep engaging. One last time: this is on the EU, not Apple.

New comment by urda in "Building my childhood dream PC"

urda — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:43:30 +0000

The rise of retro computing and gaming is wonderful thing.

New comment by urda in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

urda — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:40:48 +0000

You’re free to have that feeling but that’s not the facts.

New comment by urda in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

urda — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:29:41 +0000

One last time: this is on the EU, not Apple. The feature works everywhere else. You’re mixing up feelings with facts, and it shows in this rant. Take a breather.

New comment by urda in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

urda — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:05:22 +0000

You can blame the EU for that, not Apple.

New comment by urda in "Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation"

urda — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:54:07 +0000

I'm still sad what they did to the Mailbox app...

New comment by urda in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

urda — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:46:37 +0000

Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/arts/counter-strike-half-...

New comment by urda in "'My teeth told me': What it was like aboard the Enola Gay"

urda — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:39:10 +0000

Gift Link: https://wapo.st/40RU8OL

New comment by urda in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

urda — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:44:48 +0000

Honestly glad to see this has sparked larger talks about this again. Surprised to see Valve is just now getting impacted by this.

New comment by urda in "Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware"

urda — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:25:21 +0000

If Arch is too "inconvenient" as a daily driver, you might find yourself more at "home" on a Windows install instead.

New comment by urda in "Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)"

urda — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:40:21 +0000

It's always a great way to get a better understanding of things but at least just poking around assembly a bit once. You do not have to make a project or anything big, but do not be afraid to check it out.

New comment by urda in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

urda — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:40:05 +0000

Hah oh my this was on the wrong HN article I had open. Thank you so much for kindly pointing that out.

New comment by urda in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

urda — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:13:55 +0000

(oh no this was on the wrong comment and alas past the delete window ha).

New comment by urda in "Let me pay for Firefox"

urda — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:53:56 +0000

> It's unclear to me that you need to pay more than $150K total compensation for a good SW engineer.

I, and many good or great SWE's, wouldn't even begin to entertain such a low offer. Your numbers are a little off.

New comment by urda in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

urda — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:21:05 +0000

You bypass it by installing Firefox.

New comment by urda in "Belkin ending support for older Wemo products"

urda — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:34:34 +0000

I also have the shades, I love the entire Lutron system.

New comment by urda in "Belkin ending support for older Wemo products"

urda — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:19:00 +0000

My Meross plugs have been very stable. Have not had to reset them, reconfigure them, rehome them, re-pair them, etc.

For light switches I tell everyone I know it is either LUTRON or nothing. Your time is not worth messing with anything else, and Lutron has been in the game long enough they have demonstrated commitment to their products. Finally, my Lutron system has been one of the few IoT devices I have ever had that was truly "set and forget". Once the Lutron switches and shades were bound, they have been perfect ever since for me.