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Ask HN: How big of a deal is getting the .foobar challenge from Google?

1•rblion•3h ago
My browser split open when I was just starting out in 2016 and I got this coding challenge from Google that could've led to a job interview.

One problem, I got it on a flight to Maui and when I landed I had to choose between the coding challenge or exploring Maui. I picked Maui, right decision at the time.

But, I applied to YC and I've been working 10-12 hours a day on my MVP. I've been having VERY DEEP conversations with chatGPT Plus and moving mountains with Cursor Pro. So I started to realize that Google must've sensed I have the mind of a software engineer even though I see myself as a 'creative developer' (a designer able to write code when needed).

Anyways, I need to go to sleep but had to ask this before I forgot.

Comments

curious_curios•1h ago
As I recall it was primarily based on some rough hardcoded heuristics on your searches. It could be reliably reproduced with certain exact searches, and seemingly only targeted a few programming languages.

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Ask HN: Has AI made you less likely to read long posts (human written or not)?

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Build Apache HTTP Server on Ubuntu 24 and Configure It as a Git Server

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Ask HN: AugmentOS.. have you tried it?

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