Hacker News: tjomk

New comment by tjomk in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

tjomk — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:48:08 +0000

This is the argument that scammers and ransomware gangs use: we (the criminals) live in a poor country, and you, the rich white people, enjoy all the benefits. Nothing happens if you lose some of your savings, especially if it's a business and not some granny.

New comment by tjomk in "Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer"

tjomk — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:55:00 +0000

Let's go the US way and arrest children for doing lemonade stands. How dare they not get a license and pay their taxes to Uncle Sam! /s

Ask HN: What do you use local models for?

tjomk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:45:51 +0000

What are the use-cases for using small 8B-26B models? How are these helpful versus more specific ML algorithms or just simple if/else. I am thinking about smart home environment, or how to apply it to my SWE work.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080672

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by tjomk in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

tjomk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:43:38 +0000

Are you going there as a hobby or plan to work as a watch repairman/watchmaker? if the latter, how big is the market these days for analog watches? I feel like everyone is wearing electronic watches. I have been thinking of also learning horology as an entry to building automata machines

New comment by tjomk in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

tjomk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:43:30 +0000

I love it. Just recently got my first plotter, and it is so much fun. Sadly though this still keeps me near computer.

New comment by tjomk in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

tjomk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:28:40 +0000

Not exactly a hobby either

New comment by tjomk in "OpenRocket"

tjomk — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:49:04 +0000

Anything can be misused by the bad actor. Knives, guns. With AI things are getting easier to develop bio-chemical weapons. There was recently a video of a YouTuber creating a portable rocket launcher in <100 USD.

Building a Personal Mnemonics Bot

tjomk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:33:52 +0000

Article URL: https://rtjom.com/blog/2026/03/building-a-personal-mnemonics-bot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422680

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tjomk in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

tjomk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:35:02 +0000

They don't need to. They need just good enough. Don't underestimate "Made in Europe", just like "Made in America"

Show HN: Winter swimming tracker that stores data in local storage

tjomk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:04:14 +0000

Having done winter swimming for 7 years now, I wanted a super simple tracker for my sessions. I don't want to create an account, sync between multiples services. All data is stored locally, and it's possible to export it and import back. When browser's location is received, it is sent to the backend which grabs weather data. However this request is not stored anywhere. The tool is niche, however if there are any cold swimmers I'd appreciate feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676586

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by tjomk in "Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo"

tjomk — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:53:34 +0000

They should instead focus on their overall software stability and usability. And introduce more physical buttons for climate control. I don't want to click 4 times on a screen while driving in order to enable seat heating.

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

tjomk — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:06:41 +0000

I have always wanted a super simple local startup job board for my country. No calls, no AI chat bots, no fancy matching. Spending 1-2 hours a week on this

https://estonianstartupjobs.ee

New comment by tjomk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

tjomk — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:33:07 +0000

Having worked for different startups for 10+ years and started 3 of my own (eventually failing), I always wanted a job board for local startups. Not necessarily IT-related jobs. Finally built it about a month ago: https://estonianstartupjobs.ee

There are few similar projects too, one is itself a startup which sadly on the verge of bankruptcy, and another aggregates only IT-related jobs.

New comment by tjomk in "Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager"

tjomk — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:04:41 +0000

Why does everyone assume that if something is open source it must also be free and licensed under permissive license allowing you whatever? Briefly looking at their website I got the impression that it was meant for transparency reasons rather than in the spirit of free and open-source.

New comment by tjomk in "Whatever Happened to Those Self-Service Passport Kiosks at Airports?"

tjomk — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 05:54:26 +0000

You have the right to queue for several hours and present your biometric passport to a human who will take your picture, save it to another database, and then visually compare that to your face.

How much it costs to live carbon free

tjomk — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:29:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zerofy.net/2022/09/29/cost-of-zero-carbon-life.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038713

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by tjomk in "Ask HN: Is it okay to just bootstrap it, even when VCs are knocking?"

tjomk — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 11:31:23 +0000

Growth is not everything. I remember reading "Let my people go surfing" by the Patagonia founder where he mentioned multiple times that they were trying to artificially limit their growth by raising the prices for their products. You don't need to chace ever higher profits. Staying small and enjoying your life is also an option.

New comment by tjomk in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)"

tjomk — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:46:01 +0000

Salv | Product Engineer | Tallinn/Tartu, EE, or Vilnius, LT | onsite | full time

We build a platform for banks and other fintechs to help fight money-laundering. Well-funded and growing startup where your work will have positive impact on many people.

We're looking for multiple engineering roles. We use Kotlin and Typescript. The work is remote but you must be tax resident of Estonia or Lithuania.

Read more about this and other engineering positions: https://salv.com/careers/

New comment by tjomk in "Russia’s Oil Revenue Soars"

tjomk — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:38:30 +0000

Good luck trying to swap rubles to dollars with that exchange rate. They block foreigners from their stock exchange which prevented the collapse in prices. They blocked people from trading their rubles to usd or eur to prevent the exchange rate from soaring. Normal people cannot do anything there. So that exchange rate and their stock market is nothing to be proud of or point to.

New comment by tjomk in "Show HN: I built an unofficial roadmap for Wise"

tjomk — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:31:22 +0000

I'm the author (and an indie dev) of the project here. I stumbled upon the public roadmap [1] for Wise [2] recently, and being the person behind product roadmap tool wanted to see how easy it is to build a similar looking one [3]. Turned out pretty well.

[1] - https://wise.com/gb/blog/wise-mission-roadmap

[2] - https://wise.com/

[3] - https://app.getshipit.com/r/tVTZlShDfP