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hackily··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)
Curai | Remote (US) | Full-time | https://curaihealth.com

We're building AI agents to expand access to affordable, and high quality healthcare. We run a vertically integrated primary and urgent care clinic and are actively building features to improve longitudinal outcomes, starting with hypertension and behavioral health.

There's plenty of work across building the requisite patient experiences on and off platform, the agent workflows to power those experiences, and evals to make this care reliable. If this sounds interesting, please look to see if any of our roles appeal to you!

* Sr Software Engineer, Full-Stack ($175-210k): https://jobs.lever.co/curai/46e0dd2f-c1dd-4ca2-9095-5b45f477...

* Sr Software Engineer, Agentic AI ($175-210k): https://jobs.lever.co/curai/cd31b67b-d83c-466a-ac55-cfa4c2ec...

* Sr Software Engineer, Marketing Platform ($150-180k): https://jobs.lever.co/curai/b157298e-4dc7-4594-a9c4-29f0dec4...

Tech stack: Agents SDK, Braintrust, Python, React, React Native/Expo, AWS, Postgres, DynamoDB, Docker, Terraform.

hackily··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
Curai | Remote (US) | Full-time | https://curaihealth.com

We're building AI agents to expand access to affordable, and high quality healthcare. We run a vertically integrated primary and urgent care clinic and are actively building an agentic platform focused improving longitudinal care outcomes.

We're hiring engineers to work across patient and clinician experiences, production AI systems, and the platforms that help people discover and access care.

* Sr Software Engineer, Full-Stack: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/46e0dd2f-c1dd-4ca2-9095-5b45f477...

* Sr Software Engineer, Agentic AI: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/cd31b67b-d83c-466a-ac55-cfa4c2ec...

* Sr Software Engineer, Marketing Platform: https://jobs.lever.co/curai/b157298e-4dc7-4594-a9c4-29f0dec4...

Tech stack: Agents SDK, Braintrust, Python, React, React Native/Expo, AWS, Postgres, DynamoDB, Docker, Terraform.

hackily··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
I'm building a coupon matchup aggregator for my mom, who knows her way around digital coupon clipping and rebate programs like ibotta, but struggles with juggling all the coupon bloggers that she follows

https://matchupnews.com/

I'm working on the filtering logic so she more easily find the posts she cares about

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hackily··on Millions may rely on groundwater contaminated with PFAS for drinking water
Is that a 5 gallon plastic jug?
hackily··on Standing desks may be bad for your health, study suggests
Oh deer... I use a laptop stand for my posture so I'm not hunched over. It's trickier when traveling but I recently discovered collapsible stands that I can bring with me
hackily··on Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported
I think you were unaware, but light sweet crude is a term referring to a type of crude oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_crude_oil
hackily··on OpenAI COO thinks AI for business is overhyped
So, a search engine, then!

At my former company, they used a product to search across Google docs, confluence docs, help desk tickets, Amy source of tickets and documents they could get their hands on. It was actually quite useful!

hackily··on Ask HN: What is your experience with Nano-Hydroxyapatite toothpaste?
I use apagard premio, came across it while doing research a couple of years ago (4-5) on nano hydroxyapatite. I've never really had problems with my adult teeth and I continue to not have problems, so at the very least, in my case, is not any worse than fluoride toothpaste. My dentist loves my teeth :D she told me whatever I'm doing, don't change a single thing.
hackily··on Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
I was laid off a month ago, senior frontend engineer. I've reached out to my network and have been talking to various startups, but it seems like most of the bigger companies do not want to bite.

Compounding that is my desire to keep working remotely, or somewhere local to the DC metro area, so many of the same opportunities that would be available to me in the Bay area, had I remained there, are closed to me, because they're using a hybrid model.

I'm not in much of a rush, and I'm hopeful that I'll find interesting work with some startup.

hackily··on NLRB rules that employers can't require laid-off staff to waive labor law rights
Could an employee receive severance and still be able to sue to determine if there was a WARN act violation or discrimination of federally protected classes?
hackily··on Ask HN: Did the latest round of tech layoffs focus mostly on remote workers?
I was laid off, along with many of my remote coworkers, and coworkers in satellite offices. The CTO was internally heard saying that he believed remote does not work for eng.
hackily··on Ask HN: What's You Life's Work?
That's so great to hear!

I went to high school with someone who took a path like yours - his parents were not sure about his ability to live a comfortable life going into pro Dota. But I'm so glad you folks are able to do what you love and make a good living.

hackily··on Show HN: Ask our algorithm and real financial expert anything about your money
Disclaimer: Early user of Uprise, signed up after I heard about them from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31370775

I'm a big fan of Uprise as a concept - financial literacy isn't something that is taught in schools in the US, but it really should be.

