Hacker News: kbart

New comment by kbart in "Serverless Horrors"

kbart — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:33:31 +0000

AWS skills are in quite strong demand, so it totally pays off to know the platform and have some hands-on experience if you work in the related area.

New comment by kbart in "Mystery monk makes billions with 5-hour energy (2012)"

kbart — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:03:23 +0000

That's a nice theory, but it doesn't work like that in most EU countries where banks are reluctant to give you a loan even for the 2nd property, let alone for tens of it unless you have collaterals to cover the cost.

New comment by kbart in "Ask HN: Anyone Use Firefox in 2023?"

kbart — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 08:13:33 +0000

Of course. Both desktop and mobile version as well with uBlock Origin. Don't have any issues so far except Google Meet not being able to blur the background on the video calls, but I can live with that.

New comment by kbart in "NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install"

kbart — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:36:45 +0000

I don't advocate or support such malware instalation. Just saying that "Russian citizens have nothing to do with this war" is false. There are better ways to express your support for Ukraine, for example, make malware targeting only military or govermental institutions that are directly involved.

New comment by kbart in "NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install"

kbart — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:34:11 +0000

Majority of average Russian citizens support their goverment actions against Ukraine. So in my book, they are also responsible.

New comment by kbart in "Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory"

kbart — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:24:16 +0000

It was proven over and over again, that the more you give to Russia, the more they will take next time. We have to stop them now or never. War is already on going between Russia and the west (Putin himself and his chief of spies already said, that they deem sanctions akin declaration of war), hiding from this fact won't help.

New comment by kbart in "Ukraine Call for Hackers"

kbart — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:19:23 +0000

Why Telegram? I see Ukrainians use it a lot in this conflict,but I would really not trust it to be secure against such powerful adversary as Russia. Signal is much better bet under these circumstances.

New comment by kbart in "Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine"

kbart — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:47:54 +0000

I wonder, what happens with all that captured equipment? I see a lot of videos of seemingly undamaged anti-air systems, artillery, tanks.. can Ukrainians readily use them or there are some locks etc. that prohibits it?

New comment by kbart in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

kbart — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:37:50 +0000

I work at the big fintech with a large footprint in Eastern Europe. We have been ramping up our cyberdefence capabilities intensively for over a week now based on various public and non-public advisories. As far as I see from my extended network, we are definetly not alone doing that.

New comment by kbart in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

kbart — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 07:33:20 +0000

Propaganda aside - yes.

New comment by kbart in "Ukraine Conflict Live Map"

kbart — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 09:59:34 +0000

Many countries in Europe do not have geographical barriers, so do you say they don't have a right to exist?

New comment by kbart in "Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline"

kbart — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:42:22 +0000

No. All ex-Soviet countries that joined NATO did that willingly as a way to protect their independence (looking at the examples of ex-Soviet countries that did not, it's clear that was the right decision). The "threat" of NATO invading Russia is bullshit and whataboutism.

New comment by kbart in "Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga"

kbart — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 11:49:53 +0000

What tools do you use for that? I tried similiar strategy just by looking at the publicly available tools (e.g. MartketWatch), but it seemed I'm always too late, so I resorted to mid-long term investments to the companies I believe.

New comment by kbart in "Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter"

kbart — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 09:17:40 +0000

I haven't received any robocall, cold sales attempt or spam SMS in years. I'm also EU based, maybe it's another side effect of non-existant privacy laws in US?

New comment by kbart in "Ask HN: Joined FAANG, immediately stopped getting recruiter messages?"

kbart — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 09:08:04 +0000

This. I've never worked at FAANG, but recruiter spam stops for some time whenever I change companies.

New comment by kbart in "GPS"

kbart — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:18:33 +0000

Cool, so now we are back to 1996 with Internet as curated lists.

New comment by kbart in "Entropy isn't sufficient to measure password strength"

kbart — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:58:40 +0000

It's vulnerable to the dictionary-based attacks that are very common.

New comment by kbart in "High beef prices and the destruction of independent cattle ranching"

kbart — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:33:24 +0000

Wasn't the claim that nitrites help against botulism denied few years ago? According to Guardian: "A bombshell internal report written for the British meat industry reveals nitrites do not protect against botulism"[0]

0. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/mar/23/nitrites-ham-ba...

New comment by kbart in "The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)"

kbart — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:40:34 +0000

There are usually several copies of a varied quality to choose from based on ones needs on a decent tracker. Of course you can't expect stellar quality 2h movie fit into <1 GB, look for reasonable file sizes 5+ GB) to avoid ultracompressed versions with garbage sound. Making conclusions on a single sample is not very wise.

New comment by kbart in "Heroes of Might and Magic"

kbart — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 09:45:19 +0000

Cool, HoMM3 is by far my most favourite game for >20years now and we keep playing with my wife from time to time. It's like chess with some RNG, thus strategical and tactical depths are unlimited. Art and soundtrack is also charming in some strange way, as it feels more like tabletop than PC game (highlighted in the article as well).