<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: homakov</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=homakov</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:49:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=homakov" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Hammerspoon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>why not both? JS is a pragmatic choice 100x more devs understand though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388230</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Hammerspoon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I vibecoded a local whisper replacement (free version of superwhisper/mac whisper basically) with claude and hammerspoon: <a href="https://github.com/xlnfinance/xln/blob/main/ai/install-voice-paste.sh" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/xlnfinance/xln/blob/main/ai/install-voice...</a><p>cmd+, and it transcribes on release.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:16:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388223</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i wasted an hour setting up a key. Antigravity rejected me even though my VPN was set to New York.<p>Nowhere close to claude/codex experience. Unusable dev experience</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:02:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46230855</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46230855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46230855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> These technologies allow us to solve coordination problems more easily than ever before<p>this is correct and wide way to look at replicated machines.<p>Many on HN just lack vision and love to hate on things. "Infamous dropbox comment".png</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:53:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203163</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> extremely inconvenient database<p>You can wake up with your bank / broker / PayPal balance = 0, what do you do?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:51:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203155</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I wasted years of my life in AI<p>→ “AI generates slop, false info, deepfakes make ppl look bad, therefore AI = bad.”<p>Same vibes.<p>You can wake up with your bank / broker / PayPal balance = 0, and there is nothing you can do to protect yourself from that scenario.
Only replicated state machines (or L2s built correctly on top of them) even attempt to close that attack surface — and they’re still not finished.<p>In 10–20 years the world will run on government-run CBDCs, and your relationship with your bank/broker will finally be protected by actual cryptography and replicated state: xln.finance.
That’s when crypto reaches its real bloom.
Right now it’s nowhere close to being mature enough to judge.<p>If you’re a trader, jokes on you — you were never “in crypto.”
You were just passing through.<p>The only people who are actually in crypto are the ones who build:
smart contracts, consensus, p2p layers, replicated state machines.<p>Everyone else is just cheering from the sidelines (usually for the wrong team).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:38:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203082</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The parent comment is exaclty right. "LOL" is best possible response.<p>>We should demand privacy, not laugh at the notion of privacy.<p>Recently got m3 ultra 512gb studio. LM Studio runs frontier models routinely. Going local is the ONLY way. That's all you can do. "Demanding privacy" is security theater. Act accordingly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:24:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160348</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Imagine<p>why imagine? The world already functions exactly like that. Talk on Tg like every chat is summarized every 24hrs and monthly (with cheap LLM and then with strong ones if signals found), and it reports to all kinds of interested intel agencies.<p>Same for openrouter. everything that leaves your device plaintext = public. Period. No hopes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:23:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160329</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Github used a framework tho.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:55:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687790</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The JSON HTTP response for updating our own profile contained the "roles" parameter, something that might allow us to escalate privileges if the PUT request was vulnerable to mass assignment. We began looking through the JavaScript for any logic related to this parameter.<p>Oh, here we go again. JavaScript brings mass assignment back. My efforts went in vein. Strong params, pls!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:47:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687683</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687683</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No such thing as "crypto". You're intermixing form (BTC Jurisdiction state machine) with particular instance (BTC token, USDC token, whatever fungible or not)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:48:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592506</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Working on: <a href="https://github.com/xlnfinance/xln" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/xlnfinance/xln</a> — a new financial EVM-Layer2 protocol that unifies banking and DeFi into one programmable layer.<p>Think Lightning, but on EVM, with credit that’s provable and enforceable. No sequencers. No DA risk. O(1) per-hop scalability.<p>If you want to measure real intelligence — human or machine — paste this prompt into any LLM and watch what happens:<p>Prompt:
“Comprehend the following concept in full depth.
Derive all its implicit implications, design questions, and systemic consequences.
