Hacker News: rnts08

New comment by rnts08 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

rnts08 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:16:23 +0000

Since blacksmith labs and phoenix ai - the ai assisted automotive r&d, security and compliance engineering tool has been on the backburner for a while, I've been helping a couple of blockchain projects and built some tools, besides tinkering with my real-time EVM contract and transaction heuristics and classification engine.

- ETH Watchtower: a real-time EVM monitoring tool with heuristics and classification of contracts and transactions: https://ethwatchtower.xyz

- P2P SSL VPN provider/consumer tools using a blockchain as announcement and settlement layer: https://github.com/rnts08/blockchain-vpn

- OrdexNetwork: https://ordexnetwork.org, I've built https://ordexswap.online and https://ordexswap.online/wallet/ as well as an Umbrel variant of a self-hosted wallet.

- Waya Wolf Coin v3: Helped the team to compile binaries for linux, and modernizing the libraries: https://github.com/rnts08/WWC3-Linux-binaries / https://github.com/Waya-Wolf/WWC3

- Low Cap Exchange algorithmic trading bots with machine learning and automatic ghost trading, because I wanted to see what the most common shapes are on smaller exchanges: https://github.com/rnts08/low-cap-exchange-trading-bot

However, I am really looking for Sr. DevOps/Platform Eng/SRE/System/Network Admin/Infra Engineering or similar, full-time or contract work, see https://timhbergstrom.pro for contact details.

New comment by rnts08 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

rnts08 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:49:54 +0000

Personal Site: https://timhbergstrom.pro Consulting Site: https://tbtechvn.com Current pet project Site: https://ethwatchtower.xyz Current startup Site: https://blacksmithlabs.net (MVP/Demo: https://blacksmithlabs.net/gary-app)

New comment by rnts08 in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

rnts08 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:42:41 +0000

That was one of my first thought as well, but I was thinking that he did it for readability in the post not for real...

New comment by rnts08 in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"

rnts08 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:30:29 +0000

Happy new year, 2025 was another bummer but here's to 2026.

New comment by rnts08 in "Ethereum Watchtower Real-time blockchain analysis"

rnts08 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:42:47 +0000

I've built ETH watchtower, a real-time heuristics scanning tool checking contracts, addresses and transactions. The published version is a PoC and cut down since the full version is way too expensive for me to run together with the frontend for public use. If anyone is interested in building with me, hosting full low latency ethereum nodes or help out with the project feel free to reach out.

Ethereum Watchtower Real-time blockchain analysis

rnts08 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:42:47 +0000

Article URL: https://rnts08.github.io/eth-watchtower/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419271

Points: 1

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New comment by rnts08 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

rnts08 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:54:55 +0000

Location: HCMC, Vietnam/Remote Remote: Preferred/Hybrid in HCMC Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Linux/Unix, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, Git, Bash, Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, Haproxy, Proxmox, Varnish, dRPC, Web3/Blockchain, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Kong, Salt etc Résumé/CV: https://timhbergstrom.pro/Resume_Timh_Bergstrom_2025_latest.... Email: timh.bergstrom@gmail.com

Senior DevOps, Infrastructure/Platform Engineer, Cloud Architect, and Security Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing, automating, and scaling mission-critical systems across data centers, cloud platforms, and edge environments.

Open to interesting DevOps/SRE, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity or platform engineering positions as well as contract and consulting work in or around Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - or remote worldwide, especially within the IaaS, PaaS, Startups, AI/ML, Security, Web3/DeFi, FinTech or Cloud sectors.

New comment by rnts08 in "My second year without a job"

rnts08 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 04:24:55 +0000

What is he supposed to do? I'm absolutely sure he's still looking, trying his best to find a job or a permanent solution to his situation. But there's no reason to complain and whine about things he can't change.

Life is shit sometimes, when he is out, he'll be out. Or he'll find some way of generating income, and then he gets another chance.

I've been in similar situations myself, and there is absolutely no reason to get stuck up regardless how stressful and painful it is, you can only do your best and that's it.

New comment by rnts08 in "I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either"

rnts08 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:01:09 +0000

The worst thing about the whole kubernetes-cult and the like is that IaC and CM was supposed to help us reduce configuration, to make it less prone to failure and easier to manage.

But the truth is that we ran service based architecture, network meshes and containers with bash just fine before cloud everything, usually with less effort than it is to do literally anything today. Sure you had to know how to set up network bonding and how to tune your systems.

Very, very few people and businesses _needs_ kubernetes or it's cousins. Most just need a decent system administrator.

New comment by rnts08 in "I quit Google to work for myself (2018)"

rnts08 — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 06:30:59 +0000

Congratulations, OP learned about "we expect loyalty and effort from you, but you won't get any from us", which is 99.5% of all companies out there. I hope OP does well on their own and don't have to work in this kind of disingenuous places in the future.

New comment by rnts08 in "My Time Working at Stripe"

rnts08 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:31:55 +0000

This is spot on.

Thank you for pointing it out.

New comment by rnts08 in "Security research on Private Cloud Compute"

rnts08 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:57:04 +0000

Anyone assuming otherwise is just foolish. No mega-corp is protecting the individuals privacy when developing products.

New comment by rnts08 in "iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos"

rnts08 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:04:31 +0000

Great first step, now if we could just get apple hardware without apple software and get full access to the subsystems with a linux or android instead of the iOS/OSx slop, even I would consider paying for it.

New comment by rnts08 in "How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)"

rnts08 — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 09:22:11 +0000

Anyone wanting to introduce $new/$other language, database, library, deployment system, build system into a large enough system that doesn't solve any actual problem is a nightmare for someone working at this scale.

I don't mind the scale, I like it. I don't like having to fend off questions and complaints why we aren't deploying the latest shiny new thing in our core this week.

New comment by rnts08 in "GitHub notification emails used to send malware"

rnts08 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:04:57 +0000

It's quite sad that in 2024 we still have people falling for the simplest tricks.

This is almost as easy as it was to call someone and asking them for the number of the modem on their desk and their logins back in the bad old days.

Considering the target platform I'm not overly surprised though.

New comment by rnts08 in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

rnts08 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:12:09 +0000

A lot of companies are speed running "How to lose your best engineers any%" lately. Yes, there are times for face to face but forcing people back to the office just to justify their space cost and middle managers meddling is a path to failure.

New comment by rnts08 in "LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat"

rnts08 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:13:33 +0000

Yes, LI 10-15 years ago was a decent site for professional networking, before it got too much like social media. Looking for work, get in touch with or keep in touch with people that you share professional interests with.

I guess it wouldn't be technically challenging to create a platform for this, the problem would be to bring the right users and as you say, moderate the content to avoid what it has become today.

Show your certificates? Amazing!

Selfie with some half-assed inspirational "leader" quote? No!

New comment by rnts08 in "LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat"

rnts08 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:05:29 +0000

We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that's not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some "inspirational" social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.

New comment by rnts08 in "CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our process'"

rnts08 — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 06:49:56 +0000

But then you can't blame anyone else when shit hits the fan! Isn't that what you're really paying for with EDR? No one is safe from a targeted attack, regardless of software.

New comment by rnts08 in "Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app"

rnts08 — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 02:05:19 +0000

This is unfortunately quite common in mobile apps, because "why would a user look closer in a mobile app".

I want to blame juniors, the no-code and ai-code crowd, but I'm as lazy as they are and will just shake my head and move on.