Where the AI market is talking

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Software Engineer - Full Stack | New York, NY | Full-time, ONSITE | $160K-$210K + equity (senior band $170K-$210K, mid $160K-$180K). We're rebuilding our core customer journey — Search → Details → Booking → Post-booking — and consolidating fragmented pricing/inventory logic into a coherent backend domain with clear API contracts. Senior role with Staff-leaning scope: you'll own core domains (pricing, inventory, search), mentor engineers, and partner directly with the Head of Engineering across 5 teams. Company is expanding internationally (Mexico & Caribbean this year, Europe next), in-housing search from Algolia, and launching Spa as a new vertical. Stack: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Datadog, Playwright/RSpec. Requirem…

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Starbridge | Senior AI Engineer | NYC or Remote | Full-time | Starbridge is building an AI platform that turns large-scale public and enterprise data into reliable sales insights. We are early, moving fast, and building from zero to one, so this role will have huge ownership and product impact. AI Engineer: Applied AI plus strong software engineering. You will build, evaluate, and deploy LLM-driven features like deep document analysis and interactive chat, working with models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. Expect hands-on Python, ML system design, experimentation, and production reliability. Bonus for RAG depth and frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Hugging Face. We're looking to build our in-person team in NYC but also open to remote! Apply: https://starbridge.ai&#x…

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Starbridge | Senior AI Engineer | NYC or Remote | Full-time | Starbridge is building an AI platform that turns large-scale public and enterprise data into reliable sales insights. We are early, moving fast, and building from zero to one, so this role will have huge ownership and product impact. AI Engineer: Applied AI plus strong software engineering. You will build, evaluate, and deploy LLM-driven features like deep document analysis and interactive chat, working with models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. Expect hands-on Python, ML system design, experimentation, and production reliability. Bonus for RAG depth and frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Hugging Face. We're looking to build our in-person team in NYC but also open to remote! Apply: https://starbridge.ai&#x…

The Future, Made in China

"A republic, if you can keep it". The "the trajectory of the US on a 'Chinese timescale'" barely even registers. While the CCP might not be that old, China considers itself an ancient society with a level of historical coherence that makes the United States rather insignificant as a lesson in political history. You've offered a hugely reductive and rosy view of American history. Democracy is easy until it gets hard. America has fought a civil war before. The Congress basically does not function anymore ergo the "imperial presidency". The balance of powers the framers created when the country was a sparsely populated periphery of 3 million people has changed dramatically. George Washington rejected a partisan affiliation and regarded it as a societal disease. He was elected unanimously. Wi…

The Future, Made in China

The percentage of China's GDP that is dependent on foreign demand (15.7%) is the second lowest among major economies. The only major economy that is lower is the US at 9.0%, which is an extremely outlier.[0] By many OECD economic metrics[1] around trade dependence, the US and China consistently rank as the least trade dependent. This reflects the scale of the countries, diversity of the economies, and an intentional strategy of minimizing trade dependence for GDP growth. This last point is central to geopolitical leverage. Even if you treat the EU27 as a single trade entity, which operates at similar scales, there is little evidence of a coherent strategy to become functionally self-sufficient. A lot of geopolitical relevance is downstream of this. [0] https://x.com/Jonatho…

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Oslo, Norway (CET) Remote: Yes (EU/US time zones) Willing to relocate: Yes. Technologies: Rust, Python (PyTorch, NumPy/Pandas, Flask, Django), PyO3 Databases/infra: Postgres, ClickHouse, Qdrant, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes (k8s) ML and systems: vLLM, TensorRT, Ray, edge ML inference, gRPC/Protobuf, systems profiling (perf, flamegraphs, Valgrind) Rust focus: Async services (Tokio, Axum/Actix), data/compute (Polars/Arrow), database proxies, performance-critical pipelines. Domain expertise: - Academic: PhD in mathematics (topological data analysis, representation theory), MSc finance, MSc neuroscience. - Applied: database proxies/networking, quant dev and backtesting engines, ML/DL for banking & finance (risk/fraud), LLMs and a…

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Chicago, IL / San Francisco, CA Remote: Open to Remote, In-person, or Hybrid Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Languages - JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, SQL Frameworks / Libraries - Express, Sinatra, React, Jest, Vitest, LangChain, Selenium, Pandas Cloud / Databases - AWS, DocumentDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RDS, SQLite, ChromaDB Other - Docker, AI/LLMs, RAG, MCP, SSE, WebSockets Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/3dvzzzbt Email: rachrusiecki@gmail.com Hello! I'm Rachel, a Full-Stack Software Engineer with multiple years of experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Python. I recently co-created Pendulum ( https://www.pendulum-baas.dev/ ), a reactive Backend-as-a-Service for web applications. I also recently did f…

