fleaflicker's comments

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

[fleaflicker]

Oboe | Full Stack Engineer | New York City | ONSITE | $170k-$230k

Oboe's goal is simple: teach one billion people one trillion things. We'll do that by building the world's first completely generalized AI-powered learning platform. Today, so much of our focus is spent on making machines smarter. We believe it's time for machines to make humans smarter.

We're looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to work across Oboe's stack, from our backend pipelines that leverage AI to generate world-class content, all the way to the interfaces that our users engage with on the web.

We're a team of generalists, so this job will have you learning every part of the systems and features that bring Oboe to life. This is a highly hands-on role where you'll have tremendous impact, ship real features to real users, iterate quickly, and learn a ton.

Tech Stack: Node, TypeScript, React, AWS, MySQL, LLMs.

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/oboe/e795dbd6-6cf2-4177-a363-d298d2...

Or email ori@oboe.fyi

On: Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me"

[fleaflicker]

That comment is clearly sarcastic. And Reddit went from floundering to $10b+ public company.

[neilv → sixQuarks]

Well, the username `fleaflicker` could fit an account that someone uses to respond to people who annoy them, and who they think are parasites and far beneath them.

But it's not necessarily an alt of Altman. HN has a lot of people who'd say that, and a lot of people who'd like to smack those people and other people, and also the normal (old-school) Internet levels of trolling.

[sixQuarks → neilv]

I was kidding

[neilv → sixQuarks]

Yep, and I thought the fitting username was funny.

On: Is something bugging you?

[fleaflicker]

Business value is a good way to think about it:

> As a software developer, fixing bugs is a good thing. Right? Isn’t it always a good thing?

> No!

> Fixing bugs is only important when the value of having the bug fixed exceeds the cost of the fixing it.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/31/hard-assed-bug-fix...

[pfdietz → fleaflicker]

If you have high volume automated testing, you want to fix all the bugs, even ones not directly affecting customers, otherwise they keep showing up and may keep you from finding other more customer-relevant bugs.

On: Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later

[fleaflicker]

Don’t forget trello

On: Ask HN: Why is Substack so popular?

[fleaflicker]

Publishers can email newsletters at zero cost. Every other newsletter provider charged by volume.

On: “I Could Rewrite Curl”

[fleaflicker]

Really good one in response to claims that stack overflow could be rewritten in a weekend:

https://www.bitquabit.com/post/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-n...

On: PG and Jessica

[fleaflicker]

Just adding a data point. I got into YC in 08 but didn’t do it because I sold my company before I had a chance to accept.

PG gave me advice during the negotiation with the acquirer anyway.

[idoh → fleaflicker]

I think I remember this. It was a fantasy football site selling? I think you were the first company to get an offer to WC and then decline. Congrats!

[bredren → fleaflicker]

What was the advice?

[fleaflicker → bredren]

No particular words of wisdom.

I was 26 and selling to a big company. It’s nice to have somebody experienced in your corner.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

[fleaflicker]

Fleaflicker | Senior Java Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | REMOTE, Full-time

We're looking for a senior Java engineer to help build and scale the backend services that support our popular fantasy sports platform.

Requirements

* Expert-level knowledge of Java and the JVM

* At least 7 years software engineering experience

* In-depth experience with:

  - Dependency injection libraries (e.g., Guice)

  - Database access libraries for simple CRUD operations and complex, high-performance queries (e.g., JDBC, JDBI)

  - REST API libraries (e.g., JAX-RS and Jersey)

  - HTTP servers (e.g., Tomcat/Jetty)

  - Server-side templating libraries (e.g., Closure Templates)

* Write clean, efficient, testable code

To apply, email us at jobs+hn@fleaflicker.com, attaching a current resume in HTML, Plain Text, or PDF format. In the body of the email describe how you fit our requirements.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)

[fleaflicker]

Fleaflicker | Senior Java Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | REMOTE, Full-time

We're looking for a Senior Java Engineer to help build and scale our backend java applications.

Requirements

* Expert-level knowledge of Java and the JVM

* At least 7 years software engineering experience

* In-depth experience with:

  - Dependency injection libraries (e.g., Guice)

  - Database access libraries for simple CRUD operations and complex, high-performance queries (e.g., JDBC, JDBI)

  - REST API libraries (e.g., JAX-RS and Jersey)

  - HTTP servers (e.g., Tomcat/Jetty)

  - Server-side templating libraries (e.g., Closure Templates)

* Write clean, efficient, testable code

More here https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/147100/senior-java-engineer-f...

To apply, email us at jobs+hn@fleaflicker.com, attaching a current resume in HTML, Plain Text, or PDF format. In the body of the email describe how you fit our requirements.

On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

[fleaflicker]

Fleaflicker | Senior Front-end Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | REMOTE, Full-time We're looking for a seasoned, professional developer to help build the next-generation of our web and mobile applications.

Requirements

- At least 6 years of experience delivering production-quality code for a large application

- Strong knowledge of, and experience with, modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript:

- At least one major JavaScript framework (e.g., Angular, Backbone, React)

- CSS Preprocessing (e.g., SCSS, Less)

- Templating engines (e.g., Closure Templates, Handlebars)

- CSS Frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap, Bourbon)

- A solid grasp of modern front-end build and deployment tools

- Excellent telecommuting and time-management skills Excellent command of written and spoken English

- Positive attitude

More information here: http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/138250/senior-front-end-engine...

To apply, email us at jobs+hn@fleaflicker.com attaching a current resume in HTML, Plain Text, or PDF format. In the body of the email describe how you fit our requirements. Your application will be read by an actual engineer, so please feel free to get as technical as you like.