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Show HN: BuildHiFi – PC Part Picker for Home Stereos

buildhifi.com
8 points·by wmeredith·4 mesi fa·0 comments

White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"

arstechnica.com
343 points·by wmeredith·6 mesi fa·114 comments

The Case for (Sonically) Cosy Listening Spaces

seekhifi.com
3 points·by wmeredith·9 mesi fa·0 comments

In 1979 one of the best guitar solos recorded was cut for radio time

seekhifi.com
48 points·by wmeredith·10 mesi fa·27 comments

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wmeredith
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Unemployed engineer: business is my problem.
wmeredith
·15 giorni fa·discuss
I'll bite. The Covid vaccines were extremely effective. This information brought to us by a data leak of the report blocked by the US government...

"NEW YORK (AP) — A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from a government health journal.

The vaccine was found to be about 55% effective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations, and reduced COVID-19-related trips to emergency departments and urgent care clinics by 50%, according to the study published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open."

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-covid-vaccine-effective-study...
wmeredith
·23 giorni fa·discuss
This is a known potential side-effect of these drugs. When I started them my doctor warned me about a possible lack of motivation. These drugs trigger your body's satiation mechanism (as I understand them–not a doctor) and that can apply to more things than just eating.
wmeredith
·24 giorni fa·discuss
Both teams I run use Cursor as their daily drivers. It's fantastic. I am annoyed with this acquisition.
wmeredith
·25 giorni fa·discuss
"SpaceX told investors during the IPO process that it sees an addressable market for AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP."

This is unhinged.
wmeredith
·mese scorso·discuss
As all programmers know: naming things (abstracting ideas for human interpretation) is hard.
wmeredith
·mese scorso·discuss
If you're asking the question, most likely yes. If you have evidence of the problem being AI slop, no.
wmeredith
·mese scorso·discuss
Essentially, yes, as I understand it. Elon's "investment" of millions in the current administration is paying dollars on the penny.
wmeredith
·mese scorso·discuss
It's also broken for Safari (on Mac).
wmeredith
·mese scorso·discuss
It's the formality of the language. It sounds robotic.
wmeredith
·mese scorso·discuss
As a Missourian who is regular embarrassed by Senator Hawley, I must say that he brings the goods when he has the opportunity to grill an oligarch.
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I think it's reasonable to request the person making the assertion to back it up. It's not on the audience to either only debunk or accept the assertion. It can just be rejected.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
It's a $600,000 car. I don't think they're widening access.
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> most of the tech leadership has to play along

Many of them orchestrated the situation.
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
That's a pretty sinister system when the dam builders are suing the work of those downstream to build their damn. What happens when everyone downstream has been starved to death?
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> If I start driving south from Seattle then I'll eventually reach Los Angeles. How long will it take me to drive to Honolulu?

I like this analogy, but I'll be replacing Honolulu with The Moon when I steal it in the future.
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Eh, Topps did in the 1950s and The American Tobacco company did it in 1909.
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
This is what I sees getting missed in a lot of LLM conversations. They're amplifiers. Full stop. If you have good practices they supercharge them, if you had bad practices, same thing.
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
AxisCare | Senior + Mid-Level Software Engineers | Remote (US/Canada, ET/CT/MT) | https://axiscare.com/careers

We build the market-leading SaaS platform for the home care industry: scheduling, billing, payroll, CRM, and clinical documentation for agencies across all 50 US states and 6 countries. ~10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day; the agencies using our software help them stay in their homes.

We're are small, fast teams that have gone deep on AI-augmented development. Not as a talking point; as the actual way we work. We prototype aggressively, put working software in front of stakeholders before a traditional process would finish a PRD, and iterate from there. We're looking for engineers who already work this way: driving agents on real codebases, maintaining quality when the machine is doing the typing, and knowing when to throw the output away.

Stack: PHP (backend), React + TypeScript (frontend), MySQL, RESTful APIs, AWS. You'll work across the full stack.

Senior (5+ yrs): Product-minded, systems-thinking engineers. You'd lead 1–2 engineers while still taking substantial features from concept to production solo. You mentor others in code design, systems thinking, and driving AI agents effectively.

Mid-Level (2+ yrs): This is a senior-track role. You'll ship real features with mentorship from senior and staff engineers who are deeply invested in your growth. We want engineers who see where things are heading and want to get ahead of it; going deep on architecture, design, and understanding the problems, not just writing the code.

Both roles: We want concrete evidence you use AI as a real tool, not a novelty. Push the tools until they fail, then tell us about it. We care about quality software that's easy to change, clear writing, and engineers who get curious about the customers, not just the tickets.

Compensation: Salary TBD based on experience. Medical/dental/vision covered in full for the employee. Company-provided equipment.

Apply with a brief resume and a cover letter (written or video — video goes to the front of the line). The cover letter matters; we read it first. Tell us what you've built, how AI has changed the way you work with specific examples, and why this team at this moment.

Candidates only, no recruiters. Feel free to reach out directly via email to wademeredith [at] axis care [dot] com if you have questions. Apply through the website.
wmeredith
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Being lucky can't be replicated.