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

  Location: Tbilisi/Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, US
  Technologies: Rust, PureScript, Haskell, JavaScript, EVM tooling
  Résumé/CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf
  Email: my username at google's mail service

klntskyon Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

No phone during winter

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

  Location: Tbilisi/Georgia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Rust, PureScript, Haskell, JavaScript, EVM tooling
  Résumé/CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf
  Email: my username at google's mail service

Both contract-based and full time agreements are possible.

klntskyon I live my life a quarter century at a time

To tell a story about slapping a few desktop buttons in a way that makes it interesting to read is a talent

klntskyon Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience

From the other perspective, I use Cloudflare for DNS and HTTPS certificates. Having an alternative that would cover these two use cases without the need for manually running letsencrypt would be enough for me to switch.

I don't want to think about HTTPS, my websites are low risk, mostly static pages (and there are tens of them).

klntskyon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (US)

Technologies: Haskell, PureScript, Rust, Python, web stack

CV: https://klntsky.dev/klntsky-cv.pdf

Email: my username at google's mail service

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I'm looking for a long term commitment as a SWE, preferably as a tech lead. My professional experience is mostly functional programming. Areas of interest:

- consensus research, MEV, privacy tech

- LLM tooling, use of LLMs for software development

klntskyon Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer

I would argue that HTTP statuses are a bad design decision, because they are intended to be consumed by apps, but are not app-specific. They are effectively a part of every API automatically without considerations whether they are needed.

People often implement error handling using constructs like regexp matching on status codes, while with domain-specified errors it would be obvious what exactly is the range of possible errors.

Moreover, when people do implement domain errors, they just have to write more code to handle two nested levels of branching.

klntskyon Ask HN: How do you improve your writing?

Practice. If you don't have enough ideas for the blog, participate in long form discussions on forums.

Look up a chatgpt prompt for nitpicking or write your own.

klntskyon Ask HN: Examples of Agentic LLM Systems in Production?

The definition of agent is blurry. I prefer to avoid that term because it does not mean anything in particular. These are implemented as chat completion API calls + parsing + interpretation.

klntskyon Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production?

Support bots. Scrapers. Personal assistants. Search startups like perplexity. Scammer bots. Bots that spread political agenda. "AI" memecoins.

klntskyon Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?

Meeting 1-1 is way harder to organize. You need a specific reason to go.

klntskyon Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn?

Try to pre-organize meetups in large cities. Email potential participants.

klntskyon Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made

What's the motivation for making it another language as opposed to a framework / library?

klntskyon AI company that made robots for children went bust and now the robots are dying

This video is reaction bait, crafted specifically to maximize engagement

klntskyon El Salvador to scale back Bitcoin dreams to seal $1.3B IMF deal

> Under the terms of the agreement being finalised with the Washington-based fund, El Salvador would drop a legal requirement for businesses to accept bitcoin as payment, making it voluntary to do so.

So, nothing serious

klntskyon How do I pay the publisher of a web page?

Read about chain abstraction and account abstraction for EVM.

klntskyon How do I pay the publisher of a web page?

Have you seen the fees on ethereum L2s? Your opinion may be slightly outdated, I wouldn't consider a single digit number of cents a large fee

klntskyon Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing

Looks like a good use case for LLMs!

https://chatgpt.com/share/67538beb-73e8-800a-b602-fe26b131e5...

HMU if interested in building it

klntskyon ChatGPT Pro

Are the limits applied to the org or to each individual user?

klntskyon Show HN: Belief.garden – a social network for civil discussion

Well that particular user didn't comment much besides making the choices. It becomes more interesting if you actually care about the other user as a person.

klntskyon Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative

Product hunt clones should all launch on each other

klntskyon Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

Twitter does not need a replacement. There seem to be a popular opinion that it does, but it's not something people are willing to act on.

It's a better app than it used to be, overall.

klntskyon RIP botsin.space

Only a very rich person would use managed cloud for anything large scale.

klntskyon Show HN: I'm building a Product Hunt alternative, it's 4 days old

Good ideas. Reduces biases as well. However, are you sure real product hunters want exactly that?

klntskyon Internet Archive: Security breach alert

True hackers probably have a special place in hell, but, in a good sense.

klntskyon Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts