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chrishynes··on Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller
Why can't this scale to run much larger models on CPU backed by flash with good access patterns?
chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
OwnerRez | Software Tester/QA | Full Time | Remote

OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for hosts that automates the entire process from properties, bookings, and the overall guest experience across channels like Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com, as well as direct booking websites.

We're looking for a Software Tester with 5+ years of experience working with software engineers to test new features, look for regressions, document bugs, and identify inconsistencies. Experience with automated testing is a plus, but we mainly do manual testing.

Full Details and Requirements: https://www.ownerrez.com/tester

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
OwnerRez | Remote (UTC -10 to UTC +4) | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for senior full stack engineers to join our team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database. We're also looking for ops skills and desire to join our on-call rotation.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB. AWS sysops/devops experience preferred.

GenAI/LLM API knowledge and agentic coding experience (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot etc.) a huge plus!

Details: https://www.ownerrez.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
OwnerRez | Remote (GMT -8 to GMT +3) | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time

OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for senior full stack engineers to join our team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database. We’re also looking for ops skills and desire to join our on-call rotation.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB. AWS sysops/devops experience preferred.

Details: https://www.ownerrez.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
OwnerRez | Remote (GMT -8 to GMT +3) | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time

OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for senior full stack engineers to join our team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database. We’re also looking for ops skills and desire to join our on-call rotation.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.

Details: https://www.ownerrez.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
We're open to folks outside the US if you can hit our core hours of 9am - 2pm eastern. We've currently got developers as far east as Romania.
chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
OwnerRez | Remote (GMT -8 to GMT +3) | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time

OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to join our team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database. We’re also looking for ops skills and desire to join our on-call rotation.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.

Details: https://www.ownerreservations.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
OwnerRez | Remote | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to join our team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database. We’re also looking for ops skills and desire to join our on-call rotation.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.

Details: https://www.ownerreservations.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
OwnerRez | Remote | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time

OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to join our team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database. We’re also looking for ops skills and desire to join our on-call rotation.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.

Details: https://www.ownerreservations.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
OwnerRez | Remote | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time

OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to join our team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database. We’re also looking for ops skills and desire to join our on-call rotation.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.

Details: https://www.ownerreservations.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)
OwnerRez | Remote | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time

OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to join our team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.

Details: https://www.ownerreservations.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on A Yubico FAQ about passkeys
They announced a fix but it hasn't rolled out everywhere yet -- it requires converting to a new "Amazon Web Service" login that is separate from your normal amazon.com account
chrishynes··on PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal
Most spam I get to my gmail inbox nowadays is itself from an @gmail.com address :-/
chrishynes··on AWS having issues in us-east-1
We're also seeing increased errors in S3 and DynamoDb.
chrishynes··on Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
All of the lying and "nudging" and viewpoint policing is what made the "conspiraloons" so big (great word BTW). It was quite clear by March or April 2020 that a lot of lying was going on (wether "for the greater good" or some more nefarious reason) and also clear that everyone in media, politics, and science that should have been asking questions was instead giving a doe eyed acquiesce that the emperor was in fact wearing beautiful clothes.
chrishynes··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
Huh, that's interesting. Didn't know that, but makes sense.
chrishynes··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
I had the same issue with unavailable, but on an instance in us-east-1b. Finally just got the force stop to go through a minute ago and it's now running and available again.
chrishynes··on [dead]
Seeing some instances unavailable as well, with a "Some of the volumes attached to instance are impaired" message.

Spike on Downdetector: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ and https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/

chrishynes··on Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
The other thing that doesn't show the whole story is using a data set starting in March when there was a quite low percent vaccinated but comparing totals of unvaxxed vs. vaxxed deaths over the whole period, when fully vaxxed in March was only a few percent.

It'd be much more interesting to see a straight comparison over Oct-Nov, say, when the vaccination rate was stable and get the unvaxxed vs 1 shot vs 2 shot vs 2 weeks after 2nd shot vs booster numbers.

chrishynes··on Ask HN: Was Your Turkey Dry?
Nope. Spatchcock it and then it will cook evenly.
chrishynes··on Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more
Seems like GitHub is in read only mode right now -- no write actions work (creating issues, adding comments, pushing, branching, PR's)
chrishynes··on Is Authorize.net Down?
Yes, also seems like Visa as well: https://downdetector.com/status/visa/

And looking at the homepage, a lot of other payment apps too -- Venmo, cash app, etc. all show spikes.

chrishynes··on In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
Yes, but the abilities and item actives are all quite similar in broad categories -- dash, stun, slow, etc. Same with items -- broad categories of damage, magic, health, armor, etc.

To OP's point, you don't have to know the entire 100 hero roster and all of their abilities to have fun, just the general things they can do "Oh I just got stunned by that ability, might want to dodge next time"...

Obviously to be good you need to know them all, but not to get started and have fun at lower levels of play.

chrishynes··on I was sick, tired and had lost myself until I began lifting weights at 71
Soreness really only tells you that you've done something new, not that you're improving. Do the same exercise for just a couple of weeks and soreness will rapidly decrease.
chrishynes··on Ask HN: DNS Outage?
Seeing a "Service Unavailable - DNS failure

The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later."

on many sites.

chrishynes··on Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres
Increase in value of assets isn't taxable until you sell them -- this applies for the value of your house just the same as Bezos's Amazon stock.
chrishynes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
OwnerRez | Remote (US) | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full Time

OwnerRez is a vacation rental software platform for property managers and owners that integrates with channels like Vrbo, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and booking.com as well as direct websites to manage vacation rental properties, bookings, and guests -- making the entire process automated.

We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to join our small team to design and develop features end to end -- from web UI to backend business logic, services, and the database.

Our stack: .NET (MVC, jQuery on the frontend, WebAPI on the backend), MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB.

Details: https://www.ownerreservations.com/senior-software-developer

chrishynes··on AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12
Where's MySQL 8 for Aurora? :-/
chrishynes··on I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency
Savage.
chrishynes··on Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned
This is pretty standard for flat pricing nowadays, but hits certain types of merchants really hard.

It's a double whammy when you have a cancellation and have to refund and then lose 3% on top of that. Stripe should keep the fixed fee, sure, but keeping interchange doesn't seem right.

Why doesn't Stripe offer the option to do simple interchange+ pricing to all instead of restricting that option to 6 figure volume accounts with negotiated agreements?

That would cleanly solve the issue and be fair on both sides.

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