Using the lite subdomain is a great way to read all the subscriber articles as well. Was reminded of the lite site during some annoyingly aggressive A/B testing CNN was doing a few months back.
Location: Austin, TX
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Growth Product Management, Front End, Back End, Mobile, modern Web Dev, SQL, Claude-Code is my hammer and I am Thor, Clisp
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhogan/details/experience/
Email: don.r.hogan@gmail.com
12+ years Product Management. Most recently Staff Growth PM at ZenBusiness (8% conversion lift, 250% experiment velocity), Head of Product at a health-tech startup (grew ARR $100k -> $1.8M), Principal Growth PM at Mattermost (270% signups, 8% -> 25% activation). Before that: built experimentation platform at Indeed (600% velocity, 150% win rate lift).
What I do well: Growth/PLG strategy, experimentation infrastructure, activation funnels, retention systems, AI-powered product experiences. Recently shipped multi-agent AI orchestration for a health-tech platform - task routing, agent handoffs, autonomous execution during a product consultation.
Looking for: Growth PM, Senior/Staff/Principal PM, or Director-level. Product-led companies, AI/ML products, data platforms, health-tech. Series B+ or public. Full-time preferred, open to contract.
You could not have designed a more effective version of a “Manchurian Candidate” in my opinion.
In fact, this administration has been so effective and brazen that if you were to try and write this as fiction, the scope and scale of what is occurring would be deemed unbelievable and would require toning down for the audience.
Been on the job hunt since October 1, and have done hundreds of applications, yet only spoken to 3 companies, and made it past the hiring manager once.
I’m a technical product manager with 10+ years and most recently was head of product at a healthtech company. It seems like none of my experience or background matters for the initial screen.
The most frustrating part has been spending time to update a resume and a cover letter to get a rapid rejection obviously done via AI. The fastest rejection I’ve received was 2 minutes.
It is at the point where the information-asymmetry between company and applicant is so high that I don’t think it is worth the time or effort to craft a customized resume and cover letter to match the job description. Not even with the “help” of LLMs.
The promise of Remote hiring now is proving to be a double-edged sword. It can be easier to get hired, but it means competing in an almost global applicant pool.
As a way to keep me occupied I’m building a personal tool to journal my work history and use the journal as a source to leverage an LLM to customize my resume and cover letter to a job description that sounds like me. Just need to keep the momentum up for both the continued job hunt and personal projects.
During Covid, I had many lively debates with my peers about remote jobs. They kept insisting that the "world has changed" and that remote jobs are the future. My anxious self struggled to understand that. I'm good at my job, but I'm not naive. I know I live in a high cost of living market that not everyone wants to be in, so the competition isn't too threatening.
But take that away, and as I mentioned, you’re now competing against the entire world. I've worked with talented people in Eastern Europe and Asia who could easily do my job for a quarter of the pay. I really don’t want to compete against that.
All the friends who moved their families to farms in Iowa to be near family and enjoy the low cost of living? I’d be terrified that if I ever lost my job, I’d have to search far and wide for one of those scarce remote positions, and there’s no way I’d get my Bay Area salary now.
Plus, now that my kids are in local schools in Iowa and my wife is deeply connected with the local extended family, there's no way I could move back to the Bay unscathed.
Have you tried just saying you're a product manager instead of technical product manager? In my experience small changes in storytelling and self-marketing can create giant shifts in how you are perceived.
Location: Austin, TX
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node/Javascript/Svelte, SQL, CLisp, Front end web. Good enough to be dangerous.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ylLxBQZ8hH6mifvUNydk9cFF2NKSMDih/view?usp=drive_link
Email: don.r.hogan@gmail.com
Hi from Austin!
If you are looking for a Growth minded technical product manager to be the first product hire then I'm the guy you are looking for.
I'm a senior product leader that has experience in large companies and pre-seed startups. I'm looking another founding product manager or first product manager role in a small and remote friendly startup or one based in Austin. I've got deep technical experience and my "superpower" is that I can speak to engineering teams with the understanding of how the systems and architecture works. I've also got experience in user experience design, a/b testing, feature-flag development, physical hardware, systems integrations with difficult vendors, marketing attribution, eventing and telemetry ,and doing data analysis in SQL.
