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

eyphka · 6 months ago

Prelim (YC S17) | https://prelim.com/ | REMOTE (US) | Engineers, Designers, People | Full-time

Prelim helps banks onboard their customers. If you're applying for a financial service like a bank account online, or in person with a banker, we're the tool that makes banking easier.

If you'd like to be part of a team that is 2x+ year over year, only seed funding with XX million ARR, and want to help every person in every bank with every financial service, please apply!

Security Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/prelim/8b1d093d-8c7b-432c-8add-84c6e2a...

Product Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/prelim/67deb095-b589-4568-aae2-a7a73fa...

People Ops - https://jobs.lever.co/prelim/41450025-13fa-442e-8a3f-cc19c6b...

Professional Services - https://jobs.lever.co/prelim/e71aabd6-302d-4bda-ba0c-ad45c48...

Customer Success - https://jobs.lever.co/prelim/1a201234-6dfd-4919-8301-8b0955a...

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

eyphka · a year ago

Prelim | Full-time | Remote (US) | Software Engineers, Product Designer, Product Marketing Manager | prelim.com

Hi, I'm Chris, Co-founder and CTO of Prelim. At Prelim we're building the future of how banks onboard their customers for every financial service, from deposit accounts to loans.

Prelim helps banks onboard their customers online and in person. We are a YC backed profitable startup growing fast, with over 40 banks across the US using us!

More info here on our positions: https://jobs.lever.co/prelim

eyphka commented on Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/dataminer

zacharycohn · a year ago

Rather than turn this into some weird culture war thing, I suggest you finish reading the article.

That is, in no way, why it had difficulty being published.

eyphka · a year ago

I would encourage reading about Jim Allison (the nobel prize winner in medicine for immunotherapy) and his difficulty having his research acknowledged / getting funding as an immunologist working in cancer research.

Wired magazine did a piece on him detailing how funding for this type of research was largely stonewalled because it ignored status quo ideas on cancer treatment.

My understanding is that traditionally ovt research was nearly impossible to get funding for but has begun to become easier as the status quo research and researchers from the 2000s have been replaced.

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

eyphka commented on OpenAI Is a Bad Business wheresyoured.at/oai-busin... · Posted by u/speckx

sirspacey · a year ago

"OpenAI... a company that has never turned a profit, that has no path to profitability, and has yet to create a truly meaningful product outside of Sam Altman's marketing expertise."

This reads as a take from someone who has never talked to a developer, never used AI, and frankly never been involved in tech.

This is an unserious take.

eyphka · a year ago

The question is when the model can make money from advertising.

If the ai is asked to recommend products, does it show an ad or even an argument for paying for some product.

eyphka commented on Y Combinator is predicated on startups that require low capitalization twitter.com/bradneuberg/s... · Posted by u/Apocryphon

eyphka · a year ago

Simple reason for bad 10 years - pg stepped away from day to day 2014

eyphka commented on The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup (2021) anthonynsimon.com/blog/on... · Posted by u/thunderbong

cj · 2 years ago

Small secret:

The best tech stack when starting a startup is one you don't have to learn.

There's a million things you learn when starting a company. Don't make yourself learn an entirely new tech stack on top of everything else. This advice means you'll be using whatever you've used in the past which might not be the sexiest or newest technology, but your users won't care. Your users want a working product. Choose the stack that will result in a working product the quickest.

Refactor and migrate to a better stack later, if necessary. (It rarely is)

For me, that meant deploying to Elastic Beanstalk (I know, boring, no one talks about it, but it works!) and using Mongo because I was already comfortable with it. It also meant not using React, at first. This was the right answer for me, but might be the wrong answer for you! Build your app on the technology you know.

eyphka · 2 years ago

Seconded, (and also started on elastic beanstalk!)

Has kept surprisingly well over time, with some hiccups around platforn version changes.

eyphka commented on The curse of the goitre in Switzerland lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n... · Posted by u/_ihaque

mytailorisrich · 2 years ago

Isn't that what the whole article is about?

But the point is that Switzerland's environment is especially poor in iodine hence the specific health problems it used to have, and which were much less serious in neighbouring countries.

eyphka · 2 years ago

While the cases were high in switzerland, they were not unique.

Link to an academic article discussing how the USA is now in the dangerzone of iodine deficiency.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12011-018-1606-5#....

eyphka commented on Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) english.stackexchange.com... · Posted by u/ent101

helsinkiandrew · 2 years ago

Thee and Thou are still used in Northern England (Yorkshire and Lancashire). Although probably only by older people and often spoken as Thi and Tha.

eyphka · 2 years ago

Interesting, and are those used as the informal you? Or in reference to singular?

eyphka commented on Seeing like a bank bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/arkadiyt

bernardlunn · 2 years ago

No, Misys

eyphka · 2 years ago

I’m having trouble remembering, but that was the predecessor to finastra phenoix right? I’d love to grab you virtual coffee and talk - chris@prelim.com

eyphka commented on Seeing like a bank bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/arkadiyt

bernardlunn · 2 years ago

I used to work in a company selling core banking systems and yes they are a mess. I never imagined they would still be running in 2023. I could write a book full of horror stories. What amazes me is how so many banks do ok despite a massive failure to delight customers or innovate. Banks are literally “a license to print money”.

eyphka · 2 years ago

Out of curiosity, was it metavante?