throwaway743

Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA

Remote: Yes, preferred. Open to hybrid/onsite in NYC.

Willing to relocate: Prefer to stay in NYC.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, HTML5, CSS3, Python, Three.js, Capacitor, Selenium, Git, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Blender, Adobe Creative Suite

Résumé/CV: https://shanelessa.com

Email: shane.lessa@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/gldstrrbt

Seeking: Creative technologist, frontend developer, creative developer, or similar roles.

Hey HN! I'm a Brooklyn based developer/designer who loves making things, both digital and physical.

I spent much of my 20s working for a government contractor on digital projects for government agencies. I was laid off at the end of 2020 during COVID related financial trouble, and decided to build something of my own: CryptoGain, a charting and analytics app I designed, developed, and launched for Android and iOS. (Don't worry, I'm not a crypto bro. I just really like charts.) Some fortunate investments gave me room to keep building and experimenting.

In January 2026 I started PowerUpPocket (https://poweruppocket.com), restoring and creating one-of-a-kind Nintendo 3DS consoles. It combines design, electronics, and fabrication, but the best part is hearing from customers who found a little joy in something I made.

Life got pretty rough this summer. I've been couch surfing and sometimes sleeping in my workshop while trying to get back on my feet. Then Etsy shut down my shop last week, cutting off nearly all my business income. So I'm looking for work again.

My path's unconventional, but I love solving problems, teaching myself new tools, and taking ideas from concept to finished product. I'd be grateful for any opportunities or introductions. Thanks for reading!

Makes sense. Most look like pancake butts or shitty implants.

Totally! iirc Germany implemented laws requiring sunlight exposure within offices so workers aren't deprived of it.

The footer rules

Just tried No_4mat's 1992... unfortunately it didn't work :(

I see your take but I took it as "don't limit yourself to the confines of tradition and culture, open yourself up to others, go your own path, do the right thing, and make friends along the way to enrichen your life and meaning".

This is all inevitable with the trajectory of technology, and has been apparent for a long time. The issue isn't AI, it's that our leaders haven't bothered to think or care about what happens to us when our labor loses value en masse due to such advances.

Maybe it requires fundamentally changing or economic systems? Who knows what the solution is, but the problem is most definitely rooted in lack of initiative by our representatives and an economic system that doesn't accommodate us for when shit inevitably hits the fan with labor markets.

What's not given as much coverage is how she didn't have a subscription, yet the footage was still recorded pulled from servers. That's concerning.

Idk where you're at, but it's been the complete opposite in my experience

Part of the hook is asking a question. It immediately gets people investing in thinking of an answer

I took the "perhaps" as a decision to be considered by the applicant, considering they'd be competent enough to get in at a place of their choice, not just anthropic.

No.

This might be a little conspiracy thinking, but I think it's possible that the recent drive from NVIDIA to move toward defense contracting and shift to B2B is part of a larger strategy. When you combine that with the rapid increases in hardware pricing and the push toward renting cloud compute, it looks like a form of collusion between the private sector and the government in the name of "national security".

The goal seems to be to squash the proliferation of open source LLMs and prevent individuals from running private, uncensored models at home. It is an effective way to kill any possible underdog or startup competition by making the "barrier to entry" (the compute) a rented privilege rather than a private resource. The partnership with Palantir seems to point directly to this, especially considering the ideologies of Thiel and Karp.

They are building a world where intelligence is centralized and monitored, and local sovereignty over AI is treated as a liability to be phased out

I'd assume Katamari has the same effect. Felt a sense of joy I haven't felt in a while, when playing the latest one after having not played a Katamari game since around 08.

A lot of this AI backlash feels less about the tech itself and more about people feeling economically exposed. When you think your job or livelihood is on thin ice, it is easier to direct that fear at AI than at the fact that our elected reps have not offered any real plan for how workers are supposed to survive the transition.

AI becomes a stand-in for a bigger problem. We keep arguing about models and chatbots, but the real issue is that the economic safety net has not been updated in decades. Until that changes, people will keep treating AI as the thing to be angry at instead of the system that leaves them vulnerable.

This is the problem.

IME it's especially bad with Admob. They've purposefully kept their email contact option broken for years and the only "help" you can access is from their forum, which is the absolute worst and never provides any meaningful resolutions. It's awful.

Kinda related/unrelated, but I'm dying for something that solves the problem of fog of war for tabletop games, while still allowing for physical minis

Imo DEI should have always been based on socioeconomic status over anything else. It'd likely address the other forms of diversity, and would provide way less homogeneity in thought while at the same time providing a sense of inclusion/belonging.

This is great! I've been using mixamo and really sion, but would just love something open source that does both the body rigging as well as the facial rigging and lip syncing. It'd make life so much easier

Nope.

Looks and feels solid. Only issue I noticed off the bat is that scrolling isn't working in Chrome on Android. Also, idk if it's an issue with mobile Chrome but the address bar doesn't drop down.

Vanced ftw. Blocks all youtube ads and plays with the screen off.

Had an orthodox roommate in college who once asked me to light his bowl for him...

Another time he asked my friend to tear him some toilet paper

*Turned to Shit

Torrent or unlock + a putlocker site and whstever you use to share from your device to a screen.

No commercials, bigger selection, no geo locked content, high quality, and you're not paying out the ass for 3+ subscriptions for just a curated selection/UI.

Happened at an ex-employer's where they were prying on people's chats, emails, whatever accounts they were logged into while connected to their network without them knowing, and using what they found for office politics. From what I found and had confirmed from someone in IT, at a minimum at least one manager was using mitm software, IT had sslstrip on network traffic (I know there's a real security use for it but they also used it to pry), managers requested IT to let them read other people's emails, and managers had logs of chats (not sure if that was feature for admins/paid subscribers). Also happened at a well known company someone I know worked at, where they monitored and fired people over what they wrote in chats.

Careful with what you type if they're paying for the software, devices, and/or your traffic is routed through their network.

That's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over them

It's such bullshit. Having been fed up with Google over the last year, since releasing for Android, I'm slowly moving away from them and prioritizing iOS. Haven't had to deal with nearly as much bullshit with them.

Cloudflare checkbox captchas were already easy to automate without AI.

If you grow them yourself they taste pretty fine. Unsure if not using manure improved the taste though.