Hacker News: samsk

New comment by samsk in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

samsk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:49:08 +0000

The difference is that 0.5% on the whole payment, might in some cases be actually much more than taxes on the profit. Or even worse, if you sell for whatever reason without profit, the tansaction fee is your loss.

New comment by samsk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

samsk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:06:44 +0000

I've finalized and have in beta testing an AI-based natural language search of properties from an MLS feed. On top of that, I'm continually tuning an AI agent that is able to do property research, comparisons, neighborhood and history analysis, etc.

[1]: https://mlsync.ai

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

samsk — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:45:31 +0000

MLS Listing powered AI Search and Agent is live as mlsync.ai [1].

[1]: https://mlsync.ai

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

samsk — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:42:59 +0000

I’m building an AI search assistant and autonomous AI agent for real estate, powered by MLS property data via my tool mlsync.io [1].

It’s designed to go beyond static filters to actively research, compare listings, analyze photos, watch listings, setup notifications etc... - basically an "OpenClaw for real estate."

[1]: https://mlsync.io

New comment by samsk in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

samsk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:19:50 +0000

Earlier attempts were mostly about money and ideology. Now its a question of security, thanks to one 'clever' 'businessman'. So thanks to his _great_ efforts, it might actually work out this time.

New comment by samsk in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

samsk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:56:08 +0000

Interesting tool, will definitely try - just curious, is there a tool (hexora checker) that ensures that hexora itself and its dependencies are not compromised ? And of course if there is one, I'll need another one for the hexora checker....

New comment by samsk in "FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us"

samsk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:09:58 +0000

We work with MLS provider(s) that requires us to keep plaintext password for our users and provide it on request in case of `breach in the security of MLS Listing Information or a violation of MLS Rules`.

The user is accessing only copy of their data in _our_ systems, the user has no contact with MLS itself directly or indirectly.

New comment by samsk in "xAI joins SpaceX"

samsk — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:33:05 +0000

...and costs pennies compared to putting anything up there, so it can even enjoy those cosmic goodies.

New comment by samsk in "Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024)"

samsk — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:17:08 +0000

No grep ? We are lost !

New comment by samsk in "USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994"

samsk — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:03:17 +0000

Who would tell. Economy runs on 'trust' - not on 'by tomorrow we apply this random tax rate to this pinguin island and everone else'.

New comment by samsk in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

samsk — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:59:02 +0000

I’m still working on MLSync.io, an ETL platform designed to remove the technical friction of synchronizing MLS data using RESO protocol and provide simple access to the MLS data via SQL and REST API.

And as everyone now, I'm experimenting with LLMs to bring some new AI-related features to the service.

On another project, we've now beta testing (in ordination) Asus GX10 processing power running on-device LLMs for _local_ processing of patient medical data for 'differential diagnoses, implant plans and risk profiles in real time while the patient is in still in the chair'.

[1] https://MLSync.io

New comment by samsk in "ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL UPDATE performance comparison"

samsk — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:48:18 +0000

My tl;dr is: Don't do huge updates using WHERE on fields _not_ in index, otherwise it will take days to finish and you get meaningless numbers in benchmarks...

New comment by samsk in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

samsk — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:37:07 +0000

Can happen, but on the BAD website will the password manager not offer saved password, so user has higher chance of noticing smth. is wrong. Of course if he uses pass manager with complex passwords...

New comment by samsk in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)"

samsk — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:26:52 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (EU-based, GMT+1) | Part-Time

PERL Expert | DevOps Engineer | SQL/SOLR Specialist

Language: English, German

Areas of expertise:

    • Legacy PERL Code Maintenance
    • PERL Performance Optimization
    • PERL Security & Compliance
    • Migration Services
        → PERL to Python Migration
        → Database Version Upgrades
        → Legacy System Modernization

Other notables experiences:

    • Prometheus based monitoring systems
    • Cloud / On-premise inventory systems and synchronization to CMDB/ITSM
    • MLS data synchronization via RESO/RETS - https://mlsync.io

WEB: https://perlexpert.de/en/

Email: ja.hn4[at]mailgw.com

New comment by samsk in "Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget"

samsk — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:57:39 +0000

Its a server-side proxy, so instead of ie. OpenAI url you point your AI tool to url of LiteLLM proxy, and use its virtual keys with budget limits or LLM models restrictions etc... - the features LLM providers will not give you, because it might save you money ;)

New comment by samsk in "Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget"

samsk — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:55:49 +0000

For this I use LiteLLM proxy - you can create virtual keys with daily/weekly/... budget, its pretty flexible and has a nice UI.

See https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/users

New comment by samsk in "Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft"

samsk — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:21:15 +0000

Thats why I always develop on a per customer mini VM via VSCode ssh remoting or similar, and projects are usually runned via docker-compose or devcontainers.

New comment by samsk in "RFC: PHP license update"

samsk — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:28:14 +0000

IANAL, but the new license applies only to new PHP versions, changing it backwards would require approvals. If you don't contribute under new license, you should be not affected.

New comment by samsk in "RFC: PHP license update"

samsk — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:18:43 +0000

Beautifull, everything regarding PHP licensing and its history in one place, no marketing or AI generated bs in sight - love it ;)

New comment by samsk in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)"

samsk — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:41:11 +0000