Hacker News: v3np

New comment by v3np in "Claude 4"

v3np — Thu, 22 May 2025 23:21:51 +0000

If I may ask: what university was this? Asking as I am the CTO of a YC startup and we are hiring junior engineers in Berlin!

New comment by v3np in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

v3np — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:08:54 +0000

Kombo (YC S22) | €70K - €90K EUR + Equity | Full-Time | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE Kombo builds a unified API for HR, payroll and recruiting systems. We're working with companies of all sizes - from Fortune 500 companies down to early stage startups - to help them integrate dozens of software vendors within a few days instead of months.

Reasons you might want to work at Kombo - Modern, yet robust tech stack (TypeScript, Prisma, tRPC, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes)

- Extremely high bar for talent - backgrounds from Oxford, Harvard, TUM, CODE; 50% of employees are ex-founders

- Grew from 4 to 14 people within a year, and looking to 2.5x next year as well

- Early enough to make a significant contribution and have the 'early stage' startup' feeling; late enough to be significantly derisked (we are already profitable)

- Strong onsite culture in hip Berlin office

- Competitive salaries and equity compensation

We're looking for senior engineers to join us in various positions and are actively hiring! :) We are into radical candor, shipping code fast and sometimes being a bit crazy. Feel free to reach out to me at arne@kombo.dev or apply at https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/kombo (mention Hacker News) if this sounds interesting!

New comment by v3np in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)"

v3np — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:35:32 +0000

Kombo (YC S22) | €70K - €90K EUR | Full-Time | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE

Kombo builds a unified API for HR, payroll and recruiting systems. We're working with companies of all sizes - from Fortune 500 companies down to early stage startups - to help them integrate dozens of software vendors within a few days instead of months.

Reasons you might want to work at Kombo - Modern, yet robust tech stack (TypeScript, Prisma, tRPC, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes)

- Extremely high bar for talent - backgrounds from Oxford, Harvard, TUM, CODE; 50% of employees are ex-founders

- Grew from 4 to 14 people within a year, and looking to 2.5x next year as well

- Early enough to make a significant contribution and have the 'early stage' startup' feeling; late enough to be significantly derisked (we are already profitable)

- Strong onsite culture in hip Berlin office

- Competitive salaries and equity compensation

New comment by v3np in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)"

v3np — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:21:14 +0000

Kombo (YC S22) | €70K - €90K EUR | Full-Time | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE Kombo builds a unified API for HR, payroll and recruiting systems. We're working with companies of all sizes - from Fortune 500 companies down to early stage startups - to help them integrate dozens of software vendors within a few days instead of months.

Reasons you might want to work at Kombo

- Modern, yet robust tech stack (TypeScript, Prisma, tRPC, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes)

- Extremely strong team - backgrounds from Oxford, Harvard, TUM, CODE and more

- Grew from 4 to 12 people within a year, and looking to 2.5x next year as well

- Early enough to make a significant contribution and have the 'early stage' startup' feeling; late enough to be significantly derisked (we are already profitable)

- Strong onsite culture in hip Berlin office

- Competitive salaries and equity compensation

New comment by v3np in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)"

v3np — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:18:43 +0000

Kombo (YC S22) | €70K - €90K EUR | Full-Time | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE

Reasons you might want to work at Kombo

- Modern, yet robust tech stack (TypeScript, Prisma, tRPC, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes)

- Extremely strong team - backgrounds from Oxford, Harvard, TUM, CODE and more

- Grew from 4 to 11 people within a year, and looking to 2.5x next year as well

- Early enough to make a significant contribution and have the 'early stage' startup' feeling; late enough to be significantly derisked (we are already profitable)

- Strong onsite culture in hip Berlin office

- Competitive salaries and equity compensation

New comment by v3np in "Show HN: Langfuse – Open-source observability and analytics for LLM apps"

v3np — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:48:07 +0000

Cool stuff and congrats on the Show HN! Out of curiosity, at what point do you see teams usually adopting something like langfuse? In regular development, you sometimes even have test-driven development - I imagine this doesn't really apply for LLMs. Do you see this changing over time as the process of building LLM apps becomes more mature?

New comment by v3np in "Why aren't there more programming-language startups?"

v3np — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:27:42 +0000

A counter-example: https://daml.com/

Daml is essentially a smart-contract language using Haskell syntax with built-in primitives for privacy & authorization (e.g., so you don't have to either make your whole ledger public or private)

Worth checking out if you're into DLT & PLs! :)

Disclaimer: I work for the company developing this.

New comment by v3np in "How to Work Hard"

v3np — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:06:46 +0000

I don't have anything substantial to add to the discussion beyond another data point: I also relate to the feeling of wanting to be 'productive' most of the time and not really enjoying pure leisure time. I recently spent 2 weeks working remotely from a nice location in Italy and definitely would've enjoyed the time less if I couldn't have also worked from there. I also enjoy hobbies/free-time less when I believe it ultimately doesn't lead myself to becoming the person I want to be.

On the one hand, I think this is only natural if you are an ambitious person (this desire is imho exactly one of the things that allow a person to achieve ambitious feats); on the other hand, I am definitely struggling with finding enjoyable, non-work activities that recharge me.