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New comment by zaking17 in "Claude Code Remote Control"

zaking17 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:49:05 +0000

I’ve had decent luck with Termius because it gives you a row of keyboard shortcuts above the usual keyboard. Still cramped, but it works.

Tmux is annoying with a mobile keyboard, so I vibe coded a little mobile-friendly wrapper https://github.com/zakandrewking/pocketbot

Someone is going to solve this with a non-buggy app, but it really needs to have all the features of Claude code. Everyone is a power user in this segment

New comment by zaking17 in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

zaking17 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:59:06 +0000

The other day I asked chatgpt (o3) to help me compare a bunch of task orchestration systems and arrange them according to some variables I care about (popularity, feature richness, durability, whether can be self-hosted, etc.). I ended up using https://www.inngest.com/ -- which was new to me -- and that single tool sped up my particular task by at least 10x for the week. That was a one-off project, so it won't generalize in a clean way, but I keep finding individual cases where the particular strengths of LLMs can save me a whole bunch of time. (another example: creating and evaluating responses to technical interview questions). I don't expect that these are easy to quantify, but they are significant.

This is not to disagree with the OP, but to point out that, even for engineers, the speedups might not appear where you expect. [EDIT I see like 4 other comments making the same point :)]

New comment by zaking17 in "Study mode"

zaking17 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:05:20 +0000

I'm impressed by the product design here. A non-ai-expert could find this mode extremely valuable, and all openai had to do was tinker with the prompt and add a nice button (relatedly, you could have had this all along by prompting the model yourself). Sure, it's easy for competitors to copy, but still a nice little addition.

New comment by zaking17 in "Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs"

zaking17 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:18:10 +0000

My coding flow today involves a lot of asking an LLM to generate code (blue team) and then me code reviewing, rewriting, and making it scalable (red team?). The analogy breaks down, because I'm providing the safety and correctness; LLMs are offering a head start.

I'm optimistic about AI-powered infra & monitoring tools. When I have a long dump of system logs that I don't understand, LLMs help immensely. But then it's my job to finalize the analysis and make sure whatever debugging comes next is a good use of time. So not quite red team/blue team in that case either.

New comment by zaking17 in "Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)"

zaking17 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:28:03 +0000

This reminds me of one of my favorite books from a few decades ago: Websites that Suck http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ That might have been what turned me on to web design, and I'm still trying to make things that don't suck

New comment by zaking17 in "Simon Willison's first blog on LLMs (2022)"

zaking17 — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:02:22 +0000

I remember bookmarking gwern's GPT-3 Creative Fiction [https://gwern.net/gpt-3] sometime in late 2020. It's a labyrinthine article that was a bit confusing to work through: What here is written by a human? Is a neural network really writing poetry? Whatever you think about the impacts of LLM into the future (regarding AGI, etc), it's jarring to look back just five years. We each have a sense of what we expect to experience when we interact with digital computers, and the envelope of possible experiences has simply exploded.

New comment by zaking17 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)"

zaking17 — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:48:01 +0000

Delfina [https://delfina.com] | Software engineers (data/backend) | ONSITE (hybrid) | SF

Delfina provides a leading pregnancy care data platform to improve maternal and child health outcomes. Our motivating challenge is the fact that in the United States, healthcare outcomes for pregnancy are significantly worse than in other similarly developed countries. We believe our technology-enabled solutions will help doctors better scale to better use data and in the end, deliver better care to their patients. We are looking for people who believe in our mission to join our team!

We are looking for both junior and mid level backend software engineers. It will help if you experience with: Python, Postgres, GCP, Beam, Spark, dbt, BigQuery, or similar Experience in healthtech, pregnancy care, machine learning, and design are all valuable as well.

Find the posting here, which include some details on comp & benefits:

https://www.delfina.com/careers

New comment by zaking17 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)"

zaking17 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:21:51 +0000

Sorry you didn’t hear back! We aren’t able to reply to all the applications we get. This is an updated job description for the same opening.

New comment by zaking17 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)"

zaking17 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:35:34 +0000

Delfina [https://delfina.com] | Software engineers (data/backend) | ONSITE (hybrid) | NYC, SF

We are looking for both junior and mid level backend software engineers. It will help if you experience with: Python, Postgres, GCP, Beam, Spark, dbt, BigQuery, or similar

Experience in healthtech, pregnancy care, machine learning, and design are all valuable as well!

Find the posting here, which include some details on comp & benefits:

https://www.delfina.com/careers

New comment by zaking17 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)"

zaking17 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:54:25 +0000

yup, we have 2 roles open

New comment by zaking17 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)"

zaking17 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:07:54 +0000

Delfina [https://delfina.com] | Software engineers (data, full stack, backend, devops) | ONSITE (hybrid) | NYC, SF, Seattle, Boston

We are looking for both junior and mid level software engineers. And we’re open to backend, frontend, or fullstack positions. It will help if you experience in one or more of:

- React, Python (FastAPI) - PostreSQL, GraphQL - GCP, GitHub Actions - Beam, Spark, dbt, BigQuery

Experience in healthtech, pregnancy care, machine learning, and design are all valuable as well!

See all four postings here, which include some details on comp & benefits:

https://www.delfina.com/careers

Who will be first to charge a Salary for an AI?

zaking17 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:01:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.brainsbrainsbrains.com/blog/ai-salary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41593912

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

I just want a ChatGPT to teach me something

zaking17 — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.brainsbrainsbrains.com/blog/chain-of-thought

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41527126

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaking17 in "Launch HN: Metriport (YC S22) – Open-source API for healthcare data exchange"

zaking17 — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:02:23 +0000

Congrats Dima & Colin! We’ve been greatly impressed with Metriport. If there was ever a place that needs tons of well-designed & open-source software, it’s medical records.

Multi Needle in a Haystack

zaking17 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:48:19 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.langchain.dev/multi-needle-in-a-haystack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023497

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaking17 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)"

zaking17 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:29:47 +0000

Delfina | Data Engineering Lead | $150k-170k + equity | NYC ONSITE

We’re looking for an experienced data engineer to help us build the apps and systems that run Delfina Care, our intelligent pregnancy care platform. Delfina is a fast moving startup, and we have an incredible team of engineers building an integrated, ML-driven platform to make every pregnancy safer.

As the leader of Data Engineering, you'll play a crucial role in building and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers our innovative solutions. You'll be a key player in shaping the future of our data platform, ensuring its scalability, performance, and security as we grow. You will be a crucial part of our talented engineering team. You will work in person with the Chief Scientific Officer and data science teams to support them as they seamlessly deploy their cutting edge models, while being a crucial part of our talented engineering team.

More details on our website:

https://www.delfina.com/careers/data-engineering-lead-nyc

You can email me, Zak King (zak@delfina.com), if you have questions.

New comment by zaking17 in "Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases"

zaking17 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:55:23 +0000

thanks, i'm really enjoying that paper

New comment by zaking17 in "Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases"

zaking17 — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:34:15 +0000

How would you handle schema migrations in a system like this?

New comment by zaking17 in "How to build a thinking AI"

zaking17 — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 02:58:19 +0000

Yeah, I guess I was heading in that direction with the last point. Earth organisms have a separation between lifetime learning (brain modification) and genetic evolution, but, for AGI, these could be combined into one, or further separated into three or more methods of goal-directed modification.

New comment by zaking17 in "How to build a thinking AI"

zaking17 — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 02:54:17 +0000

Makes sense!