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Anon84on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

That's some impressively fast automatic rejection system you got there :)

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

     Location: NYC
     Remote: Yes
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs
     Résumé/CV: By request
     Website: https://www.data4sci.com
     GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/
     Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/
     Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

Get better at finding freelance/consulting gigs. I’ve been doing it on and off on the side for a few years now and want to move to doing it full time.

Advice welcome!

Anon84on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

I’ve been working towards my WSET diploma so not much non-wine related fun reading. That being said:

     - Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the world by Christy Campbell is a surprisingly fun read on how the entire wine industry was almost destroyed in the late 19th century.
      - Red/Green/Blue Mars by K. S. Robinson hard sci-fi about mars colonization and terraforming. First rereading in 20 years or so. Holds up extremely well.
      - Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. A thought provoking take on how broad stroke human history developed since the Bronze Age.

Anon84on The battle to stop clever people betting

https://archive.md/7fvLz

Anon84on Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

Wasting two generations of some of the most brilliant physics minds isn’t exactly a good thing

Anon84on Brown, MIT professor shootings linked, suspect found dead, officials say

https://archive.md/ShO4E

Anon84on How the Brain Parses Language

Me too! Babies and toddlers brains are like sponges. We started teaching my baby 3 languages since birth (essentially I always spoken with her in my native language, my wife in hers and gets English from living in the US). She’s not even 4 yet an fully fluent in all three and seemlessly jumps back and forth between them. (To my surprise, she doesn’t mix words from the different languages in the same sentence)

Anon84on Transformer Paper Authors at AI Startup Debut Open Source Model

https://archive.md/E99dW

Anon84on Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero

Exactly. “Tracers in the Dark” (https://a.co/d/aos3Nka) does a good job of telling that story and a couple of others from the early days of blockchain analytics

Anon84on How stealth addresses work in Monero

#1 and #2 are public results by market leading blockchain analytics companies that have an alphabet soup of agencies as their major clients.

Do you think they published their current state of the art?

Anon84on How stealth addresses work in Monero

What makes you think Monero is untraceable?

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.05332

- https://darkwebinformer.com/chainalysis-successful-deanonymi...

-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266628172...

Anon84on Subtle Signs That You Are Ready to Retire

https://archive.md/QOE5i

Anon84on Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?

Not that different. In fact, you can use Markov Chain theory as an analytical tool to study LLMs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02724

You could probably point your code to Google Books N-grams (https://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv3...) and get something that sounds (somewhat) reasonable.

Anon84on Yann LeCun Has Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong

https://archive.md/eioxY

Anon84on Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots

https://archive.fo/rj33c

Anon84on BERT is just a single text diffusion step

The trick is to always put the [MASK] at the end:

"The [MASK]" "The quick [MASK]" etc

Anon84on Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation

https://archive.md/9VycM

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)

  Location: NYC

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs

  Résumé/CV: By request

  Website: https://www.data4sci.com

  GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/

  Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/

  Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on Ur-Fascism – Umberto Eco

https://archive.md/v21DZ

Anon84on Tyler Robinson and America's Lost Boys

https://archive.md/5iOUT

Anon84on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

So… when can I expect my cheque?

Seriously, how will this money propagate to the authors (if at all) or will it just stay with the publishers?

Anon84on Do Hangover Supplements Work?

https://archive.md/SHZdk

Anon84on Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

Banks are already using stable coins internally (case in point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPM_Coin) it just hasn’t been made available externally yet.

Anon84on The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking

https://archive.md/4zon2

Anon84on The wall confronting large language models

There definitely is, but Marcus is not the only one talking about it. For example, we covered this paper in one of our internal journal clubs a few weeks ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02724

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2025)

Location: NYC

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs

  Résumé/CV: By request

  Website: https://www.data4sci.com

  GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/

  Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/

  Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on Are Saunas Good for You?

https://archive.md/aRRVl