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I feel like you could probably have the AI write a script that uses the API to do the same thing, except this time you have code you can test rather than relying on the probabilistic machine every time you do a trade.

I did that first actually.

I don't let it buy anything without confirming, and I will load the CSV into Google Sheets to make sure that the numbers more or less correspond to what I think they will. It's just easier to directly use the MCP and set up some custom skills for what I want to do.

Dunno, it seems to work fine.


I'm assuming this firmware also functions as a LibreDrive firmware for use with MakeMKV?

My understanding is that LibreDrive leverages a bug in the drives firmware such that decryption keys for Blu-ray was accessible. This OmniDrive seems to have little to do with decryption.

LibreDrive only works on certain firmwares that have the bug or are patched to expose it.

OmniDrive is one of the latter.


But those libraries have to pay each time they loan those digital goods. It's not the old "pay once loan until it's dust" model they use for physical goods.

A lot of it ends up bundled to run in a browser though, and doesn't end up running in Node.js


Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Remote/Hybrid/On-Site

Willing to relocate: To California, Massachusetts, Canada, or Europe for the right opportunity

Technologies: Go (Golang), Rust, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, SQLite, NixOS, Cloudflare (everything, the whole Cloudflare Developer Platform - I would call myself an expert at this, as I've dogfooded most new developer platform products as they released), Kubernetes

CV: https://piperswe.me/cv.pdf

Email: [anything]@piperswe.me

I just got laid off by Cloudflare, looking for a position doing infrastructure & backend work. I spent my time at Cloudflare working on the Waiting Room, Health Checks, and Load Balancing products, three distributed systems which crunch global data to make decisions globally. I'm happy to move down-stack as well (e.g. to systems programming, especially in Rust).


Welp, looks like I’m affected. If anyone is looking to hire a systems engineer with distributed systems and load balancing experience, shoot me an email at <anything>@piperswe.me :/

I’ll update this with a resume link tonight…


Good luck, and if we can help at all, let us know.

Edit: this is a silly longshot, but please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057989.


I'm honored you're responding! I've received a few leads from this comment that I'm chatting with, and it's been a major morale boost for me.

At this point in my life and the economy I'm not particularly looking for such early-stage startups like Magnetic (especially w/ relocation to SF), but thanks for giving me the heads up!



pretty minor since the rest are fine but your linkedin link is broken


oh indeed it is! thanks for the heads up!


Firstly, kind sir, layoffs are hard for each and everyone of us and I wish you best as you navigate it. I know you will get many wishes and good lucks though but consider my wishes to be one of many to help ya out.

The who wants to be hired page is still open within Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975570

I recommend if you can share your CV/send a message there, I will try to also keep an eye on it if you do share your CV/resume there and I would love to upvote your comment there to shower some more exposure/love from the community as you are member of hackernews. You are also part of the hackernews community and its the least that I/we can do.

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When someone has already demonstrated they can do the work, what additional value do you think them getting a degree will bring to a company?


Sometimes the degree is needed in order for the company to be allowed to pay him over a specific amount/scale.


Any company that does this doesn’t seem worth working for


This rules out a lot of government jobs. I personally finished my bachelors after I was already making 6 figures, but it’s a complex issue.

I seriously dislike degrees as a signaling mechanism. Maybe you just didn’t have parents who could afford to front $100,000 for you to attend college. Maybe you didn’t want to take on student loan debt.

It shouldn’t matter at all if you can get the job done.

If you want to explore immigrating later it’s probably worth having.


This happened to me once about a handful of years ago, and it happened because in spite of actually getting the job on technical merit, they were a funded NGO who's benefactors demanded at least an undergrad to work in the company. True story, it happens.


Seems like a somewhat traditional suggestion with a potentially massive financial and time commitment. Not that it's not something to do, but why do you think that's the move right now, especially since they're clearly established in their career and nobody cares about it after a few years?


Not the GP, but I think the reason is, that right now it's super hard to get a new job, because of so many things, but mostly, because of AI craze and tanking economies. Bridging that time with a degree is not the worst idea, if you can afford it.


