andrewksl (u/andrewksl)

andrewksl commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

andrewksl · 10 months ago

Pitstop.my | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Onsite or Remote (Malaysia) | Full-time

We’re on a mission to transform the automotive service experience in Malaysia. As a funded and profitable startup, we’re in the early stages of scaling and are looking to hire our first engineers to help build purpose-driven software for MSMEs in the automotive service industry.

We’re currently hiring experienced candidates for the following roles:

- Android Engineers

- Frontend (React) Engineers

- Full Stack Engineers

Salary: RM6,000 - RM18,000/mo, based on experience and proficiency Tech Stack: Kotlin, Go, React, PostgreSQL, GCP

We offer flexible work arrangements, competitive pay, and a human-first work environment.

To apply or learn more, email andrew@pitstop.my with "hn" in the subject line.

andrewksl commented on The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy twitter.com/doombergt/sta... · Posted by u/Gatsky

tpmx · 3 years ago

"... you are still emitting generating the most polluted air you can legally breath in Europe."

Dispersion is a thing. Do you understand the rationale for chimneys, beyond avoiding carbon monoxide poisoning?

andrewksl · 3 years ago

Accumulation post dispersion is also a thing. If the combined effects of individually harmless activities was not an issue, this comment thread wouldn't exist.

andrewksl commented on Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019) wet-dry-vac.com/wet-dry-v... · Posted by u/walterbell

turdnagel · 3 years ago

Imagine a world where every product category had someone dedicated enough to build a site like this and keep it up to date. I'd specifically love one for cameras, lenses, and for the analog shooters out there, film.

andrewksl · 3 years ago

I've always liked the lens reviews on https://www.opticallimits.com/reviews

andrewksl commented on Playstation 5 root keys obtained twitter.com/fail0verflow/... · Posted by u/hekker

5e92cb50239222b · 4 years ago

I live in a third world country. What's funny is we have a lot of PlayStations and powerful video cards and top-level processors available. We just don't have any money to buy them. Maybe I should set up a mail-order business to serve Western hardware enthusiasts.

andrewksl · 4 years ago

How much does a PS5 or 3080 go for in your neck of the globe?

andrewksl commented on Overthinking kerkour.com/blog/overthin... · Posted by u/danielsokil

123pie123 · 4 years ago

I get called out by others for overthinking - until the risks I've pointed out become reality

It's all relative - one person can be thought of overthinking and the other person can be thought of as a 'cowboy' and just winging it

andrewksl · 4 years ago

I guess the difference between an overthinker and having foresight is the rate of false positives?

andrewksl commented on Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design spectrum.ieee.org/automat... · Posted by u/mcspecter

colordrops · 5 years ago

The base looks like the clearance is too low and wheels too small, but otherwise a nice idea. I'd imagine you could replace the base with a quadruped for better mobility.

andrewksl · 5 years ago

Cross-breed Boston Dynamics' Spot?

andrewksl commented on Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/jtrip

olliej · 5 years ago

I don’t think it’s fair to compare it directly to gambling, as in actual gambling the odds can’t be changed dynamically while you play to increase addiction.

andrewksl · 5 years ago

Exactly. At least gambling is regulated.

andrewksl commented on How Did Vim Become So Popular? pragmaticpineapple.com/ho... · Posted by u/nikolalsvk

NateEag · 5 years ago

Perhaps my favorite video on YouTube is this glorious footage of someone hooking a 1930s teletype up to a computer running Linux:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE

Watching it for the first time is what finally made ed click for me.

And yes, I was disappointed that the author clearly didn't understand why ed has the UI it does. It's about the teletype, not the computational cost of having a WYSIWIG UI.

andrewksl · 5 years ago

Yeah that video is all kinds of amazing. I also got lost down a several hour rabbit hole watching the guy and his buddies bring up an AGC and perform a simulated lunar landing with it. Thank you for sharing!

andrewksl commented on When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com facebook.com/story.php?st... · Posted by u/shiftpgdn

saagarjha · 6 years ago

This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year: the autocomplete behavior in Safari is totally broken. Last year it started picking words from your query and going through your history and using that to autocomplete so you'd always go to some random thing from your history that's barely relevant even for the most generic search terms (if I type "ptrace" I want to go to a web search, not some random Stack Overflow question I clicked on two years ago that happened to have "ptrace" in its title). Now it's randomly loading other websites I have never been to when I type search terms (I searched "sketch" the other day and it took me to "sketchers.com"). It's WWDC week, so FB7333211 for the first one and another incoming once I can reproduce this reliably. Please fix your stuff, Apple.

Oh, while I'm here: trying to escape out of the autocomplete suggestion is also awful, it's some sort of combination of ⎋ and ⌫ and the arrow keys until you can get the thing to not show up in the bar, and then you have to look very closely to make sure that it's not going to send you to the Top Hit anyways.

andrewksl · 6 years ago

Holy cow, yes. I switched to FF a while back, and your description of the behavior alone raised my blood pressure. They way return automatically opens whatever the first suggestion is immensely frustrating. The way hitting `return` is literally a race condition against how quickly the autocomplete returns its results.

There are some things I miss about Safari, but the search bar behavior is not one of them.