I enjoy programming and building my own hobby software projects.
I've got experience in HealthTech, B2B SaaS, B2C Marketplace and more. I also speak bad Spanish but listen and understand very well.
I'm looking for full time and/or fractional opportunities.
This is a special article. The genius of the invitation to an unprepared lunch highlights the beauty of cooking and cooking together.
The description of the authors cooking with Judith is both intimate and distant. Personal and communal. And yet while silent, speaks to a deep friendship built on years of experience and taste and creativity.
My favorite aspect of the article is the lack of recipes. Meals can be whimsical and unexpected and memorable when the ingredients are there but the plan is not.
I’m sure I’ll be thinking of this article for years to come.
It may be. But it is first and foremost a touching personal story about meeting an author’s hero and becoming friends with them.
And in today’s ad-ridden Internet this is one type of promotion I hope to see more often. Not algorithmic garbage thrown in your face by a big corporation after sucking up every last bit of your personal data, but a story written by the people for the people. Is it wrong to mention a book about the person described at the end of the story?
I am not involved in this, or any other promotion. Moreover, I don’t see how my tendency to lurk and not comment is relevant here, but if you really want to know, the description of the woman in the article reminded me of someone I personally knew, which may be the reason it touched me enough to reply today.
I just feel that there’s no reason to be combative in regard to the featured article even if you abhor any and all types of promotion, given that there’s so many much worse offenders around.
This kind of pot-stirring is against HN rules; it is quite unpleasant to be on the receiving end of such accusations in public. Email your suspicions to the mods, and let them nuke the accounts that are abusive; but let's not sour the flavor of HN for everyone else reading this. The "is that guy secretly a shill" game gets stale *fast*.
Serious Eats has articles before the recipe that are usually full of technical information from the development of the recipe.
Sometimes there's a bit of the "touching personal story" but I'm a lot more used to seeing failures and tests in the before-recipe section there. As a random example, check out this page on poached chicken:
Most of the cookbooks I’ve read were relatively straightforward, but those were mostly older books not written in English. That may be just me not reading a lot of recipes in general.
On topic — I would say that this article not being a recipe is important in that case. The story is not something detracting from the main point, it is the point.
Also when I was saying that I’d like to see more of this type of promotional content, I meant that just mentioning you are writing the book on the topic at the end of the article (without even linking to it) is vastly superior to pop-up videos tracking you across websites. I did not mean that the Internet somehow needs even more advertising in it.
It's a very common psychological trap to fall into, so all recipe sites have turned into "fake touching personal story" content mills over the past decade or so, yes.
LLM generates stories aren't copyrightable either, and I doubt ad-financed clickbait farms would care about suing each other anyway, this is just SEO and audience manipulation.
Use a tripod and use a remote or set a 2 second delay on your shutter press if you start using longer exposures at low iso (anything longer than 1/10 of a second IMO)
Settings really depend on the effect you are trying to capture:
- if you want to try and capture it like your eye sees it: high iso (as high as you can stand) and aim for between 1/500 and 1/30.
- if you want to capture a more painterly look with the whole sky colored in: low iso (I’d start at 200) and long exposure >3 seconds. Probably between 3 and 30 seconds depending on the available light.
Those should get you started to experiment and find what you like. Enjoy!
Oh yea. Turn off the focus light, turn off the screen, and turn off the red blinking indicators. Turn all the lights off so you can preserve your night vision.
I've been debating on responding here and well you can see my decision has been made. The caveat is that this response is also biased on my personal experience so your milage may vary.
But for anyone reading this who is adjacent to a close friend or relative or even a stranger that is experience traumatic loss the grieving process is a messy thing. No one experiences it the same way. Second-hand grief is similar.
So rather than "try to fix it" by saying anything, say nothing, and just be present. Just sit. That says more than words. And if you can't be there, notes of "You are on my mind" are good too.
I like the notion of having install.md be the thing that is referenced in Prompt to Install on the web.
Edit: forgot my link https://dontoisme.github.io/ai/developer-tools/ux/2025/12/27...