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savorypianoon Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music

Is this book still the best book given that it's 10 years old?

savorypianoon Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak

One metric I track is what % of users return the next day. I'm trying to bring it up to 10-20% before I assume there will be any revenue. Currently at 5% for my game, which may be due to difficulty.

Can I ask what your return % is?

savorypianoon Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak

About how much revenue or how many users do you estimate a game like this will have per month?

savorypianoon Ask HN: Where do you look for semiconductor jobs?

Are you coming from the software world? If you are, you may be surprised to learn that semi companies actually reply to their job posts. They never had the problem of having tons of matches to sort through.

savorypianoon Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

You aren't trying to support ad-based demand like OpenAI is.

savorypianoon Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage

Where do you find the leaked BOMs?

savorypianoon Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?

Sure but if FSD needs a teenager to physically monitor the car, TSLA is not worth the valuation.

A robotaxi is not like vibe coding multiple setups. You only get a split second in some cases to intervene.

savorypianoon Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?

The last 1% in FSD is an asymptotic challenge. The last 1% in a CRUD app codebase just requires a few engineers.

savorypianoon Show HN: Tiled Words, a daily puzzle inspired by board games and crosswords

My wife suggested this concept and I put it on my ideas list. Well done, you bastard.

savorypianoon Is circular finance a red flag?

Investors are balking at putting up more cash, so Nvidia is offering to backstop their own sales. It's not a red flag in terms of fraud but is very much a sign of uncertainty of returns for AI companies.

savorypianoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)

  Location: SF Bay Area
  Remote: Yes or on-site
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, Javascript, Typescript, React, NextJS, AWS, NoSQL, Postgres, Tailwind, Flask
  Email: hnsavorypiano@gmail.com
  Visa: No sponsorship required

Former hardware engineer turned full-stack developer with expertise in modern JavaScript frameworks and serverless cloud architecture, focused on building scalable, user-centric applications from frontend to backend.

Check out my bootstrapped game - a mix between Wordle and a crossword: https://wordcrux.com

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSX8mFrWI5nJQIDMamjb5UxUkFD...

savorypianoon OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

Altman wants OTHERS to spend trillions are GPU. He needs the scaling hype to continue so he can keep getting investors to put money in hopes of an AGI breakthrough. If there is no funding, OpenAI is immediately bankrupt.

savorypianoon Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code

Except the point is that you shouldn't need to inspect your assembly. Assembly does exactly what the higher level code tells it to (just about) whereas you cannot read your English prompt and rely on it.

savorypianoon The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister

So many? Why not just let the car get repo'd? Sounds hyperbolic.

savorypianoon Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens

This is the wrong logic. Immigrants can make exactly the same as natives and still suppress wages.

Fundamentally how prices are set is someone sets a price, and if there are no takers they change the price. If a company offers a salary, and they bring in an H1-B to fill the role, they don't have to raise the salary. Over time it suppresses the wage.

savorypianoon Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a protective factor of myopia

This should be studied across different populations, not just one which is known for myopia.

savorypianoon Ask HN: Why every AI company is building a browser?

They are realizing that LLM are becoming a commodity, and so the winner will be from distribution. Having a browser automatically gets you the user.

savorypianoon Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

Not aimed at your comment per se, but I'm having trouble reconciling these stories where a vast majority of applicants fail a simple test (or other Fizzbuzz type tests) with stories of how difficult interviews are these days with Leetcode hards, etc. Maybe the populations are not mixing.

savorypianoon Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

Just to clarify, do these 50% regularly develop using python, and did they understand the question?

It seems unavoidable to know how to run a script if you've done it within say a month. Now not remembering the if __name__ == __main__ thing is more forgivable.

savorypianoon Ask HN: From the MIT study, is it smarter to resign than to use forced AI?

This paper makes me glad I am not a researcher.

savorypianoon Ask HN: What are your favourite daily puzzle games?

https://wordcrux.com

This is a mini crossword played semi-Wordle style. You get a one word hint, and guess the words. Three wrong guesses on any square and the game is over.

savorypianoon What I expect will happen with Nvidia stock in next 6 months

Deepseek's advancements are not going away, even if you ban them. Demand for NVDA chips will go down, and likely will take a long time before Jevon's Paradox kicks in.

savorypianoon Ask HN: Confused about how DeepSeek hurts Nvidia

The key thing is that it's actually both, and the market is still in waiting to see mode even after a 20% dump. AI end applications are not growing fast enough, and compute costs may be crashing down.

savorypianoon Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

"Like, this week it guided me to discover a stealth 800 µA draw from the fan itself when the device was supposed to be in deep sleep."

Was this context across a single datasheet or was Pro-Mode able to deduce from how multiple parts were connected/programmed? Did it identify the problem, or just suggest where to look?

savorypianoon Ask HN: Why is ChatGPT so bad at electronics?

Pardon, but am I not seeing what you are seeing? I tried many searches and they all failed abysmally. Even basic queries like a regulator type of certain output - both the type and output could be wrong. Not sure how it's ready to launch.

savorypianoon Ask HN: Why is ChatGPT so bad at electronics?

How much would you pay for this feature?

Is typing your requirements that much easier than going through traditional search filters at Digikey?

savorypianoon Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career

I think 20% is easily believable. LLM may not do more complex functions or work with your data, but a lot of the busywork of coding is done almost instantly. Just not having to look through library docs or sort through StackOverflow is already worth 10%.

I don't think LLM will replace software engineers anytime soon, as a whole, but removing the need for the bottom 10% is not a stretch at all. That has massive implications for salary, imo, except for the top end.

savorypianoon Ask HN: How should I hire a Junior Developer in today's market?

Is this true?

I've only had one software job but there was nobody like what you describe. Even the real juniors who only had one software job.

savorypianoon Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career

Don't do it for the money.

savorypianoon Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?

Do you think a university music program is needed to learn composition, or are there enough info out there to piece it together yourself (pardon the pun)?

For reference, I am an employed self taught software engineer (learned from MOCs) and have played piano many years along with theory basics already.

I haven't found many great resources yet, at least not in one place.