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Svetlin Nakov
Personal blog · nakov.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Svetlin Nakov's personal blog at nakov.com covers programming and career. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Overqualified to Work in Google”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a 2022 Unity Flappy Bird tutorial, cited as a source for a GPT-4 clone, and for a post on Google interviews that one commenter disputes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on Software Engineering
Most-linked posts?
- Overqualified to Work in Google3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-21
What Hacker News says?
Since when does Google fail to ask toy algorithms question of senior engineers? I'm not being snarky; everything I've ever read, heard, and experienced with Google interviews is that these trivia algorithms questions compose the majority of the on-site interviews. [1] [2] You appear to be different, but please don't claim your interviewing style as representative of even 1/4 of Google interviewers. > [maybe] everyon…
Comment linking /blog/2007/12/27/overqualified-to-work-in-google/
on “Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat?”Submitted My Experience at Interviews with Microsoft and Google as a story · 26 points
HN discussionLooks like gpt4 is more or less regurgitating the content found here, located via obvious ddg search: https://nakov.com/blog/2022/02/09/how-to-make-flappy-bird-ga... There's a lot of results for flappy bird clones in unity, so it's not a particularly interesting "AI" exercise.
Comment linking /blog/2022/02/09/how-to-make-flappy-bird-game-in-unity-and-csharp/
on “Made a Flappy Bird clone with GPT4 and Midjourney in under an hour”Submitted Overqualified to Work in Google as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Interview at Google in Zurich as a story · 1 points
HN discussion