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Ad Hoc
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Ad Hoc is the company blog at adhoc.team, writing about programming and politics. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “The tech debt interest rate”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Ad Hoc is a digital services company helping US federal agencies modernise public web services such as HealthCare.gov and VA.gov. Its comments are mostly job posts and mentions, not judgements of its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ad Hoc brings small teams of skilled professionals together to build government digital services that are fast, efficient, and usable by everyone.
Most-linked posts?
- /join/3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-09-01
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-31
- The tech debt interest rate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-04
- Examining the covidtests.gov architecture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-19
What Hacker News says?
As others have mentioned already, 18F and USDS are in this space. They do some work, but their scope and manpower is limited, and they try to multiply their impact through contracting. Part of that is helping federal agencies write better contracts to be able to source the kind of contractors they want --- ones who think in terms of product development, user research ("build with, not for"), and are using modern sof…
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on “CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs”Submitted Examining the covidtests.gov architecture as a story · 352 points
HN discussionAd Hoc, LLC | US | Remote | Full-time | https://adhoc.team/ Ad Hoc, born out of the rescue of HealthCare.gov, is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our team of experts from across commercial industry and government brings the modern skills necessary to help agencies transform public services into digital services. Our work enables agencies including CMS and VA to meet t…
Comment linking /join/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted The problem might not be COBOL as a story · 64 points
HN discussionAd Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its tech from the inside. We work on Healthcare.gov, VA.gov, and many other public web services, and focus on bringing product and technology best practices into government agencies. No defense or intelligence work, just civic services. We're…
Comment linking /join/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Getting Ready for Launch as a story · 50 points
HN discussionGreetings, folks: as we know, headlines don't tell the full story, and no, spoiler alert, Go alone did not save HealthCare.gov. A lot of people pulling together and working very hard over many months did. There are very many stories about the rescue. This is but one part about how indeed, a modest but important service written in Go, yes, did help, a lot. It is worth noting that, 7 years later, almost all of HealthC…
Comment linking /join/
on “How Go helped save HealthCare.gov”Submitted Examining the Covidtests.gov Architecture as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAd Hoc, LLC | US | Remote | Full-time | https://adhoc.team/ Ad Hoc, born out of the rescue of HealthCare.gov, is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our team of experts from across commercial industry and government brings the modern skills necessary to help agencies transform public services into digital services. Our work enables agencies to meet the needs of their use…
Comment linking /join/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)”Submitted Designing for Delegation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAd Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its tech from the inside. We work on Healthcare.gov, VA.gov, and many other public web services, and focus on bringing product and technology best practices into government agencies. No defense or intelligence work, just civic services. We're…
Comment linking /join/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted Crafting our leadership teams for fast, effective information flow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAd Hoc, LLC | US | Remote | Full-time | https://adhoc.team/ Ad Hoc, born out of the rescue of HealthCare.gov, is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our team of experts from across commercial industry and government brings the modern skills necessary to help agencies transform public services into digital services. Our work enables agencies to meet the needs of their use…
Comment linking /join/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)”Submitted Embarrassingly automatable as the first step of legacy modernization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAd Hoc | Frontend, backend, infra / DevOps engineering | REMOTE (within USA) | Full-time | US Citizenship required Ad Hoc is trying to make federal government better by fixing its tech from the inside. We work on Healthcare.gov, VA.gov, and many other public web services, and focus on bringing product and technology best practices into government agencies. No defense or intelligence work, just civic services. We're…
Comment linking /join/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)”Submitted Authorization to Operate Field Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAll of ours[1] are given three stars but I would love to know why! I feel like they meet your criteria, but who knows. Would love yours, or anybody else's feedback on our problems. We do care about them, and wrote about why we use homework here: https://adhoc.team/2018/02/26/why-we-use-homework-to-recruit... [1]: https://homework.adhoc.team/
Comment linking /2018/02/26/why-we-use-homework-to-recruit-engineers/
on “We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home tests and ranked them”Submitted A look under the hood of the new student loan debt relief application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAd Hoc - https://adhoc.team is pretty great. No whiteboard, homework based interview process, unlimited vacation, plus you get to work on things that matter to a lot of Americans like healthcare.
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on “Ask HN: Best remote only company to work for?”Submitted The tech debt interest rate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI was really excited to checkout https://codeforamerica.org/ but then it became hard to find any code that was made publicly available same for https://adhoc.team/ I think this highlights the point I'm making, we need real opensource solutions, not just more non profits. I'm not trying to say they don't do good work, its just that its not accessible to the public. I personally feel they maybe are missing the point o…
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on “Ask HN: Are there any open source social serice sites built by a Goverment?”Submitted The tech debt interest rate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://codeforamerica.org/ https://adhoc.team/ https://18f.gsa.gov/2017/08/22/government-launches-login-gov... https://github.com/18F https://www.google.com/search?q=usds+impact+report
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on “Ask HN: Are there any open source social serice sites built by a Goverment?”Submitted Dependency audits on JavaScript projects (2019) as a story · 1 points
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