Hacker News: kaplun

New comment by kaplun in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

kaplun — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:48:42 +0000

Nope, Proton is office-first. But indeed we help for visa for exceptional candidates.

New comment by kaplun in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

kaplun — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:35:46 +0000

Proton VPN (https://protonvpn.com/) | Senior Performance Engineer | Barcelona, Spain or Geneva, Switzerland | ONSITE

Proton VPN enables millions of people to connect securely and privately, even in places where the internet is restricted or unreliable. Delivering that experience means our service must perform flawlessly under highly variable, real-world conditions.

We are looking for a Senior Performance Engineer to lead our efforts in making Proton VPN the fastest, most resilient, and most reliable VPN service in the world.

You will define and drive the measurement, analysis, and optimization of Proton VPN’s end-to-end performance, across clients, platforms, and global infrastructure. You’ll help ensure that every connection is fast, stable, and private, regardless of where the user is or what network they’re on.

We're looking for candidates with experience in system-level development (e.g. C or C++ or Rust), and network engineering (experience working with UDP/TCP and VPN protocols).

Apply at: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4725157101 (see also: https://proton.me/careers)

Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution

kaplun — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:21:11 +0000

Article URL: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139765

Points: 462

# Comments: 378

New comment by kaplun in "Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry"

kaplun — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:10:39 +0000

6? Not 8?

What Meta's Ad Library Shows About Harris and Trump's Campaigns

kaplun — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:36:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/11/04/us-presidential-election-trump-harris-meta-ads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42081341

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kaplun in "Founder Mode"

kaplun — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:44:41 +0000

A founder lives their company as the most important thing in their life, it's an extension of their life and they live and breath the company. A manager instead is being given a responsibility and will try their best to fulfill the role. A founder will never rest if they know there's an issue to be solved in the company, while the manager has a life and know they can move forward in case. A founder will not be intimidated by any internal policy or rule if they believe they need to change something. A manager will try to play by the rules, and in case try to modify them through influence. A founder is basically a ruler who truly care about the success of the company (not necessarily about the happiness and fulfilment of the people taking part in the company). For a funder the Company comes first, before anything else.

New comment by kaplun in "I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it"

kaplun — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:24:52 +0000

Seb! Look at who reached the top of Hacker News today! haha!

How to build privacy-protecting AI

kaplun — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://proton.me/blog/how-to-build-privacy-first-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909490

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

La Quadrature du Net and Others vs. Premier ministre and Ministère de la Culture

kaplun — Sun, 05 May 2024 14:16:15 +0000

Article URL: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A62021CJ0470

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40265066

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kaplun in "A living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years"

kaplun — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:39:59 +0000

I got one hip replaced in my thirties with titanium and ceramic. I am so glad I did it. I can't run too much but, beside that, I got back entire mobility after couple of months. More than 10 years have passed and it's like not having a prothesis. Ceramic was suggested by doctor as it lasts longer (though it's more fragile in case of accident).

New comment by kaplun in "Introducing Proton CAPTCHA, the world’s first censorship-resistant CAPTCHA"

kaplun — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:39:55 +0000

This is not true. We moved longtime ago to use hCaptcha precisely to cut ties with Google reCAPTCHA. And we switched today from hCaptcha to our own solution precisely for the reason described in the blog post.

New comment by kaplun in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)"

kaplun — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 10:03:10 +0000

Proton (https://proton.me/) | Switzerland/EU | Remote/Hybrid | Full-time | Python Engineer (VPN Linux client)

Proton VPN is composed of a distributed global infrastructure of VPN servers, and a set of clients for each major platform. You would be joining the Linux Proton VPN Client Team, to take part in the development of the Proton VPN Linux Desktop client for all the major Linux distributions. As a Software Engineer, with your technical expertise, your main responsibility will be to contribute to the development of new features, setting up the CI/CD or even building new testing pipelines. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Within the Linux Team, you will collaborate with fellow Linux developers, QA engineers, Product Manager and Customer Support to develop the Linux client.

The Linux development team is distributed, around central European time-zone.

https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4140067101

New comment by kaplun in "Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet"

kaplun — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:33:15 +0000

Hey, I have such glasses, and here in France at least they are still marketed. Do you have any reference pointing out the fact that they do not work? (Are they even worse than regular glasses?)

New comment by kaplun in "ProtonVPN’s no-logs policy certified by an external audit"

kaplun — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:23:08 +0000

It does for Plus plan: https://protonvpn.com/support/watch-netflix-with-vpn/

New comment by kaplun in "Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism"

kaplun — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 22:50:57 +0000

The problem is not that everybody can access information. The problem is that click-bait false information is pushed by ranking algorithms more and more in front of the eyes of people who are ready to believe in them. The information bubble then is making people more and more radicalized.

The Birth of the Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets

kaplun — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:29:17 +0000

Article URL: https://competitivedigitalmarkets.eu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038846

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Kape Technologies Agrees to Buy ExpressVPN for $936M

kaplun — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:23:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-13/kape-technologies-agrees-to-buy-expressvpn-for-936-million

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516380

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Activision investigating Call of Duty’s ‘larger than expected’ 84GB Xbox patch

kaplun — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:39:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/11/21287890/call-of-duty-season-4-patch-84gb-xbox-one-data-cap-storage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494007

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Hackers ‘Without Conscience’ Demand Ransom from Health Providers

kaplun — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 07:54:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/hackers-without-conscience-demand-ransom-from-health-providers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22746645

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kaplun in "Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?"

kaplun — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 07:30:54 +0000

Proton Technologies AG | Geneve, Zurich, Taipei, Vilnius, Skopje ONSITE | Full Time | Several openings | https://careers.protonmail.com/

Proton Technologies AG is the Company behind ProtonMail [1] and ProtonVPN [2]. Head-quartered in Geneva, Switzerland, Proton is always at the forefront in the fight for privacy and a safe Internet.

As we keep on extending ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, and we are building our new products - ProtonCalendar and ProtonDrive - we have several openings including Android, iOS, Windows and Go developers for our clients, QA engineers, Designers, SREs, Front-end devs, Security analysts, Database engineers, Mail Delivery engineers, and more.

We are strong believers in quality over quantity, so the hiring process at ProtonMail is highly selective. But if you make it, you will join a tight-knit team where nobody is a stranger.

[1] https://protonmail.com [2] https://protonvpn.com