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: EU Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: Agentic Engineering (Claude, Codex, Cohere, Voyage, Mistral, LangChain, LanceDB, LLaMA, Mistral), C/C++/Rust/Node/Typescript/React/Python, Azure/AWS/Docker/K8S, DevOps tooling, ML/BigData/Search tooling ... and much more Résumé/CV: https://www.artifixsolutions.com?sid=hn202608 . Email: lajos [@] artifixsolutions.com WHO: Technology Polymath. Agentic context & harness engineering. WHAT: Whether human or AI built, I know how systems break. I build them so they don't. After three decades of battle-tested experience there isn't a failure mode I don't know how to fix. When it comes to AI, I design and architect systems using my own rigorous engineering approach t…

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: EU Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: Agentic Engineering (Claude, Codex, Cohere, Voyage, Mistral, LangChain, LanceDB, LLaMA, Mistral), C/C++/Rust/Node/Typescript/React/Python, Azure/AWS/Docker/K8S, DevOps tooling, ML/BigData/Search tooling ... and much more Résumé/CV: https://www.artifixsolutions.com?sid=hn202608 . Email: lajos [@] artifixsolutions.com WHO: Technology Polymath. Agentic context & harness engineering. WHAT: Whether human or AI built, I know how systems break. I build them so they don't. After three decades of battle-tested experience there isn't a failure mode I don't know how to fix. When it comes to AI, I design and architect systems using my own rigorous engineering approach t…

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

The point is that you have to have an idea of what it has access to in its context. Many expect it to work like an omniscient genie and then give up once it turns out that it can't read your mind and you have to be able to halfway-coherently state what you want.

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

If k3 is open-weight (and it's available on hugging face [1]), how could they force providers to sing an extra (secret) licensing agreement? Edit to answer my own question: License file [2] states: > If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates exceeds 20 million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in total over any consecutive 12 months, the Licensee must enter into a separate agreement with Moonshot AI before using the Software or its derivative works for any commercial purpose. [1] https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3 [2] https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/blob/main/LICENSE

My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”

btw I have now added this to Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/datasets/jaymollica/frogs

How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

You are playing the generic tangent game here. I wish I could replicate how PP makes his points, but here I think he doesn't give it enough credit. US (& even its allies) have been portrayed to be welcoming, or at least less unwelcoming. than China, which too have had an inbred commitment to hospitality . to the average foreigner. The reality on the ground is generally the opposite. Chinese law enforcement (especially urban) is mostly hands-off, aloof. The powers behind the scenes have different ideas, but they have limited influence on how things play out in everyday detail. This is the same in the US but NYT feel like it is in their interest to muddy the waters. Vibes are a big part of why I admittedly despise the [soft-elitist] centre (left and right) in the US (& "North-Central Europe…

Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now

I think the next 6 month will be a golden age for inference. The weights will be available for anyone to download from hugging face which could create a price fall once providers start competing for your business.

Anthropic's Fever Dream: Claude's package that stole real keys

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

> and even every day as the vendor tweaks the system prompts I just patched Claude Code's system prompts, pinned the version and stopped upgrading without first dissecting and auditing the executable. Even discovered Anthropic can remotely inject strings into the system prompt via some "growth book" or something. Neutralized that too. Things got a lot better after I started doing that. It straight up fixed Opus 4.6, and Opus 4.8 got more consistent in my subjective experience. Sadly there's nothing I can do about Anthropic's server side "system reminders" whenever some prompt trips their classifiers or whatever. I'm in the process of switching to OpenAI and Codex. The open source harness is a breath of fresh air. We'll see how that goes.

Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

I really don't get what MS is doing here. They claim they care about Xbox, that they're going to turn the ship around, yet they cluelessly and carelessly laid off most of their best staff, all while raising prices multiple times and still not producing a coherent future roadmap. Any consumer or customer would look at this behavior pattern and think they are far too unstable to put their trust into. At this point it's time to call it for Xbox. I don't think they'll be around in six months time.

Cancelling Cursor

Cursor is a victim of its own success. Clearly the future is agents but the average user just wants them for a smarter tab completion. I also cancelled my subscription since I’m not particularly sold that I need a middle man between me and OpenAI / Anthropic.

SwiftUI After 7 Years

Define right, it’s hard to replicate the native UI especially Liquid Glass on iOS because it’s rendering everything using its own rendering engine, making it hard to feel right on iOS. I have also seen a lot of companies move away from flutter to either native or React Native.

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

Yeah as far as what I'm talking about bash CLI vs MCP doesn't matter (there could be a file_sample MCP tool)---I'm saying that by default Windows, Linux etc don't have this venetianblinds affordance of seeing equally spaced samples. It's a trivial algo but it's very handy these days cause LLMs can't really just be like 'okay I'm gonna open this file at random and scroll around'--the file itself is an unknown blob (JSON data, Python, Typescript, a log file etc) without coordinates. So they fall back to thinking they've gotten a good sense of the file from head/grep or they write ad-hoc Python to manipulate the file. Another venetianblinds survey, of the Paul Graham 'What I Worked On' article that's used in many LlamaIndex examples: npx github:firasd/venetianblinds pgworkedon.txt …