<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: mikhael28</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikhael28</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:48:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mikhael28" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Location: Seattle/Bellevue<p>Remote: Sure, hybrid/onsite is good too!<p>Willing to relocate: SF, for the right role.<p>Technologies: Node.js, Python, React, Flutter, SQL (Postgres), NoSql (Dynamo, Mongo)<p>Résumé/CV: <a href="https://www.michaelnightingale.dev/documents/Michael-Litchev-Resume-2025.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.michaelnightingale.dev/documents/Michael-Litchev...</a><p>Email: mikhael@hey.com<p>I'm a full-stack product engineer who's been coding since 2017, and uses all the latest in AI-tooling to accelerate my output. You can find my Github at <a href="https://github.com/mikhael28" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mikhael28</a> to see some of my open-source work & personal projects. My portfolio website has my resume, and some visual examples of the personal projects mentioned as well as my emerging blog at <a href="https://michaelnightingale.dev" rel="nofollow">https://michaelnightingale.dev</a><p>Something I built last month in February: <a href="https://10xcardgame.com" rel="nofollow">https://10xcardgame.com</a> - a multiplayer card game for software engineers, inspired by Magic the Gathering, to help engineers bone up on their DSA knowledge. Full streaming netcode & WebRTC-enabled chatrooms self-hosted on my Rasberry Pi, where my OpenClaw agent hangs out as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:21:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225007</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Crazy to hear how much spam & straight up liars are applying nowadays. Not being able to pass a technical interview is one thing, but sending a fake resume and then expecting to not be exposed as a fraud is just crazy, sociopath behavior.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:40:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857671</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe a startup could work on this problem - HN has two moderators, I’m not sure it’s realistic to ask them to track more than what they already do. How would they even track and verify such hearsay anyway?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:38:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857644</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857644</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, they are. It’s a numbers game.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:36:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857620</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a bad faith comment - if you had all that in your resume, they wouldnt disqualify you for not ‘sending an api request’.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:32:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857568</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42857568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: I built Expatria to help engineers choose the best country to retire]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi HN, excited to share a data-driven product that can help everyone, especially engineers, retire earlier and more affordably. Work on the projects you are passionate about, that give you life, instead of grinding away at a job you don’t like.<p>The world is a big place and there is a lot of data scattered all across the internet; there are over 60 different countries you can move to, whether its through real-estate investment, passive income ‘pensioner’ visas, buying a second passport or parking money in a country’s bank for a couple of years. All of these countries have different costs of living; there is a financial calculator for you to benchmark your lifestyle & expenses, then compare how much you would save against over a thousand different cities. I live in Seattle, so Lord knows its pricey up in here; after seeing firsthand how I could spend three times less money per month living in other countries, it was hard to unsee the Matrix so to speak.<p>You can access the platform at the link below, and it will immediately launch into a tour.<p>Platform: <a href="https://expatriaonline.com/dashboard" rel="nofollow">https://expatriaonline.com/dashboard</a><p>There are a couple of other tools; 
1. A Chrome extension called Riverlake that will help you save real-estate listings from platforms across the internet to your Expatria profile for review later. Basically, a tool to help centralize your hunt for international real-estate.
2. Understanding what your current passports visa-free travel options are, and what a potential second passports visa-free travel looks like.
3. A fun achievements system; when you visit a country’s page for the first time (or a city within that country) you will unlock that country’s achievement; each one is hidden by a clue, but you can quickly navigate to them using the Cmd + K command palette built in. I think it’s more fun to use the world atlas, but some countries are so small (like Singapore) that it can be hard to track them down.
4. Embedded Ernst & Young documentation for a given country, embedded CIA Facebook for historical and political data, beautiful hi resolution photos for every country in ‘Daydream’ mode.
5. Comprehensive personal and corporate tax rates for almost every single country.<p>There is an unauthenticated free tier, but to get full access to the platform is a monthly or annual subscription. Use promo code THANKYOUHN for a free month that unlocks all the countries, immigration programs, cost of living tools and more; you will also be able to join the community slack channel to offer feedback, request features & research to be added. I’ve gotten so much value from reading Hacker News over the years, this is my little way of saying thanks.<p>In our immediate backlog, we are focusing on launching an online social lounge for members at the end of January, and in the intermediate term to fill in the blanks on many of these government immigration policies. Every program is linked back to official government documentation, but we are working on adding step by step, document by document requirements to help you move things along in an orderly manner.<p>Would love to hear feedback from the community here, or by sending me an email at michael@expatriaonline.com<p>Cheers!
Michael ‘Misha’
<a href="https://calendly.com/michael-expatriaonline/30min" rel="nofollow">https://calendly.com/michael-expatriaonline/30min</a></p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411083">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411083</a></p>
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<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:36:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://expatriaonline.com/dashboard/</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fantastic! A great proof of concept on Linux - lots of AAA gaming is already possible on Mac with Crossover and/or Parallels or VMWare Personal, which is free! While I have a Steam Deck, gaming on Mac works for me - I refuse to play Baldurs Gate 3 on a controller.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:38:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41800618</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41800618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41800618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Suits can be very comfortable to wear, even with neckties and dress shoes. The first monkeys probably though shirts were hot, stuffy and uncomfortable too. They are not ridiculous items.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 15:30:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757810</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ethereum’s smart contracts are inherently insecure. Look at all the money lost through oracle hacks and bridge attacks. If crypto ever becomes viable, mark my words - Ethereum will not be that platform.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:46:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41750252</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41750252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41750252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, huge mistake. I see way too many people casually addicted to wasting their money and burning it for no good reason. I enjoy playing fantasy football, but gambling on it is a sad use of your hard earned money that will only impoverish people and keep them working for the man.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:49:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671176</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671176</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Russian election interference efforts focus on the Harris-Walz campaign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, sarcasm, so impressive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:39:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579575</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I made a non-serious, sarcastic and parodious comment in a serious thread. My bad guys!<p>I just think non-competes are bad for employees though - if someone sells trade secrets, that can be somewhat obvious, and can be pursued legally without non-competes. It just creates an environment that keeps people down at the benefit of the powerful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:18:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306173</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306173</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>lol I was trying to be sarcastic, came off as bitter?<p>I’m not even looking for a job, I’m traveling the world and living my best life. I think my comment was more about how non-competes encourage toxic ideas of what loyalty you, as a free agent, are supposed to offer people who are fundamentally just paying you some money while they don’t reciprocate. Not that I’ve had this experience myself, just something I’ve seen others go through. I’ve had nothing but great employers for the most part.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:15:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306163</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41306163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ask for a raise once a year, be happy if you don’t get one, and if a competitor tries to hire you away for a lot more money, stay loyal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:22:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305848</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As long as Zuck keeps releasing open-source models, the moat will continue to disappear from these companies. Only expensive, corporate processing tiers will exist and everyone will run stuff locally. Not a lot of money to be made from local processing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:19:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305830</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41305830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would I pay for news when I have HN?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:56:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41265186</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41265186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41265186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "OnlyFans' porn juggernaut fueled by a deception"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s insane behavior like this that is why we didn’t discover electricity for five thousand years of civilization. Scammers ruthlessly exploiting people, and people uncritically accepting the exploitation. Then, one day, the truth is revealed, but it’s too late.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 06:42:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221727</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congratulations :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:32:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220480</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wtf how do you not check for ‘quantity of arguments’ in QA testing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 01:30:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220469</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mikhael28 in "Online Dating"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Be the change you want to see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 08:36:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41214825</link><dc:creator>mikhael28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41214825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41214825</guid></item></channel></rss>