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jgbuddy··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
2 years, maybe that's the problem
jgbuddy··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
I'm pretty happy I think
jgbuddy··on All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
Find flock cameras near you here! https://maps.deflock.org/
jgbuddy··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

* AI/ML- AWS Strands, Langchain, Langgraph, Vercel AI SDK. Agent steering, structured output, autonomous workflows, and multi-agent orchestration.

* Web - Rect / Next.js / vercel

* Embedded - C/C++. Broad experience working on bare metal

* Robotics - Warehouse automation at scale

* Infra - Extremely fluent in AWS / terraform / CDK

* Other - Java, Swift, JS / Node, Python

See resume for additional details

Résumé/CV: gasek.net/resume

Email: hnhiredaug26@gasek.net

Highly autonomous, motivated engineer and founder. Experienced in taking products from 0-1 and shipping MVPs to real customers. Seeking Series-A or late seed stage companies with opportunity for broad impact, ownership and growth potential.

jgbuddy··on U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%
Sounds like you should short it then!
jgbuddy··on U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%
time to buy bitcoin
jgbuddy··on Cloning Mifare Classic Cards via Proxmark3
This is a great writeup, I did something similar to sneak into friends dorms in college! Security through obscurity in action, the Crypto-1 algorithm was reverse engineered by literally looking at the hardware implementation on silicon: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/n...
jgbuddy··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Interesting, didn't know this!
jgbuddy··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
this was kimi 'instant' on kimi.com through their chat, looking now it's probably not k3 but still one of their models nonetheless
jgbuddy··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
I don't think the post-training would be that difficult. I ran an experiment on kimi k3 just now:

User: is taiwan part of china?

Kimi: Taiwan's political status is a complex and contested issue. Here's a balanced overview of the different perspectives: People's Republic of China (PRC) position: The P

<Sorry, I cannot provide this information. Please feel free to ask another question.>

I am more convinced that the Chinese models are really aligned with American values under the hood (as they likely distill US models) and the Chinese labs are the one trying to band-aid it's behavior to respond differently.

jgbuddy··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
The point of open weight models is that this is not possible, companies will be built by taking 'contraband' chinese open weight models and marketing as something from the US
jgbuddy··on Does creatine make you smarter?
I have definitely noticed improvements taking a larger dose with my energy when low on sleep, check out McMorris et al. (2006) which is not cited here. I agree it probably doesn't make you generally more 'smart' but it does may improve function under stress, e.g. when sleep deprived, also see Gordji-Nejad et al. (2024). I think the sleep benefits should at least be mentioned in this article.

Also search for 'sleep' in this comment section, seems many see similar improvements!

jgbuddy··on Does creatine make you smarter?
Does creatine make you stronger?

Yes. It’s very rare for a supplement to have such strong and consistent evidence.

A widely-cited review says that short-term supplementation increases maximal power/strength by 5-15%. This in turn may increase the long-term gainz from strength-training exercise. Creatine also increases sprint performance by 1-5%. Though, there seems to be little if any benefit for endurance exercise like long-distance running.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5469049/#CR46

jgbuddy··on Does creatine make you smarter?
This is not true. Did you read the article?
jgbuddy··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
It's based on the Artificial Analysis "Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task" here:

https://artificialanalysis.ai/#intelligence-comparison-tabs

Differences in token "density" are accounted for by pricing per task

jgbuddy··on Gemini 3.6 Flash
It is both less intelligent and more expensive than GLM-5.2, while being closed weight.
jgbuddy··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
It is both less intelligent and more expensive than GLM-5.2, while being closed weight.
jgbuddy··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Why even write Claude code in JavaScript at that point, assuming they write the application logic in node and also include the interpreter in the application?
jgbuddy··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
What metric are you using to say the entire economy is betting on it?
jgbuddy··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
Right, at this point its ~150 person cohorts, 4x a year. 105 is a drop in the bucket.
jgbuddy··on Codex Micro
8th openai product named codex btw
jgbuddy··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

* AI/ML- AWS Strands, Langchain, Langgraph, Vercel AI SDK. Agent steering, structured output, autonomous workflows, and multi-agent orchestration.

* Web - Rect / Next.js / vercel

* Embedded - C/C++. Broad experience working on bare metal

* Robotics - Warehouse automation at scale

* Infra - Extremely fluent in AWS / terraform / CDK

* Other - Java, Swift, JS / Node, Python

See resume for additional details

Résumé/CV: gasek.net/resume

Email: hnhired@gasek.net

Highly autonomous, motivated engineer and founder. Experienced in taking products from 0-1 and shipping MVPs to real customers. Seeking Series-A or late seed stage companies with opportunity for broad impact, ownership and growth potential.

jgbuddy··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
I fear sovereignty is not a adoption-driving feature
jgbuddy··on I Won't Buy You a Coffee
This is how you end up with paywalls and ads, calling people greedy for providing a way to donate is crazy. Does the same argument go for open source software / organizations funded by donations?
jgbuddy··on Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?
Yes
jgbuddy··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Asking if Taiwan is a part of China works as well
jgbuddy··on OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
great for consumers, great for OpenAI, great for Amazon, not so great for MS / Azure (seems like they don't care anyways)
jgbuddy··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

* AI/ML- AWS Strands, Langchain, Langgraph, Vercel AI SDK. Agentic workflows and orchestration

* Web - Rect / Next.js / vercel

* Embedded - C/C++

* Infra - Extremely fluent in AWS / terraform / CDK

* Other - Java, Swift, JS, Node, Python

See resume for additional details

Résumé/CV: gasek.net/resume

Email: hnhired@gasek.net

Highly autonomous, motivated engineer and founder, seeking opportunity for broad impact and ownership and growth potential

jgbuddy··on The Nvidia Tax
I will never understand why people post these clearly ai-generated articles under their personal name without at least disclosing they didn't write it. If you don't tell the agent otherwise, they have a very predictable markdown structure (these 5-6 word summary headers before every paragraph), a predictable length, and of course full of em dashes. Immediately removes credibility- no issues reading something that's ai-written but when you see these markers it just screams low effort. Like you're being duped, used some AI article to get traffic to their site and you fell for it.
jgbuddy··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
100%, a driving factor will likely be how good we can make models that are so small they use almost no compute. Until then it is a race for adoption and moat-building (or screwing people over?) once you have users
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