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New comment by vilius in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

vilius — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:48:48 +0000

> "I was born into a poor family but am relatively intelligent and good at learning things, therefore I can find success"

Nicely put, unconsciously this was my mindset in my 20s. In my 30s, I started questioning myself how come so many stupid people achieve great success. There must be more to success than just being relatively intelligent (just look into politicians - forgive generalization).

Once a nagging thought, now I find some comfort in it.

New comment by vilius in "The Bob Dylan concert for just one person"

vilius — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:26:09 +0000

My GF was a photographer at a Secret Cinema event with Laura Marling that took place in London. She had to take some promo pictures, so they met in one of the event rooms [1] for the photoshoot. After just a few pictures they were done and instead of wrapping up, Laura started to perform one of her songs.

Not the same scale as Bob Dylan concert, but still a concert for one. A kind gesture, unconditional, free, ephemeral, but leaving a life lasting memory.

[1] https://everybody-s.com/laura-marling-the-grand-eagle-ball-s...

New comment by vilius in "Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport"

vilius — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:59:50 +0000

It happens to be that another pilot from a plane waiting to take off form the very same runway was filming the approach [1].

Purely by chance we have HD footage. It does make a huge difference and I agree with the sentiment that this would make flying safer.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGNgCI0MC68/

New comment by vilius in "setBigTimeout"

vilius — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 14:34:31 +0000

Here’s a deep dive in 6 minutes https://youtu.be/boD0ReK62FI?si=jSXuQn0DHn3riJgd

Just JS being JS: setTimeout(()=>{}, Infinity) executes immediately

New comment by vilius in "AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

vilius — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:21:16 +0000

Not sure how I've missed it! Now, I just wish to live long enough to hear the 3rd iteration. Hearing how much shit has happened over the years is so soothing, yet world just keeps on spinning

New comment by vilius in "AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

vilius — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:29:08 +0000

I've always wanted to Billy Joel to re-release his "We Didn't Start The Fire" but with updated events. Well, here it is: https://suno.com/song/b8b33785-271f-48f2-9934-26dabb8e20ed

New comment by vilius in "Sora: Creating video from text"

vilius — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:12:30 +0000

The Lagos video (https://openai.com/sora?video=lagos) is very much how my dreams unfold. One moment, I'm with my friends in a bustling marketplace, then suddenly we are no longer at the marketplace, but rather overlooking a sunset and a highway. I wonder if there are some conceptual similarities how dreams and AI video models work.

New comment by vilius in "Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public in Rome"

vilius — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:34:55 +0000

Last winter, I visited Rome for the first time. I walked past this a couple of times. Everything was fenced, and as I continued my journey I just thought of it how inconvenient it is to walk around it. Unbeknownst to me, I was passing a place where Julius Caesar was killed. That pretty much sums up Rome - it is so enriched in history that you unwillingly become ignorant while exploring it.

New comment by vilius in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)"

vilius — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 20:30:54 +0000

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Tailwind, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OyOYEzKUISx3ETkksnCEQqro49N...

Email: inside the CV

Full-stack developer who can design, 8 YOE managing engineering teams as a CTO. Very hands-on, fluent in working across the stack. Started interviewing in mid-March after a career break. I’m open to programming-focused roles as well.

New comment by vilius in "Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?"

vilius — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 13:38:12 +0000

I’m also curious what’s a good way finding projects for generalists. My contracting experience was that I ended up doing specialized work even though I would able to complete the project from start to finish.

New comment by vilius in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)"

vilius — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 18:17:42 +0000

Sedition Art | CTO | Full-time | Remote or Onsite | London

Hi HN! After 10 years at Sedition I'm moving on to some other ventures and looking for a replacement for my role. It's a great job at a small company that has been selling digital limited editions by World renowned artists since 2010. With advent of NFTs the digital ownership is becoming a new norm and Sedition can be at the very centre of this. It's all in your hands.

As a CTO you will work closely with CEO and lead the technical evolution of the product. We are 6 technical people so the role does not involve much management work but rather planning and hands on coding.

We expect the CTO to be a technical generalist with previous experience in a similar role.

Drop me an email at vilius at seditionart.com

New comment by vilius in "Ask HN: What tech companies/industries will do well in a recession?"

vilius — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:20:20 +0000

Depends on the luxury level. At the very top the customer base consists of the most recession-proof people in the World. I assume they just carry on with their habits recession or not.

