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apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

Location: Toronto

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

Location: Toronto Remote: Yes/Hybrid Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

apinedaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

Goofy youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@dailyspacejazz

Building on my 2.5D renderer and now going to introduce 3d models for funsies.

apinedaon Ask HN: Is there an AI that can read code aloud and explain it?

I wrote explain o matic for this, it's an open source vscode extension. It creates sections of code and uses your os tts. It allows you to break down sections further as well. With a bit more work on my end could be quite a potent tool.

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

Location: Toronto Remote: Yes/Hybrid Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

apinedaon Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

If I were to want to experiment with my own gym app idea, would I be able to license the data set?

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)

Location: Toronto Remote: Yes/Hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

apinedaon Ask HN: What did you learn from your recent project failure?

even small projects cost a lot of time ( marketing !! ), better to focus on something you really care about rather than opportunistic items

apinedaon Show HN: HN top 30 summarized by Gemini 2.5 Pro

Cool, but needs a TLDR a top each entry, tiny paragraph.

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)

Location: Toronto

Remote: Yes/Hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, USA would be nice

Technologies - Lately it's been TypeScript, Rust, Tauri, Python, NextJS, FastAPI, Railway, Postgres, Vercel, Tailwind. + all supporting libraries

Stuff I made: https://www.treesnap.app/ https://www.blacksheepwall.tv/ https://llmpricingtable.com/ https://littlehtmxbook.com/ https://github.com/alexpineda/llmdump

hnalex@pobox.com

apinedaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

just finished https://www.treesnap.app/ now just doing some light marketing on the daily. next project is multi-vendor monstrosity so happy to have gotten that win.

apinedaon Ask HN: What is bad about Homebrew?

I've been a light user for ~5 years maybe? Never really had issues, it's convenient, if a little obtuse relative to say npm install -g.

apinedaon Show HN: I made "specloop" – O1 prompts to codegen

Hello HN,

I made a local nextjs app that walks you step by step through ideation, specification, and implementation planning for a fresh dev project. It's a utility that pieces together prompts so that o1 can do the heavy lifting.

Ideally you would use the prompts from https://www.jointakeoff.com/prompts ( no affiliation ) or craft your own if you have inclination. You the put the prompts into the app and run through the steps.

Warning! It works really well if you have a good project scaffold already to feed into it. I'd be great to collect a bunch of excellent starter templates for this purpose.

Check my tweet on it for a quick step by step illustrated view! https://x.com/weloveoov/status/1902059178849444119

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I don't know the absolute answer to this but this one looks pretty good https://replicate.com/ideogram-ai/ideogram-v2a

apinedaon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)

SEEKING WORK | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | REMOTE: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Bun/Node, Astro, Python, Serverless (Cloudflare, etc.), AI tooling (Cursor, Claude, O1 Pro) Portfolio: https://weloveoov.com Email: hireme@weloveoov.com

About Me: I'm a hands-on, visually oriented product designer and developer with deep experience in web tech. I build intuitive user experiences, often focusing on unique, market-driven challenges. Currently boosting my mathematics background to sharpen problem-solving.

Notable Projects:

• Black Sheep Wall – 2.5D online viewer for StarCraft (1.16 & Remastered).

• SearchLoom – AI-driven domain name generator + search tool.

• LLMPricingTable – LLM provider pricing comparison.

Let’s chat if you have an interesting project or a unique market opportunity in mind!

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open to relocation for the right opportunity

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Bun/Node, Next.js, Astro, Python (data analysis or processing usually), Cloudflare, Serverless architectures, Cursor, O1 Pro, Claude console

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: hireme@weloveoov.com

Portfolio: https://weloveoov.com/

I am a hands-on, visually oriented product designer and developer with extensive experience in web technologies. I excel at creating intuitive user experiences and am currently enhancing my mathematical knowledge to improve my problem-solving abilities. I'm an exceedingly curious person and thrive on unique market-driven problems.

Notable projects:

Black Sheep Wall: A 2.5D online viewer for StarCraft 1.16 & Remastered.

SearchLoom: An AI-powered domain name generation and search tool.

LLMPricingTable: A comparison tool for LLM pricing across providers.

apinedaon Show HN: OpenAstra – Chat based open-source alternative to Postman

I think this is pretty cool.

apinedaon We were wrong about GPUs

My issue is that I may or may not understand what's going on, but I simply, for the most part, do not want to spend time maintaining any more than I have to.

apinedaon Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI

There is also https://github.com/regenrek/codefetch which I personally like

apinedaon Show HN: I built a tool to auto-tailor resumes to job posts

Nice job shipping ^^ Are you sure you don't want to price by use / credits? Would be more enticing personally if I were to be satisfied by the demo. I'll check it out.

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

Location: Ontario

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Been focusing on AI development, products and design. Getting into DSPy and some harder topics, would love a team to learn with.

Résumé/CV: weloveoov.com

I'm a strong mix of product, development and UX. Email: past.dog0687@fastmail.com

apinedaon Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

Just built this over the weekend: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=weloveoo...

Takes your open code file, chunks it, explains each chunk over tts.

apinedaon Show HN: I built Explain-o-matic – AI voice guide for LLM code in VS Code

A weekend experiment. I wrote a VS Code extension that uses LLMs + native TTS to voice-explain your code ( especially for LLM generated ones after a long night of coding ).

1. Quickly grok unfamiliar code - Auto-splits into well named, logical sections that you can traverse, hear the explanation, or break down further.

2. Can utilize reasoning models for better output (slower)

3. Vercel AI SDK wrapper for multi-provider support.

This was fun to build, and see promise in some sort of more accessible design like this in future copilots. I'm really keen on the learning tools of the future.

apinedaon Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

Writing a book using claud engineer littlehtmxbook.com

apinedaon Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

I've put it on for 2 hours now, this hits the spot.

apinedaon Ask HN: Revitalizing a career: how do I escape CRUD hell?

Try management, you can always keep coding on the side.

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)

Location: Toronto

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: All things web, JS, React, CSS ( it's getting good! ), WASM, Web Workers, Three.JS.

Other things I like: Unreal Engine, FL Studio. I've done a good amount of backend work in the past, but it's been a while.

Résumé/CV: Its out of date, my recent project is here: https://github.com/alexpineda/titan-reactor.

I'm a strong mix of product, development and UX. Email: past.dog0687@fastmail.com

apinedaon Is GPT-4 a good data analyst? (2023)

From an alternative viewpoint, this could be seen as descriptive of a community. Opinions could be shared or not, hence "divergent" as an adjective to describe the community. Similar with conclusions people have drawn and "definitive" may refer to a larger consensus among the community. Fun to think about.

apinedaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)

  Location: Toronto

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: Yes

  Technologies: All things web, JS, React, CSS ( it's getting good! ), WASM, Web Workers, Three.JS. Other things I like: Unreal Engine, FL Studio. I've done a good amount of backend work in the past, but it's been a while.

  Résumé/CV: Its out of date, my recent project is here: https://github.com/alexpineda/titan-reactor.

I'm a strong mix of product, development and UX.

  Email: past.dog0687@fastmail.com