More on topic to the thread: As context, I'm interested in buying a house so I have the money for the down payment held with VMFXX for the moment. What other ways could I consider holding a sum of money in a relatively liquid way?

hackily··on Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules
But what are the side effects of blocking a response causing inflammation, which was meant to signal that repairs are needed in lung tissue?
hackily··on Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans
Could it be the heat from your light? What kind of bulb do you use?

Out of curiosity, what are you doing with the light off? Just sitting in the dark?

hackily··on Capital One enters enterprise B2B software, new data management SaaS
Having used to work at Capital One within Shared Tech, I worked with a lot of really brilliant engineers who could easily have been working at FAANG. That being said, they didn't pay as well as FAANG so a lot of us moved on.

I'm not surprised at all by this move, there's a lot of solutions at Capital One that can be monetized. The company is so large that there's redundant solutions concurrently developed by different teams, inevitably someone was going to work the bureaucracy to start selling SaaS

hackily··on Ask HN: How do I stop this Facebook stalker?
I believe blocking a user via Facebook messenger presents an option to defriend the user as well.
hackily··on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/538/
hackily··on Free stuff makes us irrational
It's interesting to note that the effect of some good being free holds its power if we know that the good is not usually free.

It would be interesting if the article had more research on what the emotions of users when they come across a paywall. For example, I get irrationally upset when I see a paywall, even though I logically know that content writers deserve to be paid.

The fact that less than 20% of Americans will pay for news almost certainly makes the subscriptions more expensive for the percentage of users who will actually pay. Does the price affect how upset someone gets? I know for me, I don't even look at the price, I never intended on paying since I've been conditioned to expect articles to be free.

hackily··on People Are Dating All Wrong, According to Data Science
What's shocking is that similarity in values don't seem to be a predictor of happiness in a relationship.

Could it be that for those in relationships with differences, if the difference were significant enough, they merely wouldn't be in a relationship at all, and wouldn't be in the sample data?

hackily··on Three AAPI founders building apps on the App Store that cultivate community
For any given community, seeing creators that look like themselves is extremely empowering. It inspires not only others who are similar to them to find the courage to create, but provides the community with support - that there are people out there similar to them, and is foundational for the next generation of creators. Bravo!
hackily··on Omega-6 vegetable oils as a driver of coronary heart disease
So I keep hearing that omega 6s are bad and lead to heart disease and this has increased since industrial seed oils came into being, but aren't butter and lard also bad because of saturated fats? I simply don't know what to cook with that is supposed to be healthy.

I suspect if I'm confused, many others must be in similar positions.

hackily··on Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees
Another one is Rich Fairbank of Capital One.
hackily··on Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
I sure hope your stomach acid isn't finding it's way into your mouth! The point is to raise the pH in the mouth so your teeth, since acidity causes calcium to leach out of your teeth
hackily··on Mining robot stranded on Pacific Ocean floor in deep-sea mining trial
I'd be fairly concerned if undersea mining waste or debris started killing off phytoplankton, perhaps by disrupting any of the delicate cycles such as phosphorus, or providing extra iron which may lead to runaway algal blooms or such, and subsequent algal death and oxygen shortage. Since the mining is so deep, we don't know if these effects will stay localized, or if undersea currents will dilute these effects, or anything.

It should be valid to question what harm there could be. Nature is quite fragile, and we should know that, especially seeing what harm industrial processes have had on the atmosphere.

On the other hand, it's quite possible that undersea mining may produce less harm than surface mining, where waste gets dliuted far enough to have less impact. Maybe similar to how salmon farming has to be done where there's a strong enough current to dilute the waste.

hackily··on Ink 1.0 – Open-source scripting language for interactive narrative
Congrats on 1.0!

I recently started developing a game in my spare time, and discovered Ink, which has tremendously simplified development of conversations and managing conversational state.

I've found Ink to be quite flexible, If someone wanted to, they could manage their entire game state with Ink.

Live recompilation of my ink script in Unity will be very helpful!

hackily··on Firefox introduces extension that automatically censors “hate speech”
Not to mention, this may be a little experiment for a junior engineer to get their feet wet with writing extensions.

Instead of falling prey to outrage when Firefox can't live up to our impossible standards, how about we appreciate and celebrate even small accomplishments?

hackily··on Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo
No, but I'm going to grumble about the redesign every chance I get.
hackily··on Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?
My apartment in SF does not have a kitchen. Food provided by the company helped me get by! With no car, and only a handful of restaurant options within 1 mile, it's not the easiest to get by without a company cafeteria. I can sympathize with why many people would like to be able to expense food.
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