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jacobra2··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
Ai2 / Allen Institute for AI | Senior Software Engineer | Seattle | Onsite We're hiring a senior software engineer for AI for the Planet at Ai2.

We build agents and the infrastructure that powers them, helping mission-driven organizations tackle challenges across conservation, oceans, climate, and Earth observation. We’re looking for someone who enjoys owning systems end to end, shipping reliable production software, and creating an exceptional developer experience.

Comp: $146–220k base + bonus + benefits.

Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/8110...

jacobra2··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
Ai2 / Allen Institute for AI | Senior Software Engineer | Seattle | Onsite

We're hiring a senior software engineer for AI for the Planet at Ai2.

We build production ML systems for conservation, oceans, climate, and Earth observation. The work is very applied: satellite imagery, geospatial ML pipelines, agent systems, and products used by researchers, governments, and conservation organizations.

Looking for someone who enjoys building end-to-end systems, shipping production software, and working closely with researchers and users.

Comp: $126–189k base + bonus + benefits.

Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/7909...

jacobra2··on Meta acquires Moltbook
IMO OpenClaw's innovation is in

1) accessibility to non-technical folks. For the first time, they are having the Claude Code experience that we've had as software engineers for some time now

2) shared, community token context. Many end users are contributing to one agent's context together. This has emergent properties

jacobra2··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
Ai2 - Skylight | Senior Backend Engineer | Hybrid Onsite (Seattle, WA) | $140k - $213k

Skylight (https://www.skylight.global) is one of Ai2's groundbreaking AI for Conservation programs, dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans by combating illegal fishing. Our advanced AI-powered platform delivers real-time vessel detections and actionable insights that empower enforcement agencies globally to protect marine ecosystems.

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build pipelines to ingest huge quantities of vessel position and satellite imagery data, and use it to train and run inference on state-of-the-art geospatial ML models. As a non-profit, we take pride in holding ourselves accountable to global impact, rather than traditional metrics like user counts and revenue. This team is small and scrappy, and is looking for a passionate person and awesome coder to join us.

React/Typescript | GraphQL | Python | Java | Kafka | Elasticsearch | MongoDB | GCP | Kubernetes | Terraform | PyTorch

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/6245...

jacobra2··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Ai2 - Skylight | Senior Backend Engineer | Hybrid Onsite (Seattle, WA) | $140k - $213k

Skylight (https://www.skylight.global) is one of Ai2's groundbreaking AI for Conservation programs, dedicated to protecting the world’s oceans by combating illegal fishing. Our advanced AI-powered platform delivers real-time vessel detections and actionable insights that empower enforcement agencies globally to protect marine ecosystems.

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build pipelines to ingest huge quantities of vessel position and satellite imagery data, and use it to train and run inference on state-of-the-art geospatial ML models. As a non-profit, we take pride in holding ourselves accountable to global impact, rather than traditional metrics like user counts and revenue. This team is small and scrappy, and is looking for a passionate person and awesome coder to join us.

React/Typescript | GraphQL | Python | Java | Kafka | Elasticsearch | MongoDB | GCP | Kubernetes | Terraform | PyTorch

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute/jobs/6245...

jacobra2··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
Tilia | Remote - US | Full-time

- Go Backend Engineer: https://www.tilia.io/careers?gh_jid=5369215003

- React Frontend Engineer: https://www.tilia.io/careers?gh_jid=5355029003

As a licensed money transmitter, Tilia (https://tilia.io/docs) enables companies to build their own user-to-user virtual economies through its money transmission APIs and frontend widgets. In addition to standard payment processing, Tilia handles user KYC collection, sanction screening, fraud and money laundering detection, and payout processing.

Tilia is the processor behind Second Life and recently received an investment from JP Morgan: https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2022/10/18/tilia-se...

Basically, we write code that lets buyers purchase virtual hats from sellers, and allows sellers to cash out to their bank.

jacobra2··on Hyperview: Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
How does login/auth work with Hyperview if there's no local storage?
jacobra2··on D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
I believe FlyCut.
jacobra2··on Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the shift towards centralization
Agreed it is interesting. The US dollar has a similar dynamic. The degree to which a currency is fungible should incorporate its corruptability.
jacobra2··on AWS Lambda pricing now per ms
What don't you like about cognito? I've been able to solve every auth problem I've encountered with it.
jacobra2··on What a typical serverless architecture looks like in AWS
There's a lot of negative comments, so I'll just put out - I enjoyed reading this and appreciate the time put into explaining this.

What does your dev/sandbox environment look like? Are you using localstack?

jacobra2··on AWS services to avoid
Could you elaborate on the proxy pass option piece?
jacobra2··on GitHub is degraded/down
I was referring to WorldPay and Adyen (payment providers), but also saw issues directly w Github.
jacobra2··on GitHub is degraded/down
At my organization, we saw an uptick in timeouts spanning vendors that started at the same time - 6:55am PST. Makes me think there's an internet wide event occurring right now
jacobra2··on How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure
What was the mistake?
jacobra2··on Payment Request API
>It's important to note that many of the tricks (like hidden iframes from PSPs) that are used to make payments frictionless today are going to become useless as browsers roll out more changes to protect user's privacy (e.g. killing 3rd party cookies and storage).

Could you point me to resources to learn more about this? I work on integrations like this. Is it that iframed PSP integrations won't work at all, or they won't appear as seamless?

jacobra2··on Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide
This is the same study that the publishing scientist quit the USDA in protest over.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/05/ziska-usda-climate...

jacobra2··on Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will
Amazing. Disabled. Didn't know that, thank you!
jacobra2··on Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will
I've done something similar with my Android phone, and it's worked out decently. One problem I encountered though - I spent a lot of time on Reddit, and would check it subconsciously, so I deleted it. Now I find that I'm using Google Now, the left swipe off the home screen. In effect I took the attention from Reddit and gave it to Google. I'm not convinced that was a worthwhile trade. Given I can't delete Google Now, maybe having Reddit on my phone was serving a purpose I didn't realize. Maybe there's an app that will minimize the subconscious attention blast radius. Something that I'll still check but will minimize the time I spend there.
jacobra2··on Security alerts on GitHub
There is now an incentive for that vulnerability to be addressed that didn't exist before. Seems like a security win overall.
jacobra2··on Facebook Is Looking for Employees with National Security Clearances
Honest question, what kind of government contracts do you think facebook is bidding on?