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marvinkennis
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Co-founder at Rectangle (rectanglehq.com)
UX @Google, Gmail. HCI @CMU.
We’re hiring engineers! hn {at} rectanglehq.com
- Looks like an amazing product. Been playing around with it for a few mins. The UI is quite buggy and jumps around a lot (Chrome, MacOS), and seems to auto-refresh on the organizations page, which makes curating lists impossible. What's a good way to keep providing feedback?
- It would suck to get to bar 51,248 only to find out it's now permanently closed
- Rectangle | Chicago (US), on-site | Full-Time | Equity We're looking to hire a dedicated backend engineer at Rectangle. We're looking to solve the communication and collaboration problems in the global supply chain.
If you are (or know!) someone who has thought deeply about distributed coordination, have strong opinions on conflict resolution, or get excited about building systems that are resilient to crazy amounts of chaos, I'd love to talk to you!
Over the past ~6 months my co-founder and I have been hard at work building our product, soon helping coordinate billions of dollars worth of shipments. Our customers love what we've been building for them, we've got revenue, and are backed by leading VCs in the industry.
If you're interested in solving some of the most challenging problems at the intersection of technology and logistics, don't hesitate to reach out.
hn [@] rectanglehq.com https://rectanglehq.com
- Rectangle | Chicago (US), on-site | Full-Time | Equity
We're looking to hire a dedicated backend engineer at Rectangle. We're looking to solve the communication and collaboration problems in the global supply chain.
If you are (or know!) someone who has thought deeply about distributed coordination, have strong opinions on conflict resolution, or get excited about building systems that are resilient to crazy amounts of chaos, I'd love to talk to you!
Over the past ~6 months my co-founder and I have been hard at work building our product, soon helping coordinate billions of dollars worth of shipments. Our customers love what we've been building for them, we've got revenue, and are backed by leading VCs in the industry.
If you're interested in solving some of the most challenging problems at the intersection of technology and logistics, don't hesitate to reach out.
hn [@] rectanglehq.com
- Momentic (W24) is doing this! No affiliation, but they've made some solid progress https://momentic.ai/
- Thanks for the suggestions! Will implement these. Caching is a great idea.
- 114 points
- Rectangle | Software engineer | Full-time | Chicago USA | Onsite | https://rectanglehq.com
The global supply chain has a collaboration problem. It's a mess of TMSs, ERPs, WhatsApp, emails, and spreadsheets. For the last 50 years, it's been solved with brittle EDI integrations to bridge walled gardens. We're taking a different approach. We aim to reshape how the supply chain collaborates and as a result redefine how trillions of dollars of goods get moved around the world.
We’re a small product team who have worked on anything from foundational technology at Flexport, self-driving cars, to core AI experiences and products at Google. We’re looking to bring a high level of craft to an industry that runs on incredibly outdated software.
If you're interested in learning more, send us an email at hn@rectanglehq.com.
- I mean obviously predicting tokens in the context of LLM output requires planning. But planning tokens doesn’t generalize. This is evident when you train an LLM on a small data set and ask it about any unseen variation of it.
There are many examples of slightly modified popular riddles that are easy to solve by reasoning about them, but LLMs always fall back to the most likely output from their training data.
- This is one of those things I’d love to be wrong on. I think your point on combining them with other models is interesting.
Do you think that Markov chains can reason and plan? Dijkstra’s algorithm? Curious where you draw the line
- A lot of the hype around LLMs and the unfounded promises of them solving complex tasks autonomously seem to stem from a lack of understanding on how these models actually work.
The tech is impressive and has its uses, but we shouldn’t pretend like a token predictor can somehow reason and plan.
- Rectangle | Software engineer | Full-time | Chicago USA | Onsite | https://rectanglehq.com
The global supply chain has a collaboration problem. It's a mess of TMSs, ERPs, WhatsApp, emails, and spreadsheets. For the last 50 years, it's been solved with brittle EDI integrations to bridge walled gardens. We're taking a different approach. We aim to reshape how the supply chain collaborates and as a result redefine how trillions of dollars of goods get moved around the world.
We’re a small product team who have worked on anything from foundational technology at Flexport, self-driving cars, to core AI experiences and products at Google. We’re looking to bring a high level of craft to an industry that runs on incredibly outdated software.
If you're interested in learning more, send us an email at hn@rectanglehq.com.
- I kind of think of LLMs as fish in an aquarium. It can go on any path in that aquarium, even places it hasn't been before, but ultimately it's staying in the glass box we put it in.
- For what it's worth, there's a huge barrier to get to SV in the form of US immigration policies. Your anecdote is no doubt valid, but if those immigration policies were loosened up, I'd bet we'd see an even larger migration to SV.
- Just entering "Describe this image" in the chat prompt got me exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
- Seeing a lot of text-to-image out there recently. Does anyone know what the current state of the art is on image-to-text? Thinking something similar to Midjourney's /describe command that they added in v5
We're looking to hire a dedicated full-stack engineer at Rectangle.
If you are (or know!) someone who has thought deeply about distributed coordination, have strong opinions on conflict resolution, or get excited about building systems that are resilient to crazy amounts of chaos, I'd love to talk to you!
Over the last few months we’ve been investing heavily in building our internal infrastructure to power automation, integration, and visibility across the supply chain. We’re rapidly onboarding new customers and are looking for an engineer who’s excited to build alongside them.
You’ll be working directly with customers, solving real-world problems, and scaling the solutions you build. The products you own end-to-end will coordinate billions of dollars of freight, and unlock real revenue and efficiency for leading tech-enabled logistics companies.
This is a great opportunity for someone who loves to operate 0 → 1 while also being directly involved in shaping our platform strategy as we keep stacking investments we’ve made into our infra layer.
Stack: Typescript, Go, Kafka, SQL, AWS
Email hn [@] rectanglehq.com or submit a POST request with X-Application-Key: FDE-CHALLENGE-01 to challenge.rectanglehq.com and see what happens :)
https://rectanglehq.com