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Awesomedonut

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Junior dev & science fantasy writer :D
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Awesomedonut··on Show HN: SimFic – A multi-agent narrative simulation for interactive fiction
This is so cool! I'm super interested in checking it out, as an avid writer&reader
Awesomedonut··on OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in
>When reality writes better satire than satirists can invent, perhaps it's time to ask some harder questions.

Oof

Awesomedonut··on The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced
Isn't English a Germanic language though?
Awesomedonut··on Ask HN: Why I rarely see game dev startup here?
How applicable are AI pipelines to game dev? A few months ago, I worked on an iPad game (Unity) and found that AI tools were pretty bad and unhelpful. The other dev didn't use AI at all
Awesomedonut··on Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)
Link is dead :(
Awesomedonut··on Why it's OK not to reply to your text messages right away
I see lots of people online say they feel pressured to respond right away, but I've found that for my friends it's simply not the case...? There are some that respond very quickly, but most of them respond very slowly. They're really friendly when we see each other in person, but will take days to respond.
Awesomedonut··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
Location: Vancouver, BC Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes (USA, Canada)

Technologies: C#, .NET Core, MySQL, TypeScript, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, Next.js, Docker, CI/CD, Java, Unity, FastAPI, React

Résumé: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tGyUiCxoxUiM87PbMEDNpz6AgCC...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jin-glebell/

Email: yjs2@sfu.ca

Hi all! I'm a CS undergrad senior, graduating this December. I have internship experience at two companies and have completed multiple personal projects. I also completed a practicum term where my team worked directly with a client team to fulfil their needs. My experience largely lies in web development, but I have also worked on desktop and mobile projects before.

I'm looking for any entry-level full-time software engineering position. I'm happy to talk to anyone interested!

Awesomedonut··on Attention is a luxury good
Ads on the picture gallery is insane. How is this even allowed?
Awesomedonut··on Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Really cool stuff! Any interesting challenges the team ran into while developing it?
Awesomedonut··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
Super helpful!
Awesomedonut··on Ask HN: How do you assess developers' AI-assisted coding skills in interviews?
Let them use the tool live and observe the use
Awesomedonut··on Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant
Not sure why this is downvoted, plenty of Canadians are very vocal and public with their criticism of Israel. There are protests regularly happening on the streets.
Awesomedonut··on An illustrated introduction to linear algebra
One of my favourite internet things is seeing other channels, for instance Reducible (https://www.youtube.com/@Reducible) use the framework. Everyone has their own special take on it, and it's so awesome that Grant made it OS!
Awesomedonut··on DevDay at OpenAI
I feel like it's almost always going to be easier to just use an app natively than to use it via ChatGPT Apps
Awesomedonut··on OpenAI DevDay 2025: Opening keynote [video]
Reading through this was so cool! What was being in-person at the keynote like, overall?
Awesomedonut··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
Thanks!
Awesomedonut··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Not even one redundant backup? That's unimaginable for me
Awesomedonut··on Sora 2
Their anime vid gen is really, really impressive. The results I've seen aren't /good/ from an industry-standard (nothing compared to the likes of the Demon Slayer movie I watched in theatres recently), but I legitimately couldn't tell that it was AI-generated. Massive step up from Sora 1 and other vid gen models.

Here's to hoping that the industry will adapt to have it aid animators for in-betweening and other things that supplement production. Anime studios are infamously terrible with overworking their employees, so I legitimately see benefits coming from this tool if devs can get it to function as proper frame interpolation (where animators do the keyframes themselves and the model in-betweens).

Awesomedonut··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)
Location: Vancouver, BC

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes (USA, Canada)

Technologies: C#, .NET Core, MySQL, TypeScript, Python, C/C++, JavaScript, Next.js, Docker, CI/CD, Java, Unity, FastAPI, React

Résumé: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tGyUiCxoxUiM87PbMEDNpz6AgCC...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jin-glebell/

Email: yjs2@sfu.ca

Hi all! I'm a CS undergrad senior, graduating this December. I have internship experience at two companies and have completed multiple personal projects. I also completed a practicum term where my team worked directly with a client team to fulfil their needs. My experience largely lies in web development, but I have also worked on desktop and mobile projects before.

I'm looking for any entry-level full-time software engineering position. I'm happy to talk to anyone interested!

Awesomedonut··on Worst volume control UI contest
After checking the links I can confirm that they are the same. I stumbled upon this on my dash and was like "oh my God this is the funniest thing ever" and it's so nice to find the actual original source! Thanks for the heads up!
Awesomedonut··on Don't Become a Scientist (1999)
A family friend who has a PhD in math told us that PhD stands for Permanent Head Damage
Awesomedonut··on Ask HN: SciFi Recommendations
Any is fine!
Awesomedonut··on I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game
This is so insanely cool!
Awesomedonut··on Show HN: Phishcan, Canada's first open and free threat intelligence platform
Super cool!
Awesomedonut··on Is Gen Z Unemployable?
Gen Z junior dev here - I haven't actually worked with anyone my age professionally, so I can't comment on that, but I will say most of my peers who are still unemployed or students seem pretty pessimistic about the job market right now and are looking pretty earnestly for positions, ie they'll take whatever is offered and have applied to many places (people have told me 500+)
Awesomedonut··on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
Thanks for the detailed response! I got lots of food for thought
Awesomedonut··on Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now?
How exactly do you reach out to connections? Is a LinkedIn DM saying something like "hey, do you know of any job opportunities/got anything for me?" too blunt?
Awesomedonut··on Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
I'm a loyal Brave user and I feel my loyalties being swayed right now...
Awesomedonut··on Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby?
This is gonna sound super pretentious, but I genuinely don't remember a time in which I wasn't into creative writing, haha! I still have little scribbled pages from toddler-me's stories. Writing is just something I can't stop doing, and my brain will leak out of my ears if I don't get the ideas out of my head and onto (metaphorical) paper somehow

I have no formal training, but I've watched a lot of writing-related YouTube videos and read books on writing. For you, I recommend just opening a blank doc (digital or just normal paper) without thinking about all that. I think consuming a lot of writing instructional resources up front is pretty paralyzing and demotivating, because it's easy to overthink. A trap a lot of writers (including me! Been there, done that) fall into is thinking about writing instead of actually writing.

If you have any ideas at all you wanna explore, just don't overthink it and get some words out (without worrying about stuff like prose or characterization or anything else). When I was younger, I'd browse https://www.tumblr.com/writing-prompt-s a lot as they have really interesting ideas.

Hope this is helpful! Let me know if you have any other questions; I could write about writing all day.

Awesomedonut··on Quicksort explained IKEA-style
Oh my goodness, I'm in love with this site! One of my favourite things about HN is all of the cool sites I discover through the community :D
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