Staying on the cheap model

I run a small site called hnhiring that indexes the monthly “Ask HN: Who is Hiring?” thread on Hacker News and lets you filter it by location. The thread is great, but it’s very US-focused. I was job hunting in Europe at the time, so I decided to build it mostly to scratch my own itch. The way it works is pretty simple. A Go program pulls every post from a month’s thread, and then a model reads each post and pulls out the useful bits: the tech stack, the location, the salary, visa sponsorship, and a link to apply. Those results get saved as JSON and served from a single HTML file. Usually a full month is around 300 posts. ...

August 9, 2026 · 6 min · Azuan

Making AI Code Review Measurable

Code review has always been one of the bottlenecks for software engineers. At loveholidays, we have been using a lot of AI in our daily workflows. Whether a PR is written with the help of AI or not, someone still needs to review it. Then I read a thread by Intercom on how they use AI not just for code review, but also to approve it. Sounds risky, but also very interesting. ...

July 2, 2026 · 9 min · Azuan