Hacker News: _shantaram

New comment by _shantaram in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

_shantaram — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:09:47 +0000

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Yes. I have worked remote-only for six years across US and EU time zones.

Willing to relocate: Yes, with visa sponsorship.

Email: mailto:me@shantaram.xyz

Résumé: https://shantaram.xyz/dl/resume.pdf

I am looking for Rust/systems work, protocol engineering, agent/coding tooling, or hardware-adjacent software. Open to contract or full-time work.

At my current job, I own nostr-canvas[0], a runtime for running untrusted third-party mini-apps inside compatible Nostr clients, written in Rust and run via WebAssembly. Sandboxed Lua scripts, mini-apps called Tiles, receive explicit capabilities, with capability enforcement implemented in Rust. This means a revoked capability takes effect inside the running worker. I also gave a talk[1] on it at bitcoin++ Nairobi in June 2026.

The same plugin runs in three independent clients with no shared UI code. I also wrote the specification: one NIP plus 26 numbered modules with a dependency graph and three conformance levels.

While working on this, I found and fixed a garbage-collector memory leak in the pure-Rust Lua interpreter [omnilua], and landed the fix upstream[2].

I also built Tile Studio[3], a vibe-coding environment for nostr-canvas applications.

Outside software, I have PCB design and fabrication experience, including an ESP32 Nostr remote signer and a Trezor Model 1 recreation modified for USB-C on the STM32F205. I designed, manufactured, and sold one of these as a complete product[4], including enclosure CAD, firmware, backend, instruction leaflet, and the USB programmer used during assembly.

More recently, I have been working on tooling around coding agents in the form of aidos[5]: a ticketing and verification system built on DeepSeek Harness. Tickets move through a state machine with transition checks that prevent work from being missed and require work to be verifiable. I have also contributed upstream fixes to DSH and plugins in its ecosystem.

Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, C, C++, Lua, Python, WebAssembly, sandboxing/capability security, plugin runtimes, language tooling, AI development tooling, Nostr, Bitcoin protocols (PSBT, Taproot, BIP-375), Deno, Node, React, Postgres, SQLite, Linux, Docker, ESP32/ESP8266/STM32, EasyEDA, OpenSCAD.

[0] https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/nostr-canvas

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1lggcj-Ic

[2] https://github.com/ianm199/omnilua/issues/249

[3] https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/tile-studio

[4] https://theattentionbutton.in

[5] https://github.com/xyzshantaram/aidos

New comment by _shantaram in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

_shantaram — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:31:06 +0000

Deno has that! Come join us :P no affiliation, just a happy user.

New comment by _shantaram in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

_shantaram — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:01:24 +0000

I think it could call (their equivalent of) clearRect up to 9 times on an already cleared region before drawing there?

New comment by _shantaram in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

_shantaram — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:32:22 +0000

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank is another great book in a similar vein.

New comment by _shantaram in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

_shantaram — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:31:19 +0000

Chiming in to second this, Pump Six and Other Stories left me with a deep, deep sense of dread after I finished reading it. Highly recommended, such an underrated collection.

New comment by _shantaram in "Chipotlai Max"

_shantaram — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:10:49 +0000

This is superb. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by _shantaram in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""

_shantaram — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:14:37 +0000

As a foreigner, I'm super interested but somewhat lacking in knowledge on this subject. Could you expand on this being the repercussions of the bailout? I felt scammed when I read about it and my country wasn't even very heavily affected by the crisis (I was a wee lad back then though).

New comment by _shantaram in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

_shantaram — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:12:39 +0000

> Cross platforms, really? So for example between a Blackberry and a Windows CE phone?

Yes, it was part of the Bluetooth file transfer spec[0] and possible between any two devices that implemented it correctly.

0: https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/file-transfer...

New comment by _shantaram in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

_shantaram — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:15:26 +0000

this thing was so far ahead of its time https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Asus-PadFone-Smartphone...

if it came out today with say 16gb of RAM and used the new Android VM feature I would buy it instantly

New comment by _shantaram in "Building the mouse Logitech won't make"

_shantaram — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:54:35 +0000

You can get a $15 hot air station and it's fine for getting quite a lot done! Look for clones of the Atten 858D. And come say hi in #electronics on Libera :)

New comment by _shantaram in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

_shantaram — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:00:14 +0000

https://reidjs.github.io/grug-dev-translation/ :)

(no affiliation, I enjoy the original and wish for it to reach as many people as possible)

New comment by _shantaram in "AI Responses May Include Mistakes"

_shantaram — Sat, 31 May 2025 10:17:37 +0000

How does that work if the LLM is the one generating the probabilities too?

New comment by _shantaram in "Human"

_shantaram — Thu, 15 May 2025 14:28:31 +0000

also isn't this just an easy way for LLM companies to get new content almost guaranteed not ai generated?

New comment by _shantaram in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

_shantaram — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:00:28 +0000

lol'd, thank you

New comment by _shantaram in "Campfire v4: cozy, minimal web framework for building interactive web apps"

_shantaram — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:40:45 +0000

Hi! I've spent the past few weeks rebuilding my web framework with a bunch of new stuff and I'd love to hear what you all think! It's got fine-grained reactivity but tries to stay as close to the DOM as possible (all methods work with HTMLElement and standard JS features) but still provide an easy-to-use API, and fits in under 5kb gzipped. A lot of the methods and utils can also be used on the server, though there isn't really anything SSR-specific yet.

Source code is on GitHub (https://github.com/xyzshantaram/campfire), PRs welcome :)

Campfire v4: cozy, minimal web framework for building interactive web apps

_shantaram — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:40:45 +0000

Article URL: https://campfire.js.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693434

Points: 2

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New comment by _shantaram in "Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover"

_shantaram — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:33:33 +0000

And https://send.djazz.se automatically performs the conversion for you with kepubify and sends it to your ereader! No affiliation, just a happy camper chiming in

New comment by _shantaram in "Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon"

_shantaram — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:52:10 +0000

three actually

New comment by _shantaram in "Show HN: I made a desk toy for people in long-distance relationships"

_shantaram — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:55:48 +0000

So, the website is essentially an HTTP interface for managing an MQTT broker. You create an account, make a "room" (application concept, not part of mqtt), and then put your account name and the room secret phrase into the device (it throws up a captive portal). The device then uses these to connect to the broker to an MQTT topic that's sha256(secret) and from there it's just simply passing messages between devices.

Show HN: I made a desk toy for people in long-distance relationships

_shantaram — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:55:50 +0000

Hello Hacker News! I've spent the last 6 months or so designing and building this, The Attention Button. It's an IoT desk toy that lets you send a quick nudge to whoever you hold dear, letting them know you're thinking of them. Like a direct line to their attention. It is my first major electronics project and I have learnt so much making it. I'd love to hear what you guys think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43065165

Points: 13

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