<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: maxgashkov</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxgashkov</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:22:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=maxgashkov" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Proposed mitigations look weak:<p>- DNS block & SNI filtering: I expect BrightData to rotate the endpoints if this issues gains enough attention. It will take some time once all the apps embedding the SDK catch up, but if they're smart SDK may already have a backup C&C connection they will try to reach out to after prolonged unavailability of the current endpoints.<p>- TLS fingerprint: unless SDK pins it, it's the cheapest one to rotate continously.<p>- MDM solution: almost unattainable to private users; not clear how stable the SDK name is to rely on.<p>Not saying I have a better approach. It seems behavior like this should be explicitly banned on Apple/Google's side with immediate termination of their publisher accounts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:57:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430728</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "DaVinci Resolve 21"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried Darktable and I don't doubt it's a powerful RAW editing software but it feels like to be effective with it you need to care about the software more than you do about photography. With Lightroom/Capture One etc. it's the opposite. Darktable is just too 'out there'</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:36:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391601</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking for a REMOTE contract or full-time work:<p><pre><code>  Location: Japan (Kobe)
  Remote: yes, with this time overlap for synchronous work:
    - PT: 15:00~22:00  &  06:00~08:00
    - CT: 17:00~24:00  &  08:00~10:00
    - ET: 18:00~01:00  &  09:00~11:00
  Willing to relocate: within Japan only
  Technologies: AWS, GCP, Terraform, k8s, Python, Go, PHP, Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, PgSQL, MySQL, Wireguard
  Résumé/CV: https://assets.maxgv.dev/cv/Resume_MaxGashkov_2026.pdf
  Email: info@maxgv.dev
  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxgashkov/
</code></pre>
Mostly looking for infrastructure-related work (cloud or on-prem). If you struggle with your cloud bill, do reach out to me.<p>Will also manage a focused engineering team if needed.<p>Curious/optimistic about LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:16:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363358</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At this point I'd take anything but my guess is this will make windshield quite more expensive (and it's already not cheap to replace it due to the sensor array calibration on most newer cars).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 05:32:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343297</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I pray for the next major development in glasses tech to be some thing that blocks ultra-bright oncoming LEDs while driving.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342067</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Negative feedback is not lost, it's filtered. No one at the top is equipped to deal with the actual feedback from ICs, unless your org is 10 people in a bike shed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:54:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101824</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Getting arrested in Japan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is not about enjoying or not enjoying jail. If you happen to live and work in Japan in a typical job, getting arrested and held within this process for 23 days almost certainly means you're getting fired because you essentially have no contact with the outside world and even if you manage to sneak a word out through your lawyer, most of the employment contracts have clauses to extent of automatic termination for both missing enough days and breaking moral character.<p>So even if the prosecution decides to drop your case, you're already fucked -- this is not how proper justice system should work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 05:24:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081238</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm on a fence about this.<p>First, the biggest issue r/n is the concern that external internet will be limited to a point of no return, for this meshtastic is quite useless because to go across the border you need powerful transmitters and risk of placing and maintaining them near the border. In russia this is not only risk of going to prison but also being literally shot if border patrol/FSB overreacts. Even if you're successful bandwidth is miniscule compared to what a modern country needs to communicate internationally.<p>Second, due to Ukraine piggybacking on cellular networks for drone targeting/control cell service is frequently disrupted by authorities in the areas of a likely attack (it's obviously as effective as this sounds compounded by general incompetence of the government). While they cannot shut it down completely because russia still doesn't want to go back to the stone age, this concern is largely non-existent for meshtastic though. If it becomes widely popular and coverage expands, it also could be used by Ukraine as a control network, and in this case I would expect russian authorities to just jam the whole frequency range and be done with it. So the moment it becomes viable alternative is the moment it will be shut down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 01:11:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070749</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the use cases is pairing it up with ATAK or similar tactical awareness system during SAR operations by volunteer brigades in remote areas with spotty coverage by regular networks.<p>More info here if someone's interested:
<a href="https://www.civtak.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.civtak.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:57:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070677</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As of now, OpenRouter offers multiple providers for DeepSeek with ZDR (not sure if they respect it but still).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:53:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006533</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They absolutely are. Fun example: when Revolut launched in Japan few years back they had a period of a relatively explosive success (especially within the immigrant community), so most of the cards of the period were issued with the same expiration month and with the same IIN (I'm assuming specific to Japan as well) which left very little entropy and lead to brute-force attacks via merchants not requiring 3DS (Uber etc.). Within only one community (approx. 1.5k people) we have had a handful of a 100% verified cases when the card was compromised without any exposure at all (i.e. the card was not used online or offline).<p>In all cases Revolut promptly reverted the charges and eventually they did a complete reissue of the cards for Japanese market (not sure how they've got around the entropy issue: maybe they've randomized the expiry dates or spread out IINs some more).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 23:36:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981753</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981753</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure why your comment is downvoted, because it hits the issue dead center, namely it's completely possible to pass either of the required tests (N2/J2) and not being able to speak a single word of Japanese in a live conversation.<p>That's why at least one category of applicants abusing the visa (Chinese) will continue to do so without any issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803776</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of them are 'good'. Execs at Anthropic just perceive the long-term damage from a potential Snowden-level leak showing how their model directed a drone strike against a bunch of civilians higher than short-term loss of revenue from the DoD contracts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:34:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189429</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank god. The only remaining failure mode I’ve seen with LE certs recently is API key used to manipulate DNS records for the DNS-01 challenge via some provider (Cloudflare etc.) expiring or being disabled during improper user offboarding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:32:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129230</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to videos published they still seem to be flying drones manually, so won't additional latency introduced by the cellular network & repeaters make this really hard / impossible?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:26:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154531</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Japan Post represents only a portion of shipping providers in Japan, for our idea to work others will need the same privileged access to the system: Yamato, Sagawa etc.<p>This will also require to alter the package label on the last mile because requiring the courier to scan every package or letter before they could even see an apartment number will slow things down to a crawl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 01:33:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122252</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It solves an issue of Japanese addressing system being a total mess. There is basically a wild wild west when it comes to the address part on most of the ecommerce sites in Japan: some offer address auto-complete via zip code, some don't; some require a building name, some don't; and the address itself may be written down in different ways. Having a source of truth in a form of a provider which has vested interest in keeping the address uniformly correct on entry is god sent here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 01:29:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122228</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> almost all employers will pay for employees to commute by public transport but not by car, because the government heavily incentivises them to do so<p>Could you clarify this? To my knowledge only 2 things that could qualify as incentive exist:<p>- commuting allowances are not considered taxable income for employee<p>- commuting allowance could be used to reduce tax base for the business<p>But this is not something I'd call 'heavily'.<p>My understanding is that commute is universally covered as this is an expected job benefit in Japan, and commuting by car is disencouraged in cities due to the increased insurance liability (as commuting time could be considered work time and injuries incurred to 3rd party will expose the company to liability as well).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024895</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not only more expensive to produce and recycle, but the gates have to be extremely complex to handle paper tickets (some railway museums in Japan have them cross-cut on display!).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 22:43:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024847</link><dc:creator>maxgashkov</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxgashkov in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please don't read too much into it. Outside of the peak demand at least here, in Kansai area, gates will close when they sense you approaching to indicate that you actually need to touch the card or insert a ticket. They stay open only if there is a continuous flow of passengers going one after another.<p>Another interesting fact is that gates' actuators are not super rigid and it's completely possible to force enter not realizing in time your card has failed (you will be approached by station attendant though).<p>To summarize, culture may play a role but the main differentiator is the high traffic volume.</p>
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