RomanPushkin

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by RomanPushkin 8mo ago
I've seen it all. 20 years as software engineer. 11 of them in Silicon Valley. Now I haul junk. I have decent experience, my own projects, GitHub with thousands of stars, I spoke at tech conference in 2025. I wrote a book about Ruby (p
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by RomanPushkin 8mo ago
Will post it here: > In October 2025, a Waymo autonomous robotaxi struck and killed KitKat, a well-known bodega cat at Randa's Market in San Francisco's Mission District, sparking debates over self-driving car safety It's
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
This is what Ruby, Rails and DHH personally tried to do for a long time. The concept of "One Person Framework" where one engineer could work on frontend/backend/devops/mobile stuff is kinda cool, and works to some d
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
Worst engineer's nightmare would be if you're hired, delivered the "working website with 100 of different calculators", and someone like myself needs "just to code review it" and "make sure all corner case
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
Prediction for the next 15 years: new operating system called Uni. AI will finally get to the point when it can actually reliably replicate the entire OS stack and it will be Windows. I mean Windows stack will get integrated into Linux, but
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
Have you thought it could be because of the pressure they're getting at work? Today you're forced to work when you're sick, to do your business while doing your business... I agree that flushing toilets could have been muted,
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
https://interviewcop.com - interview cheating affects both businesses and legit candidates like myself. I'm trying to solve this problem with AI agents that help interviewers to understand who actually can code and understa
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
I enjoyed this one by Seth Godin, 2025 from HOPE conf: https://www.youtube.com/live/7ZeN53mKhbE?si=cPF2iYWmI3TECdVH... - Hacking The Tech Industrial Complex: Learning to See Invisible Systems
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
Interview voice: - How do you actually grow being in one company for 14 years?
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
https://interviewcop.com - let me know what you think. The idea is that we have so many cheating apps that it hurts both businesses and legit software engineers like myself. I'm trying to solve this problem and make intervi
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
Many users left because they had had overly strict moderation for posting your questions. I have 6k reputation, multiple gold badges and I will remember StackOverflow as a hostile place to ask a questions, honestly. There were multiple occa
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
Funny story: in 2025 I interviewed with multiple Ruby/Rails companies in San Francisco. I performed really well in the interviews. For one company, I went through a full on-site interview at their office. And still — no offer. The inte
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
Don't need teeth yet (lol), but curious if anyone is aware of a similar/new ways to restore the enamel?
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
> the JVM is simply more employable How do you know it? Today you have to re-assess what you've learnt in the past. If you think JVM is "simply more employable" and haven't tested the waters in last 1-2 years, chances
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by RomanPushkin 9mo ago
The next step should be to send enthusiasts there, get samples of this mushroom from that market, and introduce it to the underground for personal research. That’s normally what happens when something interesting is discovered. For example,
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
You might be getting a good _recall_ rate, since vectorize search is ANN, but the _precision_ can be low, because reranker piece is missing. So I would slightly improve it by adding 10 more lines of code and introducing reranker after the s
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
I'm happy to see v4.0, but 2025 was the year I switched from Ruby to Python after gradually drifting back to it more and more. The tipping point was when I had Claude Code automatically convert one of my Ruby projects to 100% Python -
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
Nothing beats a MacBook Air if you’re not chasing raw performance. I ended up with two machines: - MacBook Air (16GB) - MINISFORUM UM870 with 48GB RAM The Air is unbeatable for portability and battery life. The MinisForum is still “portable
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
This year I spoke at HOPE - Hackers On Planet Earth. The topic was "Hacking ATMs: past and present". I really enjoyed it, it took a lot to prepare though. I haven't gotten any monetary benefit from it, but I would definitely
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
Having this RAG layer was always another thing to try for me. I haven't coded it myself, and super interested if this gives a real boost while working with Claude. Curious from anyone who have already tried the service, what's you
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
> In the West there is nothing close to that. Well, actually, the whole cancel culture dynamic is a softer alternative to what you just described. And it doesn’t even require you to be the actor — it can be your spouse, your child, whoev
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
It's both good and bad. On one hand, it's sad that there's no access. On the other hand, it increases the diversity of tools and services worldwide. Google, for example, is well known for buying startups just to kill them. In
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
Mistral presented DeepSeek 3.2
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
I'm the owner of one of these laptops. I paid like $2-3k or even more for the laptop. The screen got broken almost on arrival. I think few days later it started glitching. It was intermittent, so I thought it would go away. I didn&#x27
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
For that purpose I do not update my book on LeanPub about Ruby. I just know one day people gonna read it more, because human-written content would be gold.
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by RomanPushkin 10mo ago
Don't forget it's free in some countries. My degree was 100% free. And don't tell me it wasn't. There has been a lot of free stuff in post-Soviet era. In Soviet Union people had more than most of the folks who are pretty
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by RomanPushkin 11mo ago
Dang, it's $10/month one... Is it worth the money?
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Ask HN: How hard will it be to find a job (dev) in 5 years from now?
3 points by RomanPushkin 11mo ago|6 comments
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by RomanPushkin 11mo ago
I'm also building solo, applied to YC winter batch as solo, and I've been building solo for quite a while now. My solo projects were on HN news multiple times getting hundreds and even 1000+ points (submitted by other folks tho).

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