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_tqr3 commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
_tqr3 · 23 days ago
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Remote, Hybrid, On-site

Willing to relocate: Not outside of Canada (until next year).

Technologies: Typescript, React, Node.js, Rabbitmq, cockroachdb, kafka, some llms (in-house) etc.

Email: ntemail@protonmail.com

I am a full-stack engineer (first eight years in front-end and the last two years in full-stack). I've lived in Bay area for half of my life and have worked at startups as well as big tech.

_tqr3 commented on I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch   github.com/yousef-rafat/m... · Posted by u/yousef_g
refulgentis · 2 months ago
I'm embarrassed to ask: can someone elaborate on, say, what we have now that we didn't have before the repo existed?

I have studiously avoided making models, though I've been adjacent to their output for years now... I think the root of my confusion is I kinda assumed there was already PyTorch based scripts for inference / training. (I assumed _at least_ inference scripts were released with models, and kinda figured fine-tuning / training ones were too)

So then I'm not sure if I'm just looking at a clean room / dirty room rewrite of those. Or maybe everyone is using "PyTorch" but it's usually calling into CUDA/C/some proprietary thingy that is much harder to grok than a pure PyTorch impl?

Anyways, these arent great guesses, so I'll stop myself here. :)

_tqr3 · 2 months ago
Stability AI, creators of Stable Diffusion models release their products under own Stability AI Community License which is not "free" like MIT license. You are not allowed to modify the weights in certain ways.

This package is basically running the model (inference) and maybe fine tuning it using existing AI weights. A great way to learn but still could run into same licensing issue.

_tqr3 commented on Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js   sparkjs.dev/... · Posted by u/dmarcos
_tqr3 · 2 months ago
This is great, thanks!

I have spent countless hours playing with the R3F - adding vertex and fragment shaders, eventually giving up. The math is just tedious.

_tqr3 commented on Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills    · Posted by u/charleszyong
_tqr3 · 2 months ago
As another robot hobbyist, I wish there were more detailed documentation on how things work. So many projects online just show a working demo—usually on YouTube—and it's impossible to decipher what’s actually happening, or if the robot is simply following some predefined movements.
_tqr3 commented on Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game   midword.com/... · Posted by u/minaguib
aqme28 · 2 months ago
Pretty cool! Obviously the best strategy is binary search, but it's pretty hard to figure out the best choice for that on the fly.
_tqr3 · 2 months ago
> binary search

Hence the word "Mid".

_tqr3 commented on Show HN: FreeMyCash – A simple, privacy-first, back end-optional expense tracker   freemycash.com... · Posted by u/_tqr3
coffeecoders · 2 months ago
How does this handle multiple users (same file)?
_tqr3 · 2 months ago
No option really without backend sync.
_tqr3 commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
_tqr3 · 3 months ago
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Full-stack (Node.js, React, RabbitMQ, Kafka)

Experience: 10+ years with TypeScript and JavaScript

Current Role: Staff Software Engineer at a large U.S.-based company

What I’m best at:

  - Architecting large-scale applications and optimizing for performance

  - Automation — at my last two companies, the internal tools I built saved over 1,000 developer hours
Email: ntemail (at) protonmail.com

Projects/Resume available on request.

_tqr3 commented on Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?    · Posted by u/srijansriv
_tqr3 · 3 months ago
Rather than watching videos or reading on the internet, I think its worth it to get your hands dirty.

For starter, I always recommend a RC car with an Arduino (or cheaper equivalents).

Following can be had for less than <$100

- SG90 servo motor - 28BYJ-48 stepper motor - ULN2003 driver board - UNO R3 Controller Board (Elegoo) - RC car chasis/3D printed chasis

Hack around, add sensors, cameras etc. Next would be to build a robotic arm.

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