Explain why it matters, where it fits in economic history, and what architectures or institutions it could disrupt.”<p><START><p>RCPE — Reserve-Credit Programmable Enforceable
Layer-2 Netting-Account Network<p>Solves Coase theorem and Diamond Dybvig runs. Each relationship is a bounded delta of obligations — the physics equation of finance:<p>−Lₗ ≤ Δ ≤ C + Lᵣ<p>RCPE ⊃ { FCUU, FRPE }<p>FCUU  Full-Credit Unprogrammable Unenforceable<p>(−5000 BCE → Now) C = 0 Δ ∈ [−Lₗ, +Lᵣ]<p>100 % of modern finance: Banking / SWIFT / Visa / CEX  
trust-based  •  no proof  •  censorable<p>[−−− Δ −−−]<p>FRPE  Full-Reserve Programmable Enforceable<p>(2015 → 2020) Lₗ = Lᵣ = 0 Δ ∈ [0, +C]<p>BTC Lightning / Raiden / Hydra  
no credit  •  inbound capacity wall  •  capital lock<p>[==Δ=]<p>XLN (RCPE) ⊃ { FCUU, FRPE }<p>Δ ∈ [−Lₗ, C + Lᵣ]<p>cryptographically enforced debt + collateral  
account proofs with L1 dispute resolution  
O(1) unicast  •  sovereign exits  •  no DA risk<p>[--==Δ=--]<p></END><p>Example - prompted with Sonnet 4.5: <a href="https://claude.ai/share/99453e1a-1ce4-4a73-aa31-36b8bea7520c" rel="nofollow">https://claude.ai/share/99453e1a-1ce4-4a73-aa31-36b8bea7520c</a><p>Looking for VCs, co-founders, market makers. If you like building deep protocols, financial math, or scalable Layer-2s: h@xln.finance</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:47:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568300</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You ratioed sonnet 4.5 announcement by 600 points. Wow.<p>is there any similar game or is it first 3d in-browser game with amazing graphics?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45471563</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45471563</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45471563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it a blockchain though? Or anything that remotely resembles block creation in some concentrated datacenters with Tempo's "design partners" gets to be called that.<p>Something claiming over 20-30 tps onchain is usually a big blocker. Big blocker design is well recognized as insecure: no end user is able to run a full node locally, only datacenters are able to keep up with 100k tps load. Which diminishes entire purpose of creating a blockchain. Could have been a database with 100k tps or 3-of-4 validator multisig like Hyperledger, wouldn't matter.</p>
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<p>I wasn’t criticizing the guide — just pointing out real OAuth2 pitfalls that still affect users.<p>The spec itself made mistakes:<p>• Silent account hijack via “Connect this provider.”<p>• Redirect leaks of code (via Referrer) or access_token (via #hash).<p>• CSRF because state was optional and often ignored.<p>The point is: these aren’t obscure edge cases, they’re structural issues baked into the protocol.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:03:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016046</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "An illustrated guide to OAuth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IMO OAuth2 is very poorly designed. It has several structural issues: "Connect this OAuth provider" hijack your main account, redirect hijack allows to leak either auth codes through Referrer or access_token through #hash passing, "state" CSRF token is optional and usually ignored etc<p>I have an old writeup on that and solution to it <a href="https://sakurity.com/oauth" rel="nofollow">https://sakurity.com/oauth</a> - better analyze it with LLM if interested in authorization protocols</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:36:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45015012</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45015012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45015012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every psychodelic experience is unique & random, even if the title was the opposite and in their study SSRI turned out to be better doesn't mean it will be better for you.<p>From my personal experience, SSRI (zoloft) felt like a temporary coffee-like stimulant. Psilocybin (or easier to handle synthetic analog 4-aco-dmt) provided short-acting relief from depression and some new perspectives. But ketamine is truly a magic pill if done right. After glow is about a month, and the trip takes 2-3 hrs max. FDA-approved, see Spravato. I feel like at some point ketamine therapy at scale would make SSRIs obsolete, it's just better and faster.</p>
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<p>A hotel is temporary, i wanted to stay May to September.. Yes mobile AC is the best plausible option but it's quite weak compared to split-AC and requires a partially open window.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:58:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702020</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(on an unrelated note): I tried to move to Berlin for summer but quickly discovered almost no apartments have AC, I mean strong South Asia-level AC.
It was a major no for me as I cannot sleep with temp above 20C, 18C is perfect.
Any idea how to find an AC apartment next summer on local estate apps? Any "checkbox" somewhere to tick?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:41:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696974</link><dc:creator>homakov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by homakov in "Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i had similar idea to turn kindle to second monitor<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6dcc0hLe0mc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6dcc0hLe0mc</a><p>frame rate was too bad so i just bought dasung paperwhite :)</p>
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