Exactly right. Also, since this person works in the United States, it will make it easier to get re-employed because you will have the university degree. I know HN really dislikes the economic/skill signalling around university degrees in the United States, but it hard to avoid/ignore.


I can't see or reply to the original comment since it's been nuked, but I can infer what it was saying.

I actually started studying part-time for a mathematics degree earlier this year, and I don't plan on stopping that now. Having a degree does open doors at more traditional companies and government jobs, and it would also make immigration to another country sometime in the future a lot more straightforward. There are definitely benefits, even though I'm established in my career!


True, I guess it just seemed like an odd suggestion as the first place to go to immediately after getting laid off, but otherwise I find Uni more enjoyable and sometimes more stimulating than work. I've gone back to school on the same context before for the same reasons, but ironically ended up finding every other subject more interesting (not on paper) than continuing with only CS. GIS, Anthro, and History, thankfully the school was relatively free wheeling. Didn't end up finishing before finding another paid gig. Good luck!


That sucks, and the market is too bleak for empty platitudes.

This just sucks, period.

Take care of yourself until you land something. I'll keep this in mind if anything comes through my grapevine.


You probably have other stuff on your mind right now, thus I can understand if you are not in the mood for answering, but I‘m too curious to not ask:

According to the Reuters article, AI use has increased 6x over only three months. How did that feel from the inside? I’m especially curious because Cloudflare is not a toy company, and this is not about some influencer trying to sell me their latest „this changes everything“ bullshit.

So, shifting a company significantly towards agentic AI, and I assume this isn’t simply about „install Claude Code on every desk“: would you say it actually works? Or would you say it’s still more of a bet, and still needs to prove itself as a sustainable long-term strategy?


I work at a similar scale company. Like an average person's experience, some things are amazing and super productive with AI and some things aren't. And it's not always the same things all the time.

Sometimes we are able to do a ground up rewrite of a service and squeeze huge efficiency gains out of it all bc AI is helpful in doing so and we have a very good test harness.

Sometimes it makes subtly wrong suggestions that people follow and cause outages.

Sometimes it leads to huge headaches for devs who have to review huge backlogs of code with no idea which parts are serious and which are low effort AI slop.

Sometimes it lets you do a 2 month project in 2 weeks.


Interested as well!


Dropped you a email, we have openings for SREs



Good luck, I'm sure you will find a great role!


Are they claiming to use AI to replace systems people too? As in infrastructure folks?


I’m curious, what was your AI usage and output like?


I had OpenCode doing most of my substantial code changes for me, once I figured out what the code changes had to be. (so, it saved me typing but not thinking) I also vibe-coded (really slop-forked TBH, that's the Cloudflare way after all) an internal tool that our team used. I definitely was not a small user of our AI tools, though I know that there are others with significantly more.


Were there smaller users of AI who still remain after this workforce reduction?


I don't have a particularly good idea of how much others were using it, unfortunately.


good luck and take care of yourself!


Dude, you have the most amazing name ever. Hope you know that.


Thank you, I picked it myself :)


Goodluck mate


It's stored in Wallet so you can access it through the Wallet shortcut (double-press power button), when you open it the screen automatically brightens, and it's a perfectly clear QR code rather than a picture so it'll be easier to scan.


Not surprising for an "AI" company to be on-board the hype train


I'm a functional and successful adult despite doing plenty online behind my parents' back as a kid. I don't think that part of our upbringings had as much of an effect on us as you suspect.


And I also suspect you did not grow up with kids whose parents clearly would like them to go away and stop bothering them. I also did lots of dumb stuff in my parents' back. The nuance here is that when you know that your parents love you, you'll tell them once you do something that's actually harmful/a big mistake, because you trust they'll help you instead of punishing you. I've seen people make "questionable" life choices, in my opinion, because they've learned, consciously or not, to not seek help from others and always hide/blame on others every problem them encounter.


They're probably not wrong, if they're talking about hypermiling a Prius


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