New comment by vilius in "One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine"

vilius — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 12:33:20 +0000

If governments are censoring our internet we need to change the way we're being geolocated. VPN is too much configuration and centralisation. TOR is over the top privacy. I want something as accessible as turning the flight mode on my mobile. The button can be placed next to flight mode and called CENSORSHIP. You can turn it on. It will then reveal your true IP address and make the internet very fast. However it's off by default. The internet is a bit slower. But your requests are being cleverly routed through random IPs that are not censored. These random IPs are provided by organisations but most importantly by peer users of the feature who happen to live in free countries. Sort of SETI@home but the goal is to increase intraterrestrial intelligence.

New comment by vilius in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)"

vilius — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 20:33:49 +0000

Sedition | Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | Remote | Full-Time | https://www.seditionart.com/

We started Sedition with a mission to create a platform for publishing and collecting digital artworks. This was in 2011 well before the advent of NFTs. Since then we have published more than 4000 artworks from 1000 artists. Including Blue Chip represented artists like Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Mat Collishaw.

We're now working on our integration with NFTs on Ethereum blockchain. It's going to be an interesting transition with a lot of challenging tasks in the pipeline. Our stack is Ruby / React / React Native / TypeScript / Solidity.

Compensation: $90K - $120K + bonuses. Timezone: We're in EU but we're flexible. More info: https://www.seditionart.com/jobs (other positions available). Apply via email: jobs@seditionart.com - please mention HN.

New comment by vilius in "Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch"

vilius — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 08:39:08 +0000

If you're just starting in programming you may thing that Computer Networks falls into a nice to know category. At least I did as a freshman in CS. At a time I was more interested in gaining practical knowledge: popular programming languages, frameworks, OOP. In fact you can become a successful programmer without knowing much how networks work.

The reason why I recommend learning about Computer Networks from scratch is how fascinating the subject is. The way layers are implemented, their interactions, how the overall complexity is reduced by having layers of responsibility. This pattern can be seen in other areas as well: hardware -> operating system -> SDK -> programming language -> framework -> DSL. Ultimately from a Turing complete machine to seeing 200 FPS 3D FPS game with 150 other players on your screen.

New comment by vilius in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)"

vilius — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:47:38 +0000

Sedition | Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | Remote | Full-Time | https://www.seditionart.com/

Compensation: $90K - $120K + bonuses Timezone: We're in EU but we're flexible More info: https://www.seditionart.com/jobs (other positions available) Apply via email: jobs@seditionart.com - please mention HN

New comment by vilius in "Belarus referendum approves proposal to renounce non-nuclear status"

vilius — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:46:25 +0000

I would not be so quick to dismiss it. Belarus claims that it still is an independent country. If it uses a nuclear weapon then it cannot be treated as if Russians used it directly. At least in Russia it would be easier for propaganda to push the story that Lukashenko did it.

New comment by vilius in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)"

vilius — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:15:41 +0000

Sedition | Multiple roles | Remote | Full-Time | https://www.seditionart.com/ Sedition is a platform for selling and collecting digital art. Founded in 2011 we have since become one of the industry leaders in terms of content and playback options. Our collection consists 4000+ artworks, including works from artists like Tracey Emin, Shepard Fairey, Yoko Ono, David Choe. Every collected artwork can be enjoyed on Apple TV / Chromecast / LG TV / Samsung TV via Sedition apps. Bought editions can be also resold on a secondary market. All of this was created well before the advent of blockchain technology. We are super excited about NFTs and the changes they made to digital ownership. We have started working on integrating NFTs into our platform and are looking for talented developers to join us.

Available roles:

Back-end Rails Developer Front-end React Developer Full Stack Developer Blockchain / Solidity developer

Read more https://www.seditionart.com/jobs Apply via jobs at seditionart dot com - feel free to mention HN

New comment by vilius in "Telling the Bees"

vilius — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:03:08 +0000

Bees to this day are very respected in Lithuania. A very close friend can be being called "Bičiulis" which is derived from a word bee. As in "bee honey" = "Bičių medus". For english speakers the pronunciation can sound a bit contraindicative ʙɪᴛᴄʜ-ᴜʟɪs

New comment by vilius in "The Chernobyl Tragedy – From the Memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhkov"

vilius — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 10:44:48 +0000

I recommend reading Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. It is an elaborate attempt to figure out the reasons behind the collapse. According to the author Chernobyl played a major role.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin%27s_Tomb:_The_Last_Days_...